Sheila Murphy, Esq.

Sheila Murphy is a Bates Consulting and Testifying Expert with over 30 years of legal, insurance, regulatory, compliance and litigation experience. Ms. Murphy is a senior leadership legal advisor who provides proactive, strategic and practical advice to resolve complex regulatory and litigation issues.

Prior to joining Bates, Ms. Murphy served MetLife in various legal roles. Most recently, as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Ms. Murphy led the Regulatory and Retail Litigation Unit, which provided strategic advice on litigation and regulatory matters for MetLife's U.S. insurance and financial products businesses. Her team counseled on broker-dealer, compliance and public policy issues as well as advised on litigation and regulatory matters. Additionally, she headed multi-disciplined task forces on issues relating to risk mitigation; developed and implemented recommendations to enhance compliance policies, procedures, and metrics in tandem with key stakeholders.

At MetLife, Ms. Murphy was a member of the Legal Affairs Technology Committee, the decision-making and governance body for technology issues. This committee created a unified strategy across legal for technology and dramatically reduced spending. Ms. Murphy was selected as an Advisory Board member to MetLife’s U.S. Women’s Business Network and U.S. Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. She also rebuilt U.S. Women’s Business Network into a remarkable organization with dynamic results, becoming one of the largest Lean In circle memberships and being cited as a model by the Lean In organization.

Ms. Murphy started her legal career as a litigation associate at a major Wall Street firm. She handled contracts, securities, and bankruptcy-related disputes—successfully defending banks, insurers, and governmental entities. Ms. Murphy received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.S. from Binghamton University. During her career, she was selected to participate in Smith College Executive Education and Harvard Business School Management and Leadership Programs. Ms. Murphy has received numerous industry awards and has been a speaker and panelist for various continuing education and industry-related symposia.