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Michelman & Robinson Adds Veteran C-Suite Atty In Dallas
Michelman & Robinson LLP announced Monday that it has fortified its corporate practice with a partner in Dallas who boasts decades of international in-house experience, most recently as chairman of the board of Voyager Aviation.
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Squire Patton Atty Moves In-House To Organ Donor Network
A seasoned healthcare attorney who most recently was in related industry groups at Squire Patton Boggs LLP has gone in-house to lead the legal department at the United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit organization said Friday.
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How Law Firms Can Protect Themselves With Cyber Insurance
What should law firms look for in a cyber insurance policy? A partner in Christian & Barton LLP’s healthcare and business law practice groups has some tips.
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GC With Plant-Based Food Co. Laird Superfood To Retire
The top attorney for Laird Superfood Inc. is retiring after a little more than two years with the plant-based food products company.
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From Refugee To Shareholder: A Call For Inclusive Law Firms
A Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC shareholder recently shared her experiences advancing as a woman at a law firm, and why businesses must create an inclusive workplace culture.
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Justice Gorsuch Calls Colleagues 'Best Writers' In History
Justice Neil Gorsuch recently sat down for a keynote conversation during the 25th annual Burton Awards in Washington, D.C., where he reflected on his approach to writing opinions, his originalist method to interpreting the Constitution and the civility that exists between his fellow justices.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Consumers have asked a federal judge to sign off on their $197 million class action settlement with Visa and Mastercard over claims the companies conspired with banks on ATM access fees. And Microsoft's President Brad Smith is going to tell Congress about what the company is doing to upgrade cybersecurity, including linking executive pay to it.
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Former Allstate Lawyer Settles Disability Bias Suit
A former in-house lawyer at insurance giant Allstate has agreed to settle his dispute with the company alleging he was wrongfully fired because his doctor said he could no longer work on trials because of heart issues.
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Ex-Philip Morris, US Steel GC Joins Minerals Mining Co. Board
A former Philip Morris and United States Steel Corp. general counsel has been added to the board of directors for Defense Metals Corp., the Canadian mineral exploration and development company said Friday.
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Don't Fear AI Hallucinations, Embrace Them, Scholar Says
When it comes to artificial intelligence, most early adopters fear the so-called hallucinations that the systems can produce. However, one scholar says the creativity those hallucinations represent is a valuable feature lawyers should embrace.
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Why So Many GCs Are Jumping To Law Firm Partnerships
What started as a trickle of general counsel retiring and then finishing out their careers at law firms has expanded into a growing number of senior in-house counsel leaving their companies for private practice. And not only in part-time, of counsel positions, but often as full partners.
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Ex-OneMain Atty Joins Semmes' Baltimore Employment Team
LaTonya D. Reynolds had early dreams of being an international corporate attorney, but a passion for finance and taxation, and later, employment law, ultimately led her to her new role as counsel in the labor and employment practice group of Semmes Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore.
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The Top In-House Hires Of May
Legal department hires during the last full month of spring included high-profile appointments at Southwest, Hormel and UnitedHealth. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The end of May marked another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made headlines and Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Black & Veatch Lands Seasoned In-House Atty As New GC
Engineering and construction consulting company Black & Veatch has hired as its general counsel and chief compliance officer an attorney who formerly led mining technology company Weir's legal team.
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Ex-Siemens GC Looks Outside Legal Advice Box In New Role
Aniela Foster-Turner knew as a teenager in Romania that she wanted to be a lawyer. Here, Enoda's new general counsel speaks to Law360 about her path to legal practice, the jobs she has held and the difficulties GCs face in trying to remain independent.
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Regulator Says Attys Hit For AI Use Have Themselves To Blame
An attorney for Colorado's ethics watchdog said Thursday that recent disciplinary action against lawyers for filing briefs with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT indicates a "lawyer problem" rather than issues with the technology.
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Ex-Chicago Mayor Dodges Atty's Lawsuit Over Zoom Tirade
An Illinois judge tossed a lawsuit brought by a former in-house attorney for the Chicago Park District accusing former Mayor Lori Lightfoot of unleashing a profane tirade laced with crude, insulting and defamatory comments during a Zoom call.
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Phillips Lytle Adds Ex-New York Life Exec As Special Counsel
Phillips Lytle LLP recently hired an attorney who previously worked at New York Life Insurance Co. and Nationwide Insurance to help bolster its regulatory management services.
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Ex-UnitedLex Exec Moves To E-Discovery Co. Repario As GC
New York-based e-discovery services company Repario announced Thursday that it hired a former executive at legal services and technology provider UnitedLex as its new general counsel.
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Stock Awards Drive Trucker Tracker CLO's Earnings Past $6M
The legal chief for San Francisco-based Samsara Inc., a company that sells software used to track and monitor the movements of truck drivers, saw his earnings jump by more than $3.7 million to nearly $6.3 million last fiscal year, primarily from an increase in stock awards.
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Krispy Kreme Fills Chief Legal Spot With Ex-Mars, Pfizer Atty
A seasoned in-house lawyer, who has worked at household brands including chocolate manufacturer Mars and pharmaceutical company Pfizer, is set to round out the legal department at Krispy Kreme as its top lawyer next month, the doughnut and coffee company said Thursday.
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Once A Standard, US News Rankings Now 'Entirely Irrelevant'
Once "the bellwether of the legal academy," the annual law school rankings published by U.S. News & World Report don't matter to today's prospective law students, a pair of law professors say in a new study.
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Elon Musk AI Startup Taps Legal Chief Who Knows Aerospace
Elon Musk has hired an aerospace-experienced legal chief for xAI Corp. in San Francisco, his artificial intelligence startup that is competing with OpenAI.
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Baker McKenzie Grows Tax Practice With Ex-KPMG Adviser
Baker McKenzie announced the hiring of an experienced Chicago-based tax adviser as a principal who most recently spent sixteen and a half years at Big Four accounting firm KPMG.
Expert Analysis
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.