Welcome to the latest edition of the Lit Daily’s In-House Litigation Leaders series. Here we focus on lawyers making the hiring decisions, shaping the strategies and managing the caseloads at some of the nation’s largest and most innovative companies.

Meet Jeffrey Bauer, the corporate vice president of litigation and investigations at Huntington Ingalls Industries, the nation’s largest military shipbuilder, based in Newport News, Virginia. Bauer has helped manage litigation at the company since 2012 and was promoted to his current position in September 2020. He was previously a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation.