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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decades-old precedent that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking, and the Conference Board issued a new report urging the country's leaders to adopt a national artificial intelligence framework. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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VW America Elevates In-House Atty With BigLaw Chops To GC
Volkswagen Group of America announced that it has promoted an experienced in-house attorney to the role of general counsel to oversee all legal matters for the U.S.-based group of the German automaker.
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Former Vodafone, Reuters GC Joins Deloitte Legal in London
Deloitte Legal has brought on as its new senior adviser a former general counsel for U.K. telecommunications company Vodafone Group PLC, a spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of June with another action-packed week of BigLaw hires and three straight days of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Nasdaq Private Market Elects A Former ING GC To Its Board
Nasdaq Private Market has appointed the former top attorney for New Enterprise Associates Inc. and general counsel of ING Group to its board of managers.
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Swedish Energy Co. Vattenfall Names New General Counsel
Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced that longtime general counsel Anne Gynnerstedt will leave the company after 12 years, with the current head of corporate affairs at Polarium Energy Solutions set to succeed her in August.
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Why GCs Might Hand Off The Corporate Secretary Role
General counsel shifting some of their responsibilities — such as the corporate secretary role — to someone else happens often, and largely depends on an organization's size, complexity and changing business lines, legal experts said.
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Ecolab Promotes In-House Atty To Become GC
Chemical manufacturer Ecolab Inc. has promoted an in-house attorney who has been with the company for nearly a decade to lead its global legal functions.
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Executives Urge U.S. To Take Lead on Developing AI Safely
The Conference Board has issued a new report urging U.S. leaders to adopt a national AI framework that would create safety guidelines, while avoiding restrictive regulations that might hinder the country's competitiveness.
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Ex-Philip Morris, US Steel GC Added To Flooring Co.'s Board
A former Philip Morris general counsel and experienced independent director has joined the board of directors for Ecore International, the flooring manufacturer said Wednesday, her second board appointment in a month.
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LGBTQ Bar Directors Talk LGBTQ Rights, Judges
The National LGBTQ Bar Association, an organization for LGBTQ lawyers, law students and legal professionals with 1,700 members, is focused in 2024 on increasing representation of LGBTQ people on the bench, supporting LGBTQ attorneys in their workplaces and connecting attorneys via its annual conference.
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Former BigLaw Atty Named Education Organization's CLO
Education Testing Service, known as ETS, has hired a new chief legal officer who brings experience as both an in-house and former BigLaw attorney and had worked in the federal government.
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How Attorneys Are Celebrating Pride Month In 2024
This June, LGBTQ+ attorneys around the country at law firms big and small shared with Law360 how they — and their firms — are celebrating Pride Month.
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Feds Back Debevoise Bid To Avoid Cognizant Trial Testimony
The U.S. Department of Justice would like a New Jersey federal court to throw out a subpoena compelling trial testimony from a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner regarding an investigation into an alleged bribe the government believes two former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives supplied to an Indian company.
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Ideaya Biosciences Chief Legal Officer To Step Down In July
The chief legal officer of Ideaya Biosciences Inc., a company that researches and develops cancer drugs, is set to depart on July 11, a Thursday public filing says.
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Justices Limit SEC's Use Of In-House Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's use of its in-house court system, saying the accused have a right to a jury trial when financial penalties are on the table.
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Vehicle Equipment Maker Selects In-House Atty To Lead HR
The vehicle equipment company Dana Inc. has appointed an in-house attorney who has served as its assistant vice president, general counsel and assistant secretary since last year to serve as senior vice president and chief human resources officer.
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Roberta Kaplan Leaving Namesake Firm To Launch Boutique
Roberta Kaplan, the intrepid litigator who has won landmark victories for LGBTQ+ couples, survivors of white supremacist violence and a writer who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault, announced Wednesday that she is leaving Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP to launch a new boutique with two former prosecutors and a veteran of complex litigation.
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LVMH Can't Yet Collect $490K Award From Former Legal Exec
A Manhattan judge on Wednesday confirmed LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.'s $490,000 arbitration win for a former legal executive's alleged contract violations, but declined to enforce the payment until the two sides resolve a related sexual harassment and retaliation dispute.
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HSBC Names Citigroup Attorney As GC For US
HSBC has announced internally that it has hired Curtis Tao, a former deputy general counsel at Citigroup, as its new general counsel for the US.
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Zevra Brings On New CLO, People Executive
Rare disease therapeutics company Zevra Therapeutics Inc. has named a former chief legal officer at Lyell Immunopharma its new CLO and a former chief people officer at Scipher Medicine to a similar job at Zevra, turning to experienced leaders to lead the Celebration, Florida-based company.
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Most New Attys Don't See 'Flashy Lawyer Salary'
While some new attorneys earn top dollar right out of their Juris Doctor program, that isn't actually the norm, according to a new study from Georgetown University, which found that when factoring in student loan debt, the median earnings for all law graduates land at just $72,000 four years after graduation.
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Uniti Telecom Pro Jumps To Troutman Pepper In DC
A former deputy general counsel at communications infrastructure-focused real estate investment trust Uniti Group Inc. is moving to Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in Washington, bringing with him his multiple decades of governmental and regulatory experience.
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As Law Firms Raise Fees, GCs Keep More Work In-House
Buffeted by higher law firm fees, general counsel are continuing a three-year trend of moving more legal work in-house, according to a new legal department survey.
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Baker Donelson, Tractor Supply Bring Legal Ed. To Tenn. HS
Knowing many teenagers only interact with the law through the criminal justice system, Baker Donelson and Tractor Supply Co. attorneys have partnered with the nonprofit Street Law to bring a taste of the legal profession to diverse students in metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee, one of many such programs Street Law has established throughout the country.