Senior Litigation Legal Assistant

Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
In Government & Legal Affairs, you'll be an engaged and trusted partner - empowered to deliver innovative solutions, influence public policy, and achieve results that enable MetLife's growth and protect its global interests. Applying a commercial and contemporary mindset, you'll advocate for what's possible, overcome challenges, and embrace different perspectives. If you also pride yourself on acting with accountability, transparency, and respect, apply to join our Government & Legal Affairs team today.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Litigation Legal Assistant to join MetLife's in-house Legal Services Team, primarily supporting the Litigation Unit within Government and Legal Affairs. This role also supports broader Legal Services initiatives and other areas of Government and Legal Affairs. The Senior Litigation Legal Assistant brings experience from a large law firm or corporate environment supporting the full litigation lifecycle through strong organization, process management, and eDiscovery execution. This role helps ensure litigation is efficient, defensible, and well managed, contributing to risk mitigation, operational efficiency, and effective outcomes. Guided by our purpose - a lways with you building a more confident future - and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to support litigation matters while helping shape and improve the processes behind them. As part of a growing team, you'll drive efficiency through process improvement, support eDiscovery & legal technology initiatives, and contribute to responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools (e.g., summarization, workflow automation, and process documentation) while applying appropriate validation, confidentiality, and human judgment.
Key Responsibilities

• Execute legal holds across matters, ensuring timely, accurate, and defensible implementation; maintain standardized workflows, tracking, and documentation.
• Support litigation and eDiscovery activities using available technology (including AI-enabled features where appropriate) in alignment with legal requirements and quality controls.
• Manage matter organization and case tracking, maintaining accurate deadlines, milestones, and key deliverables.
• Drive scalable process improvements, documentation, and best practices to support legal technology, automation, and responsible AI adoption (including validation, governance, and confidential-data handling).
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts with attorneys, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of litigation and eDiscovery activities.

Required Qualifications
• College degree and equivalent combination of education and relevant experience required.
• 5+ years of litigation support or paralegal experience with demonstrated exposure and understanding of the litigation lifecycle and eDiscovery processes and technology (e.g., Relativity, Onit, etc.).
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and complex litigation matters simultaneously. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey information clearly to legal, technical, and business stakeholders.
• Comfort working with technology-assisted workflows, including documenting steps, validating outputs, and following governance and confidentiality requirements when using automation or AI-enabled tools.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and build effective partnerships with attorneys, IT, vendors, and internal teams.
Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with litigation support/legal technology tools (e.g., Onit, Relativity, Lexis, etc.) and Microsoft Word/Excel; comfort leveraging automation and AI-enabled features to improve efficiency and accuracy
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced, evolving environment, with sound judgment and appropriate escalation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Professional experience working with generative AI tools to enhance productivity, with awareness of limitations, need for human review, and im portance of confidentiality (e.g., ensure outputs are verified and do not unintentionally disclose sensitive information).
• Paralegal degree from an ABA-approved institution strongly preferred.

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $74,500 - $99,300 . This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
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