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Google Legal Dept. Goes From Crisis Mode To Long Term
As much of the major antitrust litigation against Google winds down, the company is shuffling around its in-house legal departments to add more people and settle from crisis mode into the more sustainable posture of a technology giant where lawsuits have likely become a permanent feature of its existence.
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After Judge Takes Trip To Israel, Attys Want Him Off Gaza Case
Palestinian rights activists asked a Ninth Circuit judge to recuse himself from a case claiming that the Biden administration flouted international laws barring genocide by supporting Israel's military efforts in Gaza, noting that the judge recently took a trip to Israel sponsored by the World Jewish Congress.
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Arena Football League Appoints Veteran Sports Atty As GC
The newly relaunched Arena Football League has announced that one of the co-founders and former commissioners of the original league has been appointed general counsel and senior adviser of player operations.
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Cannabis Co. Stiiizy Hires Ex-Aerojet Rocketdyne Atty As GC
Los Angeles-based cannabis brand Stiiizy announced it has hired an in-house counsel with experience at companies like Aerojet Rocketdyne and Samsung to lead its legal department amid a period of rapid growth for the 7-year-old company.
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Brand Reputation, Compliance, AI Named Top Privacy Risks
The top three privacy risks for companies and their compliance professionals in 2024 are artificial intelligence, brand reputation and compliance, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Ex-McKesson Atty Set To Be Security Co.'s Next Global GC
A seasoned in-house attorney who has been with Change Healthcare Inc. and McKesson Corp. is set to start later this month as global general counsel at Allied Universal, the security company said Wednesday.
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5th Circ. Private Funds Ruling Could Rewrite SEC Agenda
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday vacated U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations that would have required private fund advisers to provide detailed disclosures to investors, in a sweeping decision that could upend the regulator's approach to promised rules on climate, artificial intelligence and crypto assets.
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How To Work On Legal Generative AI's Black Box Problem
Many legal technology providers have boasted that their generative artificial intelligence tools were incapable of "hallucination." That illusion shattered in May when an academic study, originally criticized and eventually revised, reported alarming rates at which some industry tools produce false or misleading information.
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Judiciary Panel Clears 1st MDL Rule, Eyes 'Mouthpiece' Amici
Top rulemaking gatekeepers for the federal judiciary Tuesday capped off seven years of strife in the defense and plaintiffs bars by backing a milestone measure aimed at optimizing multidistrict litigation, and then promptly greenlighted an entirely different war of words over new efforts to ferret out amicus briefs from "paid mouthpieces" masquerading as independent experts.
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Skanska Elevates Atty To USA Building Unit General Counsel
Construction and development company Skanska this week said it has promoted one of its attorneys to lead the legal department at Skanska USA Building Inc., following the recent move of its former general counsel to president.
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AdMarketplace Hires Walmart Atty As New GC
Adam Epstein, the longtime general counsel of adMarketplace who became co-CEO in March, has filled his vacated position with a senior attorney from Walmart Inc.
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Josh Gibson's Atty Prevails After 30-Year Labor Of Love
Corporate lawyer and former general counsel Edward Schauder worked over 30 years trying to get sports fans and pro baseball's brass to pay attention to great Negro League players of the past. Now, he's got their attention.
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Former Covington Atty Joins AI Biz As GC
Generative artificial intelligence company Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. has hired as its general counsel an attorney with prior in-house experience at other technology companies who also formerly worked at Covington & Burling LLP.
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals CLO Earned Nearly $4M In 2023
Jazz Pharmaceuticals' chief legal officer, who's been with the company since 2019, earned nearly $4 million in compensation last year, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Quinn Emanuel Lands Former JBS CLO As Antitrust Co-Chair
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's latest lateral hire is an experienced antitrust attorney who brings decades of BigLaw, government and in-house experience to the role of co-chair of the firm's antitrust and competition practice.
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Jones Day, Littler, Ogletree Attys Among Clients' 'All Stars'
Jones Day, Littler Mendelson PC and Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC head BTI Consulting Group's annual list of law firms with the most "all star" attorneys, with each having seven attorneys highlighted by in-house leaders for their service to clients.
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5th Circ. Mulls Acts Vs. Belief In Anti-Abortion Worker's Firing
The Fifth Circuit on Monday seemed torn over whether it should "split hairs" between religious conduct and religious belief as it weighed whether to uphold a Southwest flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit over graphic anti-abortion messages she sent her union president.
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TikTok Snags Ex-Warner Bros. GC To Lead Legal
TikTok and parent company ByteDance picked a former Warner Bros. top lawyer to be its next global general counsel, the company said Monday, after the most recent leader in the position stepped down to fight a new federal law affecting the social media giant.
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Ex-SoftBank GC Joins Foley & Lardner As Partner In SF
Foley & Lardner LLP has hired SoftBank Investment Advisers' former general counsel, who has over a decade of experience in private practice and serving as in-house counsel overseeing SoftBank's legal team, which structured and monitored more than 300 portfolio companies worth more than $130 billion.
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Standards Are Murky As Legal Employers Vet Protesters
As violence in Gaza rages on, law firms have vowed not to employ lawyers whose activism for Palestinian rights they deem unacceptable. But "unacceptable" is in the eye of the beholder, and that makes it difficult for law students and lawyers who advocate for a ceasefire to navigate the workplace and the job market.
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SoFi Finds GC In Ex-JPMorgan Chase Consumer Banking Atty
SoFi Technologies Inc. has found its new top attorney in an experienced legal executive from JPMorgan Chase & Co. as SoFi's legal chief retires, the company said Monday.
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Constellation Brands CLO's Compensation Down In FY24
Global beer, wine and spirits producer Constellation Brands' chief legal officer earned about $4.1 million total compensation for fiscal 2024, less than the prior year mostly because of fewer earnings from stock option awards, according to a Monday public filing.
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Ex-Discord, Dragos In-House Attys Launch Boutique In SF
Experienced in-house counsel Elena DiMuzio and Meg Pirnie Kammerud have launched a new boutique firm focusing on providing fractional general counsel and advisory services after serendipity brought the two attorneys together, practically in their own San Francisco backyards.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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Series
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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.