Deputy General Counsel, Litigation

Liberty Mutual•Boston, MA

About The Position

Liberty Mutual's Global Legal & Compliance (GL&C) organization is undergoing a significant transformation, aiming to be both a protector of the enterprise and an accelerator of business success. GL&C operates at the nexus of risk, regulation, capital, and execution. In response to industry pressures concerning AI governance, data privacy, digital claims, cybersecurity, and evolving global regulations, the organization is taking a leadership role. Legal and compliance expertise is being positioned as a strategic differentiator to enable Liberty Mutual to adapt, operate efficiently, and lead confidently in a dynamic global environment. This role reports to the Chief Legal Officer and is a key member of the GL&C Executive Leadership Team. The Deputy General Counsel will lead GL&C's Litigation Group, comprising 65-70 professionals including attorneys, paralegals, eDiscovery specialists, and litigation support staff. Responsibilities include setting strategic direction, defining work priorities, establishing performance standards, and overseeing talent development. The role provides enterprise-wide oversight of corporate litigation, with a specific focus on bad faith and extra-contractual matters, class actions, coverage disputes, employment, investments, bankruptcies, and other high-exposure or emerging risks. The position serves to protect and defend the enterprise by delivering efficient, insight-driven outcomes that enhance risk selection, proactively identify trends, and support favorable financial performance. The role involves providing senior legal counsel on the company's most critical matters, advising and presenting to the CEO, business line presidents, executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and external auditors. Close collaboration with business leaders is essential to align legal strategy with business objectives. Key partners include the GL&C Leadership Team, senior executives across business units (Global Risk Solutions, US Retail Markets, Investments), and senior executives across corporate functions (People, Purpose & Brand, Technology, Finance, and Strategy).

Requirements

J.D. or LL.M. and admission to the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction (required)
15+ years of experience as a practicing attorney, including significant complex litigation and people leadership experience (required)
Demonstrated expertise in strategy, judgment, and advocacy across bad faith, class action, complex commercial, and other high-exposure matters, including courtroom, arbitration, and appellate experience.
Ability to assess and stratify litigation exposure across a complex docket, prioritize resources, inform reserving decisions, and balance legal risk with commercial outcomes.
Strategic business acumen and executive influence.
Ability to translate complex legal and litigation risk into practical business choices, synthesize portfolio-level signals and litigation analytics into intelligence that informs business strategy rather than just case-level outcomes, and deliver concise, decision-ready advice to senior executives.
Ability to represent litigation at the GL&C leadership table and across the enterprise with clarity and confidence.
Strategic vision with practical grounding.
Ability to translate ambition into concrete milestones, resourcing decisions, and measurable outcomes — setting goals and objectives, overseeing litigation operations and resources, and driving measurable improvement in the speed, quality, consistency, and cost-effectiveness of legal advice and litigation strategy.
People leadership, workforce development, and succession planning.
Proven track record building, leading, coaching, and retaining high-performing legal teams.
Ability to build a pipeline that combines emerging legal talent, deep litigation expertise, and ready-now leadership succession, treating diversity of background, perspective, and experience as a deliberate input to bench strength.
Skill in shaping team focus and structure while protecting workflow continuity, quality, and engagement.
Change leadership and technology fluency.
Approach work evolution as a leadership obligation, challenging resistance directly and earning the right to lead change through results.
AI-native mindset — understanding how generative and agentic AI reshape litigation delivery — and a demonstrated ability to champion the responsible adoption of AI, automation, litigation technology, and analytics to improve decision-making, work quality, efficiency, and cost to serve.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience leading through organizational change, delivery model transformation, and AI-enabled work evolution (strongly preferred)

Responsibilities

Own enterprise litigation strategy and emerging litigation risk.
Lead and oversee the company's highest-exposure and most consequential litigation portfolio, defining strategy on matters with cross-portfolio, multi-jurisdictional consequence.
Lead an integrated, product-focused litigation capability.
Direct the Auto, Property, Liability & Specialty Claims, and Complex & Emerging Litigation teams, along with our centralized Litigation Support organization, to deliver consistent, high-quality, and appropriately calibrated case and matter management.
Drive work evolution and technology adoption.
Partner with Performance & Execution to advance AI-enabled practices, paralegal leverage, shared services, and other delivery model changes that improve productivity, cycle time, quality, and outcomes.
Deliver portfolio intelligence and enterprise value.
Translate litigation trends, claim patterns, regulatory activity, and case outcomes into actionable insights that inform underwriting, claims, product development, business strategy, and proactive enterprise risk management.
Build organizational strength, talent, and governance.
Develop a diverse talent pipeline and succession bench, coach leaders and legal professionals, establish clear decision rights, manage financial performance, and contribute to GL&C's enterprise-wide strategic direction.