Barnes & Thornburg

Counsel – Settlement Team

Indianapolis · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago

Data AnalysisProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementContract ManagementMedical DevicesCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

This attorney will be responsible for leading and managing all aspects of complex product liability, toxic tort, and mass tort settlements from initial negotiations through final claim resolution and program closure.
Reasonable accommodation requests may be accommodated, absent undue firm hardship.

Lead and support settlement negotiations in complex product liability, mass tort, toxic tort, and consumer product litigation matters.
Help develop settlement structures and eligibility criteria.
Work directly with plaintiffs' counsel to negotiate, draft, review, and finalize all settlement-related documents, and to resolve any claimant disputes or appeals.
Manage teams of nurse paralegals and other attorneys to review and assess the qualification and categorization of incoming claims.
Perform data analysis across claims, such as monitoring values and identifying trends within a tort (e.g., for individual firms and claim groups) and across a settlement.
Serve as primary legal and operations lead, ensuring settlements are executed efficiently, accurately, and in accordance with all legal requirements.

The Counsel must be able to perform all essential job duties and responsibilities of this position with minimal supervision, satisfactorily and as outlined, with or without reasonable accommodation.
As such, it is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of job duties or responsibilities required in this job.

Normal law office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature, and the like.
Must have the ability to work under pressure and multi-task.

This policy applies to all recruiting, hiring, promotions, upgrades, layoffs, compensation, benefits, terminations and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.

Office: Any BT Office Location
We are seeking a highly qualified Counsel attorney to work with firm Partners as part of the firm's product liability and mass torts resolution team.
The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience negotiating and implementing large-scale settlements involving thousands of claimants and has a deep understanding of contract drafting principles, claims administration, settlement allocation methodologies, lien resolution, data management, reporting obligations and compliance issues, and settlement fund governance.

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