Underwriting and Commercial Clearance Counsel

Job Description:

Location: Hoboken, NJ (Hybrid Opportunity Available)

Join a dynamic National Commercial Services (NCS) team supporting complex, high-value commercial real estate transactions across the country. In this role, you will provide underwriting and clearance counsel for sophisticated transactions involving multiple properties, parties, and jurisdictions. You will play a critical role in ensuring transactions are completed accurately, efficiently, and in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.

Following onboarding and training, this position may be eligible for a hybrid schedule of up to two remote days per week, at the discretion of management.

What You'll Do

As National Underwriting & Commercial Clearance Counsel, you will be responsible for managing and supporting pre-closing, closing, and post-closing activities for national commercial real estate transactions. Key responsibilities include:

• Provide title insurance underwriting support for commercial transactions handled by the Hoboken, NJ and New York City NCS offices.
• Analyze and review deeds, mortgages, court orders, regulatory documents, and other legal instruments to determine legal sufficiency and insurability.
• Issue underwriting approvals, including transactions that exceed single-risk liability limits.
• Offer guidance and direction on complex underwriting matters while supporting production teams and transaction closings.
• Assist with claims-related matters and ensure compliance with state title insurance regulations.
• Maintain clear documentation of underwriting decisions, approvals, and supporting evidence within electronic files.
• Participate in continuing education and professional development programs.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment while taking initiative to expand knowledge and expertise.
• Apply legal reasoning and sound judgment to analyze and resolve complex title and underwriting issues.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree required and active membership in good standing with a State Bar.
• Minimum of 5 years of title insurance industry experience required.
• Experience handling multi-state, multi-property commercial title transactions.
• Familiarity with New York State and New York City title insurance practices is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of commercial title insurance coverage, underwriting principles, and real estate terminology.
• Ability to clearly communicate underwriting decisions and provide guidance to internal teams.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and document review skills.
• Ability to interpret complex legal documents and apply legal principles to challenging real estate transactions.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to work on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions with a highly experienced team, while leveraging your legal expertise to support some of the industry's most complex title insurance matters. If you're a solutions-oriented attorney with strong commercial underwriting experience, we'd love to hear from you.

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The estimated pay range stated represents the typical pay range for this position or similarly employed employees or employees performing substantially similar work. Factors which may be used to determine the actual pay rate may include, but are not limited to, education, training or experience; seniority; merit and work performance; quantity or quality of production; regional differences in compensation; differences in local minimum wages, or ability and effort.

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Benefits may include:

• Comprehensive medical, prescriptions, dental and vision plans

• 401(k) plan with a discretionary company match

• Shareholder Purchase and Reinvestment Plan

• Basic life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance premium paid by the company

• Voluntary supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses and dependent children

• Fertility and Family Building Benefits

• Paid Disability benefits

• Paid time off programs

• 11 Company paid holidays per year

• Flexible spending account

• Health savings account (available to High Deductible Health Plan participants only)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Educational Assistance Program

• Voluntary benefits, such as Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Accident Insurance

• Title insurance policies and certain escrow services for the employee’s primary personal residence at no charge

• Transportation benefit plan for mass transit, parking and vanpool, in several markets

Note: If you currently are employed by Old Republic Title (or one of its wholly owned affiliated companies) please get in touch with your human resources representative regarding the application process.

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Old Republic Title is an Equal Opportunity Employer