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Facility management company ABM has announced that its longtime deputy general counsel who also spent over a decade with Locke Lord LLP, has been elevated to the general counsel position starting in January.
General counsel have 180 days to get their online companies to comply with a new federal law that says customers must be able to simply click to cancel their subscriptions. And a federal judge in Florida, citing the First Amendment, has told the state to stop threatening broadcast stations over running an abortion rights ad — threats that led the state's Department of Health general counsel to resign.
Convincing lawyers to adopt new tools often comes with a lot of resistance, but law firms can alter their approach to get lawyers to comply with almost anything, a leading legal industry expert said Friday.
Ted Kennedy Jr., a healthcare regulatory attorney at Epstein Becker Green and a pediatric bone cancer survivor who has an amputation, has made it his life’s work to advocate for people with disabilities. Here, Kennedy talks with Law360 Pulse about why legal employers should be more inclusive.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as Lewis Brisbois saw a founder leave and other BigLaw firms tapped new leaders and talent. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously finalized its rule updating how the agency plans to carry out its limited authority over siting transmission lines during its monthly meeting on Thursday.
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has brought on the former head of external legal services for TD Bank, strengthening its client solutions and innovation group with a professional who has private practice experience in labor and employment law.
Cable One Inc. will be eliminating the position of chief legal and administrative officer while also elevating the company's deputy general counsel to the general counsel role at the start of 2025, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
E-discovery software company CS Disco announced Thursday the hiring of a general counsel and chief compliance officer from WebMD, continuing an ongoing C-suite shuffle over the past year.
Energy company Oneok has placed its chief legal officer and two other executives on the board of directors of EnLink Midstream Manager LLC, where they can keep an eye on Oneok's $3.3 billion controlling interest in its managed company, EnLink Midstream LLC.
Financially strapped Sage Therapeutics Inc. said Thursday it was reorganizing its business operations and would reduce its workforce by 33%, including losing its general counsel of nine years, its chief financial officer, and its chief technology and innovation officer.
S&P Global's chief legal officer will expand his legal, government affairs and security duties next month to also oversee the company's corporate compliance and risk functions as part of a new executive leadership team, S&P said Thursday.
An education attorney who previously worked at Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP has returned to the firm after working in-house at The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
The former vice president of licensing lead and business affairs at music streaming platform Tidal has joined entertainment boutique firm Granderson Des Rochers as senior counsel in Los Angeles, the firm said.
As the chief legal officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross based in Zurich, Cordula Droege leads the group's efforts to accomplish the impossible — to bring humanity into the violence and chaos of the world today.
A Jackson Lewis PC attorney has left private practice and moved in-house at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where she joins the Archdiocesan Office for General Counsel.
The general counsel of Ashland University, a private university in Ohio, has made the move to private practice at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
The parent company of Apache Corp. has announced the retirement of its general counsel and the promotion of a longtime in-house attorney to serve in the role in an acting capacity.
UnitedLex said that it fired CEO James Schellhase on Oct. 4 after "learning information related to his personal conduct."
The Texas federal judge overseeing prosecutors' criminal case against The Boeing Co. on Tuesday said he needs more information on a provision of the proposed plea deal regarding how the U.S. Department of Justice would select an independent monitor in compliance with the agency's diversity and inclusion policies.
Hunter Biden on Tuesday renewed his lawsuit accusing Fox News Network of humiliating and harassing him with its fictional, six-part "mock trial" series, which he called a politically motivated attack that featured sexually explicit photos of him, this time naming as a defendant the network's former chief legal and policy officer.
The chief legal officer at Kentucky-based BrightSpring Health Services Inc. has announced his decision to retire from his current role at the healthcare services platform, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
A new survey on the growing role of general counsel in managing crises has found that companies are least prepared for the emergencies that pose the greatest risks to their business, and that they are slow to learn from their pasts.
The Association of Corporate Counsel announced Tuesday that its president and CEO will be stepping down from her post next year and that an executive consulting firm has been hired to find her successor.
An attorney who specializes in representing energy and utility clients and has experience as in-house counsel has left Merck, where she was a legal director for nearly three years, to become the first new lateral shareholder to join Polsinelli's Philadelphia office since the firm opened its doors there in August.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCDKelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: LibrarianLisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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.
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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My Nonpracticing Law Job: RecruiterSelf-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.
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.