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    H&R Block Gives Chief Legal Officer Over 9% Pay Boost

    H&R Block registered another good financial year while chief legal officer Dara Redler saw her total compensation rise over 9% to just over $2.1 million in fiscal 2024, according to recent securities filings.

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    Wiggin And Dana Lands Veteran Insurance Atty In Conn.

    A veteran insurance attorney who previously worked in-house at insurance and reinsurance groups is beginning a new chapter in his career at Wiggin and Dana LLP.

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    Meta's First-Ever General Counsel Joins Zero Gravity Board

    The first general counsel at what is now Meta, who has focused much of his career on privacy and other public policy challenges and co-owns the NBA's Sacramento Kings, was added to the board of Zero Gravity Corp., the space tourism company announced Thursday.

  • Excellon Resources Atty Takes Arizona Sonoran's GC Spot

    Arizona Sonoran Copper Co. Inc. has found its new general counsel in the former legal leader for Excellon Resources Inc. as its senior vice president heads to Titan Mining Corp.

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    Oracle Legal Chief Saw Pay Rise To $13.5M

    The top lawyer at Austin, Texas-based Oracle Corp. has seen his compensation rise from $12.7 million to $13.5 million in fiscal year 2024, his first full year leading the company's legal team.

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    GCs Becoming CLOs Can Add Another Voice On Biz Strategy

    There has been a recent flurry of general counsel seeing promotions to chief legal officers within their organizations across industries, as companies put the top legal leader — someone they want as a strategic business partner — at the same level as other members of the C-suite.

  • FTC Targets 'Robot Lawyer,' Others In AI Enforcement Sweep

    The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday revealed a flurry of recent enforcement actions aimed at cracking down on the use of artificial intelligence to "supercharge" harmful and deceptive business practices, including a case targeting "lofty" claims made about a service that promised to provide "the world's first robot lawyer."

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    Penalized Apple Atty Says He Was 'Demoralized' By Co. Culture

    Apple Inc.'s former senior director of corporate law, who pled guilty to insider trading in 2022 and was later penalized $1.1 million in a civil case, had mental health disorders and was "demoralized" by the company's culture and executives' misconduct, he said in temporarily unsealed records in New Jersey federal court.

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    Amtrak Onboards One Of Its Own To Replace Outgoing GC

    Amtrak said Wednesday it has promoted one of its longtime in-house lawyers, who for the first part of his career worked in various labor counsel jobs, to executive vice president and general counsel.

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    Husch Blackwell Adds Silver Point Capital Tax Atty As Partner

    Husch Blackwell LLP has hired a former tax structure counsel from global credit investing firm Silver Point Capital LP as partner, the firm has announced.

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    Ex-Alto Atty Named Pharma Co.'s Compliance Chief

    Pharmaceuticals distributor Morris & Dickson Co. LLC announced that the former assistant general counsel at Alto Pharmacy was appointed the company's new chief compliance and regulatory officer.

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    Servpro Picks Ex-Checkers, Scotts Miracle-Gro Atty As CLO

    Servpro Industries, a property restoration and construction franchise, has found its new top attorney in a veteran in-house attorney who previously worked at Checkers Drive-In Restaurants and the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.

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    UF's Ex-GC Prepares To Tackle Athletics With Legal Expertise

    Amy Meyers Hass on Friday passed the metaphorical torch of the University of Florida's legal department to her longtime deputy general counsel. Now, she works in another part of the university as deputy athletic director and senior women's administrator — roles she said will require her legal experiences and skills, especially in the evolving realm of college sports.

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    Norfolk Southern Names New CLO After Ouster Of Execs

    Norfolk Southern Corp. has promoted an employee who has worked in its legal department since 2010 to serve as its chief legal officer following the firing of the woman who previously held the post over her relationship with the transportation giant's ousted CEO.

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    DiliTrust Buys Legal Tech Tool DoeLEGAL As Questel Divests

    France-based legal and corporate governance suite DiliTrust expanded its footprint in the U.S. by acquiring the enterprise legal management tool doeLEGAL on Wednesday.

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    Ex-Google Privacy Chief Joins Gibson Dunn As Practice Head

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired a former vice president and chief privacy officer at Google, who for more than 13½ years has helped lead a team of privacy specialists working to achieve Google's data protection and privacy goals.

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    LA Olympics Committee Lifts Deputy To Chief Legal Officer

    The organizing committee for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles has promoted its senior vice president and deputy general counsel to the post of chief legal officer, general counsel and secretary, following the abrupt departure of its administrative and legal chief.

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    General Counsel Pay Has Spiked 25% Since 2019

    Total compensation for general counsel at a sample of the largest U.S. companies has increased by nearly 25%, or from $2.6 million in 2019 to $3.3 million in 2023, according to a report released Tuesday by data analyst Equilar Inc.

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    What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms

    We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here are some tips they have to pass on to the students who have yet to land a coveted spot or are ready to embark on a career in law.

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    What Law Firms Really Look For In Summer Associates

    More and more, law firms are bypassing the traditional schedule for on-campus interviews in their search for summer associates. Firm leaders who oversee recruiting for these programs spoke with Law360 Pulse about where they stand on timing and what law students can do to secure a summer placement that works best for their career.

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    These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates

    BigLaw firms have again set the bar high with their summer associate programs this year, earning high praise from participants who cited the increased opportunities for courtroom experiences, pro bono work, and comprehensive mentorship and networking support.

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    Barnes & Noble Education Unit's CLO Resigns

    The legal head at Barnes & Noble Education Inc. has stepped down after more than seven years at the helm of the law department, the company said in a securities filing Monday.

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    Do GCs Even Know Company's AI Use? Survey Raises Doubts

    Top legal officers appear badly misaligned with other executives or are misinformed on the use of artificial intelligence at their companies, especially in the human resources area, according to a new survey released Tuesday. 

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    Coinbase Brings On Ex-Citadel Legal Chief With SEC Chops

    Coinbase announced on Monday it has hired Ryan VanGrack to serve as its vice president of legal, where he will be overseeing civil litigation, regulatory probes, employment and intellectual property matters for the crypto exchange after spending seven years with Citadel Securities as general counsel.

  • DOJ Adds AI Risk To Corporate Compliance Program

    The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division is now weighing how companies manage risk related to artificial intelligence and potentially stymie whistleblowers, one of several updates to the division's policies on evaluating corporate compliance programs announced by a senior official on Monday.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments? Author Photo

    In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging. 

  • Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap Author Photo

    In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.

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