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London's Gatwick Airport has hired a new general counsel with over a decade of experience in similar roles at Cambodia Airports and Santiago de Chile's international airports.
The U.S. legal sector eased back into a positive trajectory in April, with a gain of 3,200 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Zoom Video Communications Inc.'s chief operating officer, who served as the company's interim chief legal officer from June 2020 until March 2024, saw her compensation drop by over $16.5 million in the past fiscal year.
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as a mega-merger went live, three firms opened up offices in Boston and another acquired a Denver boutique. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Upon exiting the government, Christina Zaroulis Milnor, a former assistant secretary at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said she was drawn to launching a Washington, D.C., boutique group affiliated with North Carolina-based Cranfill Sumner LLP to escape an "artificial" line in the sand that exists in the industry between enforcement defense and whistleblower work.
The head of legal services at AstraZeneca has departed the pharmaceutical giant to join the artificial intelligence litigation platform Fileread as general counsel and chief strategy officer, the legal technology startup announced Friday.
Jeff Pash plans to retire as the NFL's executive vice president and general counsel after 27 years with the league, during which he was a major figure in its most consequential legal developments of the 21st century.
The U.S. Soccer Federation said Thursday it has recruited a former top attorney at South by Southwest and Heineken as its next chief legal officer.
Accounting giant EY has appointed David Weintraub as its next global vice chair and general counsel effective July 1, a firm spokesperson said Thursday.
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides prosecutors overstepped by charging a rioter who stormed the Capitol with obstruction, the results will likely be mixed for hundreds of other defendants charged with the same crime, particularly those who have been convicted. That post-appeal uncertainty is nothing new, defense attorneys say.
When Ryan LLC, a Dallas tax software and services provider, became the first company to sue the Federal Trade Commission last week over its ban on noncompete agreements, it was simply trying to preserve the rule of law — something every tax company needs in order to operate, according to chief legal officer John Smith.
Husband-and-wife attorneys Brad Smith and Kathy Surace-Smith have purchased shares in Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, joining a partnership group that includes team legend Ken Griffey Jr., Nintendo of America and Microsoft board member John Stanton, according to the team.
The Blackstone Private Credit Fund and Blackstone Secured Lending Fund said their boards have tapped the senior vice president in legal and compliance at Blackstone Credit & Insurance, who had been hired from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 2021, to become chief securities counsel, according to Wednesday securities filings.
Southwest Airlines' chief legal officer is resigning after more than a decade as its top attorney, with the company splitting his responsibilities into two roles — general counsel and chief regulatory and corporate affairs officer — following his departure.
The top lawyer at Best Buy saw a compensation package that reached more than $3.1 million during the company's most recent fiscal year, up from the $2.5 million he previously saw, according to a recent securities filing.
A veteran in-house attorney who most recently served as general counsel and vice president of human resources at Quinnipiac University has joined the Girl Scouts of Connecticut as its new leader.
Microsoft Corp., the leading investor in ChatGPT creator OpenAI, detailed Wednesday in its first-ever artificial intelligence transparency report how the tech giant is working to keep its ballooning stable of AI tools from causing harm in the U.S. and abroad.
New York City police descended on the Columbia University campus late Tuesday to arrest encamped protesters of the Israel-Gaza war, as general counsel for at least 20 universities across the nation grapple with how best to keep students safe while protecting everyone's free-speech rights.
Three executives, including a chief legal officer whose alleged "repeated inappropriate and offensive conduct" led to his firing by spine and orthopedics company Orthofix Medical Inc. last year, have launched wrongful termination arbitration claims in California seeking severance payments and damages.
English Premier League giant Manchester United announced that chief executive officer and former chief legal officer Patrick Stewart, along with chief financial officer Cliff Baty will leave the soccer club at the end of the season.
Online dating giant Match Group's former chief business affairs and legal officer, Jared Sine, who left the company to join GoDaddy in March, earned around $7 million in compensation last year, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Toyota Motor North America has announced executive leadership changes, including adding duties for an ex-Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney who has been with the company for more than a decade.
Legal department hires during the past few weeks included high-profile appointments at Sony Pictures, TikTok and IBM. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.
More than a decade ago, a stressful job and a pile of physical ailments prompted attorney Cindy Pensoneau to take a deep dive into yoga. Today, she continues to work as both a lawyer and as a yoga teacher, illustrating the growing role that the ancient mind-body practice can play in improving attorney mental health.
While they wait for their companies to implement more wellness policies that reach the root causes of employees’ stress and burnout, some general counsel and chief legal officers are filling the gap to help their law teams feel more supported.