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New Chief Legal Officer Jumps To Sky Zone Franchise
Sky Zone, an indoor trampoline park and family entertainment franchise, has found itself a new legal leader, the company said Tuesday.
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Domino's Pizza Names Longtime In-House Atty As GC
Domino's Pizza Inc. has promoted one of its longstanding attorneys to the role of general counsel.
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US Atty, Ex-Cognizant Execs Can Delay FCPA Trial For 30 Days
A federal judge granted an adjournment of up to 30 days in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives to allow the newly anointed U.S. attorney for New Jersey to review the case.
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Office Depot Parent Co. CLO's 2024 Comp Dropped To $1.67M
The chief legal officer for the Florida-based parent company of Office Depot LLC saw her total compensation drop by almost $400,000 to less than $1.7 million in 2024.
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Ex-J&J Atty Says She Was Fired For Making Ethics Complaint
A former in-house data privacy attorney for Johnson & Johnson has sued the company for discrimination in New Jersey federal court, alleging that she was passed over for a promotion based on her Latina ethnicity and fired for reporting unethical behavior by the attorney who got the job.
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Ex-Google AI Counsel Joins King & Spalding In San Francisco
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired for its business litigation practice group a former Google in-house attorney who helped steer the tech giant's artificial intelligence regulatory strategy.
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Social Security Admin. Atty Rejoins Potomac Law Group
A former senior investigative counsel for the Social Security Administration has rejoined Potomac Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday, and she told Law360 Pulse in an interview she was looking forward to rejoining the firm she left about a decade ago.
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White House Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Atty To Lead USPTO
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated John Squires, Goldman Sachs' former longtime chief intellectual property counsel, to serve as the next U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.
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J. Crew Wins Confirmation Of Ex-GC's Arbitration Loss
A New York federal judge confirmed an arbitrator's ruling Monday that found J. Crew hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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Commerce Dept. Telecom Atty Rejoins Akin In DC
The former deputy chief counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce group focused on telecommunications has rejoined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in Washington, the firm announced Monday.
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DLA Piper Welcomes Ex-GC To Its Corporate Group
The former general counsel of a software development company and long-time Cooley LLP lawyer has joined DLA Piper as a corporate law partner in Reston, Virginia.
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Boeing CLO's Compensation Fell By Nearly In Half In 2024
The salary for Boeing's chief legal officer was cut nearly in half last year, down from more than $8.5 million in 2023 to a little more than $4.4 million in 2024, according to a disclosure the aerospace company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ex-Cognizant Execs Support 180-Day Trial Delay In FCPA Case
Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives have told a New Jersey federal judge they agree with prosecutors that their bribery trial should be delayed for 180 days after the Trump administration paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Ice Miller Brings On NYC Police Pension Fund GC
The longtime general counsel for the New York City Police Pension Fund joined Ice Miller LLP as a partner on the firm's governmental benefits team, according to a Monday announcement.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
ESPN made news in the past week with a five-year, $100 million contract for talking head Stephen A. Smith, but so did Netflix, where chief legal officer David Hyman pulled in more than $100 million worth of stock sales in just seven days. Meanwhile, Honeywell revealed that its general counsel is busy figuring out how to create new subsidiaries where the company hopes to stash its asbestos and environmental liabilities.
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Bayer Looks For Capital As Monsanto Litigation Continues
Amid ongoing legal troubles with its subsidiary Monsanto, Bayer AG is seeking shareholder approval to raise equity capital worth 35% of its current share capital as it works to contain U.S. litigation.
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NRG Energy's GC Saw Compensation Rise To $3.6M In 2024
NRG Energy's general counsel Brian Curci saw his compensation in 2024 increase to nearly $3.6 million, up from about $3.4 million the prior year, according to a public filing Friday.
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Dropbox CLO Exiting After 13 Years, New Legal Chief Named
The chief legal officer of Dropbox Inc. is resigning after 13 years with the company, and will be replaced by the current vice president of product counseling and privacy, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Salesforce CFO, Former CLO, Named Direct Relief CEO
The current chief financial officer and former chief legal officer of Salesforce is set to join humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief as its new leader, the group announced Friday.
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Legal Jobs Down As Gov't Work Dries Up Under Trump
Following modest gains at the beginning of the year, the U.S. legal sector lost 3,300 jobs in February, according to preliminary data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal sector started March with a downpour of big industry news, including leadership shuffles, office closures and group lateral moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Holland & Knight Adds Partner Who Was FBI General Counsel
The FBI has lost its general counsel, who has joined Holland & Knight LLP as a partner in its national security and defense industry group, the firm announced Thursday.
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NJ Judge Open To FCPA Trial Delay, But Unsure How Long
A federal judge said Thursday that he is inclined to allow the new Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for New Jersey some time to review the long-running criminal case against two ex-Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives before going to trial, but ordered both sides to file detailed briefs by Monday to help him determine just how much time.
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Atlanta-Based Gray Media Elevates In-House Atty To GC
Atlanta-headquartered Gray Media Inc. has elevated its deputy general counsel to serve as its general counsel, promoting an attorney who served as the former general counsel of Raycom Media before it merged with Gray Media's predecessor in 2019.
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Honeywell GC's Pay Stalls Amid Move To Segregate Liabilities
Honeywell International Inc. has filed a preliminary proxy statement showing that its general counsel received nearly $7.5 million in 2024 in total compensation, as well as detailing how she and the company are planning to create new subsidiaries to absorb its asbestos and environmental financial liabilities.