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Netflix Inc. chief legal officer David Hyman added to his income by selling more than $29 million worth of company stock in August, while Apple Inc. general counsel Katherine Adams sold over $20 million worth.
Sustainable building company Holcim has promoted one of its in-house attorneys to take over as its group general counsel on Nov. 1.
TDR Capital LLP has named a long-time in-house counsel and former Reed Smith LLP lawyer as its new general counsel, after her predecessor in the role was recruited by U.S. law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
Law firms exploring artificial intelligence tools face growing hurdles in implementing those technologies effectively while dealing with pushback from clients, based on what I overheard at a recent legal technology conference.
The top lawyer at NGL Energy Partners LP, who has been at the helm of its legal department for about eight years, is planning to leave the oil and gas company in October "to pursue other interests," according to a recent securities filing.
Holland & Knight LLP announced Tuesday the addition of a longtime Ernst & Young executive as chief business development and marketing officer, a new position where he'll be tasked with driving growth and bolstering the firm's brand.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP said Tuesday it has added an experienced debt finance partner in New York who most recently worked as a managing director for Goldman Sachs, in the firm's latest move to bulk up its structured finance and structured private credit practice.
B. Todd Jones, a former senior vice president and special counsel for conduct for the NFL, has returned to Robins Kaplan as a partner in its Minneapolis and New York offices, the firm announced Tuesday.
Cell therapy manufacturer Cellares has hired as its general counsel and corporate secretary an experienced in-house attorney who formerly worked for Lucid Motors and Tesla.
Houston-based oil and gas producer W&T Offshore Inc. has found its new general counsel in an experienced attorney who worked as a White House appointee and as general counsel at traffic camera company American Traffic Solutions Inc.
Tegna Inc., which provides media services and content across various platforms, is about to be in the market for a new chief legal officer less than a year after hiring its current legal leader.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced Tuesday that it has added a former New Jersey federal prosecutor and a longtime lead attorney for Echo Street Capital Management as partners.
Many early-stage legal tech startups don't initially meet law firms' security requirements, and instead are focused on product development and marketing, according to legal industry experts.
Legal department hires over the last month included high-profile appointments at Target, Cigna and Estée Lauder. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from the last full month of summer.
U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly has ordered the owner of another business affiliated with patent litigation funding outfit IP Edge and its affiliate Mavexar to appear before him amid his probe into possible fraud he says may have been perpetrated on the Delaware federal court in certain infringement cases.
The National Labor Relations Board chose an in-house lawyer as its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer. And new documents reveal where FirstEnergy Corp.'s lawyers were when company executives ordered up a questionable multimillion-dollar payment to the man who would become the top state regulator: They were in the room, listening.
The former general counsel for insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London has joined Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., a specialty insurance and reinsurance company, as a legal and compliance leader.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added an intellectual property partner with experience as a software engineer to its growing Minneapolis office, the firm said Thursday.
Woodward Inc., an aerospace and industrial parts manufacturer, has grown its executive team with the addition of a new general counsel and chief compliance officer from Lockheed Martin Space.
An influx of law students in 2021 has led to an increased number of examinees taking and passing the multistate bar exam in July, according to an announcement this week from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame is no longer seeking to vacate his guilty plea that he says Manhattan federal prosecutors induced with a false promise to halt a campaign finance probe into his partner Michelle Bond, though his claims that they broke their word will still be litigated before two different judges.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and one of its former attorneys have been hit with a California federal court suit accusing them of negligence in their representation of a consulting business and its president in a 2018 arbitration they say caused them at least $17.5 million in damages.
Following the Supreme Court's summer 2023 ruling to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, experts warned corporate America about the wide-ranging implications that would likely take hold. Since then, several big-name brands have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, a list that Lowe's joined this week.
The legal industry closed out August with another action-packed week as firms hired new talent and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi was convicted by a California federal jury. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
FedEx Corp. announced Thursday that attorney and longtime executive Gina F. Adams will succeed Mark Allen, the company's longtime executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, who retires this year.
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: RecruiterSelf-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.