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Funding for legal technology companies totaled $2.422 billion in the first half of 2024, nearly matching the $2.443 billion in capital raised during the same period in 2023, a positive sign for the sector after years of declining investments.
Robert Dinerstein, chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Disability Rights, joined Law360 Pulse for an in-depth conversation about the organization's #BeCounted campaign
President Joe Biden on Thursday nominated a senior Office of Management and Budget official and former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau attorney to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to replace one of two current CFTC members who themselves have been nominated for other offices.
A senior lawyer at The Walt Disney Co., who is a veteran C-suite leader who has had stints at other high-profile brands such as PayPal and Nokia, is set to begin as general counsel at Roku Inc. later this month, the streaming services company said late Thursday.
Despite the strong anti-ESG movement and one oil giant's legal move to smash an activist investor, shareholders still voiced their concerns over climate change this proxy season and saw some success in corporate annual meetings.
The former chief counsel for the U.S. Army Center of Military History has joined Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP as co-chair of the firm's growing art law practice, the firm announced Thursday.
The arrival of artificial intelligence in the legal profession means new use cases and obligations, but a few lawyers are still trying to trust this new technology, a panel of experts said Thursday.
Entertainment venue developer and operator Falcon's Beyond announced Thursday that it has promoted its general counsel to chief legal officer and corporate secretary, a newly created role.
PCS Retirement has found a general counsel in The Vanguard Group's former head of operational risk and controls, saying Wednesday that it is building its executive ranks "to address the significant risks of information security and legal liability in the retirement industry."
HF Sinclair Corp. this week named the former head of legal at BP PLC its new general counsel, about four months after the energy company's most recent top law department leader resigned to pursue another opportunity.
The Nasdaq Stock Market has asked a Brooklyn federal judge to toss claims it "arbitrarily and capriciously" derailed a minority-led special purpose acquisition company's plans, arguing in a Wednesday filing that it's immune to such claims as a self-regulatory organization.
Latitude Legal announced Tuesday that a longtime global legal and compliance executive has joined its Tampa, Florida, office as a director of legal recruiting and placement.
Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., which owns the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers, has promoted general counsel Jamaal Lesane to the position of chief operating officer, according to a securities filing on Tuesday.
Harvard University on Wednesday named a senior in-house attorney from Northrop Grumman Corp., who also has worked in the White House and for the U.S. Department of Defense, as its next general counsel, about five months after its former top lawyer retired.
Law360 Pulse caught up with the newly minted general counsel at Benson Hill, who has degrees in industrial engineering, law and business — all of which, he said, impact how he views issues and have shaped the attorney he is today.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel Karla Gilbride said Tuesday her office is focused on holding employers accountable for hiring discrimination, noting the agency has access to company data that allows it to build a case that an individual job seeker cannot.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. has paid over a half million dollars to its chief financial officer to cover his legal costs after he was sued by his former employer for an alleged breach of noncompete and confidentiality agreements.
After a busy month of expansion, management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Monday that it is welcoming a shareholder back to the firm following his in-house stint with wholesale grocery distributor UNFI.
Independence Blue Cross has promoted an attorney who has worked for more than 13 years for the Philadelphia-based insurance provider to serve as vice president and deputy general counsel.
An experienced U.S. Department of Justice attorney who most recently served as an assistant chief of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit has returned to private practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Crowell & Moring LLP grew in San Francisco this week, announcing Tuesday that it has added a former state prosecutor and e-commerce in-house counsel who has a reputation as a "Swiss Army knife style of lawyer."
Fintech company Current must allow the deposition of its former general counsel in a suit claiming it fostered a discriminatory work culture, a New York federal magistrate judge has ruled though the judge limited the deposition to focus on discrimination the general counsel may have personally experienced or witnessed.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced Monday that it has added two new members to its senior management team, with the firm saying its new chief administrative officer and chief innovation and information officer are part of the New Jersey firm's efforts to build its brand nationally.
Buoyed by $750 million in new capital, rental car company Hertz Global Holdings Inc. on Monday expanded its leadership team, including promoting its interim legal chief to executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective immediately.
The general counsel who recently left the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a former Davis Polk white collar defense partner, told Law360 Pulse on Monday that national security issues dominated his tenure, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on his second day in the job.