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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The general counsel for GE spinoff GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. earned more than $7.5 million in total compensation
Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., the company that owns the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers, has made its general counsel the interim president and chief operating officer, according to a recent securities filing.
A former chief counsel and compliance officer was charged in Manhattan Wednesday with stealing more than $200,000 by submitting fake law firm invoices to his then-employer, human resources consulting firm Segal Co.
The Solar Energy Industries Association has hired its first woman general counsel, who rejoins the firm to help oversee the organization's legal work, having previously served as its senior director of regulatory affairs, the group announced Wednesday.