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A Maryland federal judge has awarded $850,000 in attorney fees to an Omega Healthcare shareholder who filed a derivative suit against the healthcare investment trust alleging it had a discriminatory policy aimed at keeping Black individuals from being appointed to its board of directors.
Wisconsin-based SHINE Technologies has found its new top attorney in a veteran in-house leader who previously worked at billionaire investor Ronald O. Perelman's MacAndrews & Forbes Inc.
Goodwin Procter LLP has hired contract software giant Ironclad Inc.'s chief community officer as its Silicon Valley-based chief operating officer, the firm said Monday.
Meta Platforms Inc. filed its opening brief Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit decision that kept alive a class action stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data abuse scandal, arguing that decision would create unnecessary disclosure obligations and encourage "fraud by hindsight" lawsuits.
The bankrupt parent company of iconic steakhouse chain The Palm Restaurant wants a federal court to halt a lawsuit filed by its ousted general counsel because its 2019 bankruptcy case has not been dismissed.
Chicago-based Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC announced Friday the hiring of a general counsel at venture firm Anzu Partners who was a former head transaction attorney for the corporate department of the city of Chicago.
An attorney who started his career at Phillips Lytle LLP has returned to the firm as special counsel on its real estate industry team in New York state after five years as in-house counsel at Benderson Development.
A former in-house lawyer has alleged she was terminated after witnessing a deputy general counsel engage in sexually inappropriate conduct with an intoxicated subordinate attorney at a work-related gathering, and Nasdaq is hoping to accelerate the delisting procedures for companies whose shares fall below $1 for extended periods. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced that an attorney who worked for multiple educational institutions during her career, including Iona University, Queens College and The City University of New York, will soon be taking over as its general counsel.
BlackRock has tapped its chief operating officer for the Asia-Pacific region to become the firm's global head of compliance, with the investment giant's current head of global compliance planning to retire from the firm, according to an internal company memo.
Robert Herbst, a former general counsel and world champion weightlifter, has woven together the law and sports throughout his career, including this week in Paris where he is working with the U.S. Olympic team as a volunteer.
A veteran in-house attorney will be moving from one Ivy League school to another this fall when she joins Brown University from Dartmouth College.
The E.W. Scripps Co. announced Wednesday that its board of directors appointed its former deputy general counsel to the role of chief legal officer, with the incumbent legal chief having announced his planned retirement from the role earlier this year.
A former staff attorney for mortgage company Newrez LLC alleges in a Texas state court lawsuit made public this week that she was terminated last year after witnessing a deputy general counsel engage in sexually inappropriate conduct with an intoxicated subordinate attorney at a work-related gathering.
A frustrated New York state judge on Thursday tossed a former Beam Suntory Inc. sales contractor's reworked wiretapping allegations against rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in a $3 million embezzlement dispute, calling the claims "ridiculous" and an "obvious" delay tactic.
In Hans P. Dyke's first stint with Bracewell LLP, one of his clients was the solar company he would go on to serve as general counsel for. Three years later, Dyke has returned to Bracewell's energy group to apply his new experience to clients' needs for energy transaction issues, the firm announced Thursday.
The new general counsel for the North American arm of United Kingdom-based defense aerospace company Rolls-Royce is a familiar face at the company, having most recently held the top lawyer position on an interim basis following the departure of the previous general counsel earlier this year.
A former in-house lawyer at Google and Blizzard Entertainment Inc. recently became chief legal officer at artificial intelligence inference platform Groq, which on Monday said that it reached a $2.8 billion valuation.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League have welcomed a new top lawyer, a seasoned attorney who was most recently general counsel for the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks and who previously spent close to two years with the Buccaneers near the start of her career.
Michelle Behnke, a business law attorney with more than 35 years of experience, became president-elect of the American Bar Association this week, setting her up to become the president of the organization next summer.
Kaufman Dolowich LLP announced that a pair of experienced partners, including a former in-house attorney at fast food franchisee Sun Holdings, were named the co-managing partners of the firm's Dallas and New Orleans offices.
The University of Kansas has announced the promotion of a longtime university attorney to general counsel and vice chancellor for legal affairs after she spent the past year serving in an interim role.
A staple of the legal thriller genre for nearly 40 years, Scott Turow’s bestselling novel and blockbuster movie "Presumed Innocent" returned to the screen this year as an eight-episode miniseries on Apple. In a spoiler-free conversation with Law360, the author discusses evolving his characters for their television debut and the lasting legacy of his most famous work.
Ring Energy Inc. has found its new general counsel in an experienced energy attorney who most recently worked at renewable fuels company Nacero Inc.
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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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.
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