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A shareholder who sued Qualcomm Inc. for allegedly misleading the public and investors about its efforts to diversify its board has failed to show that the company didn't consider diverse candidates, Delaware's Court of Chancery said Thursday, dismissing the shareholder's case.
Delaware-based debt collection agency Phillips & Cohen Associates Ltd. announced Thursday that a former litigation attorney at an Atlanta boutique firm was appointed its new general counsel and senior vice president of global compliance.
Electric motor maker Infinitum has hired as its general counsel an attorney who previously worked in-house at Apple, travel technology company Mondee and financial services business NetSpend.
Hormel Foods Corp. — which owns brands such as Planters, Skippy and Spam — said Thursday it will bring on Hertz Global Holdings Inc.'s former general counsel to serve as its top lawyer beginning next month.
Day Pitney LLP has grown its government enforcement and white collar criminal defense practice with the addition of an in-house attorney at the Cigna Group who spent 16 years as a federal prosecutor in Bridgeport.
Even though legal operations has gained footing in many corporate legal departments, the practice is different across organizations and not well understood by C-suite leaders or attorneys, panelists said at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual conference in Las Vegas.
Leaders from CrowdStrike, Moderna and Winston & Strawn LLP are among the founding members of a new industry framework launched Thursday to help legal professionals tackle data challenges.
It is in the best interest of clients for their legal counsel to avoid sharing information related to representation while seeking advice in an online listserv forum, if the comments or questions could be connected to a client's identity, according to American Bar Association guidance published Wednesday.
Texas-based AST SpaceMobile Inc. announced that a longtime executive at 3D printing company 3D Systems Co. has joined the telecommunications company as its new chief legal officer.
As multinational companies continue to grow across borders, in-house legal teams face more complexity and risk to stay on top of global issues, according to a new study released Wednesday.
An American Bar Association commission will issue a report and recommendations by August on the practice of requiring would-be lawyers to disclose and discuss their experiences of sexual violence during the attorney licensure process.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired two new co-leaders of its financial institutions regulatory group to advise banks, financial institutions and other market participants on regulatory and legislative developments, the firm announced Wednesday.
Global law firm DLA Piper has brought on the former group chief data officer for Danske Bank A/S — Denmark's largest bank — as its inaugural chief data and artificial intelligence officer, making it the latest BigLaw firm to have created an AI-related leader role to focus on the emerging technology.
The law schools at Georgetown, Harvard and Columbia are renowned for effectively serving as training grounds for BigLaw. But while they may consistently send the most graduates, other law schools are sending a higher percentage of their grads to larger firms.
Despite a growing interest in alternative career paths, most law students still gravitate towards joining private law firms, according to the American Bar Association's latest data. Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, public interest and more.
Want to know which schools are sending the highest percentage of graduates to BigLaw? How big a slice are landing those prized clerkships in federal or state courts? Explore the ins and outs of law school graduate placement in our interactive graphic.
Norton Rose Fulbright has added a Dallas-based private equity lawyer with decades of experience to its corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities practice who came aboard from Foley & Lardner LLP.
Corporate legal department leaders are using and planning to use generative artificial intelligence to automate legal tasks, manage contracts and eliminate duplicate data, panelists said at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual conference in Las Vegas.
At the age of 9, Hazel-Ann Mayers decided she would become a lawyer because she wanted to help people — and she never thought about any other career. She shared with Law360 Pulse how she has lived out her childhood dream, most recently as general counsel at the education technology company Turnitin.
Giant railway transporter Norfolk Southern Corp. is facing a triple threat from investors at its annual meeting Thursday: a contested election for its board of directors, a shareholder proposal on lobbying disclosure and a proposal to restrict bylaw changes by the board.
Reed Smith LLP has hired legal technology company Epiq's managing director of applied artificial intelligence to serve as its first director of applied AI, the firm said Tuesday.
FordHarrison LLP tapped an Atlanta partner who has spent her entire career at the management-side labor and employment law firm to serve as its next general counsel.
Employer-side labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has brought on the former general counsel and senior vice president of human resources for professional employer organization Lyons HR to its Atlanta office, strengthening its professional employer organization and staffing practice.
Louisiana-based telecommunications company Lumen Technologies announced that longtime general counsel Stacey Goff will be leaving the company, with an experienced former Disney and Hulu executive set to take over the role.
The Eighth Circuit appeared likely Tuesday to uphold the dismissal of a Black former Lockheed Martin in-house attorney's race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, questioning whether a lesser sanction would've adequately punished misstatements to the trial court about her current high-paying job.