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James L. Lipscomb age 59 is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of MetLife Inc. He was named to this position in July 2003.
Lipscomb oversees the company’s Legal Affairs group with responsibility for the global operation of the MetLife Law Department Government and Industry Relations Department and the Corporate Secretary’s Office. He also provides advice to the Board of Directors and management on corporate governance and business operations.
Lipscomb joined MetLife in 1972 as an attorney and through promotions with increasing responsibilities became Vice President and Associate General counsel in 1987. He left the Legal department in 1990 to join the strategic research group an in-house "think tank" that worked on strategic issues. Later he joined the Real Estate Investments Department where he was appointed a Senior Vice President and was placed in charge of the $12 billion commercial mortgage loan portfolio. In 1998 Lipscomb was asked to head the corporate planning and strategy department. In 2000 he was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Conning Corporation a former MetLife subsidiary where he was in charge of a $25 billion asset management portfolio a private equity group a real estate loan origination and servicing platform an equity broker dealer and an insurance industry research group. Lipscomb returned to the law department in 2001 and was named Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.
Throughout this legal career Lipscomb has held leadership positions in various local state and national legal organizations including the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the State Bar of California. Lipscomb currently serves as Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has spoken widely on many legal forums and has been published on many topics including the publication of "Structuring Complex Real Estate Transactions" (John Wiley 1988 Supp. 1993).
Lipscomb received a B.A. degree from Howard University in 1969 a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School in 1972 and a L.L.M. (Corporations) degree from New York University in 1977. He is a member of the state bar in New York and California and the federal bar in the Northern District of California the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit.
His civic affiliations include serving as a vice chair of the Citizens Budget Commission of New York director of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York director of the Life Insurance Council of New York and trustee of the Practising Law Institute. Lipscomb also serves as a member of the board of directors of several MetLife subsidiaries GenAmerica Financial Metropolitan Life Property and Liability Company and MetLife Foundation.
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