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    Troubled Crypto Exchange KuCoin Lifts Legal Chief To CEO

    The giant crypto exchange KuCoin, which is under indictment in the U.S., said Monday it has promoted its chief legal officer to the role of CEO, citing its commitment to "global growth, innovation, and regulatory compliance."

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    Ex-Hooters Legal Chief Moves To Church's Texas Chicken

    National chicken restaurant chain Church's Texas Chicken recently changed up its leadership team with the addition of a new chief legal officer plucked from Hooters parent company HOA Brands.

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    Weil Adds SEC's Asset Management Co-Chief To NY Group

    A more-than 12-year veteran of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who most recently co-led the agency's Asset Management Unit, is joining Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as the firm continues adding former regulators to begin the new year.

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    What IP Attorneys Need To Know From Trump's First Days

    Since the Trump administration took over on Monday, a new acting director for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been sworn in, federal workers have been mandated to return to working in person and the Biden administration's artificial intelligence executive order has been rescinded. Here's what IP attorneys should know.

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    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    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.

  • GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    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.​

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    Texas Rangers Begin Search For Team's New GC

    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.

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    Sonos Legal Chief's Compensation Topped $3M In 2024

    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.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another busy week as law firms inked new deals, elevated attorneys and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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    O'Melveny Adds Ex-NBA Assistant GC As Partner

    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.

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    Trump Taps Williams & Connolly's Sarah Harris As Acting SG

    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.

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    SEC's General Counsel Barbero To Exit As Trump Takes Office

    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.

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    ITC Commissioner Heading To WilmerHale In DC

    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.

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    Increase In GC, CCO Hiring In 2025 Predicted

    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.

  • Chamber Slams Opioid Judge's PBM Audit Privilege Ruling

    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. 

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    Ex-Direct Energy GC Joins Boutique Minn. Law Firm

    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.

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    Ex-Amazon Incident Response Atty Joins Constangy

    A former corporate counsel for Amazon has joined Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP's cybersecurity practice in Baltimore.

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    Shutts & Bowen Adds Former Healthcare Biz GC In Miami

    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.

  • GC Network The L Suite Acquires LegalOps Group LINK

    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.

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    DeFi Upstart Brings On Seasoned Crypto Legal Chief

    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.

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    Amazon Sr. Counsel Moves To Mintz's Tech, Telecom Practice

    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.

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    Crypto Co. Kraken's Legal Chief Says He's Stepping Down

    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.

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    GCs Express Fear Of Giant Verdicts, Expect More Litigation

    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.

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    Public Transportation Group Appoints DC-Savvy GC

    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.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload? Author Photo

    Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.

  • A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms Author Photo

    Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments? Author Photo

    In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging. 

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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.

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