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Photronics GC Sees Comp. Top $2M In 2023
The top attorney for Photronics Inc., a Connecticut-based semiconductor photomask manufacturer, saw her compensation increase slightly in 2023, pushing it to just over $2 million.
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SEC Taps Agency Vet To Lead Adviser, Fund Rulemaking Unit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday that an agency veteran currently serving as deputy director of the examinations division will be the new head of its investment management division, which oversees the regulation of investment advisers, mutual funds and certain private fund operators.
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Gov't Attys Must Mind Confidential Info Or Be DQ'd, ABA Says
Both current and former government attorneys who take on private clients should look out for instances where their possession of "confidential government information" calls for them to be disqualified from representing a client, according to the latest guidance from the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, released Wednesday.
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Why This Bank GC Wears Two Hats And Loves It
Republic Capital Group general counsel Jim Collins kept using his skills beyond lawyering to help out his small investment bank. The bank appreciated his efforts so much it recently gave him the added title of chief operating officer.
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Loyola Marymount Adds Higher Ed Atty For 1st In-House Role
Los Angeles-based Loyola Marymount University has named as its first-ever senior vice president and general counsel an experienced attorney who has held legal leadership positions at higher education institutions throughout the country.
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WilmerHale Adds Ex-Medtronic Legal Leader To Its DC Office
WilmerHale has hired for its Washington, D.C., office an attorney who helped build the global trade legal department at healthcare technology company Medtronic.
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Novant In-House Attys Want Access To Confidential FTC Info
Novant Health has asked to tweak a protective order in the Federal Trade Commission's merger challenge regarding its $320 million plan to buy two hospitals in North Carolina, saying the current order designates nearly the entire investigative file confidential and is "unworkable."
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Alliance Resource Recruits Veteran PE Atty As GC
Tulsa, Oklahoma-based publicly traded energy company Alliance Resource Partners LP will soon add a new general counsel whose relationship with the company stretches back more than 25 years.
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Ex-Anchorage Digital GC Speaks Out On Leaving Crypto Bank
The former general counsel for cryptocurrency custodian Anchorage Digital said Tuesday that a continued lack of regulatory clarity for the industry as a whole and the scale of bad actors in the space led her to step down from her role with the digital asset bank late last year.
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HP Inc.'s General Counsel Earned $6.2M Pay Package In 2023
HP Inc. legal chief Julie Jacobs raked in a compensation package totaling $6.2 million in 2023, including a $2 million payment for leaving her position at Yahoo Inc. the year before, according to the company's proxy statement submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Cannabis Company Puts CLO On Unpaid Leave To Cut Costs
The chief legal officer of Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. has been placed on a mandatory unpaid leave of absence along with the CEO and other employees as part of a rapid cost-cutting effort to save the company, which has been battered by legal expenses, according to recent securities filings.
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Multiple Female Law Profs Get Bizarre Text Messages
The FBI is investigating a series of strange, unsolicited text messages sent to female law school professors and students across the country, which complain that "feminism has triumphed" and "women have won the battle of the sexes," before asking to purchase their dirty socks.
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Lumentum GC To Retire Once Co. Finds Replacement
The general counsel for Lumentum Holdings Inc. for nearly the last decade has told the company that she plans to retire once it appoints her successor, according to a Tuesday filing.
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Broadcom Legal Chief's Pay Climbs To $15.5M
Broadcom legal head Mark Brazeal, who has spent over 20 years at the semiconductor chipmaker, earned nearly $15.5 million in total compensation in 2023, the company said in a securities filing.
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Ex-Kirkland Atty Named Wealth Management Firm's 1st CLO
Wealth management firm Diversify Advisor Network announced Tuesday that a longtime Kirkland & Ellis attorney has been appointed to the newly created role of chief legal officer.
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Individual Enthusiasm For AI Leads In Contract Management
There's a growing divide between personal and organizational views of artificial intelligence, particularly as legal and procurement teams weigh the benefits and risks of this technology, a new survey revealed on Monday.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Michael Baylson
Though his standing order on lawyers writing briefs using artificial intelligence — one of the first in the country to address the technology — is fairly broad, Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says he's "not banning AI."
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Walgreens Brings On Ex-Shell, Sprint Atty As Global CLO
Walgreens' next top legal leader is a seasoned in-house lawyer who has worked at other high-profile companies including Shell and Sprint, the pharmacy giant said Monday.
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Zions Bancorporation Promotes Deputy As GC Retires
Zions Bancorporation will be making several leadership changes at Zions Bank, the company's largest banking division, and at the parent company, amid retirements in the spring, including promoting its deputy general counsel to general counsel.
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Promoted Kimberly-Clark CLO Saw $4.2M Pay Package In '23
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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Acting Past Leads Adobe Atty To Protect Future Of Creativity
Years after professionally acting, J. Scott Evans is in-house at Adobe working to protect artists from people misusing AI tools to intentionally impersonate their likeness for commercial gain. In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, he shared how he continues to be drawn to the creative space, now advocating for protections and policies that support artists.
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Public Broadcasting Corp. Gains GC From Paper Excellence
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Monday that the former chief legal officer at Canadian paper product manufacturer Paper Excellence was named its new senior vice president and general counsel.
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Comp For Retired Moody's GC Climbed To $2.8M In '23
The total compensation for the now-retired general counsel and executive vice president at Moody's Corp. rose from just shy of $2.15 million in 2022 to more than $2.8 million in 2023, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday.
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Bar-Takers See Accommodation Gap For Periods, Lactation
As would-be lawyers prepare to take the bar exam, testing accommodations for those who menstruate or lactate will vary by jurisdiction. In recent years, there's been a reckoning on state bar policies that affect women and transgender test-takers, but advocates say there's more to be done.
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4 Trends Executive Compensation Attorneys Are Watching
A Delaware Chancery judge's rejection of Elon Musk's $55 billion Tesla pay package shows how a court historically viewed as corporate-friendly may be shifting, one of several trends executive compensation experts told Law360 they're seeing. Here are four issues executive pay lawyers should have on their radar.