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Barclays GC To Join A&O Shearman Cyber Team
A&O Shearman has tapped the current general counsel for Barclays Execution Services to co-head its global cybersecurity team, the firm announced Thursday, with the lawyer set to make the jump early next year.
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Ex-Judicial Candidate Joins Pa. Policy Shop As COO, GC
A former candidate for one of Pennsylvania's appellate benches has joined the leadership of the Commonwealth Foundation, a statewide policy lobbying group that supports efforts such as expanding school choice and right-to-work laws.
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AAUP Appoints UC Irvine Law Prof As General Counsel
The American Association of University Professors has chosen a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law to serve as its general counsel, the organization recently announced.
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Calif. Bar Panel To Mull How Protests Impact Atty Admissions
Legal consequences, disciplinary actions by law schools and reports of violence in connection to participation in protests against the war in Gaza are not necessarily causes to deny admission to the California Bar, a working group has recommended, urging a continued holistic approach to determinations of moral character.
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What's Next For The Global Legal Market In 2025?
While U.S.-based firms with an international footprint are pulling back from some locations, they may still consider building out a new, albeit smaller, footprint in other countries, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
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These Law Firms Are Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
What does it mean to be a truly global legal powerhouse? The law firms spotlighted in our 2024 ranking are setting the standard for worldwide reach.
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DEI Provision Dooms Boeing's 737 Max Plea Deal
A Texas federal judge on Thursday rejected Boeing's plea agreement in its 737 Max criminal conspiracy case, finding flaws in how the U.S. Department of Justice intended to use race and diversity to select an independent compliance monitor to oversee Boeing, and how the court was cut out of that process.
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E-Discovery Pros Urge Clients To Tackle Burnout Via Budgets
Law firms and their clients can achieve better cases outcomes, tackle e-discovery attorney burnout and cut expenses by allocating more money for e-discovery services in litigation, according to a panel of e-discovery professionals.
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Google's Ex-Litigation Head Joins AI Co. Turing As Its 1st CLO
Artificial intelligence technology company Turing Enterprises Inc. announced Wednesday that it had brought on Catherine Lacavera, a former vice president of legal at Google, to serve as its first-ever chief legal officer.
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Spencer Fane Adds IP Ace With BigLaw, In-House Experience
Spencer Fane LLP has added a member of the trademark and copyright team at K&L Gates LLP to its intellectual property practice in its Austin, Texas, office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Manatt Adds Former UMass Memorial Exec In Boston
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has grown its healthcare offerings in Boston with the addition of a veteran attorney who most recently served as an executive and legal leader at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
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Legal Chiefs Step Up When Their CEO Is Suddenly Killed
Legal experts Wednesday expressed their shock at the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street, calling it tragic and senseless, while offering their sympathies to his family and colleagues.
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Ex-Cleveland Clinic CLO Joins Recruiter BarkerGilmore
After a 30-year tenure as the top lawyer at Cleveland Clinic, the renowned hospital system's former chief legal officer has accepted an advisory and development coaching position at legal recruiter BarkerGilmore LLC, where he will focus on providing guidance to clients within the healthcare and nonprofit sectors.
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Ex-Boeing Senior Atty Joins Jet Services Co. As CLO
Chicago-based Jet Support Services Inc. announced that a senior attorney at Boeing has joined the company as its new chief legal officer, general counsel and chief strategy officer.
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GC Of Building Materials Co. Martin Marietta To Depart
The longtime legal leader of building materials company Martin Marietta Materials Inc. will step down from her post before 2025 comes to an end.
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LexShares Must Face Claims In Ex-CEO's Race Bias Suit
Racial discrimination claims by a Black former CEO of litigation financier LexShares Inc. are not time-barred, a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled, though she dismissed claims against the chairman of the company's board and another board member.
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Trump Changes Course On Pick For WH Counsel
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was naming a Dhillon Law Group Inc. partner who has represented his campaign to serve as White House counsel, replacing the ex-Jones Day attorney he'd previously picked as the top lawyer in his new administration.
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Coinbase Says It Won't Use Firms That Hire Crypto Enforcers
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made clear that it won't work with law firms that employ former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys who led the charge on crypto enforcement suits, singling out Milbank LLP for its hiring of ex-SEC enforcement director Gurbir Grewal.
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Lockheed Martin Taps Carrier CLO And DOJ Veteran As GC
Lockheed Martin has hired Carrier Corp.'s chief legal officer and U.S. Department of Justice veteran Kevin O'Connor as its new general counsel to succeed Maryanne Lavan, who is retiring after more than 30 years at the aerospace giant.
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Microsoft Asks FTC Watchdog To Look Into Leaked Probe
A Microsoft deputy general counsel on Tuesday asked the Federal Trade Commission's inspector general to look into whether commission management improperly told a news outlet that the FTC had opened a broad antitrust investigation of the tech giant.
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Exelon Promotes Ex-FERC Commissioner To Top Legal Role
Utility company Exelon Corp. announced Tuesday that a former Reed Smith LLP partner and former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been named its next chief legal officer, and also said it's also expanding the top legal role.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In November? Quest, Exelixis, More
Legal leaders at Quest Diagnostics, SS&C Technologies and Exelixis, among others, had plenty to be thankful for in November after making multimillion-dollar stock sales.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tunheim Advises Other Jurists
For more than a decade, U.S. District Judge John Tunheim has counseled judges from other countries on quandaries jurists face internationally, from artificial intelligence to court administration to judicial independence.
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Ex-Locke Lord Enviro Atty Joins Winstead After In-House Role
Winstead PC has added a Houston attorney whose experience with environmental matters while working in-house for a chemical company and in stints with the Texas state government and law firms like Locke Lord LLP will bolster the firm's real estate practice.
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FactSet Hires Chief Legal Officer From S&P Global
Financial information and data analytics company FactSet has hired as its new chief legal officer an attorney who will use his prior in-house experience at several other financial services companies to steer its global legal functions.