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The legal industry had another busy week as BigLaw firms shuffled practices and President Donald Trump began his second term with a flurry of policy changes and appointments. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Federal prosecutors in California arrested the former CEO of an artificial intelligence company Thursday alongside his lawyer wife, accusing the duo of a $60 million fraud scheme in which they allegedly lied to investors about the company's financial state and diverted funds to pay for their wedding.
Rosenberg & Estis PC has hired Lisa S. Lim, the general counsel of the New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust, as a member of a city-focused development team that's part of the firm's transactions department.
From an African studies student at Yale, to a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, to a corporate general counsel, Anthony Joseph has lived his values and found his path.
As the first in-house counsel to lead the Dallas Bar Association, Vicki Blanton said her goals for the coming year include using some of her unique insight for the benefit of lawyers in the area.
The former deputy head of financial crimes at Bank of New York Mellon Corp. has recently left the company after nearly four years to join Fox Rothschild LLP's litigation team in the firm's Pittsburgh office.
While most attorneys have volunteered pro bono services at some point in their career, many lawyers are not meeting the American Bar Association's goal for every lawyer to provide 50 hours of pro bono work every year, and lack of time was the biggest discouraging factor, according to a recent report.
Delaware State University's general counsel has been nominated to serve as secretary of the state's Department of Labor, with new Gov. Matt Meyer calling his nominee "a proven leader" who advocates for workers' rights.
Opportunity Finance Network, a group of community development financial institutions, has hired a former general counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development as its top attorney, leading the group's advocacy, membership and financial intermediary functions, according to a Wednesday announcement.
Burr & Forman LLP announced Thursday that the former vice chancellor and general counsel of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will join the firm at the start of March as its new chief operating officer.
A former in-house attorney for Equitrans Midstream Corp. who helped the natural gas supplier complete a $35 billion merger with EQT Corp. has left the company to join the McGuireWoods LLP's Pittsburgh office, the firm announced Thursday.
The former U.S. Department of Justice antitrust attorney who led the agency's successful challenge to a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines has joined Baker Botts LLP as a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.
The former chief legal officer at family-oriented personal finance company Greenlight Financial Technology Inc. has rejoined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Atlanta to co-chair the firm's corporate practice group.
The new Republican head of the Federal Communications Commission has put together his team and named career officials to lead key branches of the agency.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has brought back the former chief legal officer for the Atlanta-area transit authority and has added a longtime former Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP partner in its Atlanta office, bolstering the firm's government law and policy and litigation practices.
The general counsel for advertising company The Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc. has been guaranteed a nearly $11.8 million golden parachute if he's terminated following the company's merger with marketing giant Omnicom Group Inc.
Law360 Pulse asked corporate counsel to identify some common misconceptions about working in-house and share their thoughts on the rewards and challenges of their jobs. Here's what they said.
It may once have been that the typical in-house lawyer worked a 40-hour week, but that no longer appears to be the case for many corporate counsel, with more than 40% reporting they exceed 50 hours at work each week in a recent survey by Law360 Pulse.
In-house attorneys report high job satisfaction when it comes to schedule flexibility, team collegiality, and compensation, but concerns linger about workload and career advancement, particularly for mid-level lawyers seeking to climb the career ladder, according to a new Law360 Pulse report.
While most in-house lawyers seem generally happy with their outside counsel, about 9% of participants in Law360 Pulse's first In-House Counsel Satisfaction Survey want more, saying they are fed up with being nickel-and-dimed while receiving low quality work and poor communication from their outside attorneys.
Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles have grown their legal operations with a new top attorney from Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the owner of Washington, D.C.'s professional basketball and hockey franchises.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused former representatives of a wealth management firm of selling shares of a "sham" oil and gas company, and separately accused the firm's general counsel and chief compliance officer of playing an "active role" in the alleged misconduct by drawing up liability releases for the firm.
A former in-house attorney for chemicals company Arxada has agreed to remove Bain Capital as a defendant in her New Jersey state court suit alleging that she was unlawfully dismissed after she discussed taking leave to recover from a miscarriage.
The giant crypto exchange KuCoin, which is under indictment in the U.S., said Monday it has promoted its chief legal officer to the role of CEO, citing its commitment to "global growth, innovation, and regulatory compliance."
National chicken restaurant chain Church's Texas Chicken recently changed up its leadership team with the addition of a new chief legal officer plucked from Hooters parent company HOA Brands.