Underwriting Leader – Lawyers Professional Liability

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement the underwriting, distribution, and portfolio strategy for Lawyers Professional Liability.

• Develop and oversee a profitable portfolio of new and renewal primary and excess Lawyers Professional Liability business within the E&S and specialty markets.

• Identify target segments, risk-selection criteria, pricing guidelines, coverage positioning, attachment strategies, and referral thresholds.

• Underwrite, structure, negotiate, quote, and bind complex law-firm risks within granted authority.

• Cultivate and strengthen relationships with wholesale brokers, specialty intermediaries, and chosen retail partners.

• Generate a high-quality submission pipeline and convert broker relationships into sustainable, profitable production.

• Track premium, rates, retention, limits, attachment points, aggregation, business mix, claims activity, and loss performance against portfolio goals.

• Collaborate with actuarial, claims, legal, compliance, operations, and capacity providers on forms, endorsements, rating, reporting, and portfolio governance.

• Deliver market insights on competitor actions, coverage trends, claim severity, social inflation, cyber risks, and shifts in law-firm operations.

• Recruit, nurture, and mentor underwriting talent while remaining actively involved in production and complex account underwriting.

• Concentrate on small to midsize law firms, as well as selected larger firms that align with Revau’s underwriting interests and delegated authority.

• Manage primary, excess, and specialty Lawyers Professional Liability placements, including risks that necessitate thoughtful structuring or tailored coverage solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5-10+ years of experience in Lawyers Professional Liability underwriting.

• Significant authority and portfolio management experience in the specialty or E&S market.

• Proven track record of profitable production, disciplined risk selection, and effective portfolio management through varying market cycles.

• Established connections with wholesale and specialty brokers active in the Lawyers Professional Liability field.

• Comprehensive understanding of law-firm exposures, policy wording, claims trends, severity drivers, pricing, attachment strategies, and coverage negotiations.

• Experience in developing or refining underwriting guidelines, appetite, forms, endorsements, rating methods, and referral processes.

• Leadership skills to mentor underwriters, influence internal stakeholders, and represent the portfolio to capacity providers.

• Strong commercial judgment that balances responsiveness, creativity, and growth with underwriting discipline.

• Excellent executive communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

• Capability to lead effectively in a remote work environment.

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• CPCU, RPLU, AU, ASLI, or legal training is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Paid time off.

• Paid holidays.

• Fully remote work from any location within the United States.

• Travel for broker meetings, conferences, capacity discussions, and team events.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.