An investor group is asking Apple Inc. to do an audit on the risks and costs associated with the company's involvement with China, which it calls an "existential risk" to the value of Apple's stock.
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Investors Push Apple For Report On China 'Entanglements'

By Sue Reisinger

An investor group is asking Apple Inc. to do an audit on the risks and costs associated with the company's involvement with China, which it calls an "existential risk" to the value of Apple's stock.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance CLO Joins BD As General Counsel

By Rose Krebs

Medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Company, which is known as BD, has announced that an experienced in-house attorney who has served as Walgreens' chief legal officer will become its general counsel on March 16.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Several pension funds in New York City sued AT&T, alleging the illegal exclusion of their shareholder proposal requesting a corporate diversity report from the telecom giant's corporate ballot. In the meantime, the DOJ said the Trump administration is investigating federal contractors and grant recipients for potentially engaging in discrimination, rather than for their DEI programs. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Synopsys GC Earns Over $3M In First 6 Months On The Job

By Christine DeRosa

Synopsys Inc.'s general counsel, who took on the role in July after the acquisition of Ansys Inc. was complete, earned just over $3.2 million in 2025, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proxy filing.

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Synteq Digital Appoints Atty From Goodwin As GC

By Adrian Cruz

Data center and cryptocurrency tech company Synteq Digital announced Friday that an experienced attorney from Goodwin Procter LLP has been appointed senior vice president and general counsel.

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Armstrong World Industries Fills GC Spot With S&B Atty

By Christine DeRosa

Armstrong World Industries Inc. has found a new legal leader from S&B USA, the American division of Shikun & Binui Ltd., as the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, building material manufacturer goes through a leadership transition.

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'Scare Tactics Work' But Hope Persists For Legal Industry DEI

By Alison Knezevich

The suspension of Diversity Lab's Mansfield Certification program is the latest indication that political threats against BigLaw are working, as the Trump administration targets DEI programs, observers say. Still, some supporters of legal industry diversity initiatives predict law firms will continue to pursue inclusive hiring practices — even if they don't talk about it publicly.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Anna Sanders

This was another busy week for the legal industry as law firms hired new talent and named new leaders across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Clifford Chance

Cooley LLP

Goodwin Procter

Hanson Bridgett

K&L Gates

Paul Weiss

Sheppard Mullin

Skadden Arps

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ABM Industries Inc.

ANSYS, Inc.

AT&T Inc.

Affymetrix, Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Apple Inc.

Armstrong World Industries Inc.

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.

Cardone Industries Inc.

Ecolab Inc.

Ernst & Young LLP

FTI Consulting Inc.

Federal Bar Association

Flowserve Corp.

Google LLC

Intel Corp.

International Business Machines Corp.

Intuitive Surgical

Johnson & Johnson

Kinney Recruiting LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Michigan State University

Microsoft Corp.

Mosaic

New York University

Nokia Corp.

Oath Inc.

Relativity ODA LLC

Renaissance Capital

Ricoh Co. Ltd.

Shell PLC

Stanford University

Sycamore Partners Management LLC

Synopsys Inc.

T-Mobile US Inc.

Temple University

UBS Group AG

UCLA School of Law

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

City of New York

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Union

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Federal Trade Commission

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court