What are the responsibilities and job description for the Remote, Contract-based South Carolina Insurance Defense Litigation Attorney Opportunity – 10–15 Hours/Week position at The Freelance Firm, LLC?
Welcome to The Freelance Firm!
We are a national network of experienced, high-level freelance attorneys and paralegals who provide remote, on-demand support for both short-term and long-term legal projects for our client law firms.
Due to increased demand, we are now interviewing for a qualified, experienced, and dependable South Carolina Insurance Defense Litigation Attorney to provide drafting, discovery, and litigation coverage support.
This is a contract-based opportunity expected to start with a lighter workload and build to approximately 10–15 hours per week. The work will primarily be remote, but the attorney must be available to provide deposition and hearing coverage, including in-person appearances when required.
Attorney Responsibilities:
- Draft complaints, answers, and other pleadings
- Prepare and respond to written discovery
- Draft and assist with carrier reports
- Provide deposition coverage
- Attend hearings and other court appearances as needed
- Assist with insurance defense case management
- Communicate regularly with the supervising attorneys
- Track assignments and meet deadlines and billing requirements
Attorney Requirements:
- Licensed and in good standing in South Carolina
- Minimum of 5 years of law firm experience
- Strong insurance defense litigation experience
- Experience drafting pleadings and discovery responses
- Comfortable handling depositions and hearings
- Familiar with insurance carrier billing requirements
- Able to work within assignment-level time and billing guidelines
- Highly responsive, dependable, and communicative
- Able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Available for approximately 10–15 hours per week as the workload builds
Preferred Qualifications:
- Located in South Carolina
- Construction defect defense experience
- Personal injury defense experience
- Experience with carrier billing portals such as LegalX or Collaborati
- Willing and able to provide in-person coverage in South Carolina, including upstate matters when needed
Opportunity Highlights:
- Approximately 10–15 hours per week once fully ramped up
- Workload expected to build gradually
- Primarily remote drafting and discovery work
- Approximately 90% of depositions are currently remote
- Opportunity for ongoing work supporting two active insurance defense caseloads
- Mix of construction defect and personal injury defense matters
Our Attorney pay rate starts at $80/hour.
We welcome you to join our established network of legal professionals!
Please respond with your resume and indicate where you are located in South Carolina and the areas where you are available to provide in-person deposition and hearing coverage. We will contact you within the next two days for a 30-minute online meeting to answer your questions about this opportunity and The Freelance Firm.
Resume submissions will be kept in strict confidence.
Please visit our website at www.thefreelancefirm.com to learn more about us and the services we provide!