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Goldman Sachs Exec Rejoins Weil As NY Banking Partner
A former executive for Goldman Sachs & Co. has rejoined Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he began his legal career as a summer associate and banking and finance attorney, the firm said in a Tuesday announcement.
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Former EBay, PayPal Exec Joins Fintech Co. As CLO
A former legal leader at eBay and PayPal and LendingClub Bank parent company LendingClub Corp. has joined healthcare-focused fintech company PayZen as its top attorney.
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Ex-DHS Intel Head To Lead Mayer Brown Investigations Team
The former leader of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office has joined Mayer Brown LLP to help lead its global investigations and white collar defense practice — a role that he says allows him to join forces with attorneys whom he's known for years.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
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Supermicro Taps Ex-Norton Rose Atty As GC After Co. Review
California-based Super Micro Computer Inc. has tapped a former Norton Rose Fulbright attorney to be its new general counsel just months after accelerating its search for a legal leader following an internal review.
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'AI Is Here To Stay,' Major Lindsey Says Of Tech-Savvy GCs
Legal departments are hiring with an eye toward artificial intelligence, and attorneys who have technology and change-management skills can set themselves apart from the pack when applying for new roles, according to a report by Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Kraft Heinz's Departed CLO Earned $3.36 Million in 7 Months
Kraft Heinz Co.'s former top in-house attorney brought home more than $3 million in compensation for her work with the company until her departure last summer, a recent securities filing shows.
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NFL Taps Ex-Facebook, White House Atty Ullyot As GC
Former Facebook general counsel and White House lawyer Ted Ullyot will become executive vice president and general counsel of the National Football League on May 1, the league announced Monday.
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Novartis Adds Compliance to Legal Chief's Responsibilities
The pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced this week that it is expanding its chief legal officer's role to include compliance functions and officially appointing her as chief legal and compliance officer.
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Former Paramount Global VP Joins Day Pitney In Miami
Day Pitney LLP has brought a former executive for Latin America at Paramount Global to its Miami office to help lead the firm's sports, media and entertainment practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Baker Hughes CLO Earned Nearly $3M In First Year
Houston-based energy technology company Baker Hughes paid its general counsel nearly $3 million last year, which was the longtime company lawyer's first year as legal chief and what the company said was "another year of strong execution and financial performance," according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the company on Monday.
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KFC's Ex-Legal Chief Is Now Bojangles' Top Lawyer
An experienced fast-food attorney, who most recently was legal chief at KFC, now leads the law team at Bojangles, the regional fried chicken chain said Monday.
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'Fearlessness' Paved The Path From Atty To Aracor AI CEO
Katya Fisher, founder and CEO of legal tech platform Aracor AI, has taken several big leaps in her career: from solo practice to BigLaw to in-house counsel to starting her own company.
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Public Storage CLO Saw Comp Fall For 3rd Straight Year
The chief legal officer at self-storage real estate investment trust Public Storage saw his compensation drop for the third consecutive year, as he earned around $2.4 million in 2024 compared to approximately $4.9 million in 2021, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Green Bay Packers Hire Veteran NFL General Counsel
The Green Bay Packers have hired a new general counsel who previously worked for the Arizona Cardinals and the Las Vegas Raiders.
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Ex-Workday Atty's Bias Claims Axed, Stock Dispute Kept Alive
A California federal judge tossed a Black ex-Workday attorney's claims that he endured race and disability bias that culminated in the software vendor sending police to his house to conduct an unnecessary wellness check, but the judge allowed the attorney pursue claims that he was shorted on stock options.
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Newell Brands CLO's Comp Nearly Cut In Half In 2024
The chief legal officer at consumer goods giant Newell Brands Inc. saw a massive compensation drop from the previous year, earning around $3.9 million in 2024 compared to around $7.3 million in 2023, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ex-Hofstra GC Joins Wounded Warrior Project As Legal Chief
The former general counsel of Hofstra University has joined the Wounded Warrior Project as its vice president and general counsel to steer its legal functions, a representative for the nonprofit organization confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
As a growing number of companies and their general counsel consider moving their incorporation out of Delaware, the state's governor has quickly signed into law a measure revising its corporation statutes, though there are still critics. And 98% of legal leaders in a recent survey said their budgets are increasing in 2025 to handle the extra work stemming from new diversity risks, tech changes and cybersecurity threats.
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Murphy Oil's GC Saw Slight Dip In Comp Last Year
The general counsel of Houston-based energy company Murphy Oil saw his overall compensation drop by just over $101,000 last year as compared to 2023, according to a securities filing Friday.
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Panitch Schwarze Adds Former GSK Counsel To Philly Office
An intellectual property attorney specializing in patent litigation in the life sciences industry has moved her practice to IP boutique Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP's Philadelphia office after nearly two years as in-house patent counsel for GlaxoSmithKline.
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Comp For GE Vernova's Outgoing GC Topped $9.4M In '24
GE Vernova's general counsel, who is set to depart General Electric Co.'s energy-focused spinoff in May, saw close to $9.5 million in total compensation last year, about $4.4 million more than in 2023, a securities filing Friday shows.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended March with another action-packed week as firms elevated attorneys and President Donald Trump aimed another executive order at a prominent BigLaw shop. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Quarles & Brady Snag Land Banking Expert
Quarles & Brady LLP announced Thursday that the firm added a partner to its real estate practice group, who joins Quarles & Brady from an in-house role at a residential real estate capital provider.
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Intel CLO Earned $6.58 Million In 2024 Amid CEO Switch
The executive vice president and chief legal officer of Intel Corp. earned nearly $6.58 million in total compensation in 2024, according to a new securities filing, which also discloses that Intel paid its departed CEO over $27 million as part of a separation deal.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
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.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
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.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
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.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
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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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
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.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
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.