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About the Company: Chicago Title, the nation's largest title insurance company, has been serving the State of Michigan for over 40 years. We are expanding our Commercial operation and are currently seeking an experienced Commercial Underwriting Counsel to become part of a dynamic team dedicated to providing exceptional service to the real estate services industry.

About the Role: We are seeking a highly motivated and energetic attorney to become a critical member of a sales-driven and extremely responsive commercial title insurance department. The position will require an ability to display legal and business acumen in approaching and resolving issues, primarily focused on serving new accounts and providing existing customers and escrow personnel with timely answers to title underwriting and escrow issues impacting their various real estate transactions. A successful candidate must simultaneously provide top-level strategic legal advice in a fast-moving environment, while also contributing significant business value to real estate transactional process and sales engagements. As such, the successful candidate must demonstrate a solid grounding in commercial real estate transactions, escrow procedures, title review, and commercial title principles and practices. In addition, to be successful in this role, the candidate should have well-developed analytical problem-solving abilities, excellent business sense and judgment, and strong interpersonal and relationship development skills.

Responsibilities:

• Provide proactive and timely response and resolution to title policy and endorsement underwriting queries.
• Actively manage any title, survey, or other issues that arise in commercial transactions to ensure efficient and successful closings.
• Review and negotiate indemnity agreements, escrow funding agreements, policies, and endorsements.
• Review any necessary transactional, organizational, and authority documents.
• Collaborate with personnel to share and discuss legal, transactional, and title underwriting issues encountered on specific transactions.
• Conduct periodic seminars with customers, agents, and attorney clients on timely legal and underwriting topics.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 to 4 years of commercial/residential real estate transactional experience, with extensive and direct client contact, and proven ability to proactively address and resolve issues and successfully complete transactions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, with a sense of urgency and accountability, and an ability to meet deadlines with attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills.
• Strong customer service, communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities.
• Juris Doctorate and an active state bar membership in good standing.

Pay range and compensation package: Chicago Title offers a competitive salary, incentive earning programs, and a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Disability Insurance, 401K and Employee Stock Purchase plan with company matching, paid time off, and Employee Discount Program.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All new hires must be able to successfully pass a criminal records check.