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Climate Is On The Agenda, But It's Safety On Boeing's Mind
UnitedHealth Continues CLO Musical Chairs With Optum Hire
With Nurses As Her Mentors, She Became Healthcare GC
Women In GC Roles Are Closing In On The Gender Pay Gap
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Burr & Forman Adds Former In-House Atty To Corporate Team
Burr & Forman LLP has added a partner focused on transactional work to its corporate and tax practice in the Orlando, Florida, office, touting his experience in private practice and in-house as a general counsel for a managed technology services provider.
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Patient Software Biz's GC Gets Comp Bump To $3M
The general counsel for patient intake software company Phreesia Inc. received about $3 million in total compensation for the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31, up from about $2.8 million a year earlier, according to a public filing.
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Deepfake Rule Proposals Navigate 'Perfect Evidentiary Storm'
As federal judiciary officials explore how to handle evidence faked by artificial intelligence, attorneys are divided over the need to change evidence rules, with some worried that current rules are not up to the challenges posed by deepfakes, and others fearful that altering them might do more harm than good.
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MPA Continues Growing Legal Dept. With New Associate GC
The Motion Picture Association announced Thursday that it has hired a new associate general counsel focused on protecting the association's content, bringing with her more than a decade of in-house experience with BSA: The Software Alliance.
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Level 5 GC, Kirkland Atty Join Lockton's Warranties Practice
Insurance brokerage Lockton has added the former general counsel of Level 5 Capital Partners and a longtime Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney to its transaction liability group.
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Ex-Wegmans GC Helps Form New Harter Secrest Group
Former top lawyers at supermarket chain Wegmans and workforce solutions company Aleron Group are helping launch a general counsel services practice at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP on Thursday, the New York law firm said.
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In-House Manufacturing Ace Rejoins K&L Gates In Pittsburgh
A top executive at metals manufacturer Arconic Corp. has rejoined K&L Gates LLP as a corporate mergers and acquisitions partner in Pittsburgh, the firm said Thursday.
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Marco's Pizza Elevates Ex-Subway, DLA Piper Atty To CLO
Ohio-based restaurant chain Marco's Pizza announced that it promoted its vice president of corporate counsel to chief legal officer following the departure of longtime legal chief Todd Watson.
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Bath & Body Works Top Atty Saw Comp Fall By $2M In FY23
Bath & Body Works Inc.'s chief legal officer earned nearly $2 million less last fiscal year due to a major decline in companywide stock awards and bonuses, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Recordati Adds New Head Of IP From Zentiva
Recordati has hired a U.S. lawyer with a decade of experience working in-house at pharma giants Sandoz and Zentiva to take on a newly created role as group head IP counsel.
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Ex-Alexion CLO Joins Intensity Therapeutics Board
The former top attorney for Alexion Pharmaceuticals has joined the board of directors of Intensity Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company working on cancer therapies.
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Cummings & Lockwood Lands New CFO From PCSB Bank
Cummings & Lockwood LLC, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, has named a new chief financial officer, who comes to the firm with more than 15 years of experience, most recently leading the financial team at PCSB Bank.
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Faegre Drinker Hires NY Life Insurance Co. Litigator
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired the former assistant general counsel for the New York Life Insurance Co., who joins the firm in New York, to continue representing insurer clients in a range of matters, the firm announced Thursday.
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Sports Atty Settles Spat With Colo. Youth Hockey Org
The Colorado Amateur Hockey Association and a lawyer who's also an agent for professional athletes told a state court judge in Denver on Wednesday that they've resolved their dispute over the termination of the attorney's contract, before a trial that was scheduled to begin next week.
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Airbnb CLO Ron Klain To Help Biden Prepare For June Debate
Ron Klain, former White House chief of staff to President Joe Biden who now leads the legal department at Airbnb, told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday that he plans to help his former boss prepare for his upcoming debate in June.
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GCs Worry About Keeping Up With New Transparency Act
A few surprises popped up in the findings of a recent survey about the Corporate Transparency Act, including how few companies are ready for its new rule requiring ongoing tracking of beneficial ownership.
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Tesla Fires Back At Claims It Bullied Retired Law Professor
Tesla has pushed back against allegations that it tried to bully a retired law professor out of weighing in on an investor suit over CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation plan, according to new filings in Delaware.
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Texas Rodeo GC Charged With Felony Solicitation Of A Minor
A Houston attorney and current Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo general counsel has been charged with online solicitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.
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Buchalter Starts Fintech And AI Practice With New Seattle Hire
Buchalter PC announced that it hired the former chief legal officer at mortgage-focused fintech company Sagent as a Seattle-based shareholder and chair of its newly launched fintech and artificial intelligence practice group.
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Nvidia GC's Comp Climbed Past $11M Last Fiscal Year
Silicon Valley-based tech company Nvidia's general counsel earned more than $11 million in compensation during the last fiscal year, which marks a nearly $2 million increase from the previous one, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Eli Lilly In-House Atty To Retire; New Compliance Chief Sought
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co.'s chief ethics and compliance officer, who has been with the company for more than two decades, is retiring at the end of the year, the company said Wednesday.
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Senators Release 'Road Map' For Crafting Federal AI Policy
A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday laid out a "road map" for artificial intelligence policy that calls for increased AI innovation funding, testing of potential harms posed by AI and consideration of the technology's workforce implications.
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5th Circ. Expresses Doubt On Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules
Lawyers for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Nasdaq Stock Market LLC faced a barrage of questions from the full Fifth Circuit on Tuesday, with judges wondering whether rules requiring corporations to disclose board diversity information would open the door to investor questions on religious practices, political beliefs or Taylor Swift fandom.
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Legal Insurers See 'All-Time High' In Price Tag Of Claims
Some of the nation's largest legal insurance companies are reporting an unprecedented rise in "claim severity," according to survey data released Tuesday, with 11 of 13 insurers reporting paying claims in excess of $100 million in the past two years.
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Drug Tech Co. Hires J&J Atty As Chief Strategy Officer
A former in-house counsel for Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has taken a new role as chief strategy officer at analytics company Kalderos, which created a drug discount management platform, according to a Tuesday announcement.
Expert Analysis
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
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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Series
My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa 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.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
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.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
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.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
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.
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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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Series
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.