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On Track: 2 CSX Attys Get Promotions As Legal Chief Retires
CSX Corp. has announced that chief legal officer Nathan Goldman, 67, will retire on Jan. 1 after 21 years with the company, and it has named another longtime employee to succeed him.
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Skadden Adds Former Solar Company General Counsel In DC
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired the former general counsel of solar company Summit Ridge Energy to beef up its energy and infrastructure practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Tuesday.
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Wholesale Distributor GC To Leave Company At End Of Year
BlueLinx Holdings Inc., a U.S. wholesale distributor of building products, announced in a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that its general counsel will leave the company at the end of December.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q3
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the third quarter of the year.
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LIV Golf Taps New Top Atty As PGA Tour Deal Saga Persists
Saudi Arabia-backed upstart golf league LIV Golf, which last year agreed to combine with the PGA Tour in a bombshell move to end antitrust and contract litigation between them, on Tuesday announced that it had hired a chief legal officer.
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Judiciary Advisers Back Development Of AI Evidence Rules
The federal judiciary's advisory panel for evidentiary issues agreed Friday to develop rules aimed at strengthening scrutiny of testimony and materials derived from artificial intelligence systems, saying AI-generated information should meet the same reliability standards that apply to expert witnesses.
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Ex-Elanco IP Lawyer Lodges Gender Discrimination Suit
A female former in-house intellectual property lawyer at Elanco Animal Health Inc. sued the pharmaceutical company for gender discrimination in Indiana federal court, alleging she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a less qualified man who later mistreated the women on staff.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Most in-house attorneys in a new survey are looking to advance their career by moving elsewhere. And antitrust heads the list of legal areas where general counsel can expect change under the upcoming Donald Trump administration.
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Exec Exodus At Hospitality Platform Sonder Includes CLO
Hospitality platform Sonder announced Friday its chief legal officer will be resigning from her role later this month as one of three executives who have announced their plans to leave the company by the end of 2024.
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Cohen & Steers Names General Mills' GC To Its Board
Investment management company Cohen & Steers Inc. announced Friday that it has appointed General Mills' general counsel Karen Wilson Thissen to its board of directors.
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Steptoe & Johnson Adds Veteran Corporate Atty In Dallas
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC announced that a veteran corporate attorney who previously served as the top attorney for a major auto repair company has joined the firm's Dallas office as of counsel, in a move the firm said will help strengthen its private credit practice.
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Pershing Square Appoints Chief Legal Officer To Board
London-based investment holding company Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. announced Friday it would be adding its top lawyer to its board upon the upcoming retirement of a longtime director.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms named new leaders and Donald Trump became president-elect. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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How General Counsel Are Preparing For Trump 2.0
While the stock market surge after Donald Trump won election this week shows that business considers him a friend, corporations are still bracing for the impact of changes that a new administration will bring in 2025.
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Dell, Lattice Semiconductor Attys Work Through AI Risks
A Dell in-house attorney picked up errors artificial intelligence made in his daughter's math homework, while a Lattice Semiconductor attorney was surprised that a rough translation AI provided was actually accurate, leading them to encourage a room of patent attorneys on Thursday to be cautious.
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Attys For Solar Co. Ex-CEO Should Be DQ'd, Plaintiffs Say
The lawyers representing the former CEO of a bankrupt solar energy company should be disqualified, attorneys for the plaintiffs in a suit against him said Wednesday, arguing that the firm had multiple conflicts of interest with its work as in-house counsel for the solar energy company and was intentionally delaying discovery because of its "obvious web of conflicting obligations."
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Canada's Competition Bureau Seeks Dye & Durham Docs
Canada's Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it obtained a court order to gather information and advance an ongoing investigation into alleged anti-competitive conduct by legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd., which has been scrutinized over the past year by activist investors and other national regulatory bodies.
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AT&T GC Elected To ADM'S Board Of Directors
Food and animal nutrition company Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. has expanded its board of directors with the addition of AT&T Inc.'s longtime legal leader.
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The Legal Work Awaiting Attys During Trump's Second Term
Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House following his election victory on Tuesday is sure to bring a series of policy changes that will keep lawyers busy, particularly attorneys working in international trade, immigration, tax and antitrust.
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Tesla Defeats Sanctions Bid Over Atty's Mediation Appearance
A widow suing Tesla Inc. for the wrongful death of her late husband can't pursue sanctions against the automaker for allegedly wasting her time in mediation, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In Oct.? Broadcom, T-Mobile And More
Legal leaders at Broadcom Inc., T-Mobile US Inc. and United Therapeutics Corp. got their treats before Halloween as they made significant stock sales in October that gave them multimillion-dollar paydays.
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Veteran Corporate Atty Joins Olshan Frome In NY
Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP announced that an experienced corporate attorney who most recently served as general counsel for a nuclear fusion technology company, joined the firm's New York office as a partner.
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Discover Picks Interim CLO To Replace Departing Legal Chief
Discover Financial Services has hired an attorney with prior in-house experience at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Northern Trust and Ameritech to soon serve as its interim chief legal officer and general counsel.
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AN2 Therapeutics Elevates Top Atty To CLO, COO
AN2 Therapeutics Inc. announced that the company's chief legal counsel has been elevated to the roles of chief legal officer and chief operating officer, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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It's Too Early To Say Gen AI Will Kill The Billable Hour
Recent surveys are — again — saying the billable hour is about to go the way of the dodo. This time the predictions forecasting the billable hour's impending doom are because of the rise of generative artificial intelligence in law firms.
Expert Analysis
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Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts?
Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.
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Ditch The Frills And Start Writing Legal Letters In Plain English
To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement?
Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.
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DoNotPay Cases Underscore Hurdles For AI-Fueled Legal Help
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
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For The Future Of Legal Practice, Let's Learn From The Past
At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
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Why All Law Firms Should Foster Psychological Capital
Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.
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A GC's Guide To Litigation, Inspired By Sun Tzu's 'Art Of War'
With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.
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ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Priorities For Improving The Legal Industry In Texas
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
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Leading Your Law Firm's Creation Of A New Practice Group
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.