Assistant General Counsel - General Liability Litigation
The Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
Legal / Public / Security
Req178916
Position Purpose
This position manages and handles all legal matters within an area of specialization, and may include focused emphasis on litigation, regulatory, operational, or compliance issues. The ultimate objective of this position is to minimize the legal exposure of the Company in any and all legal matters.
Key Responsibilities
Position Purpose
This position manages and handles all legal matters within an area of specialization, and may include focused emphasis on litigation, regulatory, operational, or compliance issues. The ultimate objective of this position is to minimize the legal exposure of the Company in any and all legal matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Manages auto liability, general liability, and product liability claims and lawsuits.
- Supervises and manages outside counsel.
- Assesses risk and exposure and works internally and externally to minimize the exposure
- Selects, develops and motivates assigned staff.
- Typically reports to an Associate General Counsel or Vice President – Legal.
- Direct reports generally include one or more Corporate Counsels, one or more legal specialist and one or more legal coordinators.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 20% of the time.
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
- Located in a comfortable indoor area.
- Under constant pressure to continuously meet tight deadlines, demanding quotas and/or must regularly deal with difficult situations.
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Experience in managing auto liability, general liability, or product liability claims and lawsuits.
- Knowledge of legal issues involved in auto liability, general liability, or product liability claims and lawsuits including expertise in insurance policy analysis and contractual indemnification issues.
- Demonstrated familiarity with medical-legal issues related to auto liability, general liability, and product liability claims
- Twelve years of experience as an attorney.
- The completion of a Juris Doctor or equivalent and required certifications for practicing law.
- No additional education
- 12
- No additional years of experience
- None
- None
- Law license from a state bar association
- J.D. is required.
- People management/supervisory experience.
- High degree of oral and written communications skills.
- Negotiation skills.
- Analytical skills.
About the company
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The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, values and rewards dedicated, knowledgeable, and experienced professionals.
We operate more than 2,300 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Canada, and Mexico. All of our associates have one thing in mind — helping our customers build and improve their homes.
Join The Home Depot team today and see for yourself why we are consistently ranked as a top Fortune 500 company.