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Once "the bellwether of the legal academy," the annual law school rankings published by U.S. News & World Report don't matter to today's prospective law students, a pair of law professors say in a new study.
Elon Musk has hired an aerospace-experienced legal chief for xAI Corp. in San Francisco, his artificial intelligence startup that is competing with OpenAI.
Baker McKenzie announced the hiring of an experienced Chicago-based tax adviser as a principal who most recently spent sixteen and a half years at Big Four accounting firm KPMG.
The longtime top attorney for commercial real estate finance and advisory services firm Walker & Dunlop Inc. has left the company after nearly 14 years, and Walker & Dunlop's deputy general counsel is taking over in the interim.
When Hasbro partnered with Mattel to create the Monopoly: Barbie Edition board game that debuted in October, Tarrant Sibley and his law team were involved in the process. Sibley — a longtime lawyer at Hasbro who has been chief legal officer there since 2018 — has been part of high-level discussions about whether the Monopoly game owner should engage in deals with businesses in the same industry.
Pharmaceutical company Perrigo has announced that its general counsel Kyle L. Hanson will step down on Thursday and transition into a litigation-focused role for the next few months.
An experienced fund transactions attorney has moved from an in-house role at Blackstone to private practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, the firm said Tuesday.
Houston-based oil and gas producer W&T Offshore Inc. announced in a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that general counsel Jonathan Curth has resigned from the company after spending two years in the role.
The board and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. face a significant no-confidence vote at the annual meeting Wednesday as a result of the company's lawsuit against a shareholder for filing a climate disclosure proposal.
Reed Smith LLP announced Tuesday it has hired a music and entertainment attorney in Los Angeles who worked at boutique entertainment law firm Granderson Des Rochers LLP, Universal Music Publishing Group and Google.
Before she joined the federal bench in Arizona, Judge Diane Humetewa worked as a jurist on a relatively young court, where she regularly set new legal precedent.
RxBenefits, a company focused on generating savings for employers providing pharmacy benefits, has appointed a new chief legal officer to oversee its legal and regulatory compliance efforts.
The general counsel who navigated General Electric Co. through its recent split into three companies is becoming a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP on Oct. 1, where he looks forward to taking on corporate crises and maybe even a pro bono death penalty case.
A New Jersey state appeals court panel stood by an attorney's loss Friday in his suit claiming the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and its officials held him back from promotions and raises and harassed him based on his military service in the U.S. National Guard.
In recently opting to open his own firm, Kansas-based intellectual property lawyer Jon Hines gained the freedom to lift the mask off his secret alter-ego: the mind behind popular account @PatentMemes on the social platform X.
Chryssa Stefanou, global head of legal operations at biotechnology company CSL, wants lawyers to realize that generative AI and new technology tools can empower them and add value to their work. Here, she discusses her career in the space and shares how CSL and its legal department are using generative AI.
Antitrust law took center stage this week as college general counsel try to figure out the what and how of paying student athletes under a new court ruling, and the U.S. Department of Justice is trying to break up the entertainment venue dominance of Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
New York-based Dime Community Bancshares Inc. has found its new general counsel in an experienced in-house attorney who most recently worked at Flagstar Bank.
A retired general counsel with 40 years of diverse mining-related legal experience has taken the reins of Idaho-based precious metals producer Hecla Mining Co., which elevated its executive board chair to the role of interim chief executive and president as it begins the process of searching for a full-time CEO.
Womble Bond Dickinson announced on Thursday the hiring of a capital markets partner who most recently led a legal and compliance team for investment analytics startup Venn.
Verizon Communications Inc.'s former general counsel and current president of Verizon Global Services is leaving the company at the end of the year, a recent securities filing shows.
Electric motor design and software company ECM PCB Stator Tech has a new in-house counsel.
The upcoming holiday weekend didn't stop the legal industry from making this another action-packed week as BigLaw expanded and adjusted practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has agreed to testify before Congress in three weeks on the company's recent cyberattacks and on its new internal strategy to combat them, including by linking executive pay to cybersecurity.
A former senior corporate counsel for cloud-based billing company Paymentus Corp. has slapped her former employer with a $100,000 age and gender discrimination suit in North Carolina federal court, saying she was paid less than her male colleagues and eventually fired for complaining, only to be replaced by a much younger male attorney.