Beth Morahan, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Liberty Mutual Global Risk Solutions
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Beth Morahan is Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Liberty Mutual Group and serves as General Counsel for Liberty’s Global Risk Solutions (GRS) business. In this role, Beth is part of the GRS executive leadership team and leads a team of over 70 lawyers and paralegals in support of the company’s global commercial insurance business, which includes traditional and specialty lines as well as surety. The GRS Legal team collaborates closely with both business clients and corporate department colleagues on a wide variety of issues, such as product development and implementation, contract review, negotiation and drafting, licensing, privacy, underwriting and rating matters, broker issues, claims matters, insurance regulatory compliance, and M & A. The team strives to proactively engage with the business to help inform its understanding and management of legal risk.
Beth is also part of the Liberty Mutual Corporate Legal Department’s executive leadership team, and in that role is focused on legal department strategic matters such as operational effectiveness and talent engagement and development. She also serves as National Co-Chair of Able@Liberty, Liberty Mutual’s disability awareness Employee Resource Group.
Beth joined Liberty Mutual’s Legal Department in 1995 and has held a variety of positions, including roles in the insurance coverage practice and in support of the company’s US personal lines business.
Beth has a B.A. from The University of New Hampshire, where she majored in Political Science, and a J.D. from New England Law.
What is the most influential piece of advice (professional or personal) you have received?
You can do anything but you can't do everything - so build strong relationships, learn from others, and find good partners to get things done.
Where do you see the legal profession in 10+ years?
My hope is that technology takes some of the drudgery out of legal work, leaving more room for creative problem solving.
What is/are your favorite extracurricular activity/activities?
I love spending time with family and friends, live music (the louder the better!), and just about any outdoor adventure.
What is one thing people should know about you but don't?
I'm an introvert.
Name your hometown/where you were born/where you grew up and where you live now.
Born in Newark, NJ, and live just west of Boston.
Anything else you'd like to share?
Thanks for this honor - I'm fortunate to be part of an amazing team and to have had the opportunity to work with amazing people, on fascinating things, over the course of my career at Liberty Mutual. Mutual.
Published December 6, 2023.