Job Description
### Attorney - Default Litigation
**Full-time; Exempt**
**Location:** Lake Zurich, IL, US - Hybrid
**Department:** Default Litigation, Attorney Oversight, and Mediations
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#### **General Description:**
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Attorney to join our Default Litigation, Mediation, and Attorney Oversight Departments. This hybrid/onsite position, with up to 25% national travel, involves providing a wide range of services to support these departments. The ideal candidate will be adept at managing strict deadlines, adapting to new processes, collaborating with various departments, and handling multiple projects simultaneously.
**Responsibilities include but are not limited to:**
- Assisting with tasking, reporting, and department data metrics.
- Preparing documentation, conducting audits, reviewing pleadings and discovery.
- Training staff, investigating issues, drafting correspondence, handling contested pleadings.
- Testifying at trials or mediations, reviewing policies, and managing highly contested litigation and escalated matters.
- Other responsibilities as assigned by the Department Head.
**Essential Functions and Duties:**
- Provide legal analysis, advice, and counsel on assigned litigation files.
- Review, evaluate, and handle high-risk litigation and highly escalated loans to prevent future litigation.
- Assist default litigation specialists to ensure matters are handled effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure company-wide policies and procedures are applied with full recognition of legal implications and risks.
- Stay current with applicable legislation, case law, administrative rulings, and pending regulations pertinent to the company.
- Collaborate with other departments to keep up with law changes and provide guidance based on those changes.
- Review and evaluate potential litigation matters with management and relevant departments.
- Prepare reports as directed by the Department Head and ensure timely completion.
- Conduct research on projects as required by the Department Head.
- Investigate, research, and draft responses to borrower correspondence/complaints.
- Audit litigation documentation and correspondence for quality control, factual accuracy, and risk management.
- Educate and train default litigation specialists on legal issues, litigation strategy, and default servicing experience.
- Testify at trials or mediations and provide deposition testimony as needed.
- Monitor and maintain department proxies and assist the legal department with litigated loans.
- Complete system corrections and file audits as assigned.
- Assist with attorney issues and internal issues raised by the default litigation staff.
- Audit contested pleadings and discovery.
- Handle and oversee foreclosure, bankruptcy, evictions, and mediation matters.
- Participate in attorney oversight matters as needed.
- Travel nationally up to 25%.
- Successfully complete annual regulatory compliance training.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
**Required Qualifications:**
- Juris Doctorate; Licensed Attorney.
- 5-10+ years of experience in a default servicing law firm or mortgage servicing company, with a focus on foreclosure, bankruptcy, regulatory issues, litigation, and/or real estate legal matters.
- 3+ years of experience handling contested default servicing litigation.
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience in foreclosure, bankruptcy, eviction, and mediation cases.
- Experience or working knowledge of mortgage banking regulations, servicing guidelines, or operational default servicing law firm processes.
- Extensive knowledge of federal and state laws impacting mortgage servicing.
- Ability to prioritize work, manage effectively, and interact with senior management.
- Extensive legal writing, analysis, and research skills.
- Experience in a legal environment dealing with foreclosure, bankruptcy, and eviction pleadings.
- Experience with LPS, Fidelity systems, and Microsoft Office.
- Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to persuade and present positions effectively.
- Flexibility and willingness to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
- Attention to detail.
- Limited supervisory responsibilities.
- Submission of a writing sample is required.
**Physical Demands and Work Environment:**
The employee must be comfortable working in either an on-site office setting or a quiet, designated work-from-home space free from distractions and noise. The employee is regularly required to communicate information through multiple methods with clear understanding from others. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position and/or move about the organization or remote office. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to type, write, handle, or feel and reach. May occasionally climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch; or lift and/or move up to 25 lbs. Employees may be required to type and utilize a computer for long periods.
The employee may be required to frequently operate a standard variety of office equipment including computers, calculators, copy machines, computer printers, and phones. The noise level, if working on-site, is usually moderate and typical of an office environment.
In accordance with applicable disability laws, reasonable accommodations will be made to the job or work environment when doing so will enable an employee with a qualified disability to satisfactorily perform the essential functions of the job.
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: $ 35,000.00 45,000.00 Per Year
Job Tags
Full time, Work from home,