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Residential construction company Beazer Homes USA Inc. has promoted one of its longtime in-house attorneys to be its new general counsel following the retirement of its legal leader.
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has announced it will launch its first law degree focused on artificial intelligence in 2025, and it is now accepting applications for the new master of laws degree program.
Although Nigel Cory's profession as an international trade expert might have come as a surprise to his parents, their work was a catalyst for what became his decades-long fascination with working on trade issues, he told Law360 Pulse in an interview on Tuesday about his recent move to Crowell & Moring LLP's public policy affiliate.
A onetime assistant general counsel for Panoramic Health told a Colorado federal judge on Tuesday that her former employer could not escape the wrongful-termination suit she filed in May, arguing that a bid to dismiss the case must fail because she had plausibly alleged that her firing was a result of having reported compliance issues.
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has grown its healthcare practice in Boston and Washington, D.C., this week with the addition of three former partners from Foley Hoag LLP.
Most legal and compliance executives are worried that their own companies are not ready to meet the requirements of the new U.S. Corporate Transparency Act, and many don't even know when the reporting deadlines are.
The former general counsel for Starwood Property Trust Inc. is returning to its parent company Starwood Capital Group after a short stint with a private equity firm.
Law360 Pulse caught up with Michelle Behnke, the American Bar Association's new president-elect, to discuss the challenge of keeping up with changes in the legal profession.
Chief compliance officers with law degrees earn much more — sometimes as much as nearly $300,000 more — compared with those without the degree, according to a recent report.
Target Corp. said Tuesday it has found its next chief legal officer in an experienced in-house attorney who has previously worked at Tyson Foods, Boeing, Walmart and The Gap.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has promoted its general counsel for the Americas to global general counsel, elevating a litigator who began her career as a summer associate there, the firm announced Monday.
Space and Time Labs, a data platform for artificial intelligence and blockchain backed by Microsoft's M12 venture fund, said Monday it has appointed a tech-savvy in-house lawyer as its first ever chief legal officer.
A former deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense, who also served as assistant general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, has joined defense contractor BlueHalo as corporate executive vice president and president of the company's intelligence profile, BlueHalo announced Monday.
A Maryland federal judge has awarded $850,000 in attorney fees to an Omega Healthcare shareholder who filed a derivative suit against the healthcare investment trust alleging it had a discriminatory policy aimed at keeping Black individuals from being appointed to its board of directors.
Wisconsin-based SHINE Technologies has found its new top attorney in a veteran in-house leader who previously worked at billionaire investor Ronald O. Perelman's MacAndrews & Forbes Inc.
Goodwin Procter LLP has hired contract software giant Ironclad Inc.'s chief community officer as its Silicon Valley-based chief operating officer, the firm said Monday.
Meta Platforms Inc. filed its opening brief Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit decision that kept alive a class action stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data abuse scandal, arguing that decision would create unnecessary disclosure obligations and encourage "fraud by hindsight" lawsuits.
The bankrupt parent company of iconic steakhouse chain The Palm Restaurant wants a federal court to halt a lawsuit filed by its ousted general counsel because its 2019 bankruptcy case has not been dismissed.
Chicago-based Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC announced Friday the hiring of a general counsel at venture firm Anzu Partners who was a former head transaction attorney for the corporate department of the city of Chicago.
An attorney who started his career at Phillips Lytle LLP has returned to the firm as special counsel on its real estate industry team in New York state after five years as in-house counsel at Benderson Development.
A former in-house lawyer has alleged she was terminated after witnessing a deputy general counsel engage in sexually inappropriate conduct with an intoxicated subordinate attorney at a work-related gathering, and Nasdaq is hoping to accelerate the delisting procedures for companies whose shares fall below $1 for extended periods. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the American Bar Association held its annual meeting in Chicago. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced that an attorney who worked for multiple educational institutions during her career, including Iona University, Queens College and The City University of New York, will soon be taking over as its general counsel.
BlackRock has tapped its chief operating officer for the Asia-Pacific region to become the firm's global head of compliance, with the investment giant's current head of global compliance planning to retire from the firm, according to an internal company memo.
Robert Herbst, a former general counsel and world champion weightlifter, has woven together the law and sports throughout his career, including this week in Paris where he is working with the U.S. Olympic team as a volunteer.