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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.
Engineering organization SAE International announced that its board of directors voted to dismiss longtime chief executive officer David Schutt following a formal investigation into his conduct at the nonprofit.
London's Gatwick Airport has hired a new general counsel with over a decade of experience in similar roles at Cambodia Airports and Santiago de Chile's international airports.
The U.S. legal sector eased back into a positive trajectory in April, with a gain of 3,200 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Zoom Video Communications Inc.'s chief operating officer, who served as the company's interim chief legal officer from June 2020 until March 2024, saw her compensation drop by over $16.5 million in the past fiscal year.
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as a mega-merger went live, three firms opened up offices in Boston and another acquired a Denver boutique. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Upon exiting the government, Christina Zaroulis Milnor, a former assistant secretary at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said she was drawn to launching a Washington, D.C., boutique group affiliated with North Carolina-based Cranfill Sumner LLP to escape an "artificial" line in the sand that exists in the industry between enforcement defense and whistleblower work.
The head of legal services at AstraZeneca has departed the pharmaceutical giant to join the artificial intelligence litigation platform Fileread as general counsel and chief strategy officer, the legal technology startup announced Friday.
Jeff Pash plans to retire as the NFL's executive vice president and general counsel after 27 years with the league, during which he was a major figure in its most consequential legal developments of the 21st century.
The U.S. Soccer Federation said Thursday it has recruited a former top attorney at South by Southwest and Heineken as its next chief legal officer.
Accounting giant EY has appointed David Weintraub as its next global vice chair and general counsel effective July 1, a firm spokesperson said Thursday.
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides prosecutors overstepped by charging a rioter who stormed the Capitol with obstruction, the results will likely be mixed for hundreds of other defendants charged with the same crime, particularly those who have been convicted. That post-appeal uncertainty is nothing new, defense attorneys say.
When Ryan LLC, a Dallas tax software and services provider, became the first company to sue the Federal Trade Commission last week over its ban on noncompete agreements, it was simply trying to preserve the rule of law — something every tax company needs in order to operate, according to chief legal officer John Smith.