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Despite a downward trend in securities case filings over the past three years, Latham & Watkins LLP has remained one of the most active law firms on the defense side, taking over the top spot from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, according to reports released by Lex Machina.
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP, a majority women-owned trial boutique, announced Wednesday it is bringing in the former vice president and deputy general counsel of Arconic Corp. to be a partner and the firm's new general counsel.
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.
Houston-based environmental tech company Flotek Industries Inc. announced the appointment of a veteran in-house attorney with nearly a decade spent in the energy industry as its new general counsel.
Billionaire Elon Musk so disliked Twitter Inc. chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde that he tried to have her fired six months before he took control of the company, then he tweeted a meme about Twitter having left-wing bias and featuring her face, before he hatched a devious plot to try and block her and three other executives from their promised severance packages.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced that a former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC tech attorney with over a decade of in-house experience has joined the firm's technology companies practice as a New York-based partner.
Insurance company Geico announced Wednesday that its new chief legal officer is a former Wells Fargo attorney with a regulatory background and more than a decade of experience as in-house counsel.
DLA Piper has hired an energy attorney whose specialties include environmental credits, advising clients on energy regulatory matters and working with a range of carbon-specific investment structures, the firm announced Tuesday.
Artificial intelligence-powered automotive insurance company Roadzen Inc. has named a new general counsel who brings more than 30 years of in-house experience to the role.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced it has promoted its deputy general counsel to senior vice president and general counsel, following a similar announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas about its former interim general counsel.
A New York federal judge rejected Allstate's bid for a pretrial win in a disability discrimination case brought by a former in-house lawyer who claims he was wrongfully fired after his doctor said he couldn't handle the stress of trials, including standing for long periods of time.
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.
Bloomin' Brands' chief legal officer saw her compensation increase slightly to $1.34 million in 2023, according to a proxy statement filed by the Florida-based company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week.
Baby nutrition company ByHeart said Tuesday it has appointed a managing partner of Polaris Partners, who is a former general counsel of Pfizer Inc., as chair of its board of directors.
An experienced in-house attorney with a longtime passion for life sciences and medicine has left her position as a C-suite executive at biopharmaceutical giant Merck to join DLA Piper as the chair of its life sciences sector.
A former in-house executive for Spotify has moved into private practice to join Los Angeles-based full-service firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP as the firm's newest entertainment partner.
Whirlpool Chief Legal Officer Ava Harter, who was named to the role in late 2020, earned over $2.4 million in total compensation in 2023, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Dow's general counsel's total compensation jumped to roughly $5.8 million for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, up from about $4.7 million the year prior, according to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
A Black attorney's discrimination and retaliation claims against the District of Columbia and a chief administrative law judge cannot stand, the district told a federal court, arguing in part that the attorney failed to raise some of her claims with the EEOC.
The ongoing disciplinary case against the founders of Tully Rinckey PLLC over restrictions the firm placed on departing attorneys is an unusual one, but experts say it's still an important reminder for lawyers to be mindful of the ethical considerations of their employment agreements.
Baker McKenzie recently hired a new tax partner in Chicago who came from KPMG and has prior experience working at PwC.
Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson said Tuesday it has chosen a lawyer from within its own legal department as the next leader of its compliance department.
Walgreens' former top legal leader in the U.S. and a one-time O'Melveny & Myers LLP healthcare partner has announced on her LinkedIn profile that she has joined UnitedHealth Group Inc. as an "executive in residence" to help advise its management team.
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has found a new top legal officer in an experienced in-house attorney who most recently worked at software company Intercom Inc.
Elon Musk fired four top Twitter executives just minutes after he closed on his deal to buy the company, now called X Corp., to avoid paying them $200 million in severance benefits, they told a California federal court Monday.