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AI Compliance Co. LogicGate Adds GC, EMEA Director
LogicGate, an artificial intelligence platform for governance, risk and compliance work, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a general counsel formerly at tax compliance software provider Avalara, as well as a managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Southern Co. Legal Chief To Steer Tech, AI Strategy
Energy provider Southern Co. has expanded its chief legal officer's duties to include oversight of technology efforts, such as its artificial intelligence strategy and emerging technology governance, the Atlanta-based public company has announced.
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LendingTree GC To Depart At Year's End
Online consumer lending platform LendingTree Inc.'s legal leader is stepping down from her role at the end of the year and will provide transition services until the spring, the company has announced.
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Outgoing Indivior CLO Gets $1.1M In Supernus Merger
Indivior Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s outgoing legal chief will receive about $1.1 million plus health benefits and outstanding awards as he leaves the company following the completion of its merger with Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc. Monday.
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Former Bank GC Joins Pillar & Aught In Harrisburg
The former top in-house attorney for a central Pennsylvania banking institution that was acquired earlier this year by a Virginia-based financial services company has moved back to private practice and joined local firm Pillar & Aught at its Harrisburg headquarters.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms
The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Meta reached a settlement during jury selection in the second Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims its Instagram platform harms the mental health of children, leaving Snap as the lone defendant facing trial. In the meantime, current and former in-house lawyers for Google and Meta said that the ability of AI to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Cisco CLO's Comp Dropped To $13.3 Million In Fiscal 2026
Technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. paid its legal chief $13.3 million in fiscal 2026, about a $2.5 million drop compared to the previous year, led by a decrease in stock awards.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the last week of October with the death knell of a BigLaw powerhouse. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Tech In-House Attys Say AI Rivals Humans At Writing Patents
Current and former in-house counsel from Google and Meta said at a conference Thursday that the ability of artificial intelligence to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans.
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Healthcare GC Matches Her Jobs To Her Social Conscience
With a degree in social work, Ashley Lunkenheimer has combined her love of social causes with her passion for law to lead the legal and compliance efforts at a home healthcare company that has a special approach.
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Rocket Legal Team Tracks AI Use But Won't Require It Yet
The legal department at Rocket Cos. Inc., parent to Rocket Mortgage, has stopped short of requiring employees to use artificial intelligence tools at work, at least for the time being, one of its top lawyers said Thursday, adding that the company was tracking AI use by workers.
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FBT Gibbons Adds Ex-Construction Biz Attorney In Dallas
FBT Gibbons LLP announced Thursday that it has hired a former senior counsel for construction company The Beck Group to bolster its capacity to steer clients through development and construction projects in Texas and nationwide.
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GoFundMe Hires Fiserv Compliance Chief
GoFundMe has announced it welcomed the chief compliance officer of Fiserv as its own compliance head to lead the fundraising platform's global compliance strategy, following her previous roles at First Data and Citi.
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Ex-Apple, Intel GC Joins British American Tobacco Board
British American Tobacco announced Wednesday that a lawyer currently serving as lead independent director of mountain resort company Vail Resorts and a director of software company C3.ai will join its board as an independent nonexecutive director at the start of next year, touting his history in top in-house roles at Apple and Intel.
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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit
A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.
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MSG Tips CEO $10M, Legal Chief Returns In Rangers Spinoff
In a flurry of recent securities filings, Madison Square Garden announced its name change, completed its spinoff of the New York Rangers into a separate company and restated its employment agreements with top executives, including for its now-Chief Legal Officer Jamaal Lesane.
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Porsche Financial Names GC, Shifts Legal Chief To Operations
Porsche Financial Services Inc. has moved its lead attorney into a top operations role and has appointed its business director to be general counsel, the luxury car financing company said Wednesday.
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Federal Student Loan Borrowers Face Pending Deadline
Millions of federal student loan borrowers face pending deadlines for changing their repayment plan, and the cost of doing nothing could lead to potentially higher monthly bills, financial experts tell Law360 Pulse.
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1-800-Flowers Delivers Nearly Double The Comp To GC
The top attorney at 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. saw his compensation blossom in 2026 as he was awarded some $1.5 million in total pay, almost double what he received the previous year.
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SEC Counsel Joins Venable Team, Former Boss In DC
Venable announced Tuesday it has hired a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who spent the past 10 years in myriad legal roles at the agency and most recently had a senior position in the SEC Division of Trading and Markets' legal review office.
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FDIC Taps 5 Attys As Counsel To Chairman, Deputy GCs
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced Monday that it has appointed five attorneys to senior leadership positions, including a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney and a JPMorgan Chase & Co. assistant general counsel.
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Fintech Affirm Legal Chief Earned $4.3M Last Year
Affirm Holdings Inc., a San Francisco-based financial technology company focused on buy now, pay later consumer financial services, has reported it paid its legal leader $4.3 million in compensation for the second fiscal year in a row.
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Clyde & Co. Bolsters Global Aviation Team With 2 Partners
Clyde & Co. LLP has hired a former airline CEO with more than 30 years of senior legal, financial, commercial, operational and aviation safety experience, who will work with the firm across several offices in San Francisco, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
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Crypto.com Hires Ex-Western Union Global Compliance Head
Crypto.com said it has appointed Western Union's former global head of compliance to serve as chief compliance officer, a move the crypto exchange said supports its global expansion and consumer access after its former CCO departed for Binance Holdings Ltd.
Expert Analysis
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What In-House Candidates Want To Know About Cos.' AI Plans
For legal departments competing for strong in-house talent, artificial intelligence strategy has become part of the employer value proposition, and companies should be prepared to explain it with the same rigor they expect from candidates, says Pamela Salling at Major Lindsey.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge On Local Office Culture
From encouraging innovation to boosting morale, using community building strategies to nurture a local office identity has multiple benefits for all aspects of a national law firm and its business, says Kate Gallin, leader of Epstein Becker's Boston office.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Curate Your Web Presence.jpg)
Lawyers can tighten their business development strategy by defining a niche digital presence, translating experience into client benefits in website materials, and using LinkedIn and attorney bios to demonstrate relevant expertise before prospective clients make contact, says Michael Mellor at 742 Advisors.
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Why Women Attys Aren't Using Firm Wellness Programs
The American Bar Association recently released the first national study centered on the mental well-being of women lawyers, but their recommendations misidentify why women with access to firm wellness programs are reluctant to use them for therapy, says Annia Raja at Helm Psychology.
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Defensible Pricing Principles For Law Firm MSO Fees
As private equity investors increasingly invest in law firms using management services organizations, several Internal Revenue Code principles provide a framework for evaluating market-based pricing terms that respects fee-sharing prohibitions and mitigates investor concerns, says Perry Urken at Ryan.
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7 Ways Legal Leaders Can Foster Firmwide Stewardship
As the modern mandate for law firm leaders' responsibilities expands to become more untenable, a chairperson’s best work is reflected in teamwide judgment, the next generation's confidence and the firm's ability to act without routing every decision through one person, says Eric Belfi, chairman at Labaton Keller.
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Legal Tech Talks: Centari CEO On Shifting Atty Role
Kevin Walker, founder and CEO of Centari, discusses how new technology can expand access to information, identify issues earlier and allow attorneys to play a more continuous role in helping clients make decisions.
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Making Legal Cents: Get Better Intelligence For 2027 Planning
As strategic planning begins for the year ahead, firms must look beyond last year's numbers and ask harder questions about what is changing more broadly, what inside the firm needs to be fixed and what has to be true for the next investment or growth plan to work, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.
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RFP Reset: In The Age Of AI, Evidence Beats Eloquence
As firms increasingly use artificial intelligence tools to quickly produce highly tailored responses to requests for proposals, polished prose alone tells clients less than it once did, so in-house teams should compare meaningful evidence and measure whether promised value is actually delivered, says Roger Rutkowski at Mercedes-Benz USA.
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The Road Map To A Law Firm MSO IPO
For managing partners considering outside capital, one potential three-phase path could allow firms to transition from a traditional limited liability partnership to a publicly traded managed services organization structure, provided they keep ethical rules and regulations top of mind, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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The Potential Risks Of A Law Firm MSO IPO
Though initial public offerings may represent the most efficient mechanism for recovering capital as private equity invests in law firm management services organizations, ethics rules, partner runs, shifting regulations and market pressures pose potential challenges, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Listen Before You Lead
For a new general counsel, scheduling conversations with your new team members, the C-suite and the company’s directors — where you can listen intently and strategically — is the fastest way to understand the company's fault lines and dynamics, says Alex Dimitrief, former general counsel at GE and Sotera Health.
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The Economic Case For A Law Firm MSO IPO
As private equity investment in law firm management services organizations accelerates, initial public offerings may represent the most efficient mechanism for recovering capital at a multibillion-dollar scale, particularly if the transaction uses a tax-efficient partnership structure, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Simplify Networking
The hardest part of business development is building relationships without feeling awkward or transactional, but to solve this networking conundrum we ranked networking activities from the least intimidating to the most challenging and shared a small, workable action item for each, say attorneys at Irell.
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Community Is Key To Addressing Rural Legal Deserts
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Pipeline programs for current and prospective lawyers to find and build careers in legal deserts should be designed with relationships and connection uppermost in mind and priority, says Presiding New York Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Garry.