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At the age of 9, Hazel-Ann Mayers decided she would become a lawyer because she wanted to help people — and she never thought about any other career. She shared with Law360 Pulse how she has lived out her childhood dream, most recently as general counsel at the education technology company Turnitin.
Giant railway transporter Norfolk Southern Corp. is facing a triple threat from investors at its annual meeting Thursday: a contested election for its board of directors, a shareholder proposal on lobbying disclosure and a proposal to restrict bylaw changes by the board.
Reed Smith LLP has hired legal technology company Epiq's managing director of applied artificial intelligence to serve as its first director of applied AI, the firm said Tuesday.
FordHarrison LLP tapped an Atlanta partner who has spent her entire career at the management-side labor and employment law firm to serve as its next general counsel.
Employer-side labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has brought on the former general counsel and senior vice president of human resources for professional employer organization Lyons HR to its Atlanta office, strengthening its professional employer organization and staffing practice.
Louisiana-based telecommunications company Lumen Technologies announced that longtime general counsel Stacey Goff will be leaving the company, with an experienced former Disney and Hulu executive set to take over the role.
The Eighth Circuit appeared likely Tuesday to uphold the dismissal of a Black former Lockheed Martin in-house attorney's race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, questioning whether a lesser sanction would've adequately punished misstatements to the trial court about her current high-paying job.
The general counsel of consumer health giant Haleon in London has announced the latest stop in what's been a globetrotting legal career, heading to Saudi Arabia as senior vice president and deputy general counsel of oil giant Aramco.
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has expanded its bankruptcy and restructuring practice with the addition of an experienced attorney from Barclays Investment Bank, the firm said Tuesday.
Attorneys Jim Black and Julie Ryan don't just want to help public benefit and B Corporations through their newly launched Washington, D.C., boutique ImpactGC, they also want to be one.
The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to take up an appeal of a Denver trial court order in a construction insurance case that an insurer warns would "eviscerate privilege protection for the vast majority of attorney-client privileged communications in society."
A California magistrate judge on Monday dismissed, for now, a lawsuit by a Workday Inc. in-house attorney who accused the company of discriminatory and retaliatory behavior, which included pay inequities and calling the police to conduct an unnecessary wellness check at his house when he was hospitalized.
Self-reporting is the most important factor that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement staff weigh in determining cooperation credit and whether a firm should face a penalty, SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal said in an interview with Law360.
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP has expanded its food and beverage team with the addition of a McDermott Will & Emery LLP partner and former corporate counsel at the Boston Beer Co. in the firm's New York office, the firm said Monday.
The Third Circuit on Monday declined to revive a former Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development attorney's suit alleging his firing violated his 14th Amendment rights, reasoning that the lawyer failed to show how his termination constitutes a deprivation of property.
In the latest of several major moves since its shift in ownership last year, Elite Technology, a provider of financial and practice management solutions to law firms, announced Monday that it has hired the former general counsel of Discovery Education as its chief legal officer and corporate secretary.
Hill International Inc., one of the world's largest project and construction management companies, said Monday it has appointed William Dengler Jr. to the new role of chief acquisition and administrative officer, using his experience as Hill's former general counsel to help the firm grow.
The top legal officer for New Jersey-based children's clothing company The Children's Place Inc. saw his compensation fall in 2023 from the previous year and dip below $1 million for the first time since taking the general counsel role, largely because of lower stock awards, a new securities filing shows.
Robinhood Markets Inc. notified investors Monday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to sue its crypto arm for allegedly failing to register as a securities brokerage firm and clearing agency, saying the agency could go as far as demanding that the platform be shut down.
An attorney who worked in-house for healthcare industry trade and advocacy associations has joined healthcare boutique Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC as director of government relations and public policy.
The legal recruiting industry is made up of many former practicing lawyers, but not every BigLaw associate or partner is poised to make it in the world of recruiting.
Michael Hahn, executive vice president and general counsel of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, finds he spends as much time learning about technology as he does the law, and says, "There's no other place I'd rather be at this point in my career."
A former general counsel testified Thursday in the criminal fraud trial of former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch that the company's chief operating officer didn't want a whistleblower's claims to get into court, and a South Carolina man and his companies must pay the SEC nearly $24.9 million to settle claims that he misappropriated investors' money to make Ponzi payments. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
Aswathi "Ash" Zachariah, general counsel for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., is taking on some additional duties two years after she took over the post, the organization said.
A former Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz corporate partner received more than $14 million in his first months as Salesforce's top lawyer after taking the in-house position last summer, with the compensation package largely based on a $3 million signing bonus and an $11 million equity award, a recent securities filing shows.