Liberty Mutual Insurance

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We nominate Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Legal Department and their Diversity and Inclusion Committee, for role modeling excellence and proactively championing D & I for over 20 years.

In March 2018, the Department conducted their first Liberty Legal Academy. The two-day conference focused on developing diverse outside counsel attorneys (women and people of color).

“We created this conference to identify diverse talent and establish a pool of Outside Counsel attorneys who can represent our diverse customer base.” said Chief Legal Officer James Kelleher. “It’s important that our Outside Counsel firms understand the value of developing their diverse attorneys.”

The event featured discussions with Liberty’s senior counsel, guest speakers, group presentations and networking. According to an attendee, “It was great to see a large corporation value diversity, recognize and assist in the development of diverse attorneys.”

In 2017, 22 legal employees attended and presented at 11 diversity conferences nationwide, and identified potential candidates for positions within Liberty and even referring some to outside counsel partners.

In addition, Liberty’s Legal Department leads by example with 51% of its 1,000 attorneys being women and lawyers of color. Liberty works with over 67 diversely owned firms and asked all outside counsel firms to self-identify their diverse talent on Liberty’s legal matters.

We applaud Liberty Mutual’s legal team for their foresight, leadership and continuing commitment to diversity.