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LaTonya D. Reynolds had early dreams of being an international corporate attorney, but a passion for finance and taxation, and later, employment law, ultimately led her to her new role as counsel in the labor and employment practice group of Semmes Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore.
Legal department hires during the last full month of spring included high-profile appointments at Southwest, Hormel and UnitedHealth. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.
The end of May marked another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made headlines and Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Engineering and construction consulting company Black & Veatch has hired as its general counsel and chief compliance officer an attorney who formerly led mining technology company Weir's legal team.
Aniela Foster-Turner knew as a teenager in Romania that she wanted to be a lawyer. Here, Enoda's new general counsel speaks to Law360 about her path to legal practice, the jobs she has held and the difficulties GCs face in trying to remain independent.
An attorney for Colorado's ethics watchdog said Thursday that recent disciplinary action against lawyers for filing briefs with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT indicates a "lawyer problem" rather than issues with the technology.
An Illinois judge tossed a lawsuit brought by a former in-house attorney for the Chicago Park District accusing former Mayor Lori Lightfoot of unleashing a profane tirade laced with crude, insulting and defamatory comments during a Zoom call.
Phillips Lytle LLP recently hired an attorney who previously worked at New York Life Insurance Co. and Nationwide Insurance to help bolster its regulatory management services.
New York-based e-discovery services company Repario announced Thursday that it hired a former executive at legal services and technology provider UnitedLex as its new general counsel.
The legal chief for San Francisco-based Samsara Inc., a company that sells software used to track and monitor the movements of truck drivers, saw his earnings jump by more than $3.7 million to nearly $6.3 million last fiscal year, primarily from an increase in stock awards.
A seasoned in-house lawyer, who has worked at household brands including chocolate manufacturer Mars and pharmaceutical company Pfizer, is set to round out the legal department at Krispy Kreme as its top lawyer next month, the doughnut and coffee company said Thursday.
Once "the bellwether of the legal academy," the annual law school rankings published by U.S. News & World Report don't matter to today's prospective law students, a pair of law professors say in a new study.
Elon Musk has hired an aerospace-experienced legal chief for xAI Corp. in San Francisco, his artificial intelligence startup that is competing with OpenAI.
Baker McKenzie announced the hiring of an experienced Chicago-based tax adviser as a principal who most recently spent sixteen and a half years at Big Four accounting firm KPMG.
The longtime top attorney for commercial real estate finance and advisory services firm Walker & Dunlop Inc. has left the company after nearly 14 years, and Walker & Dunlop's deputy general counsel is taking over in the interim.
When Hasbro partnered with Mattel to create the Monopoly: Barbie Edition board game that debuted in October, Tarrant Sibley and his law team were involved in the process. Sibley — a longtime lawyer at Hasbro who has been chief legal officer there since 2018 — has been part of high-level discussions about whether the Monopoly game owner should engage in deals with businesses in the same industry.
Pharmaceutical company Perrigo has announced that its general counsel Kyle L. Hanson will step down on Thursday and transition into a litigation-focused role for the next few months.
An experienced fund transactions attorney has moved from an in-house role at Blackstone to private practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, the firm said Tuesday.
Houston-based oil and gas producer W&T Offshore Inc. announced in a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that general counsel Jonathan Curth has resigned from the company after spending two years in the role.
The board and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. face a significant no-confidence vote at the annual meeting Wednesday as a result of the company's lawsuit against a shareholder for filing a climate disclosure proposal.
Reed Smith LLP announced Tuesday it has hired a music and entertainment attorney in Los Angeles who worked at boutique entertainment law firm Granderson Des Rochers LLP, Universal Music Publishing Group and Google.
Before she joined the federal bench in Arizona, Judge Diane Humetewa worked as a jurist on a relatively young court, where she regularly set new legal precedent.
RxBenefits, a company focused on generating savings for employers providing pharmacy benefits, has appointed a new chief legal officer to oversee its legal and regulatory compliance efforts.
The general counsel who navigated General Electric Co. through its recent split into three companies is becoming a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP on Oct. 1, where he looks forward to taking on corporate crises and maybe even a pro bono death penalty case.
A New Jersey state appeals court panel stood by an attorney's loss Friday in his suit claiming the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and its officials held him back from promotions and raises and harassed him based on his military service in the U.S. National Guard.