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Longtime Adobe Atty Joins BambooHR As Chief Legal Officer
BambooHR, which provides human resource software as a service, has appointed a former Adobe associate general counsel as its new chief legal officer.
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Episcopal Church Pension Group Names New CLO
Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing benefits, insurance and publishing for the Episcopal Church, has named a seasoned in-house attorney its next top lawyer, who brings with her nearly two decades of experience mostly focused on finance, corporate governance and compliance.
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Experienced Financial Atty Named Wealth Manager's New GC
Focus Financial Partners Inc. announced that a longtime attorney at LPL Financial was named the New York-based wealth manager's general counsel as part of a series of leadership appointments.
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Blood Cancer Org. Gives Interim GC Permanent Role
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society announced Tuesday that the New York-based research nonprofit has promoted its interim general counsel and chief legal officer to the role on a permanent basis as part of a group of leadership appointments.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Rosenthal Praises Zoom Hearings
While U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal calls the pandemic a disaster that "discombobulated" the federal courts, she thinks there was also a silver lining to the experience.
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MSG Entertainment's New Top Lawyer Saw Comp Eclipse $2M
The interwoven business holdings of New York's Dolan family made major securities filings last week revealing that Madison Square Garden Entertainment paid its new general counsel just over $2 million in total compensation in fiscal 2024, and that separate company Madison Square Garden Sports has hired a new top legal officer.
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J. Crew Asks Court To Ratify Ex-GC's Arbitration Loss
J. Crew is asking a New York federal judge to confirm an arbitrator's ruling from earlier this month that found it hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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Tesla Atty Faces Sanctions Bid Over Mediation Appearance
Tesla and an in-house attorney are facing a sanctions bid in California federal court for reportedly appearing at a mediation in a wrongful death case despite lacking settlement authority, causing "delay and unnecessary expense" to the widow of a man who died when his Tesla allegedly ran off the road, crashed and ignited.
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Longtime A&E Atty Retires As Entertainment Co.'s CLO
A&E Networks announced Monday that its chief legal officer will retire after 11 years, with the company's deputy general counsel set to succeed him in February.
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Telesis Bio's Chief Legal Officer To Leave Post This Week
Telesis Bio Inc.'s chief legal officer is exiting his role on Thursday and will be receiving a severance payment of $307,500 under a separation agreement, according to a public filing.
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Microsoft Boosts President's Pay To Over $23M
For guiding Microsoft Corp. into lucrative business partnerships and leading on its artificial intelligence and cybersecurity efforts, the company awarded its president and vice chair with a $5 million boost in his annual pay package, taking the former chief legal officer to over $23.4 million in fiscal 2024, according to a security filing Thursday.
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Amazon Highlights 'Global Good' Of Its Pro Bono Program
As it recognizes the 10th anniversary of its pro bono program, Amazon says its in-house legal and public policy professionals have contributed tens of thousands of hours of volunteer legal services, and that there are many more to come as employees continue to do important work serving those in need globally.
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Ex-Paralegal Hits Wells Fargo With Disability Bias Suit
A former paralegal for Wells Fargo Bank NA hit her former employer with a discrimination suit alleging that she faced bias and was eventually terminated because of her health issues.
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Kraft Heinz Hires New Global GC From Sealed Air
The Kraft Heinz Co. has announced that the general counsel at packaging company Sealed Air Corp. will join next month as global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, following the August departure of the food giant's top lawyer.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Most in-house legal teams expect to spend a lot more on outside counsel costs in 2025, mostly due to increased lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny. And it appears the former general counsel of Moody's Corp. will be spending the holidays in prison after being sentenced to eight months for failing to file income tax returns on $54 million in income.
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Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In
As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
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Mitchell Silberberg Hires Warner Bros. Discovery Attorney
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has hired Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.'s chief employment counsel to help strengthen the firm's national labor and employment practice and its entertainment bench.
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No Reason To Open Discovery, X, Musk Say In Severance Fight
Elon Musk and X Corp. have urged a California federal court not to acquiesce to former executives' request to open discovery in their severance benefits lawsuit, saying the workers can't show they've been harmed by the court's decision to pause discovery until after ruling on a dismissal motion.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Lennox's Top Atty Retiring, Deputy To Take Reins
Lennox International Inc., known for its cooling and refrigeration systems, has announced that John Torres, executive vice president and chief legal officer, will retire effective Feb. 28 after 16 years with the company and will be replaced by his deputy general counsel on Jan. 1.
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Norton Rose Adds Experienced Cybersecurity & Privacy Duo
Norton Rose Fulbright announced that a pair of attorneys with more than 50 years of combined experience have joined it New York and St. Louis offices as senior counsel, in what it said will help clients navigate the increasingly complex cybersecurity and privacy areas of law.
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East Carolina U. Taps Interim GC As Top Atty Departs
East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, abruptly replaced its general counsel Thursday, with the university's chancellor announcing in a memo to faculty and staff that the school's deputy general counsel had been tapped to take the top lawyer's spot on an interim basis while a permanent replacement is sought.
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Gambling Machine Maker Elevates Deputy Legal Chief To CLO
Australia-based gambling machine manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure announced Thursday that the company's deputy chief legal officer has been elevated to the chief legal officer role following her predecessor's retirement.
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Syniverse Appoints Veteran Atty As Chief Legal Officer
Telecommunications software provider Syniverse announced that an experienced attorney who spent nearly two decades in-house at Verizon has been named executive vice president and chief legal officer.
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Ex-GC, CEO Joins Manatt As Adviser Amid San Diego Growth
Professional services firm Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has brought on an adviser with broad experience in business, education and technology law, in a move to bolster the firm's expanding San Diego office and its national government advocacy and contracting practice, according to a Thursday announcement.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.