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DOJ Alumni Aid Group Launches Pro Bono Legal Network
Justice Connection, a group founded by former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys in response to the Trump administration's ongoing purge of the department, has launched a pro bono legal network to represent DOJ attorneys being "unfairly targeted" by the administration.
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Ex-NJ Transit Legal Chief Joins McCarter & English In Newark
The former general counsel for state-run NJ Transit has joined McCarter & English LLP as a partner in Newark, New Jersey, expanding the firm's national government affairs practice, McCarter & English announced Wednesday.
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Former Dell IP Counsel Joins Yetter Coleman In Texas
Houston litigation boutique Yetter Coleman LLP has added a senior counsel to its intellectual property litigation group from Dell Technologies whose combination of legal and technical expertise boosts the firm's ability to serve clients across a range of industries centered on emerging technologies.
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How This Atty Used Her Law Degree To Go From CLO To CEO
Direct Relief's new CEO Amy Weaver has made various jumps in her career — from Seattle to Hong Kong, online travel to chemical distribution to SaaS, chief legal officer to chief financial officer to chief executive officer. And while the Harvard Law School grad's moves may appear completely different, she sees each role, company, industry and location as a building block.
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Legal Depts. Play Catch-Up As Law Firms Embrace Innovation
The legal industry is undergoing a technological transformation. While both law firms and in-house legal teams are embracing innovation, recent trends suggest law firms may hold the upper hand for now.
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Google Taps Ex-SG, Munger Tolles Partner For Monopoly Fight
Google has hired former U.S. Solicitor General and prominent U.S. Supreme Court attorney and Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner Donald B. Verrilli Jr. to represent it in high-profile litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing the online search market, according to a notice filed in District of Columbia federal court Tuesday.
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6th Circ. Denies PBMs' Privilege Claim In Opioid MDL
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday denied a petition from Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth's Optum seeking to reverse discovery orders allowing certain personnel files and internal communications into the multidistrict opioid litigation, finding that the two pharmacy benefit managers failed to show extraordinary abuses justifying relief.
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Groups Ask California Bar To Discipline Google's Kent Walker
Four organizations are citing new court developments involving Google Inc. Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker's alleged mishandling of evidence in again asking the State Bar of California to discipline him.
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Former GC To Sen. Scott Sworn In As Northern Fla.'s US Atty
A former deputy chief of staff and general counsel to U.S. Sen. Rick Scott was sworn in Monday as the 42nd U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Florida after having served in the role on an interim basis since President Donald Trump nominated him for the post.
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Ex-Dior Legal, Compliance Exec Joins Guess As Global GC
Los Angeles-based clothing company Guess Inc. has appointed a veteran European lawyer who has held multiple senior in-house roles as its next global general counsel.
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Georgia Health System Selects Legal Chief As CEO
The Southeast Georgia Health System Inc. has installed its interim president and chief executive officer — who was most recently its chief legal officer — as president and CEO.
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Retail Trade Group Taps Big Lots Atty As Next Leader
The longtime compliance leader and deputy general counsel for discount retail chain Big Lots is set to serve as the top attorney for the Retail Industry Leaders Association and to take the helm at the Retail Litigation Center.
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Paramount's Ousted GC Nets $8.9M In 2024 Pay
Paramount Global Inc.'s former general counsel received just over $8.9 million in compensation from the media giant in 2024, when she was pushed out amid a cost-cutting initiative, according to a recent security filing.
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Ex-Bank GC Can Easily Pay $2.5M Fraud Restitution, Feds Say
The former general counsel of Stamford-based Webster Bank has chipped away at a $7.4 million restitution order since being sentenced to four years in prison for a yearslong fraud scheme and is capable of paying back the full amount in a lump sum, prosecutors have told a Connecticut federal judge.
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Multifamily Owner BAM Cos.' GC Tapped As Business Chief
The BAM Cos. announced Tuesday that the multifamily community owner and operator has selected its general counsel to serve as chief business officer, adding that another internal candidate will step in as the firm's chief operating officer.
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Fisher Phillips Brings On Former Gap Counsel In Fla.
A former in-house attorney for clothing giant Gap Inc. rejoined the private practice space as a partner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at Fisher Phillips, the firm announced Tuesday.
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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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Alphabet Pledges $500M To Boost Compliance In Investor Suit
Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., has agreed to earmark half a billion dollars over the next 10 years to overhaul the tech giant's global compliance structure, according to two institutional investors that sued the company's leaders over allegations of anticompetitive and monopolistic business practices.
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Microsoft's Privacy Chief Will Exit To Form Consultancy
Julie Brill, whose career includes serving on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and leading the cybersecurity group at Hogan Lovells, is set to depart from her current position as Microsoft's chief privacy officer to form her own consultant firm this summer, she said in a LinkedIn post.
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Former New York Jets GC Tackles New Role At Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells has expanded its corporate and finance group in New York with the addition of the former legal leader for the National Football League's New York Jets.
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The Top In-House Hires Of May
Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Adobe, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Duke Energy. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.
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Yale In-House Atty Joins Crowell & Moring's Corporate Team
Crowell & Moring LLP hired a former in-house Yale University associate general counsel with real estate transactions experience as senior counsel for the firm's corporate group in New York, the firm announced.
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Health Law Boutique Adds Former Amazon Atty In Florida
A Florida attorney who served in-house at Amazon's One Medical has brought her practice to the newly formed national health law boutique Aligned Health Law LLC, the Atlanta-based firm announced Monday.
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Cleary Helping Cushman & Wakefield On Move To Bermuda
Cushman & Wakefield's parent company is seeking to move its place of incorporation from England and Wales to Bermuda, with the assistance of counsel from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, the real estate brokerage firm said in a regulatory filing.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
An investor is asking the Delaware Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of a new state law that broadens the protection of corporations in shareholder suits. And hundreds of general counsel are joining an online forum to stand up for the rule of law after President Donald Trump's executive orders against several corporate law firms.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.