Deputy General Counsel, Litigation

About the role

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer as a member of the GL&C Executive Leadership Team, you will lead GL&C's Litigation Group — a team of 65–70 attorneys, paralegals, eDiscovery specialists, and litigation support professionals — setting strategic direction, work priorities, performance standards, and talent development objectives. You will provide enterprise-wide oversight of corporate litigation, with particular focus on bad faith and extra-contractual matters, class actions, coverage disputes, employment, investments, bankruptcies, and other high-exposure or emerging risks. Serving as a protector and defender of the enterprise, you will deliver efficient, insight-driven outcomes that strengthen risk selection, surface trends proactively, and support favorable financial performance. You will provide senior legal counsel on the company's highest-stakes matters, advising and presenting to the CEO, business line presidents, executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and external auditors — and partnering closely with business leaders to align legal strategy with business objectives. Key partners include: GL&C Leadership Team; senior executive leadership across our business units (Global Risk Solutions, US Retail Markets, Investments); and senior executive leadership across corporate functions (People, Purpose & Brand, Technology, Finance, and Strategy).

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.

Requirements

Enterprise litigation strategy, advocacy, and risk judgment. 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. You can 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. You 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. You represent litigation at the