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Whirlpool GC On Impacting Business, Winning The Right Way
For Kyle De Jong, senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer for iconic appliance maker Whirlpool Corp., one of the most important lessons for in-house counsel is that winning a legal action is not enough.
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Georgia-Based Acuity Brands' GC Saw Comp Rise To $2.6M
Georgia-based lighting and building management firm Acuity Brands paid its general counsel about $250,000 more in fiscal year 2024 than the year before, bringing his total compensation up to $2.6 million, according to a Thursday securities filing.
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Ex-Paramount Exec Named Virgin Music's Legal Affairs VP
Virgin Music Group announced Wednesday that an experienced entertainment attorney who most recently was a senior vice president with Paramount Global has been appointed its new executive vice president of global business and legal affairs.
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Growing Workloads Have More In-House Teams Turning To AI
Corporate law departments are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools as they face pressure to control costs and meet growing demands for legal services amid flat headcount, according to survey results released Wednesday.
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Meta Adds Intel, King & Spalding Attys For Legal Leader Roles
Meta Platforms Inc. is bringing on a former Intel Corp. associate general counsel and a King & Spalding LLP attorney to fill senior legal leadership positions, the parent company of social media applications Facebook and Instagram confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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Insurance Crime Group Names Ex-Sen. Committee Aide As VP
The National Insurance Crime Bureau announced that a former attorney with the Senate Judiciary Committee joined the nonprofit organization from Venable LLP as its new vice president of strategy, policy and government affairs.
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Conde Nast Names SoundCloud Legal Leader As GC
Global media giant Conde Nast has found its new legal leader in a veteran legal executive who most recently served as general counsel for the audio streaming service SoundCloud.
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Koppers Taps New CLO, Chief Sustainability Officer
Global wood preservation technology company Koppers Holdings Inc. said Tuesday that it has elected Stephanie Apostolou to serve as its chief legal and sustainability officer and secretary ahead of the retirement of its chief sustainability officer next March.
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SEC Says Xtreme Fighting CEO And GC Defrauded Investors
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Xtreme Fighting Championships and CEO Steven Smith of defrauding investors by selling millions of dollars of stock in the martial arts organization without disclosing the involvement of Smith or its criminally charged general counsel, according to a Florida federal lawsuit.
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Home Services Co. Hires CLO From SmileDirectClub
Thumbtack, a technology company that operates a home services website, has found its new chief legal officer in an experienced attorney who most recently worked at dental telehealth company SmileDirectClub.
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Former Quinn Emanuel Atty Joining Fileread In Dual Role
A former BigLaw attorney and legal technology product executive is joining Fileread, which developed an artificial intelligence-powered litigation platform, as strategic partnerships lead, the startup announced Monday.
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HubSpot's Legal Chief Leaving After Google Deal's Collapse
After two years in the role, Alyssa Harvey Dawson is resigning Dec. 31 as chief legal officer of HubSpot Inc., a sales and marketing software company whose proposed sale to Alphabet Inc.'s Google collapsed in July.
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Ex-Bloomberg GC Joins Cybersecurity PE Group
A onetime Bloomberg in-house legal leader with nearly three decades of experience across a range of legal and business matters has joined cybersecurity private equity firm Option3, taking on the roles of operating partner and chief strategy officer for the firm's new "zero trust" cybersecurity platform, ENIGMA.
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Carisma Therapeutics Drops GC As Part Of Cutbacks
Less than two years after joining Philadelphia-based biopharmaceutical company Carisma Therapeutics, the company's general counsel will depart along with other executives as part of an overall workforce reduction.
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Fintech Startup Names Ex-Dentons Sirote Atty As Its 1st CLO
Fintech startup Occupi has named as its chief legal officer a former Dentons Sirote partner who has helped advise the company as it launches an app aimed at assisting renters and landlords.
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University Of Chicago Signs On To Weil Service Fellowship
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is continuing to grow its public service fellowship for law students in the program's fifth year, announcing Monday that the University of Chicago Law School has signed on to participate in the program, which places incoming students at participating nonprofit organizations.
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Ga. Attys Urge Companies To Develop Generative AI Policies
Companies need to develop policies mitigating the effects of generative artificial intelligence as the tool is already impacting contracts and other aspects of business across nearly every industry, attorneys said Monday at a State Bar of Georgia panel.
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2nd Circ. Restores Challenge To Conn. Atty Anti-Racism Rule
The Second Circuit on Monday revived a challenge to a new rule for Connecticut attorneys intended to reduce discrimination, ruling that the alleged chilling effect the two suing lawyers detailed in their complaint gives them standing even if the rule hasn't been enforced against them.
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Liberty Mutual Taps In-House Atty As Chief Compliance Officer
Liberty Mutual Insurance said Monday that it's replacing its compliance chief with an attorney who has held legal and compliance roles within its corporate umbrella for more than two decades.
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TikTok Seeks Halt On Sale-Or-Ban Law For High Court Appeal
TikTok Inc. and its users are pressing the D.C. Circuit to put on hold the implementation of a law that is set to bar the platform from the U.S. market next month while they appeal a ruling backing the measure to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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TikTok Hires Francisco And Mooppan For High Court Fight
Jones Day's U.S. Supreme Court advocates Noel J. Francisco and Hashim M. Mooppan have signed on to represent TikTok, according to a Monday court filing, as the company readies to appeal a D.C. Circuit panel's ruling upholding a law requiring it to be sold or banned to the nation's highest court.
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Famous Steakhouse Chain's Ex-GC Gets Go-Ahead For Bias Suit
The ex-general counsel of iconic steakhouse chain The Palm Restaurant can move ahead with a discrimination lawsuit claiming she was ousted after a 2020 bankruptcy sale, a New York federal court ruled Monday.
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Visa's Former CLO Earned Over $13 Million In FY 2024
The former chief legal officer at Visa, who currently serves as the financial services giant's chief people and corporate affairs officer, earned over $13 million in fiscal year 2024, according to a Monday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Healthcare Realty Trust Promotes Atty To General Counsel
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. announced Monday that it had promoted a longtime in-house attorney to general counsel as another of its seasoned attorneys takes on a new role in the company's legal department.
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Texas Homebuilder Taps Ex-US Airways GC For Director Role
Green Brick Partners Inc. has named a former legal executive for US Airways Group Inc. and Habitat For Humanity International Inc., among other previous roles, as its lead independent director.