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Flotek Taps Veteran Energy Atty As New GC
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.
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How Musk Unfolded His Plot To Fire Twitter CLO, Other Execs
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.
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Corporate Vet Joins Orrick's Tech Group From Wilson Sonsini
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.
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Geico Brings On Ex-Wells Fargo Atty As New Legal Chief
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.
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DLA Piper Adds Environmental Credit Atty To NY Energy Team
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.
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AI-Focused Co. Roadzen Recruits General Counsel
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.
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Philly, Dallas Feds Name New Top Attys
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.
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Allstate Must Face Former In-House Atty's Disability Bias Suit
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.
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ADI Can't Recoup Full Quinn Emanuel Bill In IP Theft Case
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.
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Bloomin' Brands CLO's Comp Rose To $1.3M In '23
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.
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Ex-Pfizer GC To Chair Board At Baby Nutrition Co.
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.
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DLA Piper Adds Merck SVP As New Life Sciences Sector Chair
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.
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Ex-Spotify Exec Jumps To Greenberg Glusker In LA
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.
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Whirlpool Legal Chief Earned Over $2.4M In 2023
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.
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Dow GC's Compensation Climbed To $5.8M In 2023
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.
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DC Looks To Defeat Black Atty's Bias, Retaliation Suit
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.
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Tully Rinckey's Atty Contracts Offer Warning To Other Firms
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.
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Baker McKenzie Lands KPMG Tax Atty In Chicago
Baker McKenzie recently hired a new tax partner in Chicago who came from KPMG and has prior experience working at PwC.
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Ericsson Elevates DOJ Veteran To Compliance Head
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.
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Ex-Walgreens CLO Joins UnitedHealth In Advisory Role
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.
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Zoom Hires Former Intercom, Wyse Technologies Atty As CLO
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.
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Musk Fired Twitter Execs To Avoid $200M Bill, Suit Says
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.
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Duke GC To Step Down After 18 Years
Duke University's longtime top legal mind will retire in August, closing out 18 years of leadership at the prominent research university, the school announced Monday.
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Former IRS Commissioner Joins Chamberlain Hrdlicka
Former IRS Commissioner Charles "Chuck" Rettig joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry as a shareholder in Los Angeles, following in the footsteps of his former acting chief of staff, whom the firm hired last year.
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'Bright Line' Recusal Rule May Be Challenging To Fed. Judges
A new ethics opinion clarifying when federal judges should step aside from cases when they own stock in a party's parent company is a positive step toward transparency, but it also creates a lot of work for judges and may not have much practical impact, according to experts.