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Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
A report says the market is heating up for the hiring of general counsel and chief compliance officers. Meanwhile, Meta is having trouble hanging on to its lawyers, with its deputy general counsel for civil rights leaving, and an outside IP counsel quitting over the CEO's "toxic masculinity." These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
The Texas Rangers are searching for a new senior vice president and general counsel, according to a posting this week on the professional baseball club's website.
Audio equipment maker Sonos Inc. has disclosed that its head of legal affairs saw his compensation skyrocket in fiscal year 2024 compared to a year earlier, amid shifts in roles and upheaval in the company's executive team.
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The National Basketball Association's former assistant general counsel, a key figure in the planning and carrying out of the "bubble" in which the league completed the COVID-19 pandemic-interrupted 2019-2020 season, has joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner.
Sarah M. Harris of Williams & Connolly LLP will serve as acting U.S. solicitor general for President-elect Donald Trump while his permanent pick undergoes the confirmation process.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that General Counsel Megan Barbero will depart the agency on the day of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, capping a nearly two-year run that saw the agency face setbacks to its regulatory powers before conservative courts, but also notch some important wins.
One of the commissioners of the U.S. International Trade Commission, who had served as the agency's leader for a year and a half, has decided to leave and make the move to WilmerHale, according to the ITC.
Executive search firm BarkerGilmore said Thursday that it is seeing a reinvigorated market outlook in 2025 for general counsel and chief compliance officer positions, driven by two key factors — the post-election business climate and a surge in retirements.
The Sixth Circuit must step in to prevent a pharmacy benefit manager from being forced to turn over internal compliance audit documents, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has said, arguing a lower court's decision threatens to undermine the existence of in-house counsel's attorney-client privilege.
Minneapolis business law boutique Avisen Legal PA has tapped a former general counsel at Direct Energy to join the firm as an energy lawyer, the firm announced this week.
A former corporate counsel for Amazon has joined Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP's cybersecurity practice in Baltimore.
Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Thursday that an experienced corporate attorney who most recently spent nearly a decade as general counsel for a healthcare-focused management services company has joined its Miami office as a partner.
Legal networking group the L Suite, formerly known as TechGC, has announced its acquisition of Legal Innovators Network, or LINK, a community organization representing 800 senior legal operations professionals.
Veteran crypto in-house attorney Rebecca Rettig will take on the chief legal officer role at Jito Labs, a developer of products on the Solana blockchain, as the firm's first legal hire, the company announced Thursday.
Mintz has tapped a former senior counsel at Amazon to join its Washington, D.C., office as a member and boost Mintz's decades-old technology, communications, and media practice, the global law firm announced Wednesday.
The legal head of Kraken announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as chief legal officer and stepping into a senior adviser role that will see him build a global advisory council at the crypto exchange.
General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.
The transit industry group American Public Transportation Association has found its new legal leader in an experienced attorney in the nation's capital who previously worked at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. and the Federal Aviation Administration.
King & Spalding on Wednesday announced that a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official has joined the firm's government matters and regulation practice group after an eight-year stint at the agency.
A witness from India whose 2023 absence on the brink of the foreign bribery trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives set off a lengthy delay is now willing to testify, federal prosecutors said, despite stating they were under no obligation to respond to defense counsel's concerns.
Jackson Lewis PC has gained a new principal in Atlanta who formerly worked in-house for e-commerce company StockX and previously practiced with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
Legal departments are quickly embracing artificial intelligence to review contracts, but larger organizations are more likely to be further ahead in adopting these tools, a new survey revealed on Wednesday.
A vital prosecution witness whose unavailability delayed the highly anticipated 2023 trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives on foreign bribery charges in New Jersey federal court might again be missing in action as the new trial date of March 3 approaches, according to court filings.
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In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.