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• Serve as the business owner and strategic leader for the Enterprise Legal Management platform
• Lead platform administration, configuration, testing, releases, enhancements, and ongoing optimization
• Establish governance and operational standards for matter management, e-billing, workflows, user access, data quality, and reporting
• Develop and execute the ELM platform roadmap aligned with Legal Operations and business priorities
• Partner with Legal, IT, Finance, Procurement, and external vendors to deliver scalable technology solutions and process improvements
• Drive user adoption, training, change management, and platform best practices
• Develop reporting, dashboards, and analytics supporting legal operations performance, legal spend management, and decision-making
• Evaluate and implement legal technology enhancements, integrations, automation opportunities, and emerging capabilities
• Manage vendor relationships and oversee delivery of technology solutions supporting Legal Operations objectives

Director, Enterprise Legal Management – Legal Technology

• Serve as the business owner and strategic leader for the Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) platform
• Lead platform administration, configuration, testing, releases, enhancements, and ongoing optimization
• Establish governance and operational standards for matter management, e-billing, workflows, user access, data quality, and reporting
• Develop and execute the ELM platform roadmap in alignment with Legal Operations and business priorities
• Partner with Legal, IT, Finance, Procurement, and external vendors to deliver scalable technology solutions and process improvements
• Drive user adoption, training, change management, and platform best practices
• Develop reporting, dashboards, and analytics to support legal operations performance, legal spend management, and decision making
• Evaluate and implement legal technology enhancements, integrations, automation opportunities, and emerging capabilities
• Manage vendor relationships and oversee delivery of technology solutions that support Legal Operations objectives

Director, Enterprise Legal Management, Legal Technology

• Provide timely legal and technical guidance on complex commercial and personal lines coverage matters
• Analyze policy language, endorsements, exclusions, claim facts, and applicable law
• Guide coverage investigations and prepare coverage opinions and legal analyses
• Review coverage communications
• Advise Claims leadership on dispute resolution, extra-contractual exposure, bad-faith allegations, claim handling concerns, and legal risks
• Serve as Claims’ senior technical resource for significant coverage litigation and declaratory judgment actions
• Develop and execute litigation and resolution strategies with Claims leadership, Legal, and outside counsel
• Support pleadings, discovery, mediation, settlement, budgets, and trial preparation
• Evaluate outside counsel performance and legal expense
• Guide responses to Department of Insurance complaints, regulatory inquiries, market conduct examinations, and regulatory reviews
• Support responses to subpoenas, records and discovery requests, and other legal process involving claim files
• Monitor regulatory developments and claim handling requirements
• Develop guidance, training, technical standards, templates, playbooks, and learning tools
• Promote consistent coverage positions and claim handling practices across all lines of business
• Participate in roundtables addressing coverage, exposure evaluation, litigation strategy, reserving, settlement authority, and claim handling
• Identify recurring coverage issues, legal and regulatory developments, and claim trends requiring action
• Support quality assurance and file reviews
• Mentor claims professionals and leaders
• Monitor judicial, regulatory, legislative, and industry developments affecting insurance coverage and claim handling
• Partner with Underwriting and Legal on policy language, endorsements, coverage provisions, and product modifications
• Support Claims initiatives involving new tools, processes, or workflows
• Handle coverage opinions, legal research, correspondence, and claim-related consultation internally
• Establish referral criteria for outside coverage counsel and Legal Department involvement
• Evaluate law firm performance, staffing, strategy, budgets, results, and legal spend
• Partner with Claims leadership and Reinsurance stakeholders on significant losses, coverage issues, treaty interpretation, reporting obligations, recoverability, and reinsurer relationships
• Attend mediations, arbitrations, depositions, trials, regulatory meetings, and other proceedings as appropriate
• Represent Claims on cross-functional committees, projects, and strategic initiatives
• Participate in industry conferences, professional organizations, and continuing legal education activities
• Perform other duties as assigned

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