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White House Special Counsel Joins Kramer Levin As Partner
When the White House announced in April that Richard Sauber would leave his role as special counsel, the legal matters he had been tasked by President Joe Biden to lead had all but wrapped up and helped him make the decision to join Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as its newest partner in Washington, D.C., he told Law360 Pulse Monday.
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Cipriani USA Hires General Counsel From Standard Hotels
The high-end international hospitality group Cipriani has hired a new general counsel with years of experience handling financial deals at the parent company of Standard Hotels and at Virgin Hotels.
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Frankfurt Kurnit Adds Ex-Copyright Office GC In LA
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC has brought in a new partner to the entertainment litigation group in its Los Angeles office, an attorney with vast experience in copyright law that includes serving as general counsel for the U.S. Copyright Office.
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Ex-Google Attorney Joins Freshfields' DC Office
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced Monday that it has hired for its antitrust practice a new partner who worked as an in-house attorney at Google for 15 years.
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Alight CLO Gets $400K Bonus Amid Company Changes
The chief legal officer at cloud-based human capital and technology services provider Alight Inc. was awarded a one-time retention award consisting of cash and stock worth $400,000, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Discover CLO Resigns Amid $35B Merger Deal, Will Join Ally
Discover's top lawyer is resigning and is set to depart for another position later this year, or upon the closing of the financial services company's proposed $35 billion tie-up with Capital One.
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Legal Tech Co. Everlaw Hires CLO From Commure
Investigation and litigation platform Everlaw announced on Monday the hiring of a longtime in-house counsel, most recently chief legal officer at Commure, as its new head of legal.
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Calif. Takes AI Reins With Looming Safety, Transparency Laws
A pair of groundbreaking legislative proposals aimed at ensuring the safe and transparent deployment of artificial intelligence systems are headed to the California governor's desk, raising questions about whether lawmakers are taking the right approach to regulating the emerging technology and how the state's privacy regulator will respond.
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Pillsbury Atty Goes In-House As 'Rust' Film Co.'s GC
A Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP attorney who helped navigate a studio through civil litigation over the notorious "Rust" movie production, in which actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot someone by accident, has been hired by the film company as its general counsel.
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In-House Atty At Priceline.com Set To Appear On 'Survivor'
An experienced in-house attorney currently serving as a senior counsel for travel website Priceline.com is taking part in this year's edition of the iconic TV reality show "Survivor," CBS Entertainment has announced.
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NY Gov. Taps WilmerHale Leader For Counsel Position
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that a WilmerHale partner and leader will be the next counsel to the governor, appointing an attorney who has served as New York deputy attorney general and the attorney general's chief of staff and as senior adviser to the New York City mayor.
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Ex-Albertsons Exec. Joins Exelon To Oversee Federal Affairs
Energy provider Exelon Corp. has hired a government affairs pro who formerly worked for Albertsons Cos., Raytheon Technologies, T-Mobile and Verizon to be its senior vice president of federal affairs.
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Fox Rothschild Lands Entertainment Atty From Netflix In NY
An attorney who most recently worked for streaming giant Netflix is bringing his lifelong love of film and past working as a writer and producer to Fox Rothschild LLP.
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Legal Job Market Continued Downward Trend In August
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
A contracting company has launched a $59 million malpractice suit against Troutman Pepper, alleging the firm and a partner in its construction practice failed to provide adequate representation in two underlying cases, while artificial intelligence was atop the list of new technologies law firms have used this year. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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McGlinchey Stafford Adds Ex-United Auto Credit GC In Texas
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced that it has strengthened its financial institutions compliance practice group with a Dallas-based attorney who came aboard after more than seven years as general counsel and chief compliance officer for United Auto Credit Corp.
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TriNet Promotes Former Binance Exec To Chief Legal Officer
Human resources services company TriNet has elevated its deputy general counsel, who joined the company earlier this year from Binance.US, to replace its departing chief legal officer.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off September with another action-packed week as law firms shifted offices and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Seasoned Atty Returns To Sterne Kessler As General Counsel
After a self-described nine-month sabbatical, an attorney who previously worked at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox for more than two decades has returned to the Washington, D.C.-based firm to serve as general counsel.
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Troutman Pepper Faces $59 Million Malpractice Suit In NY
Queens-based construction company Judlau Contracting has launched a $59 million malpractice suit against Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in New York state court, alleging the firm and a partner in its construction practice of failing to provide adequate representation in two underlying court cases.
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Adobe's GC, Longtime Atty Resigns
Adobe Inc.'s general counsel, a technology veteran who has worked to increase trust and transparency online and to fight the spread of both misinformation and disinformation, has stepped down from his post, a spokesperson for the computer software company confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Thursday.
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UK Screen Directors Tap Ex-Disney GC To Seek Royalties
One year ago this month, Peter Wiley walked away from his job as chief international counsel for the Walt Disney Co., saying he wanted to "take a short break." And he did.
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Wiley Beefs Up Enviro Team With Special Counsel Add In DC
Wiley Rein LLP has hired an environmental lawyer who has helped clients understand the regulatory, public policy and enforcement impacts of climate laws on their businesses for more than 15 years, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Travel Tech Biz Sabre Taps Another Chief Legal Officer
Travel tech company Sabre Corp. will soon welcome its third chief legal officer within the past few years due to the termination of the attorney who started in the post last year.
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How Revlon's Former GC Landed A Board Position
When Cari Robinson left Revlon as general counsel in 2022, she thought she was ready to retire. Since then, however, she has taken a job at a strategic communications firm and found a board seat. Now, she said she has "the best of both worlds."