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Claims Counsel jobs are open across insurance carriers, self-insured corporations, and third-party administrators, from staff-level to senior and principal roles, with specializations in liability, coverage analysis, and litigation management. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Company Overview
Apex Service Partners, LLC (“Apex”) is the nationwide leader in residential home services (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical). Founded in 2019, Apex has experienced massive growth and is now in over 200 locations, in 46 states, with 14,000 talented team members, and with investment from some of the top private equity firms in the world. Apex’s revenue is currently approximately $3.5 billion annually, and that number continues to grow very rapidly.
The residential home services industry is highly fragmented and is dominated by small and founder-owned businesses. Apex has pursued an aggressive strategy to grow its business organically and through a high volume of acquisitions (over 350 closed to date). Although Apex is the largest player in the industry, it has only 2% of the market share, and approximately 85% of the market remains fragmented. Importantly, we are building our company with a long-term strategy, which means we will invest in top talent and intend to create an enduring firm that is a great employer and member of the community, in addition to being successful in a business sense.
Position Overview
We are seeking a proactive, business-minded Senior Counsel for Litigation, Claims, & Employment to serve as a senior member of the Legal Department and work alongside the Company’s Chief Legal Officer and the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation & Employment. The successful candidate will share responsibility for a high-volume, nationwide portfolio of litigation, claims, employment matters, investigations, and pre-litigation disputes.
The role requires at least 7 years of meaningful litigation and employment-law experience, excellent judgment, strong advocacy and communication skills, and the ability to move quickly in a decentralized, multi-state, acquisition-driven business. Our mission is to support the Company’s explosive growth, identify and mitigate hidden risks, protect the brand, build a “fortress company,” and promote legal, regulatory, and corporate compliance.
If you like a fun, high-energy work environment filled with bright and driven leaders and have a thirst to contribute to high-achieving teams, this will be a great fit. Your growth here could be virtually unlimited, given the Company’s trajectory.
Mission of the Role
This attorney will be a key member of the growing Legal Department and will work closely with the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation & Employment, the Chief Legal Officer, and the rest of the Legal Department.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, self-motivated, and highly organized attorney who can independently own matters from intake through resolution, provide practical advice directly to senior leaders and field operations, and collaborate closely with the Company’s paralegals, HR, Risk, Insurance, Finance, Compliance, IT, and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
Litigation, Claims & Employment Dispute Management
- Manage a substantial nationwide docket of litigation, arbitration, administrative agency matters, and significant claims, including employment, wage-and-hour, restrictive-covenant, commercial, consumer, contract, personal injury, property damage, and regulatory matters.
- Select, retain, direct, and oversee outside counsel; establish strategy; review and revise material filings; prepare for mediations, arbitrations, hearings, and trials; and hold firms accountable to budgets, staffing plans, and outcomes.
- Evaluate new lawsuits, subpoenas, claims, agency charges, and demand letters; investigate facts; assess legal and business exposure; and recommend practical resolution strategies.
- Lead settlement strategy and negotiations, including mediations, and draft or oversee settlement agreements, separation agreements, customer releases, and other resolution documents within delegated authority.
- Prepare concise case assessments, exposure and reserve recommendations, litigation reports, and executive-level updates; coordinate with Finance, Accounting, Risk, and insurers as appropriate.
- Direct document preservation, legal holds, collections, e-discovery, and discovery responses in coordination with IT, business custodians, outside counsel, and vendors.
- Identify and prepare company representatives and other witnesses for interviews, investigations, depositions, mediations, hearings, arbitrations, and trial.
Pre-Litigation and Claims
- Take responsibility for pre-suit disputes and escalations, including demand letters, subpoenas, customer disputes, employment claims, Attorney General matters, and inquiries from the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state labor and civil-rights agencies, licensing authorities, and other governmental bodies.
- Partner with Insurance and Risk Management on tenders, coverage and allocation issues, carrier strategy and communications, defense-counsel selection, significant claims, and settlement authority.
- Lead or support sensitive internal investigations with HR, Compliance, and Operations, including witness interviews, privilege strategy, factual findings, and practical remediation recommendations.
Advisory and Risk Prevention
- Identify litigation, claims, and employee-relations trends and root causes; recommend improvements to policies, practices, contracts, training, documentation, and escalation protocols.
- Provide day-to-day employment and litigation-avoidance counseling to HR, executives, regional leadership, and field operations on discipline, terminations, reductions in force, accommodations, leaves, wage-and-hour issues, investigations, restrictive covenants, separations, severance, documentation, and escalation.
- Draft and maintain playbooks, templates, forms, FAQs, and training materials for litigation, claims, investigations, employment matters, agency responses, restrictive-covenant enforcement, and dispute resolution.
Legal Operations
- Maintain accurate matter records, deadlines, budgets, reserves, accruals, and key documents in the Company’s matter-management and document-repository systems.
- Review and approve outside counsel invoices against billing guidelines.
- Track legal spend, matter outcomes, settlement performance, trends, and other meaningful metrics, and report clear insights to Legal and business leadership.
Experience and Qualifications
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Active bar license in good standing in any state in the U.S., or eligibility to register as in-house counsel.
- At least 7 years of progressively responsible litigation and employment law experience at a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination of both.
- Hands-on experience across the full litigation lifecycle, including early case assessment, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, depositions, mediation, trial preparation, and resolution.
- Strong legal research, writing, and oral advocacy skills.
- Sound judgment on risk, with the ability to give business leaders clear and practical recommendations.
- Ability to manage a high-volume docket and meet competing deadlines with limited supervision.
- Substantial experience with commercial litigation, employment counseling and disputes, plus consumer, commercial, restrictive-covenant, and/or claims litigation in a multi-state, multi-location business.
- Experience managing outside counsel and litigation budgets.
- Experience with arbitration agreements and programs, class and collective action defense, wage-and-hour matters, EEOC and state-agency proceedings, and employment investigations.
- Experience with insured claims, coverage issues, carrier communications, and coordinating defense and settlement strategy with insurers and brokers.
- Meaningful mediation, arbitration, evidentiary-hearing, and/or trial experience.
- Comfort with matter management, e-billing, and e-discovery platforms.
Core Competencies
- Ownership: Treats each matter as their own and drives it to resolution.
- Business Focus: Weighs legal risk against cost, operations, and customer impact.
- Communication: Explains complex issues in plain terms to non-lawyers and executives.
- Collaboration: Builds trust with HR, operations, finance, and field leadership.
- Efficiency: Resolves matters at the right cost and knows when to settle and when to fight.
Personal Characteristics
- A positive attitude and sense of humor.
- Demonstrated ability to move fluidly between litigation, claims, counseling, investigations, and urgent business escalations.
- Familiarity with federal and state administrative-agency procedures, including the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state labor and civil-rights agencies, and labor-board proceedings.
- Professionalism, discretion, and a client-focused mindset.
- Thrives in a nimble, lean, unstructured, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.
- A high level of ethics, values, and personal integrity.
- Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and hardworking, with the ability to manage numerous high-priority matters concurrently, exercise independent judgment, and align with Legal Department strategy.
- An ambitious self-starter capable of independently driving matters to completion while operating as a collaborative, low-ego team member.
- Excellent communication, time management, and listening skills.
- Self-aware, accepting, honest, open, and respectful of others.
Other
- Based in the Las Colinas/Irving, Texas office four days per week, with Wednesday designated as the regular remote-work day, subject to business needs.
- Competitive compensation.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited PTO, sick days, and holidays.
- 401(k) matching program.
Company Overview
Apex Service Partners, LLC (“Apex”) is the nationwide leader in residential home services (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical). Founded in 2019, Apex has experienced massive growth and is now in over 200 locations, in 46 states, with 14,000 talented team members, and with investment from some of the top private equity firms in the world. Apex’s revenue is currently approximately $3.5 billion annually, and that number continues to grow very rapidly.
The residential home services industry is highly fragmented and is dominated by small and founder-owned businesses. Apex has pursued an aggressive strategy to grow its business organically and through a high volume of acquisitions (over 350 closed to date). Although Apex is the largest player in the industry, it has only 2% of the market share, and approximately 85% of the market remains fragmented. Importantly, we are building our company with a long-term strategy, which means we will invest in top talent and intend to create an enduring firm that is a great employer and member of the community, in addition to being successful in a business sense.
Position Overview
We are seeking a proactive, business-minded Senior Counsel for Litigation, Claims, & Employment to serve as a senior member of the Legal Department and work alongside the Company’s Chief Legal Officer and the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation & Employment. The successful candidate will share responsibility for a high-volume, nationwide portfolio of litigation, claims, employment matters, investigations, and pre-litigation disputes.
The role requires at least 7 years of meaningful litigation and employment-law experience, excellent judgment, strong advocacy and communication skills, and the ability to move quickly in a decentralized, multi-state, acquisition-driven business. Our mission is to support the Company’s explosive growth, identify and mitigate hidden risks, protect the brand, build a “fortress company,” and promote legal, regulatory, and corporate compliance.
If you like a fun, high-energy work environment filled with bright and driven leaders and have a thirst to contribute to high-achieving teams, this will be a great fit. Your growth here could be virtually unlimited, given the Company’s trajectory.
Mission of the Role
This attorney will be a key member of the growing Legal Department and will work closely with the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation & Employment, the Chief Legal Officer, and the rest of the Legal Department.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, self-motivated, and highly organized attorney who can independently own matters from intake through resolution, provide practical advice directly to senior leaders and field operations, and collaborate closely with the Company’s paralegals, HR, Risk, Insurance, Finance, Compliance, IT, and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
Litigation, Claims & Employment Dispute Management
- Manage a substantial nationwide docket of litigation, arbitration, administrative agency matters, and significant claims, including employment, wage-and-hour, restrictive-covenant, commercial, consumer, contract, personal injury, property damage, and regulatory matters.
- Select, retain, direct, and oversee outside counsel; establish strategy; review and revise material filings; prepare for mediations, arbitrations, hearings, and trials; and hold firms accountable to budgets, staffing plans, and outcomes.
- Evaluate new lawsuits, subpoenas, claims, agency charges, and demand letters; investigate facts; assess legal and business exposure; and recommend practical resolution strategies.
- Lead settlement strategy and negotiations, including mediations, and draft or oversee settlement agreements, separation agreements, customer releases, and other resolution documents within delegated authority.
- Prepare concise case assessments, exposure and reserve recommendations, litigation reports, and executive-level updates; coordinate with Finance, Accounting, Risk, and insurers as appropriate.
- Direct document preservation, legal holds, collections, e-discovery, and discovery responses in coordination with IT, business custodians, outside counsel, and vendors.
- Identify and prepare company representatives and other witnesses for interviews, investigations, depositions, mediations, hearings, arbitrations, and trial.
Pre-Litigation and Claims
- Take responsibility for pre-suit disputes and escalations, including demand letters, subpoenas, customer disputes, employment claims, Attorney General matters, and inquiries from the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state labor and civil-rights agencies, licensing authorities, and other governmental bodies.
- Partner with Insurance and Risk Management on tenders, coverage and allocation issues, carrier strategy and communications, defense-counsel selection, significant claims, and settlement authority.
- Lead or support sensitive internal investigations with HR, Compliance, and Operations, including witness interviews, privilege strategy, factual findings, and practical remediation recommendations.
Advisory and Risk Prevention
- Identify litigation, claims, and employee-relations trends and root causes; recommend improvements to policies, practices, contracts, training, documentation, and escalation protocols.
- Provide day-to-day employment and litigation-avoidance counseling to HR, executives, regional leadership, and field operations on discipline, terminations, reductions in force, accommodations, leaves, wage-and-hour issues, investigations, restrictive covenants, separations, severance, documentation, and escalation.
- Draft and maintain playbooks, templates, forms, FAQs, and training materials for litigation, claims, investigations, employment matters, agency responses, restrictive-covenant enforcement, and dispute resolution.
Legal Operations
- Maintain accurate matter records, deadlines, budgets, reserves, accruals, and key documents in the Company’s matter-management and document-repository systems.
- Review and approve outside counsel invoices against billing guidelines.
- Track legal spend, matter outcomes, settlement performance, trends, and other meaningful metrics, and report clear insights to Legal and business leadership.
Experience and Qualifications
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Active bar license in good standing in any state in the U.S., or eligibility to register as in-house counsel.
- At least 7 years of progressively responsible litigation and employment law experience at a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination of both.
- Hands-on experience across the full litigation lifecycle, including early case assessment, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, depositions, mediation, trial preparation, and resolution.
- Strong legal research, writing, and oral advocacy skills.
- Sound judgment on risk, with the ability to give business leaders clear and practical recommendations.
- Ability to manage a high-volume docket and meet competing deadlines with limited supervision.
- Substantial experience with commercial litigation, employment counseling and disputes, plus consumer, commercial, restrictive-covenant, and/or claims litigation in a multi-state, multi-location business.
- Experience managing outside counsel and litigation budgets.
- Experience with arbitration agreements and programs, class and collective action defense, wage-and-hour matters, EEOC and state-agency proceedings, and employment investigations.
- Experience with insured claims, coverage issues, carrier communications, and coordinating defense and settlement strategy with insurers and brokers.
- Meaningful mediation, arbitration, evidentiary-hearing, and/or trial experience.
- Comfort with matter management, e-billing, and e-discovery platforms.
Core Competencies
- Ownership: Treats each matter as their own and drives it to resolution.
- Business Focus: Weighs legal risk against cost, operations, and customer impact.
- Communication: Explains complex issues in plain terms to non-lawyers and executives.
- Collaboration: Builds trust with HR, operations, finance, and field leadership.
- Efficiency: Resolves matters at the right cost and knows when to settle and when to fight.
Personal Characteristics
- A positive attitude and sense of humor.
- Demonstrated ability to move fluidly between litigation, claims, counseling, investigations, and urgent business escalations.
- Familiarity with federal and state administrative-agency procedures, including the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state labor and civil-rights agencies, and labor-board proceedings.
- Professionalism, discretion, and a client-focused mindset.
- Thrives in a nimble, lean, unstructured, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.
- A high level of ethics, values, and personal integrity.
- Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and hardworking, with the ability to manage numerous high-priority matters concurrently, exercise independent judgment, and align with Legal Department strategy.
- An ambitious self-starter capable of independently driving matters to completion while operating as a collaborative, low-ego team member.
- Excellent communication, time management, and listening skills.
- Self-aware, accepting, honest, open, and respectful of others.
Other
- Based in the Las Colinas/Irving, Texas office four days per week, with Wednesday designated as the regular remote-work day, subject to business needs.
- Competitive compensation.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited PTO, sick days, and holidays.
- 401(k) matching program.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in claims counsel jobs.
- Juris Doctor degree and active bar licensure in at least one state
- Experience handling first-party or third-party insurance claims through resolution
- Ability to analyze policy language and draft coverage opinions independently
- Familiarity with claims management systems and litigation management platforms
- Experience managing outside counsel and controlling litigation expenses
- Background in a specific line of business such as general liability, professional liability, or workers' compensation
Tips for Your Claims Counsel Job Search
Tailor your resume to claim type
Claims counsel roles vary sharply by line of business. A resume emphasizing general liability won't land a workers' compensation role. Reframe your experience around the specific claim type in each posting, naming the coverage lines and policy forms you've worked with directly.
Show litigation outcomes, not just duties
Hiring managers want to see how your involvement moved cases. Describe resolutions you reached, motions you drafted, or reserves you influenced. Quantifying outcomes without salary figures, such as case volume managed or litigation costs avoided, strengthens your candidacy far more than listing responsibilities.
Get your bar status and jurisdiction right
Many postings specify active bar licensure in a particular state. Before applying, confirm whether the role requires licensure in the posting state or accepts any active state bar. Inactive or inactive-status bar membership is a common silent disqualifier you should address proactively in your cover letter.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists claims counsel openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare technical coverage questions for interviews
Expect scenario-based questions about coverage interpretation, bad faith exposure, and reservation of rights letters. Practice explaining how you'd analyze a coverage dispute from tender through resolution. Interviewers use these scenarios to test legal reasoning, not just familiarity with insurance terminology.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Claims counsel offers often include discretionary settlement authority and a defined litigation budget. When you reach the offer stage, clarify what reserve authority comes with the role and whether that threshold changes with seniority. These terms define day-to-day autonomy as much as the title does.
Claims Counsel Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most claims counsels?
The companies hiring the most claims counsels right now include Tesla, Ro, and FCT, with the largest share of openings in New York, Texas, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Roles are spread across insurance carriers, large self-insured corporations, and specialty third-party administrators.
How many claims counsel jobs are remote?
About 83% of claims counsel openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though availability varies by role type. Coverage analysis and documentation-heavy positions are most likely to be remote, while roles that require in-person depositions, mediations, or close coordination with field adjusters tend to require at least partial on-site presence.
How do you become a claims counsel?
You become a claims counsel by earning a Juris Doctor, passing the bar exam in your target state, and gaining legal or claims-handling experience in an insurance context. Many claims counsels start as coverage associates at law firms or as claims adjusters who later attend law school. Developing expertise in a specific line of business, such as casualty or professional liability, accelerates placement into in-house roles.
Can you get a claims counsel job with little experience?
Yes, some carriers hire newly licensed attorneys into staff claims counsel roles, particularly in high-volume lines like auto liability or workers' compensation. Internships with insurance defense firms, claims externships, or prior adjuster experience all strengthen an entry-level application. Demonstrating familiarity with coverage analysis and policy language in your resume matters more than years of experience at the junior level.
What does the claims counsel interview process look like?
The claims counsel interview process typically begins with a recruiter or HR screen, followed by a substantive interview with the claims manager or general counsel. Expect scenario-based questions involving coverage disputes, bad faith risk, and litigation strategy. Some employers add a written exercise asking you to draft a reservation of rights letter or analyze a hypothetical coverage issue before a final panel interview.
Where can I find and apply to claims counsel jobs?
You can find and apply to claims counsel jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience, line-of-business background, and preferred location, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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