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The University of Florida announced that its general counsel has been given the additional roles of deputy athletic director and senior women's administrator following her predecessor's appointment as chief operating officer of the athletics department.
Clifford Chance said Tuesday that it is "in shock and deeply saddened" that a partner is among six passengers missing from a yacht that was reportedly chartered to celebrate the legal victory of technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
The number of legal professionals reporting they have used artificial intelligence has doubled since 2023, yet security and trustworthiness concerns are holding others back from adopting the technology, according to a report released Tuesday.
It was no surprise when Uber Chief Legal Officer Tony West decided on the eve of the Democratic National Convention to take a leave of absence from his $10 million-a-year job to volunteer on the presidential campaign of his sister-in-law, Kamala Harris.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's new global general counsel didn't jump into the role from another firm; she started from the bottom. Laura Giokas recently spoke with Law360 Pulse about her career trajectory and how the role of law firm GC has evolved over the years.
The vice president of the recovery, subrogation and salvage department at insurance company Chubb North America will now serve as an of counsel at Derrevere Stevens Black & Cozad, the firm announced Monday.
Discount retailer Big Lots announced that its longtime general counsel will receive a retention bonus worth approximately $561,000 as part of a series of awards given to executives, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
A former executive director at Morgan Stanley has returned to private practice at Allen Overy Shearman Sterling in New York.
An in-house lawyer who has held general counsel roles at KPMG and in the U.S. government is set to transition to investment management company Vanguard later this year as its new general counsel.
David Hirsch, former chief of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's cryptocurrency-focused unit, has always enjoyed helping clients and investigating legal matters. After almost a decade with the agency, Hirsch is excited to bring that passion to his new role with McGuireWoods, he told Law360 Pulse Monday.
Thompson Coburn LLP partner William “Bill” Bay recently assumed the presidency of the American Bar Association at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago. Here, Bay spoke with Law360 Pulse about his plans to make the organization the home of the legal profession.
A federal appeals court has upheld President Joe Biden's authority to fire former National Labor Relations Board general counsel Peter Robb. And FirstEnergy has agreed to pay up to $20 million in a nonprosecution deal, ending the Ohio attorney general's probe in its billion-dollar bribery scandal. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
Biopharmaceutical company Cytokinetics Inc. will soon welcome an experienced in-house attorney who previously worked at Gilead Sciences Inc. for more than 16 years as its chief legal officer.
The D.C. Circuit was not moved by an attorney's attempt to claim a potential multimillion-dollar award for reporting his client to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, saying the attorney could not have reasonably believed that blowing the whistle on the $44 million fraud was in his client's best interest.
Aspen Aerogels Inc., a producer of aerogel insulation materials, has named a former in-house attorney for Revlon Inc. and IBM to its board of directors.
The former general counsel of General Dynamics' shipbuilding division rejoined the company in the same role after spending the last five years working for the government contracting giant's European unit in Spain, according to a recent LinkedIn post.
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw made big hires and Donald Trump's legal woes continued. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
An experienced media and entertainment attorney, who has had in-house stints at Condé Nast, The Walt Disney Co. and Marvel Entertainment, said in a LinkedIn post this week that she is the new general counsel at talent agency Verve.
Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP grew its bankruptcy, restructuring and creditor rights practice group this week with a partner coming from Truist Financial Corp., having served as an associate general counsel at the bank for six years.
The former satellite policy, spectrum and regulatory affairs manager for SpaceX, an aerospace and astronautics manufacturer owned by Elon Musk, has moved to private practice with DLA Piper LLP's telecommunications practice, the firm announced Wednesday.
Ice Miller LLP has brought aboard an experienced cybersecurity and government contracts attorney who for the last 18 years has worked in-house for defense and technology contractors, most recently as senior principal and counsel at L3Harris Technologies.
The general counsel at legal tech company ContractPodAi doesn't believe lawyers need to be masters in AI. But they must take the steps to learn, understand and become knowledgeable about the developments taking place — or risk being left behind by other attorneys who are embracing innovation.
Legal technology company LegalZoom has chosen Noel Watson, who joined the company in 2020 as chief financial officer, to be its chief operating officer, according to a recent corporate filing.
Seychelles-based crypto exchange Bitget on Wednesday announced it has hired a new chief legal officer who, among other roles, served as general counsel at Binance prior to its high-profile settlement with U.S. authorities last year.
K&L Gates LLP's newest healthcare counsel, Amanda Smith, has never worked at a private practice law firm until now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.