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LGBTQ+-focused legal charity Lambda Legal has announced that the former vice chair of its board of directors has been elevated to the role of chair following an election by the board's members.
General Electric paid general counsel Michael Holston over $8 million in 2023 and has prepared a multi-million dollar separation package for Holston and other departing executives who led GE toward its April 2 split into three independent companies, the company revealed Thursday.
New data that showed the job market for experienced general counsel picked up to pre-pandemic levels last year was among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
Pennsylvania's state court management office has tapped an attorney with nearly 15 years of experience advising state officials to serve as deputy chief counsel.
Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt PC has hired the former general counsel for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, who is slated to help lead a newly created practice subgroup focused on sports and entertainment clients, the firm announced Wednesday.
Discover Financial Services paid over $6.6 million in total compensation last year to Hope Mehlman, who was appointed its chief legal officer and general counsel at the start of 2023, including a $3.4 million signing bonus, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday.
The legal industry marked the Ides of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and headcounts. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
As artificial intelligence practice groups pop up in law firms around the country, what do general counsel want from their external lawyers when it comes to this burgeoning technology?
Ira M. Millstein, the legendary Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP senior partner who helped save New York City from bankruptcy in the 1970s and used his bipartisan connections to help smooth Ruth Bader Ginsburg's path to the federal judiciary, has died, the firm said Thursday.
Fresenius Medical Care, a German-based renal disease medical services and supply company, has announced a new top lawyer, adding a former longtime legal executive for Siemens who most recently served as chief legal officer for Spanish petroleum company Cepsa.
After a slow 2022, the job market for experienced general counsel picked up to pre-pandemic levels last year, as companies look to external candidates who have taken on a broader scope of responsibilities, according to a just-released study.
Children's entertainment company Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced a pair of new executive hires with the elevation of former senior corporate counsel Nicole Gates to vice president, legal and the addition of ex-Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP attorney Mike Lancaster as corporate counsel.
Douglas Lankler, who has been Pfizer's general counsel since 2014, earned nearly $5.5 million in total compensation in 2023, a sharp decrease from the previous year as he and other executives did not receive annual incentive payouts, the company disclosed in a securities filing Thursday.
The former chief health compliance officer at computer technology giant Oracle has joined Lathrop GPM's litigation practice as a Kansas City, Missouri-based counsel.
The top attorney for payments processor Global Payments Inc. saw his compensation package dip by about $400,000 in 2023 to just over $4.7 million, a Thursday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed.
The chief legal officer at Krispy Kreme, a seasoned in-house lawyer who has worked at other name brands including KFC, Pizza Hut and PepsiCo, resigned from the doughnut and coffee company with plans to exit in a few months, according to a recent securities filing.
Starting your own firm is a gamble for any lawyer, but it can feel particularly daunting for federal prosecutors, for whom leaving a job in the U.S. attorney's office can often feel like starting over completely.
Here Law360 Pulse presents its first Office Snapshot of an in-house legal department. Lawyers at the giant management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. recently developed a program to enhance collaboration across regions and industry practice areas.
International law firm Dechert LLP wants its lawyers to unlearn some of what they picked up in law school about being an attorney so they can be more creative and innovative to offer better advice and services to their clients.
Quarles & Brady LLP announced Wednesday it added an attorney with more than 20 years of in-house experience, including two years with the blood-testing company Theranos Inc.
Ride-hailing company Uber announced Wednesday it is bolstering its safety advisory board with the addition of Janet DiFiore, the former chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals who abruptly resigned in 2022 amid an ethics probe.
Moderna Inc.'s top attorney earned about $4.3 million in total compensation last year, an increase compared to 2022 but a steep drop from the near $11.5 million she saw in 2021, according to a recent securities filing.
Berkshire Hathaway unit Brooks Running Company announced a pair of executive changes for 2024, with former general counsel Matt Dodge being elevated to chief operating officer after the company decided to name incumbent COO Dan Sheridan the company's new chief executive officer.
Rather than focusing on landing the general counsel position, David Antczak found motivation and gratification for the past 13 years by giving his all to leading the organizations he managed within Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and its predecessor company.
Crypto bank Anchorage Digital has hired a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission senior attorney and Bain Capital regulatory adviser to head its legal operations after the departure of its general counsel, the bank announced early Wednesday.
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The MarkLaw firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.