Taa Grays
Assistant General Counsel and Chief of Staff to General Counsel, Metlife

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Taa serves as Chief of Staff to the General Counsel. She works closely with the General Counsel and his leadership team to identify, document and communicate Legal Affairs' initiatives. She coordinates with the Legal Affairs leadership on project planning, management and accountability to ensure the timely completion of corporate and Legal Affairs deliverables and to champion various departmental initiatives. She also manages a staff of 15 associates that provides project management, training, technology support, research, communication, records management and administrative services to the department. She also serves as the Chair of the Legal Affairs' Diversity Committee. She started with MetLife in 2003 in the Litigation Section. As a litigator, her practice consisted of handling various federal and state lawsuits and complaints stemming from MetLife's US Business and Investment activities. She also coordinated and oversaw MetLife's e-discovery responses to regulatory, pre-litigation and litigation matters as the eDiscovery Counsel and managed a cross-functional team that managed MetLife's discovery program. Prior to MetLife, Taa was an Assistant District Attorney with the Bronx District Attorney's Office in its Rackets Bureau for five and half years. She investigated and prosecuted felony and misdemeanor crimes committed by public officials and organized crime groups from the filing of the initial complaint to indictment and trial. Taa is very active in the legal community. She is the President of the Network of Bar Leaders, the co-chair of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Women in the Law, and the chair of the National Bar Associations Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Advocacy Scholarship Competition for high school students. She is the past president of the Association of Black Women Attorneys, past Regional Director and Member-at-Large of the National Bar Association, past member of the New York City Bar delegation to the New York State Bar Association's House of Delegates, past Vice-President of the Black Bar Association of Bronx County, past program planning chair for the Corporate Counsel Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, past co-chair of the Diversity Committee of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and past Board member of the Queens County Women's Bar Association.