Does The Data Back Up S&P Cos.' Diversity Pledges?

By Sue Reisinger

Some 189 companies in the S&P 250 released statements on commitments to racial justice in the wake of George Floyd's death, but so far, only 16 have released specific data on the inclusion of Black employees in their workforce, according to a new study released Wednesday.

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The Road To GC Dotted With Executive Coaches

By Adrian Cruz

Thirty-five percent of aspiring general counsel candidates use executive coaches to further their professional development, with most of them considering the process to be a useful tool, according to a study of in-house lawyers released Thursday.

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Analysis

Legal Battle May Show Risk Of GC Wearing Too Many Hats

By Sue Reisinger

A trail of lawsuits and a messy arbitration involving a former general counsel and his company reveal a cautionary tale about what can happen when an employee is tasked to wear two big hats — one as top legal officer and the other as head of an affiliated business.

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FINRA Taps Ex-Obama Counsel, Latham Partner For Board

By Al Barbarino

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Friday it has tapped two industry heavyweights for its board of governors, including an ex-Latham & Watkins LLP partner and former top Obama administration lawyer, as well as a former deputy director with the Federal Reserve.

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White & Case Snags Noble Energy's Former Managing Atty

By Emily Johnson

Global law firm White & Case LLP has added a partner to its Houston office who was previously managing counsel at Noble Energy Inc. — which was acquired by Chevron Corp. last year — and who brings more than 13 years of legal experience to the firm.

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Exclusive

Trump Commutes Ex-Cay Clubs CEO's Ponzi Sentence

By Carolina Bolado and Nathan Hale

President Donald Trump has commuted the 40-year sentence of Fred Davis "Dave" Clark Jr., who was convicted in 2015 of helping run a $300 million Ponzi scheme through the Florida Keys-based company Cay Clubs Resort and Marinas, Law360 has learned.

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Snapshot: How One Lawyer Aided A $330M Ponzi Scheme

By Matt Perez

A former South Florida attorney pled guilty this month to helping to perpetrate a $330 million Ponzi scheme run through purported commercial lender 1 Global Capital LLC. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at how we got there.

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HP Taps GC As Its Next Chief Legal Officer

By Michele Gorman

HP Inc. will promote its general counsel to chief legal officer as the technology company's current top lawyer prepares to step down after nearly five years in the role, according to a Tuesday announcement.

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Westrock Coffee Co. Legal Chief Savors New CFO Role

By Sue Reisinger

Former Chief Legal Officer Chris Pledger is the new chief financial officer for Westrock Coffee Co., continuing a recent trend in corporate legal chiefs moving to finance.

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Novelis Hires From Within For New GC

By Emily Johnson

Novelis Inc.'s interim general counsel, a former Husch Blackwell LLP associate, has taken over the role permanently and will be based out of its global headquarters in Atlanta, the aluminum manufacturer and recycling company said Friday.

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Anheuser-Busch Brews Up Discovery Cost-Saving Algorithm

By Steven Lerner

Anheuser-Busch InBev is making more than just beer, as the brewing giant's in-house legal department told Law360 Pulse it has developed a tool that could reduce time spent reviewing documents and cut discovery costs by millions of dollars.

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Renault Hires New GC To Help Steer 'Profound' Changes

By Sue Reisinger

After announcing a "profound organizational change" last month, car manufacturer Groupe Renault has brought in Quitterie de Pelleport as its new group general counsel to help guide the restructuring.

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'I'm Not A Cat,' Atty Assures Judge Amid Zoom Filter Mishap

By Morgan Conley

A Texas attorney went viral Tuesday after he logged into a Zoom state court hearing unknowingly sporting a cat filter as he geared up to represent Presidio County in civil forfeiture proceedings, then assured the judge he was ready to carry on despite his feline facade.

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Legal Industry Still Largely White And Male, ABA Survey Says

By Marco Poggio

White men still occupy most law firm leadership roles and are more likely to move up the ladder than women, minorities and people with disabilities, according to a survey published Tuesday by the American Bar Association.

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Coinbase Appoints New CCO As It Prepares To Go Public

By Al Barbarino

Coinbase named an ex-executive from fintech firm Stripe as its new chief compliance officer on Wednesday, a move that follows a string of legal hires at the cryptocurrency exchange as it pushes into the mainstream banking world and prepares to go public.

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These Firms Steered The Most Cases In The Last 3 Years

By Xiumei Dong

Attorneys have fielded hundreds of thousands of civil lawsuits in federal district courts over the past three years, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report released Thursday. Here, Law360 Pulse digs into which law firms racked up the most litigation work.

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Ex-RBC Compliance Pro Joins BestEx Trading Tech Firm

By Al Barbarino

BestEx Research Group has hired legal and compliance industry veteran and ex-RBC Capital Markets Chief Compliance Officer Richard Chase to serve as CCO of its trading technology unit, the company confirmed Thursday.

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PBGC Hires Ex-AIG Atty For General Counsel Seat

By Michele Gorman

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal agency that insures struggling pension plans, announced Tuesday that it has tapped a former AIG in-house lawyer as its next general counsel.

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Analysis

Virtual Law Firms Grow Amid BigLaw Hiring Slump

By Xiumei Dong

Several law firms that have long embraced a remote work culture saw their headcounts and revenues soar in 2020, a trend some say will continue post-pandemic now that attorneys have gotten used to the work-from-home model.

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Boutique Law Firm Guzman Advisory Adds Partner

By Clarice Silber

Boutique law firm Guzman Advisory Partners said it has added a fourth partner six months after its public launch.

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Ex-Apple Insurance Atty Joins Cohen Ziffer As Partner In NY

By Adrian Cruz

New York-based insurance boutique Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna has added a former Apple corporate attorney as a partner, continuing a wave of expansion that included eight arrivals last month, the firm said.

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Perkins Coie, K&L Gates Talk Microsoft's Legal Accelerator

By Steven Lerner

A group of BigLaw firms that were selected to participate in an accelerator program in 2020 gained a greater understanding of legal service delivery, according to two innovators from those firms.

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Corporate Legal Depts. Shed Client Relationships Last Year

By Clarice Silber

Amid the widespanning fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate legal departments across the industry have shed active provider and attorney-client relationships from 2019 throughout last year, according to the findings of a new report.

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Beacon Names Ex-Fannie Mae Deputy GC As General Counsel

By Sue Reisinger

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc., the largest publicly traded roofing product business in the U.S. and Canada, named former Fannie Mae deputy general counsel Christine Reddy as executive vice president and general counsel Monday, effective later this month.

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Biden Names NCAA's Top Legal Officer To VA Post

By Zachary Zagger

President Joe Biden is tapping a former Latham & Watkins partner and the NCAA's current chief legal officer, who has helped guide the organization through several disputes over its amateurism rules, to serve in the No. 2 role at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Calif. Explores Changing Its Bar Exam, Or Nixing It Altogether

By Ryan Boysen

For the rest of the year, a California commission will study whether any major changes should be made to its bar exam or whether the test should continue to be administered at all, according to a Tuesday announcement.

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Ex-FDA Chief Counsel Moves To MoFo To Co-Lead Practice

By Clarice Silber

Morrison & Foerster announced on Tuesday that Stacy Cline Amin, who most recently worked as chief counsel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after a decade of holding legal posts across the highest echelons of government, has joined the firm to co-lead its FDA regulatory and compliance practice.

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Why Willkie, Longford Want Their $50M Funding Deal Public

By Steven Lerner

The $50 million litigation funding agreement between Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Longford Capital Management LP is a market milestone in the acceptance of third-party financing among lawyers and clients alike. Here, leaders from Willkie and Longford tell Law360 Pulse why they made the deal public.

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Former Dow Counsel, Ex-EPA Exec Joins Barnes & Thornburg

By Brett Barrouquere

A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

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Trucking Startup Loses Legal Chief To 3-D Laser Printer

By Sue Reisinger

Megan Lutes served as acting head of legal at one Seattle-based tech company, Convoy Inc., for about two months before leaving this week to become the first general counsel at another, Glowforge.

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Judiciary Seeks $1.54B For Renovations, Better Security

By Ryan Boysen

The U.S. federal court system has asked Congress for $1.54 billion to beef up security, renovate aging courthouses and overhaul inadequate IT systems, as lawmakers contemplate a massive, multitrillion-dollar infrastructure bill.

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Tom Brady's Religion Of Sports Hires Ex-Red Bull Atty As GC

By Clarice Silber

Religion of Sports, the sports media company co-founded by Tom Brady, Gotham Chopra and Michael Strahan, has tapped former Red Bull North America Director of Legal Affairs Ben Mauceri to serve as its general counsel and head of business affairs.

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Do Virtual Courts Have A Harmful Effect On Litigant Empathy?

By Adrian Cruz

Courthouses and other legal bodies have had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic in a similar fashion to many other institutions, by substituting most, if not all of their in-house proceedings with virtual ones typically done over Zoom. But do these virtual courts have a hidden side effect that puts litigants at a disadvantage?

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In-Clusive

Should GCs Dictate How Firms Run Their Businesses?

By Michele Gorman

I've been drawing a parallel between Morgan Stanley's chief legal officer this month urging law firms to bring workers back to the office and in-house leaders for years publicly calling for outside counsel to diversify their ranks.

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Mets Promote 2 Senior In-House Attys To Co-General Counsel

By Sue Reisinger

The New York Mets have promoted two in-house lawyers to be co-general counsel, as it seeks to repair its image and change its culture after a sexual misconduct scandal.

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Cryptic US Crypto Rules Seen Pushing 'Good Actors' Abroad

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. needs a clear cryptocurrency framework for "good actors" who want to run their businesses with clarity, or risk continuing to lose companies moving abroad where regulations in this space are more apparent, a group of panelists said Thursday during the American Bar Association's annual meeting.

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Do Diversity Reviews Actually Advance Progress?

By Cara Bayles

In recent years, corporate clients have been asking firms more and more for internal demographic data, in an effort to hold BigLaw to its diversity goals. But can client pressure and data gathering actually produce results?

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Fitbit General Counsel Jumps To Archer Aviation As CLO

By Clarice Silber

Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft maker Archer Aviation Inc. has hired Fitbit Inc. general counsel Andy Missan to serve as its new chief legal officer.

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Medical Co. Ducks Claims It Axed Atty For Not Hiding Cash

By Kevin Penton

A medical device maker escaped claims in Illinois state court that it fired an attorney who headed the company's intellectual property legal group after the lawyer allegedly refused calls by the company's general counsel to "hide or park" money in the division's budget that purportedly didn't belong there.

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These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships

By Jacqueline Bell

Many law firms are seeing only modest progress as they seek to close the gender gap in their top ranks. But these firms are working to shake up that reality and forging a path to progress.

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Dentons Adds Ex-STB Associate GC And Sidley IP Vet In DC

By Jack Rodgers

The former associate general counsel for the Surface Transportation Board has left the agency to join Dentons' federal regulatory and compliance practice, and the firm has also added a longtime Sidley Austin LLP intellectual property attorney in Washington, D.C.

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Tesla's Ex-Litigation Chief Comes Aboard At Norfolk Southern

By Emily Sawicki

Norfolk Southern Corp. has named a Tesla litigator with nearly 15 years of experience as the newest member of its in-house legal team, the embattled railway confirmed Wednesday.

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2nd Circ. Urged To Affirm Win In Ex-AIG Atty's Retaliation Suit

By Aaron West

American International Group on Friday urged the Second Circuit to affirm its early win in a former employee's retaliation suit, arguing that the employee hadn't shown a connection between the fraud reports he made and his termination.

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Olympics Sex Abuse Prevention Group Taps New GC

By Sue Reisinger

The U.S. Center for SafeSport, the Denver-based nonprofit group created in 2017 by the U.S. Olympics community to help stop sexual abuse of young athletes, has hired a former state government lawyer as its third top legal officer in six years.

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Hedge Fund Compliance Head Joins Lowenstein Sandler

By Sarah Jarvis

The chief compliance officer and general counsel of hedge fund Glenview Capital Management will join Lowenstein Sandler LLP later this month to focus on advising investment management clients, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Sonder Holdings Appoints Former AlerisLife CEO As GC

By Aaron West

Short-term rental and hospitality company Sonder Holdings Inc. announced Monday that the former general counsel and CEO of AlerisLife Inc. will take on its in-house counsel position, bringing decades of legal experience to the role.

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Q&A

For SolarWinds GC, It's Been A Roller Coaster Ride

By Sue Reisinger

Jason Bliss, the general counsel and chief administrative officer of SolarWinds Corp., has been on a legal roller coaster ride for three years — from the heights of corporate success, to the depths of an infamous cyber breach and back up again.  

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Witness Logistics Delay Ex-Cognizant Execs' Bribery Trial

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge agreed Wednesday to delay the trial of two former Cognizant executives to give the government time to determine if a key witness will testify, despite objections from defense counsel who lamented discovery concessions and the energy spent in preparing for an early October start date.

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Red Mass: What Does It Mean To Be A Catholic Lawyer?

By Daniel Connolly

This fall, some Catholic lawyers are celebrating the Red Mass, a traditional blessing for the legal profession. An annual mass in Washington, D.C. has sometimes drawn U.S. Supreme Court justices. Amid the church’s ongoing challenges, what does it mean to be a Catholic attorney today?

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Finnegan Rehires 2 IP Attys In Boston, DC

By Jack Rodgers

Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP has rehired two lawyers who focus their practices on intellectual property litigation to join its Boston and Washington, D.C., offices, the law firm announced Monday.

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Why Gusto's CLO Puts Advocacy 'At The Heart' Of Her Work

By Michele Gorman

Growing up in Ukraine, Dina Segal was influenced by her grandfather, who as a lawyer helped solve complex issues in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. She remembers declaring at age 13 that she wanted to become a lawyer. Now, she advocates for small businesses as chief legal officer at software company Gusto, which helps simplify complex processes in HR services.

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9th Circ Rejects Ex-NS8 Legal Chief's Fraud Coverage Bid

By Abraham Gross

The ex-chief legal officer of defunct tech company NS8 Inc. is not entitled to coverage for underlying litigation alleging he breached his fiduciary duty by failing to report fraud by the ex-CEO., the Ninth Circuit affirmed Tuesday.

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Group Honors 4 BigLaw Firms, Comcast For Pro Bono Work

By Tracey Read

Lawyers for Good Government has honored four BigLaw firms for their pro bono efforts this year in human rights, climate change, reproductive health and racial justice.

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Viridian Names Biotech Co.'s Former Top Lawyer As New COO

By Aaron West

Viridian Therapeutics announced that it has appointed the former chief legal officer of biotech company Magenta Therapeutics as its new chief operating officer.

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Provident Bank Taps Dechert Finance Atty As Asst. GC In NJ

By Jake Maher

Provident Bank has built out its in-house team with the hire of a Dechert LLP associate with 10 years of experience in corporate litigation and transactional law as a new assistant general counsel.

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Co. Atty Says He Was Fired For Outing Transactions With Iran

By Aaron West

A former in-house compliance attorney for e-commerce company Coupang Inc. accused his old employer of retaliation for firing him after he brought attention to undisclosed, unlawful transactions the company allegedly made with the Iranian government.

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Mercedes USA's Former GC Joins Luxury Electric Car Maker

By Aaron West

Lucid Motors said on Tuesday that it had brought on Mercedes-Benz USA's former general counsel to lead its legal affairs as the young electric vehicle company aims to expand production while grappling with an increasingly competitive market.

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These Cos. Are In The Hot Seat As Proxy Season Approaches

By Sue Reisinger

At least four high-profile corporations and their general counsel are gearing up for a tougher-than-usual 2024 proxy season — those three months in the spring when most companies hold their annual meetings.

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McCormick & Co. Legal Chief Drew $3M Salary In 2023

By Adrian Cruz

McCormick & Company Inc.'s longtime general counsel Jeffery D. Schwartz earned over $3 million in 2023, mostly driven by a substantial increase in non-equity incentive plan compensation, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

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Promoted Kimberly-Clark CLO Saw $4.2M Pay Package In '23

By Sue Reisinger

The former chief legal and business development officer of Kimberly-Clark Corp. earned over $4.2 million in compensation in 2023, according to a securities filing.

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Pitney Bowes' Chief Legal Officer To Retire At Month's End

By Rose Krebs

The top legal officer at Pitney Bowes Inc., who has worked at the company for more than two decades in various roles during separate employment stints, is set to retire on March 31, according to a Monday public filing.

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ADI Can't Recoup Full Quinn Emanuel Bill In IP Theft Case

By Brian Dowling

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday compared Analog Devices Inc.'s pricey hiring of a Quinn Emanuel attorney to monitor its former engineer's trade secrets trial in person to paying "a brain surgeon to pop a pimple" in an order denying restitution for those costs.

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Litigation Funder Virage Capital's GC Joins Winstead In Dallas

By Adrian Cruz

Texas firm Winstead PC announced that the former general counsel of litigation funder Virage Capital Management LP joined the firm as a shareholder and the new co-chair of its investment management and private funds industry group.

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In-House Office Snapshot: McKinsey & Co.

By Sue Reisinger

Here Law360 Pulse presents its first Office Snapshot of an in-house legal department. Lawyers at the giant management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. recently developed a program to enhance collaboration across regions and industry practice areas.   

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How Senior Associates Can Build Their Books Of Business

By Kevin Penton

As associates grow into their positions, there can come a point at which they realize that mastering the art of the legal brief or the deposition is not enough: They also need to learn how to attract and retain clients.

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Last Straw: Food Delivery App Execs Exit As Co. Liquidates

By Rick Archer

The general counsel of food delivery platform Waitr Tuesday informed federal regulators that he and the rest of the company's executive team had been terminated as it shut down all operations and filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in Delaware.

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King & Spalding Hires Ex-Capital One Assoc. GC As Partner

By Sue Reisinger

King & Spalding LLP said Wednesday it has added a former associate general counsel at Capital One as a partner in its finance and restructuring practice group in New York.

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National Association Of Broadcasters Hires New Deputy GC

By Jack Rodgers

The National Association of Broadcasters has hired a former Baker McKenzie partner and Federal Trade Commission attorney to serve as its new deputy general counsel, the group announced Thursday.

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Fla. Boutique Expands Roster With Veteran Litigator

By Madison Arnold

Miami-based commercial litigation boutique Sanchez Fischer Levine LLP has picked up a veteran litigator with experience including in private practice and in-house at Ernst & Young LLP and mortgaging service company Ocwen Financial Corporation.

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Chicago Bears Recruit Miami Heat Atty For CLO Spot

By Jake Maher

The NFL's Chicago Bears announced a changeup in its legal leadership Tuesday with a high-level leader in sports and media law joining the organization as its legal chief from the NBA's Miami Heat.

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Eversheds Sutherland Gains Baker Hughes RE Ace In Houston

By Lynn LaRowe

Eversheds Sutherland announced Wednesday that it had added a counsel to its real estate practice in Houston who joined after more than a quarter-century working in-house for energy technology company Baker Hughes.

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Proxy Snapshot: L3Harris Technologies Inc.

By Sue Reisinger

Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. will hold a shareholder advisory vote Friday at its annual meeting on whether to offer greater transparency about its lobbying efforts.

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Hinshaw Adds Liberty Mutual, Groelle & Salmon Attys In Fla.

By Madison Arnold

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP has brought on two new insurance litigation partners from Liberty Mutual Insurance and Groelle & Salmon PA who are experienced in both complex commercial litigation and first-party coverage matters to the firm's office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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8th Circ. Seems Unwilling To Revive Ex-Lockheed Atty's Suit

By Patrick Hoff

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.

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Tesla Threatened To Fire Holland & Knight, Law Prof Says

By Hailey Konnath

Tesla tried to bully a law professor out of filing an amicus brief in investors' suit over Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation plan, in part by threatening to fire the company's longtime outside counsel at Holland & Knight LLP if the professor submitted his brief, according to a filing Monday in Delaware.

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Patient Software Biz's GC Gets Comp Bump To $3M

By Rose Krebs

The general counsel for patient intake software company Phreesia Inc. received about $3 million in total compensation for the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31, up from about $2.8 million a year earlier, according to a public filing.

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Legal Affairs VP For Boat Dealer Cruises Into GC Role

By Adrian Cruz

Recreational boat and yacht dealer MarineMax Inc. announced Monday that it elevated its vice president of legal affairs to general counsel.

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Goodwin Procter Atty Tapped As Wallace Foundation GC

By Emily Sawicki

The Wallace Foundation announced Thursday it will be bringing on an experienced general counsel who has focused on nonprofits and philanthropy while moving between private practice and in-house work, most recently working as counsel in Goodwin Procter LLP's tax-exempt organizations group.

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Once A Standard, US News Rankings Now 'Entirely Irrelevant'

By Alison Knezevich

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.

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Ex-Chicago Mayor Dodges Atty's Lawsuit Over Zoom Tirade

By Lauren Berg

An Illinois judge tossed a lawsuit brought by a former in-house attorney for the Chicago Park District accusing former Mayor Lori Lightfoot of unleashing a profane tirade laced with crude, insulting and defamatory comments during a Zoom call.

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An Olympics Volunteer, This GC Still Seeks To Be Champion

By Sue Reisinger

Robert Herbst, a former general counsel and world champion weightlifter, has woven together the law and sports throughout his career, including this week in Paris where he is working with the U.S. Olympic team as a volunteer.

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Memo Ties FirstEnergy's CLO, Ethics Chief To Bribery Scheme

By Sue Reisinger

A recently released legal memo states FirstEnergy Corp.'s then-chief legal officer and its then-general counsel and chief ethics officer knew about and failed to disclose a questionable $4.3 million payment the company later admitted was a bribe to a top Ohio regulator.

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NGL Energy's GC Set To Depart Next Month

By Michele Gorman

The top lawyer at NGL Energy Partners LP, who has been at the helm of its legal department for about eight years, is planning to leave the oil and gas company in October "to pursue other interests," according to a recent securities filing.

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Ex-Skadden Atty Joins Board Of Oil Property Co. LandBridge

By Law360 Staff

Oil property acquirer LandBridge Co. has added a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner to its board, where the company hopes to benefit from her capital markets and corporate governance expertise.

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Clifford Chance Hires Investment Management Attorney In DC

By Rose Krebs

Clifford Chance has grown its Washington, D.C., office with the addition of an attorney who formerly held an in-house post at Atalaya Capital Management and previously worked at Ropes & Gray LLP, Linklaters LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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Akerman Adds In-House Atty From WR Berkley

By Madison Arnold

An assistant vice president and counsel to W.R. Berkley Corp., a commercial lines property and casualty insurance holding company, left his in-house role to become a partner with Akerman LLP in New York, the firm announced Monday.

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Workshop Teaches Soft Skills That A GC Needs To Lead

By Sue Reisinger

Some current and former general counsel say they have gained valuable career insights and leadership skills from an annual workshop headed by a Los Angeles-based litigation partner at Sheppard Mullin.

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DLA Piper Welcomes Ex-GC To Its Corporate Group

By Sue Reisinger

The former general counsel of a software development company and long-time Cooley LLP lawyer has joined DLA Piper as a corporate law partner in Reston, Virginia.

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ConocoPhillips' GC Saw Uptick In Compensation To $6.1M

By Michele Gorman

The top lawyer at ConocoPhillips saw her pay package continue to rise in 2024, with her earnings totaling just over $6.1 million for the year, according to the oil giant's preliminary proxy filing Wednesday.

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Murphy Oil's GC Saw Slight Dip In Comp Last Year

By Lynn LaRowe

The general counsel of Houston-based energy company Murphy Oil saw his overall compensation drop by just over $101,000 last year as compared to 2023, according to a securities filing Friday.

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Meta FinTech Atty Joins Wealth Management Co. As CLO

By Christine DeRosa

Scottsdale, Arizona-based wealth management firm Osaic has named the head of legal for Meta's financial services division as its new chief legal officer and general counsel.

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Juniper GC Earned $3.35M Amid Challenged HPE Merger

By Rachel Rippetoe

The top lawyer for Juniper Network Inc. earned over $3 million last year as the company was working through a $14 billion attempted merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. that has since been challenged by the Justice Department, according to a securities filing Thursday.

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Pharma Standards Org Names New GC

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Pharmacopeia has given the general counsel role to its global legal head, as its current top lawyer prepares to move into the chief growth officer position this summer, the independent scientific and health organization announced Monday.

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Exiting US Steel GC To Leave With Over $18M After Nippon Deal

By Sue Reisinger

U.S. Steel Corp.'s former general counsel Duane Holloway will leave his special adviser job on July 18 more than $18.5 million from stock -- plus several million more from a golden parachute -- thanks to the company's recent sale to Nippon Steel, according to a recent company filing.

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Sabra's Former CLO Is Now GC At Cooking Products Co.

By Michele Gorman

A seasoned in-house lawyer whose career in consumer goods includes stints at Sabra and Heineken is the new top lawyer at Sauer Brands, the cooking products business said Monday.

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Dolphin Co. Says Ex-CEO Blocked Records, Violated Orders

By Yun Park

Dolphin encounter company Leisure Investments Holdings LLC told a Delaware bankruptcy court that its former executives ignored the court's order to submit the debtor's business records, therefore it should impose sanctions until they comply with the order. 

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Ex-HUD GC Launches DC White Collar Boutique

By Rachel Rippetoe

The former general counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday that he is launching his own white-collar litigation boutique in Washington, D.C.

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Ex-DHS AI Chief Joins Salesforce's Legal Team As Tech Exec

By Christine DeRosa

The former chief information officer and chief artificial intelligence officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has joined Salesforce as its new chief AI and transformation officer for legal and corporate affairs.

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Primo Brands Names CLO After Combining GC, Admin Roles

By Christine DeRosa

Primo Brands, the parent company of water brands such as Poland Spring and Deer Park, has combined its general counsel and chief administrative officer roles and named a chief legal officer.

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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs

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.

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