Insurance Defense Attorney Statistics 2026: Live Listings, Pay, Demand & Workforce

LawFirmHires had 366 open insurance defense attorney listings from 42 employers on October 14, 2026.

50 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 216 in the previous 30 days.

At least 3.6% of insurance defense attorney listings were fully remote and 5.5% hybrid on October 14, 2026.

Listings that do not mention a work arrangement are counted as on-site, so the real shares may be higher.

At least 0.8% of insurance defense attorney listings were part-time on October 14, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit insurance defense attorney listings named most often on October 14, 2026 was dental & Vision, in 48.4% of listings, followed by 401k Match (41.5%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all insurance defense attorney listings.

BLS does not count or pay-survey lawyers by practice area, so federal figures here are for all lawyers.

The median annual wage for all lawyers was $159,670 in May 2025, and the middle half earned $102,990 to $221,370 (BLS OEWS, SOC 23-1011 (all lawyers), May 2025).

Employers hiring insurance defense attorneys on LawFirmHires advertise a median of $151,500 a year across 26 employers on October 14, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state and percentile, see the insurance defense attorney salary guide.

New York had the most open insurance defense attorney listings on October 14, 2026, with 65 (17.8% of the national total).

California followed with 64 (17.5%).

42 employers had open insurance defense attorney listings on LawFirmHires on October 14, 2026, and the five largest posted 61.7% of them.

20 employers (47.6%) had exactly one open insurance defense attorney listing.

Lawyers held about 863,700 jobs in 2025, according to the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook; BLS does not count lawyers by practice area.

Law firms (the Legal Services industry, NAICS 5411) employed 448,040 lawyers in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

Legal services firms employed 52% of all lawyers in 2025, followed by self-employment (11%), local government (8%), state government (7%) and the federal government (5%) (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

BLS projects lawyer employment to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, faster than the average for all occupations, with about 28,700 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35).

For the full job outlook, see our lawyer job outlook guide.

For how to enter the field, see the insurance defense attorney career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid insurance defense attorney listing on LawFirmHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all insurance defense attorney jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a firm posting dozens of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and are quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS wage figures cover employees only and leave out the self-employed.