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The top legal leader for Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line earned more than $4.5 million in total compensation in 2023, according to the company's most recent proxy statement, filed Monday.
Boston, Massachusetts-based cybersecurity company Bitsight has found its chief legal officer in an experienced in-house attorney who joined from EY.
A promotion to Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc.'s chief operating officer came with a bump in compensation to $5.5 million in 2023 for the company's general counsel, according to the Pennsylvania-based casino giant's public filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
The legal head of social network operator Nextdoor will be leaving the company next month, according to a recent securities filing.
DoorDash Inc. general counsel Tia Sherringham received roughly $10 million in compensation in 2023, down significantly from the prior year due to a dip in stock awards, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Attorneys-turned-therapists say no one understands the stresses of being a lawyer like another lawyer. They also say their clients sometimes struggle at first with treatment that prioritizes feelings, mindfulness and even body awareness over the intellectualizing and rationalizing that make them successful at their jobs.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a former Morrison & Foerster LLP technology litigator and data security software startup founder to its San Francisco office, the firm announced Monday.
When his 2-month-old daughter was hospitalized with a potentially fatal condition, Dechert partner Jonathan Stott leaned on firm mentors and colleagues for strength. Now, as managing partner of the firm's San Francisco office Stott is on a mission to pay it forward and continue fostering a supportive and resilient office community.
In the eight years since an ABA report revealed pervasive alcohol misuse among lawyers, the legal industry has sought to address the problem. Here is a look at what’s working, what isn’t, and how legal employers can effectively address law’s problem drinking crisis going forward.
Overwhelming caseloads, the secondary trauma from certain types of cases and a lack of peer support are the biggest stressors judges say they're facing, with many of them experiencing difficulty concentrating, remaining unbiased and treating litigants and lawyers with respect as a result.
In the past year, plaintiffs have won settlements and judgments for millions and billions of dollars from companies such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Facebook and Fox News, with many high-profile cases finally wrapping up after years of fighting. Such cases — involving over-the-top compensation packages, chemical contamination, gender discrimination and data mining — were led by attorneys whose accomplishments earned them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2024.
The global general counsel for TikTok and parent company ByteDance will be stepping down from his role in June to take on a different job within the social media giant, the company announced Friday: fighting a new federal law requiring ByteDance to divest in TikTok or face a ban in the U.S.
A Manhattan judge on Friday threw out a claim that the general counsel for rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson illegally recorded a former Beam Suntory Inc. sales contractor during an embezzlement investigation, but allowed the consultant to revise his pleading.
Several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to the American Bar Association on Friday urging it to study how state bar applications require would-be attorneys to disclose sexual violence.
Philadelphia-based media giant Comcast paid its chief legal officer and secretary more than $11 million in combined salary, bonuses and stock options and awards last year, according to the company's recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
An experienced in-house attorney who previously worked in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP has joined Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP, continuing the firm's trend of hiring former Kirkland attorneys.
The general counsel at South Dakota-based Black Hills Co. announced in a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that he plans to retire this year after two decades with the energy company.
Atlanta-based Rollins Inc. announced that it has appointed director and former Turner Broadcasting Systems general counsel Louise Sams as the lead independent director of the pest control giant's board of directors.
The legal technology market will reach $50 billion in value by 2027, according to estimates published by global research firm Gartner, with generative artificial intelligence identified as a spark to value across the industry.
A report by LexisNexis' CounselLink found that average law firm partner billing rates rose 5.4% in 2023, and a federal jury in Colorado rejected a former in-house attorney's claim that Loeb & Loeb LLP and one of its ex-partners acted outrageously in filing a lawsuit accusing him of stealing a medical device company's trade secrets.
The outspoken chief legal officer of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc., who has railed against regulators, earned total compensation over $5 million last year, more than $2 million less than in 2022, according to the company's latest proxy statement.
The top attorney for information services company Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. saw his compensation package drop by $2.1 million last year.
Lyft's longtime general counsel-turned-president picked up a total compensation package worth $6.6 million in 2023, according to the company's latest proxy statement, a sharp increase fueled primarily by $5.3 million in stock awards.
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The former general counsel for Moody's Corp. has pled guilty to willfully failing to file federal income tax returns for four years in which he collected $54 million in income, federal prosecutors announced Friday.