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Morgan Stanley's CLO Took In $19.2M Last Year
The top in-house attorney at financial services giant Morgan Stanley took in nearly $20 million in total compensation for 2025, according to documents recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak
The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Ex-GE Vernova GC's Comp Soared Into Double Digits In 2025
The former general counsel at GE Vernova who left the company about a year ago saw her pay soar into double digits in 2025, with almost $14 million in total compensation, according to a Friday securities filing.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Venture Global, Alphabet
Several general counsel welcomed spring by harvesting some fresh stock sales in March. Keith Larson of Venture Global led the way with sales valued at $76.8 million. United Therapeutics' Paul Mahon sold $8.4 million in stocks, while Alphabet's Kent Walker unloaded $2.5 million worth.
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Intel Lands Zoom's COO As Its New Legal Chief
Intel Corp. has hired Zoom Communications Inc.'s chief operating officer to serve as its new top attorney, replacing the technology company's outgoing legal chief following a four-year stint in the role.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Atlanta Braves CLO Saw Comp. More Than Double In 2025
The chief legal officer of the Atlanta Braves earned almost $4.5 million in total compensation in 2025, which is $2.6 million more than the year before.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Healthcare GC In Dallas
Greenberg Traurig LLP has boosted its healthcare and U.S. Food and Drug Administration practice with a shareholder in Dallas who brings substantial in-house experience, most recently serving as general counsel to ophthalmology administrative services provider Sight Growth Partners.
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CFTC Appoints Deputy GCs For Regulation, Litigation
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has hired a former U.S. Senate staffer and a lawyer with experience at the Virginia Attorney General's Office as deputy general counsel overseeing regulation and litigation at the agency.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another busy week of BigLaw hires and insights about how attorneys use artificial intelligence. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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HFW Hires Senior In-House Amazon Pro For Paris Office
Holman Fenwick Willan has boosted its office in Paris with the hire of a senior in-house lawyer at Amazon, which it says will strengthen the firm's services in global disputes and regulatory investigations.
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Connecticut Judge Nominee Defends Domestic Incident
The co-chair of Connecticut's judiciary committee expressed "real concerns" Thursday about the way a former state lawmaker answered questions related to a 2019 disorderly conduct incident, hinting during his nomination hearing that it may affect the vote on his candidacy for a Superior Court judgeship.
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Transportation Services Biz GC To Join Scopelitis Garvin
Transportation services Landstar System Inc. announced Thursday that its general counsel will be leaving next month for transportation-focused firm Scopelitis Garvin Light Hanson & Feary PC.
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Cigna Expands Top Atty's Role To Include Compliance, Risk
The Cigna Group has expanded the role of its chief legal officer to take on responsibility for enterprise compliance and risk.
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Tripadvisor's CLO Will Depart Next Month
The chief legal officer at Tripadvisor Inc. has agreed to step down next month — after nearly 15 years in the position — and the company will replace him with another long-term in-house lawyer there, a spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Thursday.
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Rinnai America GC Promoted To Legal Senior VP
Georgia-based Rinnai America Corp. has elevated its vice president and general counsel to senior vice president of legal, government affairs and people, promoting a legal leader who has handled the company's legal and policy issues as well as supported its growth goals.
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Rutgers Compliance Chief Named New URochester Top Atty
The University of Rochester announced that the current chief compliance officer at Rutgers University will join the upstate New York institution in August as its new general counsel.
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Phillips 66 General Counsel Earns $6.8M In 2025
The top in-house attorney for energy conglomerate Phillips 66 saw a boost in her total compensation in 2025, taking home nearly $6.8 million in salary, bonuses and stock awards while the company endured a proxy fight with an activist investor and legal disputes over trade secrets and employees' wages, according to a recent securities filing.
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The Top In-House Hires Of March
Legal department hires during the third month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at the NAACP, Walmart and Marriott Vacations. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.
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IBM Legal Chief Recasts Risk As Tool To Innovate
"Ruthless prioritization" is how IBM Chief Legal Officer Anne Robinson says she guides her legal department to focus on the most important company issues.
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Lyft's CLO Saw $2.6M Decrease In Comp Last Year
The top attorney for rideshare platform Lyft saw her compensation package drop by $2.6 million last year to about $5.3 million compared to nearly $8 million in 2024, according to a recent securities filing.
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Shopify Lawyer Says Clients Should Insist Firms Embrace AI
As top corporate lawyers face increasing pressure to control outside counsel spending — while continuing to deliver high-quality legal work — they should ensure that law firms have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways and allowing for client feedback, according to a Shopify lawyer who spoke during a webinar Tuesday.
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AIG GC Took In Almost $6.7M In 2025
The general counsel and executive vice president of American International Group Inc. took in nearly $6.7 million in 2025, according to a Tuesday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that comes a little over two years after her appointment to the role.
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NFL Lands Snap, Former Fox Sports GC As Deputy GC
The National Football League has announced it hired a media and tech industry attorney from Snap Inc. as its new deputy general counsel.
Expert Analysis
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4 Ways To Break Down Barriers For Women Of Color In Law
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Female lawyers belonging to minority groups continue to be paid less and promoted less than their male counterparts, so law firms and corporate legal departments must stop treating women as a monolithic group and create initiatives that address the unique barriers women of color face, say Daphne Turpin Forbes at Microsoft and Linda Chanow at the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.
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Opinion
We Need More Professional Diversity In The Federal Judiciary
With the current overrepresentation of former corporate lawyers on the federal bench, the Biden administration must prioritize professional diversity in judicial nominations and consider lawyers who have represented workers, consumers and patients, says Navan Ward, president of the American Association for Justice.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Retire Without Creating Chaos?
Retired attorney Vernon Winters explains how lawyers can thoughtfully transition into retirement while protecting their firms’ interests and allaying clients' fears, with varying approaches that turn on the nature of one's practice, client relationships and law firm management.
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Why I Went From Litigator To Law Firm Diversity Officer
Narges Kakalia at Mintz recounts her journey from litigation partner to director of diversity, equity and inclusion at the firm, explaining how the challenges she faced as a female lawyer of color shaped her transition and why attorneys’ unique skill sets make them well suited for diversity leadership roles.
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For Asian American Lawyers, Good Mentorship Is Crucial
Navigating the legal world as an Asian American lawyer comes with unique challenges — from cultural stereotypes to a perceived lack of leadership skills — but finding good mentors and treating mentorship as a two-way street can help junior lawyers overcome some of the hurdles and excel, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Coping With Secondary Trauma From Pro Bono Work
As the need for pro bono services continues to grow in tandem with the pandemic, attorneys should assess their mental well-being and look for symptoms of secondary traumatic stress, while law firms must carefully manage their public service programs and provide robust mental health services to employees, says William Silverman at Proskauer.
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How Firms Can Benefit From Creating Their Own ALSPs
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Modernizing Legal Education Through Hybrid JD Programs
Amid pandemic-era shifts in education, law schools and other stakeholders should consider the wide geographic and demographic reach of Juris Doctor programs with both online and in-person learning options, and educators should think through the various ways hybrid programs can be structured, says Stephen Burnett at All Campus.
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How BigLaw Can Mirror Small Firm Attorney Engagement
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BigLaw has the unique opportunity to hit refresh post-pandemic and enhance attorney satisfaction by adopting practices that smaller firms naturally employ — including work assignment policies that can provide junior attorneys steady professional development, says Michelle Genet Bernstein at Mark Migdal.
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Ditch The Annual Review To Boost Attorney Job Satisfaction
In order to attract and retain the rising millennial generation's star talent, law firms should break free of the annual review system and train lawyers of all seniority levels to solicit and share frequent and informal feedback, says Betsy Miller at Cohen Milstein.
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How Attorneys Can Narrow LGBTQ Gap In The Judiciary
Lawyers can take several steps to redress the lack of adequate LGBTQ representation on the bench and its devastating impact on litigants and counsel in the community, says Janice Grubin, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee at the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.
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Employers Must Heed Rising Attorney Stress And Alcohol Use
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Krill Strategies’ Patrick Krill, who co-authored a new study that revealed alarming levels of stress, hazardous drinking and associated gender disparities among practicing attorneys, highlights how legal employers can confront the underlying risk factors as both warnings and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 era.
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Lawyers Can Get Ready For Space Law To Take Flight
While international agreements for space law have remained relatively unchanged since their creation decades ago, the rapid pace of change in U.S. laws and policies is creating opportunities for both new and veteran lawyers looking to break into this exciting realm, in either the private sector or government, says Michael Dodge at the University of North Dakota.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: What Makes A Successful Summer Associate?
Navigating a few densely packed weeks at a law firm can be daunting for summer associates, but those who are prepared to seize opportunities and not afraid to ask questions will be set up for success, says Julie Crisp at Latham.
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How To Successfully Market Your Summer Associate Program
Law firms can attract the right summer associate candidates and help students see what makes a program unique by using carefully crafted messaging and choosing the best ambassadors to deliver it, says Tamara McClatchey, director of career services at the University of Chicago Law School.