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Hogan Lovells Recruits 3M Atty In DC Amid PFAS Focus
A former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney has joined Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., from 3M Co. as businesses face growing regulatory scrutiny and litigation over chemicals known as PFAS, the firm announced Monday.
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At Key Point In Case, Meta Legal Chief Takes Swing At FTC
In a rare blog post, Meta Platforms' chief legal officer has taken the company's fight against the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case to the public.
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CVS Signing Bonus, Stock Pushed GC's Pay To Nearly $12M
CVS Health Corp. paid its general counsel nearly $12 million last year with a compensation package that included a cash bonus and equity awards to cover money he had to forfeit from his previous employer when he joined the executive leadership team in February 2023, according to public documents.
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Ex-IRS Criminal Investigations Head Joins Crypto Data Firm
A newly retired chief of the Internal Revenue Service's law enforcement arm is taking his skills to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, where he'll help federal agencies and crypto firms leverage Chainalysis' data and solutions to combat financial crime.
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Mondelez GC Earned Close To $4 Million In 2023
The general counsel at Mondelez International Inc., which includes brands such as Oreo, Ritz and Cadbury, earned nearly $4 million in total compensation last year, primarily from base salary and stock awards, a recent securities filing shows.
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Healthcare Research Co. Clario Hires Chief Legal Officer
Clario, a healthcare research and technology company that works with endpoint technology used for clinical trials, has hired a new chief legal and administrative officer who joins from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the company announced Monday.
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Southwest Legal Chief's Total Pay Jumped $1.6M Last Year
The total compensation for Southwest Airlines' chief legal and regulatory officer jumped $1.6 million in 2023 to $4.2 million, thanks mainly to nonequity incentive plan pay that was five times what he earned in 2022, according to a securities filing Friday.
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Meta Looks To Nix FTC's Antitrust Case Over Acquisitions
Meta Platforms urged a D.C. federal court on Friday to toss the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against it, saying the agency has found no evidence showing its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp hurt competition or consumers.
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Legal Industry Sheds 3,000 Jobs In March After Modest Gains
Following a modest uptick in February, the U.S. legal sector shed more jobs in March, with a loss of 3,000 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Allen Matkins Adds Ex-Deputy GC Of Bravo Capital In NY
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP has hired Jason Robinson, the former deputy general counsel of real estate lender Bravo Capital, for a senior counsel role with the law firm's real estate team in New York City.
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Ex-Cognizant Execs' Trial Moved Over Atty Schedule Woes
A New Jersey federal judge has agreed to reschedule the trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives accused of authorizing a bribe to an Indian official, answering the call by a Gibbons PC counsel who has another high-profile white-collar trial on his schedule the same day his Cognizant case client was also set to go before a jury.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Some pressure is off legal teams for a while as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pauses its new climate disclosure rules until a court suit over them is resolved. And an in-house chief counsel was charged with embezzling more than $200,000 by getting his company to pay fake invoices from law firms.
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This Atty Didn't Plan To Go In-House. Now She's Xerox's CLO.
Flor Colón takes great pride in being a first-generation Cuban American, and she values the opportunities that have come her way. Those instances include an ongoing 25-year career at Xerox, where she rose up the ranks of the law department to become chief legal officer earlier this year. Here, she discusses more about her role and the company.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the beginning of April with another busy week as law firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Tax Expert Joins Faegre Drinker Insurance Practice In Philly
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP expanded its Philadelphia office this week with the addition of an attorney whose practice focuses on advising clients on the intricacies of federal insurance and investment policies.
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Utility Atty Who Advised Google JV Opens Environmental Firm
An attorney who advised a Google joint venture on a group of master-planned communities and a California utility on billions of dollars in infrastructure work has launched boutique firm Forrest Environmental Law.
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Wisconsin Bar Tweaks Diversity Definition Amid Bias Suit
The State Bar of Wisconsin has erased a legal challenge related to its diversity clerkship program following a revision of its definition of diversity, though the federal case will continue over dues collections.
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Redwood Trust REIT CLO Earned $2.7M In 2023
Mill Valley, California-based real estate investment trust Redwood Trust paid Chief Legal Officer Andrew P. Stone $2.7 million in total compensation in 2023, according to a regulatory filing from the housing investor.
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Kohl's Chief Legal Officer Earned Nearly $5.6M In 2023
Kohl's legal chief Jennie Kent, who joined the retail chain in February 2023, earned nearly $5.6 million in total compensation last year, making her the fourth highest paid executive at the company, according to a corporate filing on Friday.
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National Association Of Broadcasters Hires New Deputy GC
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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Ex-PagerDuty CLO Joins Quantum Computing Co. IonQ
Quantum computing company IonQ on Friday announced the hiring of a new chief legal officer and corporate secretary with two decades of experience as a legal head at such companies as PagerDuty and application development software provider Apigee.
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Ex-Acting Homeland Security GC Joins Nixon Peabody In DC
Nixon Peabody LLP has hired the former acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who joins the firm after working with the agency for more than two decades and through four presidential administrations.
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AT&T's GC Saw Compensation Rise To $12.3M In 2023
The chief legal officer of AT&T saw his compensation rise to $12.3 million in 2023, up more than $1 million from 2022, according to a proxy statement filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tokyo's Robot Consulting Nets $7M, Plans Global Expansion
Tokyo-based Robot Consulting Co. announced on Tuesday the raising of 1.07 billion yen (around $7.08 million) in a Series B funding round to deliver a "robot lawyer" that uses large language models to deliver legal consultations.
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Ex-CNX GC Rejoins Leech Tishman As Corporate Co-Chair
Leech Tishman announced this week that the former general counsel at Pittsburgh-based natural gas company CNX Resources has rejoined the firm as a partner and co-chair of its corporate practice group.