KPMG Adds New US Law Chief A Year After Law Firm Approval

By Rachel Rippetoe

KPMG LLP has tapped one of its U.S. tax practice leaders to fill a new U.S. law chief role as the company continues to expand its legal service offerings.

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Carnival GC Saw Compensation Dip Almost $2.5M For FY25

By Rose Krebs

Carnival Corp.'s general counsel saw his compensation decrease by nearly $2.5 million for the fiscal year ending in November, mostly due to receiving less non-equity incentive plan pay, according to a Friday filing.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A proxy season preview report showed that nearly three-quarters of shareholder proposals for annual corporate meetings among Russell 3000 companies this year have gone to a vote. The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled the details of a long-awaited proposed rule to replace a previous administration's regulation outlining how to decide if a worker is an employee or independent contractor. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Bath & Body Works' CLO Will Exit Co. In March

By Christine DeRosa

The legal chief for Bath & Body Works Inc. is leaving the company next month and has already stopped serving as chief legal officer, a recent securities filing shows.

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Ex-Flextronics Deputy GC Wants IP Theft Suit Tossed

By Christine DeRosa

A former deputy general counsel for Flextronics AP LLC, the California-based arm of Singapore electronics giant Flex Ltd., has asked a federal judge to throw out a suit claiming he worked to transfer company patents to a startup he secretly co-founded before leaving Flex in 2015.

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Proxy Preview Report Says Cos. Cautious With Exclusions

By Sarah Jarvis

More than 70% of shareholder proposals for annual corporate meetings among Russell 3000 companies this year have proceeded to a vote, according to a new proxy season preview report, indicating early filing companies may be taking a cautious approach toward exclusions in light of regulatory shifts giving them more leeway.

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Frost Launches Silicon Valley Office With White Collar Team

By James Mills

Litigation boutique Frost LLP has continued expanding, announcing this week the opening of a Silicon Valley office and a team of white collar attorneys — all former in-house attorneys — who will be working out of that office.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Anna Sanders

The legal industry marked the end of February with another action-packed week as law firms expanded their talent and reach across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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The Augmented Lawyer: Countering 4 AI Efficiency Myths

Perceived efficiency gains from artificial intelligence can create unsustainable workload expectations for in-house legal departments, so general counsel must proactively educate executives, reframe assumptions and tie legal judgment to business outcomes, say Karineh Khachatourian at KXT Law and Catie Cambridge at Docsum.

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