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Ballard Spahr Adds Former In-House Atty From Dayforce
Ballard Spahr LLP has added a veteran financial services regulatory attorney who most recently worked in-house at human resources software firm Dayforce, formerly known as Ceridian.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
General counsel reported in a recent survey that their median total compensation has increased nearly 25% in the past five years, rising at a higher rate than CEO pay. And U.S. regulators continue to slap financial firms with millions in fines for letting employees use text messages and other forms of unapproved communications to conduct business.
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Fox Corp. Paid $36.5M To 2 Legal Leaders For Fiscal Year '24
Fox Corp.'s former chief legal and policy officer and his successor earned about $36.5 million in total compensation in fiscal year 2024, most of which went to departed top attorney Viet Dinh, who now serves in a special advisory role at the company, according to a public filing.
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San Antonio Water System Names CLO, Adds Compliance VP
The San Antonio Water System has made changes to its legal leadership with the hiring of a longtime Beveridge & Diamond PC principal to the role of vice president for environmental law and regulatory compliance, and the promotion of an experienced government attorney to the role of chief legal and ethics officer.
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Coty Legal Chief Sees Compensation Nearly Double To $6.4M
Coty Inc. paid its chief legal officer more than $6.4 million during the recent fiscal year, almost double the total she previously saw, largely due to nonequity incentive plan compensation and an increase in stock awards, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kicking off this week's legal lions list are four law firms that secured a summary judgment win Tuesday for DoorDash Inc. and other food app delivery companies in their federal lawsuit challenging a New York City law requiring delivery services to provide restaurants with certain customer info.
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Ex-White House Counsel On His Return To Private Practice
Former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs general counsel and White House special counsel Richard Sauber spoke with Law360 Pulse about his recent return to private practice at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, as well as his time helping President Joe Biden navigate a congressional impeachment inquiry and a special counsel investigation.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as law firms promoted partners and federal prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and fraud. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Dish Network Litigation Director Rejoins Jackson Lewis
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC is welcoming back a litigator who most recently was director of litigation with Dish Network as a principal in its Denver office, the firm announced Thursday.
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Transportation Biz GoTriangle's GC Takes Over As Acting CEO
North Carolina public transportation company GoTriangle announced that its general counsel has taken over as acting CEO and president after the resignation of its leader for the past four years.
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Ex-LexShares CEO Says He Was Pushed Out For Being Black
The former CEO of LexShares Inc. has lodged racial discrimination claims against the litigation finance firm and its top brass, claiming the company's board of directors discriminated against him and eventually forced him out because he was Black.
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Legal Pros Grapple With Best Use Of AI As Clients Divide
BigLaw attorneys and in-house counsel speaking at the annual Berkeley Law AI Institute on Thursday talked about how they've recently grappled with using the tools known as artificial intelligence in representing clients, saying some clients have either demanded or prohibited attorneys from using the tools, and others have taken seemingly contradictory positions.
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Rutgers GC Moves Closer To NJ High Court Bench
The New Jersey state Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward Rutgers general counsel John Hoffman's nomination to the state Supreme Court at a Thursday hearing marked by bipartisan support and virtually unanimous praise for his character.
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H&R Block Gives Chief Legal Officer Over 9% Pay Boost
H&R Block registered another good financial year while chief legal officer Dara Redler saw her total compensation rise over 9% to just over $2.1 million in fiscal 2024, according to recent securities filings.
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Wiggin And Dana Lands Veteran Insurance Atty In Conn.
A veteran insurance attorney who previously worked in-house at insurance and reinsurance groups is beginning a new chapter in his career at Wiggin and Dana LLP.
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Meta's First-Ever General Counsel Joins Zero Gravity Board
The first general counsel at what is now Meta, who has focused much of his career on privacy and other public policy challenges and co-owns the NBA's Sacramento Kings, was added to the board of Zero Gravity Corp., the space tourism company announced Thursday.
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Excellon Resources Atty Takes Arizona Sonoran's GC Spot
Arizona Sonoran Copper Co. Inc. has found its new general counsel in the former legal leader for Excellon Resources Inc. as its senior vice president heads to Titan Mining Corp.
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Oracle Legal Chief Saw Pay Rise To $13.5M
The top lawyer at Austin, Texas-based Oracle Corp. has seen his compensation rise from $12.7 million to $13.5 million in fiscal year 2024, his first full year leading the company's legal team.
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GCs Becoming CLOs Can Add Another Voice On Biz Strategy
There has been a recent flurry of general counsel seeing promotions to chief legal officers within their organizations across industries, as companies put the top legal leader — someone they want as a strategic business partner — at the same level as other members of the C-suite.
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FTC Targets 'Robot Lawyer,' Others In AI Enforcement Sweep
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday revealed a flurry of recent enforcement actions aimed at cracking down on the use of artificial intelligence to "supercharge" harmful and deceptive business practices, including a case targeting "lofty" claims made about a service that promised to provide "the world's first robot lawyer."
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Penalized Apple Atty Says He Was 'Demoralized' By Co. Culture
Apple Inc.'s former senior director of corporate law, who pled guilty to insider trading in 2022 and was later penalized $1.1 million in a civil case, had mental health disorders and was "demoralized" by the company's culture and executives' misconduct, he said in temporarily unsealed records in New Jersey federal court.
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Amtrak Onboards One Of Its Own To Replace Outgoing GC
Amtrak said Wednesday it has promoted one of its longtime in-house lawyers, who for the first part of his career worked in various labor counsel jobs, to executive vice president and general counsel.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Silver Point Capital Tax Atty As Partner
Husch Blackwell LLP has hired a former tax structure counsel from global credit investing firm Silver Point Capital LP as partner, the firm has announced.
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Ex-Alto Atty Named Pharma Co.'s Compliance Chief
Pharmaceuticals distributor Morris & Dickson Co. LLC announced that the former assistant general counsel at Alto Pharmacy was appointed the company's new chief compliance and regulatory officer.
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Servpro Picks Ex-Checkers, Scotts Miracle-Gro Atty As CLO
Servpro Industries, a property restoration and construction franchise, has found its new top attorney in a veteran in-house attorney who previously worked at Checkers Drive-In Restaurants and the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.