In-House


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    Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Flag Football League Exec

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired an attorney with experience as a high-level executive for a sports league and teams, including the American Flag Football League and the Houston Roughnecks, now of the United Football League, to expand its sports law practice.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    While many companies are removing diversity language from their public websites, a new survey shows that about half of its respondents do not plan on changing their DEI programs. And the general counsel for the new Tiger Woods/Rory McIlroy golf league talked about his love of the sport and the legal work involved in the new venture.

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    Cognizant Execs' Trial Could Test Force Of FCPA Pause

    The government's decision to proceed with a trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives despite the Trump administration's retreat from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement adds a layer of intrigue to a legal saga that has already captivated the white collar bar given the rarity of such cases ever reaching juries.

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    Financial Services Group Taps WilmerHale Atty As GC

    Pennsylvania-based financial services company Ascensus LLC has brought onboard an attorney who formerly practiced at WilmerHale to serve as the company's top in-house attorney in the Boston-area office.

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    Selendy Gay Names New Managing Partner, COO

    Litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC announced Thursday that it has appointed bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer Kelley Cornish as managing partner and landed the top legal head of Cinch Home Services as its new chief operating officer.

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    NetApp Expands CLO's Role To Chief Administrative Officer

    NetApp Inc., a data management and software company, has changed its leadership structure by appointing its legal leader to the newly expanded role of chief administrative officer.

  • Number Of DEI Execs Was Up Ahead Of Election, Study Finds

    A recent study of America's biggest corporations concluded that last year, before President Donald Trump returned to the White House, top companies had hired an increasing number of chief inclusion and diversity officers and chief sustainability officers.

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    Ex-HHS Litigator Brings Regulatory Expertise To Arnall Golden

    Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Thursday the firm brought on as a partner an experienced healthcare litigator whose career includes more than a decade worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Former Seyfarth Partner To Chair DOL's Review Board

    The U.S. Department of Labor tapped a former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner with more than 25 years of experience on employment and immigration law to be chair of the Administrative Review Board.

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    How This GC's Love Of Golf Helped Innovate The Sport

    Chris Murvin, who struggled early on to settle into a career, turned his love of golf into the legal job of a lifetime, becoming the first general counsel for the new TMRW Golf League, a startup co-founded by pro golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.

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    Ex-White House Enviro Justice Leader Joins Legal Nonprofit

    An environmental policy official from the Biden White House has joined the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government to help lead the organization's climate change and environmental justice initiatives.

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    Mastercard Rehires Ex-CLO After State Dept. Stint

    Mastercard's former chief legal officer is returning to the company to serve as chief administrative officer following a nearly two-year stint as deputy secretary with the U.S. Department of State.

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    Sysco Hires Longtime In-House Attorney As New Legal Chief

    Food service distribution giant Sysco is bringing on an attorney with decades of in-house experience for the roles of executive vice president and chief legal officer.

  • Cos. Not In Rush To Abandon DEI Measures, Report Says

    Companies don't appear to be dropping their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in droves even though President Donald Trump's administration has made workplace DEI programs an early target, according to a new report issued by Littler Mendelson PC.

  • Apple Litigation Director Threatened With Sanctions At Hearing

    A California federal judge presiding over a high-stakes evidentiary hearing into whether Apple has complied with her 2021 antitrust injunction threatened to sanction Apple's commercial litigation director Tuesday, telling counsel she has "significant concerns" about Apple's over-designation of attorney-client privilege, saying, "Your client is not entitled to have you engage in unethical conduct."

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    Meet The FDA's New Chief Counsel Robert Foster

    Announced as the top attorney for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in recent days, Robert Foster brings a career spanning the government's early COVID-19 pandemic response, biopharmaceutical company leadership and legal oversight matters for the U.S. Senate.

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    Apple, Deere Stand Up For Diversity At Annual Meetings

    The pro- and anti-diversity corporate battles are heating up this week, as Apple Inc. shareholders on Tuesday rejected a proposal to abolish its inclusion and diversity program, while Deere & Co. has managed to convince pro-diversity investors to trust it and withdraw their proposal. 

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    Texas Rangers Hire New GC From Breast Cancer Foundation

    The Texas Rangers have tapped the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's former general counsel, who served in the role for nearly six years, to become the Major League Baseball club's new general counsel.

  • FCC Hires US House Lawyer As Regulator's Deputy GC

    The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday named a top lawyer from the legislative branch as the agency's new deputy general counsel for litigation.

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    Syngrafii Hires Ex-Norton Rose, Fasken Partner As GC

    Virtual signature platform Syngrafii Inc. has announced the hiring of Janne Duncan, a longtime partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP and Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, as its latest general counsel.

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    Recently Launched Tech Co. Applies AI To Corp. Governance

    With a new report on public company stock grants released on Monday, one-year-old DragonGC is showing how artificial intelligence can be brought to bear helping in-house counsel shape corporate governance.

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    Apple Antitrust Ace Returns To Latham In Bay Area

    Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back an attorney who was working as in-house counsel for Apple to bolster its antitrust and competition practice and enhance its efforts to handle monopolization cases.

  • Skadden, Ropes & Gray Advising On 23andMe Buyout Bid

    The CEO of 23andMe has teamed up with private equity firm New Mountain Capital on an offer to purchase and take the genetic testing company private at an equity value of approximately $74.7 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    PwC Partners With Legal Spend Management Tool Persuit

    Seeking to expand its footprint in corporate legal departments, the Big Four accounting firm PwC formed a global alliance with the legal technology platform Persuit on Monday.

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Expert Analysis

  • 10 Steps To Improve Legal Vendor Management Author Photo

    Corporate counsel often turn to third-party vendors to manage spending challenges, and navigating this selection process can be difficult for both counsel and the vendor, but there are several ways corporate legal departments can make the entire process easier and beneficial for all parties involved, says David Cochran at QuisLex.

  • Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts? Author Photo

    Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.

  • Ditch The Frills And Start Writing Legal Letters In Plain English Author Photo

    To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement? Author Photo

    Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.

  • DoNotPay Cases Underscore Hurdles For AI-Fueled Legal Help Author Photo

    Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.

  • For The Future Of Legal Practice, Let's Learn From The Past Author Photo

    At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

  • Why All Law Firms Should Foster Psychological Capital Author Photo

    Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.

  • A GC's Guide To Litigation, Inspired By Sun Tzu's 'Art Of War' Author Photo

    With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.

  • ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers Author Photo

    Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.

  • Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning Author Photo

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.

  • Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan Author Photo

    Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.

  • Priorities For Improving The Legal Industry In Texas Author Photo

    To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.

  • Leading Your Law Firm's Creation Of A New Practice Group Author Photo

    Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates? Author Photo

    Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.

  • 10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems Author Photo

    Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.

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