# Lead Counsel, Product Claims

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-$268,300
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Motor Company's Office of the General Counsel is seeking an outstanding attorney to join our Product Claims Team in the Controversies Practice Group. As a Lead Counsel, Product Claims, you will provide strategic oversight of a portfolio of pre-suit customer-direct and subrogation product liability matters nationwide.

Responsibilities:

- Evaluate and assess subrogation claims

- Retain and manage outside counsel when necessary

- Drive the assessment of litigation risk

- Optimize Ford's strategic and defensive posture in anticipation of litigation

- Lead settlement negotiations

- Implement new technology solutions and workflow automations to efficiently manage matters and reduce costs

- Provide support, counseling, and training to business teams on legal risks, lessons learned, and risk mitigation strategies

- Direct a team of analysts responsible for investigating and resolving pre-suit, consumer direct product liability claims

Qualifications:

- Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school

- Membership in good standing of the Michigan Bar or eligible for RIHC status in Michigan

- Minimum of 4-8 years of experience practicing as a litigation attorney

- Strong litigation background

- Excellent analytical, critical, and strategic thinking skills

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills

- Skilled and confident in negotiation

- Proficient in applying AI tools to daily work

- Interest in optimizing and automating legal operations

- Continuous improvement mindset

- Ability to work with a diverse team

- Experience managing a team

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, and more

- Family building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- Generous schedule of paid holidays

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

## Skills

### Required
- litigation
- strategic thinking
- written and oral communication
- negotiation
- AI tools
- legal operations
- team management

### Nice to have
- automotive industry experience
- product liability experience
- insurance subrogation experience

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