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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.
Kelly Rentzel, who has held several general counsel positions throughout her career, largely credits her law degree for giving her the confidence to talk publicly about her bipolar diagnosis — which is something she had contemplated for two decades before taking the initial steps that ultimately led her to a lectern.
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP is expanding its West Coast infrastructure team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a McDermott Will & Emery LLP emerging energy technologies expert who was previously general counsel with Edison Energy Group to be a partner in its Los Angeles office.
Homebuilder MDC Holdings said its general counsel has announced his departure after Japanese firm Sekisui House Ltd. acquired the company in a nearly $5 billion transaction in January.
Crowell & Moring LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired two more attorneys from Chicago-based Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP to bolster its corporate services.
Ned Gannon, a former corporate attorney and co-founder of contract review software company eBrevia LLC, officially launched a new legal intake and work management software startup called Coheso on Wednesday.
The former assistant secretary of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Christina Zaroulis Milnor, has left government service after more than a decade to launch a Washington, D.C., office for North Carolina-based Cranfill Sumner LLP alongside two firm partners who say they are reinventing traditional white collar work, the firm announced Wednesday.
A drop in the value of stock awards over the past year knocked the total annual compensation for T-Mobile's top lawyer down from nearly $12.5 million in 2022 to about $10.5 million in 2023, according to the company's most recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The American Bar Association members suing the organization over a data breach have not identified any security measures the ABA failed to take, a New York federal judge said Tuesday when nixing what the organization called the members' "implausible" proposed class action.
Target's chief legal and compliance officer, Don Liu, who announced his plans to retire from the retail giant earlier this year, earned around $4.1 million in total compensation last year, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
There has been a recent flurry of effective, seasoned attorneys leaving decadeslong careers at law firms and transitioning to positions at the top of corporate legal departments, and vice versa. How do these hires affect the attorney-client relationship in the long run?
Following its consolidation with Sculptor Capital Management, Rithm Capital Corp. announced Tuesday in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Sculptor's former chief compliance officer has been appointed chief legal officer of the combined company.
Sidley Austin LLP on Monday announced the addition of a longtime U.S. Food and Drug Administration attorney, touting his regulatory and compliance expertise connected to drugs, biologics, medical devices, food, cosmetics and tobacco.
Wolverine World Wide Inc., a brand known for making Merrell, Saucony and other shoes, has named a longtime corporate counsel who first joined the firm in 2008 as the company's chief legal officer and corporate secretary, the company announced Tuesday.
As a therapist specialized in treating lawyers, Stacey Dougan hears a lot about law firm politics, addiction and the career's overwhelming demands. But lately, her clients have been bringing up a new source of anxiety: returning to the office.
Despite the common narrative that lawyers can trade higher pay for better well-being and work-life balance by moving to smaller firms, experts say that Mid-Law firms are generally facing the same industry pressures that contribute to long hours, stress and poor attorney mental health.
Facing a disciplinary complaint can take a toll on any attorney’s mental health. But for solo practitioners and small firm lawyers, who typically juggle all aspects of their business from handling client matters to administrative tasks like managing trust accounts, it can threaten to upend their lives.
Dan Gallagher, the chief legal officer for online securities trading company Robinhood, earned $10.7 million in 2023, a nearly 30% decrease from the $15.1 million he came away with in 2022, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kent Walker, a longtime Google lawyer who is now the legal chief at the technology behemoth and its parent company Alphabet, earned more than $27.3 million in compensation in 2023, according to a recent securities filing, as the business continues to grapple with antitrust cases at both the federal and state levels.
Legal tech giant Clio announced Monday that it has appointed someone with experience working at companies such as Netflix, Samsung and Cisco to be its new chief people officer.
Citigroup Inc. holds its annual meeting Tuesday where it will take on six shareholder proposals, including one seeking a report on the bank's financing policies for corporations and projects that involve the human rights of Indigenous peoples.
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.