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A former partner and general counsel for the credit arm of Apollo Global Management is now a partner in Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's corporate department, the firm said Tuesday.
Cyber insurance company Cowbell announced Tuesday that it has promoted to serve as its general counsel an attorney who has served as its vice president of legal for more than two years.
CoinShares International's general counsel stepped down Monday "to pursue other opportunities" beyond the European cryptocurrency asset manager, the firm said in a statement.
In her final days as general counsel at the International Monetary Fund, Rhoda Weeks-Brown looked back on her 33-year legal career, speaking to Law360 Pulse about the three major financial crises she has confronted, how she sees geopolitical fragmentation as a key economic threat, and what she plans to do with her future.
TXSE Group Inc. said Monday that two legal leaders who have counsel experience at organizations including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Schwab & Co. and the Cincinnati Stock Exchange are among a slew of executive appointments at the trading company as it moves closer to launching a new securities exchange.
The top lawyer for fashion holding company Tapestry Inc., the parent of Coach, Kate Spade New York and Stuart Weitzman, saw his compensation rise by almost $500,000 to about $2.7 million in fiscal year 2024, according to the company's latest federal filing.
John Jay Hoffman was approved to be the newest New Jersey Supreme Court justice by the state Senate on Monday, marking a new high point in the career of the Rutgers general counsel and former New Jersey acting attorney general.
Solar equipment supplier Shoals Technologies Group Inc. announced Monday it appointed a Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP partner as its interim chief legal officer.
The chief legal, administrative and sustainability officer at California-based cloud network technology company Extreme Networks Inc. earned around $2.7 million in total compensation for fiscal year 2024, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Pennsylvania-based Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. announced Monday that the casino-focused real estate company's chief operating officer and chief legal counsel has also been elevated to president.
The general counsel at Wynn Resorts Ltd., who joined the giant gambling company in 2018 during a regulatory nightmare, is set to retire early next year, with another in-house legal leader set to replace her, the company said Friday.
Ballard Spahr LLP has added a veteran financial services regulatory attorney who most recently worked in-house at human resources software firm Dayforce, formerly known as Ceridian.
General counsel reported in a recent survey that their median total compensation has increased nearly 25% in the past five years, rising at a higher rate than CEO pay. And U.S. regulators continue to slap financial firms with millions in fines for letting employees use text messages and other forms of unapproved communications to conduct business.
Fox Corp.'s former chief legal and policy officer and his successor earned about $36.5 million in total compensation in fiscal year 2024, most of which went to departed top attorney Viet Dinh, who now serves in a special advisory role at the company, according to a public filing.
The San Antonio Water System has made changes to its legal leadership with the hiring of a longtime Beveridge & Diamond PC principal to the role of vice president for environmental law and regulatory compliance, and the promotion of an experienced government attorney to the role of chief legal and ethics officer.
Coty Inc. paid its chief legal officer more than $6.4 million during the recent fiscal year, almost double the total she previously saw, largely due to nonequity incentive plan compensation and an increase in stock awards, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kicking off this week's legal lions list are four law firms that secured a summary judgment win Tuesday for DoorDash Inc. and other food app delivery companies in their federal lawsuit challenging a New York City law requiring delivery services to provide restaurants with certain customer info.
Former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs general counsel and White House special counsel Richard Sauber spoke with Law360 Pulse about his recent return to private practice at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, as well as his time helping President Joe Biden navigate a congressional impeachment inquiry and a special counsel investigation.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as law firms promoted partners and federal prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and fraud. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC is welcoming back a litigator who most recently was director of litigation with Dish Network as a principal in its Denver office, the firm announced Thursday.
North Carolina public transportation company GoTriangle announced that its general counsel has taken over as acting CEO and president after the resignation of its leader for the past four years.
The former CEO of LexShares Inc. has lodged racial discrimination claims against the litigation finance firm and its top brass, claiming the company's board of directors discriminated against him and eventually forced him out because he was Black.
BigLaw attorneys and in-house counsel speaking at the annual Berkeley Law AI Institute on Thursday talked about how they've recently grappled with using the tools known as artificial intelligence in representing clients, saying some clients have either demanded or prohibited attorneys from using the tools, and others have taken seemingly contradictory positions.
The New Jersey state Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward Rutgers general counsel John Hoffman's nomination to the state Supreme Court at a Thursday hearing marked by bipartisan support and virtually unanimous praise for his character.
H&R Block registered another good financial year while chief legal officer Dara Redler saw her total compensation rise over 9% to just over $2.1 million in fiscal 2024, according to recent securities filings.
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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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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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