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Royalty Pharma Picks GC To Replace Retiring CLO
Pharmaceutical investment firm Royalty Pharma will soon have a new executive vice president and chief legal officer, as George Lloyd has decided to retire from that role effective Dec. 31, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Oberlin College Names Interim GC As Permanent Top Atty
Oberlin College and Conservatory has named its interim general counsel, who has served in the position since July and was the interim general counsel there while the school emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, to the role permanently, according to a recent announcement.
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Legal Departments Pushing Back Against Partner Rate Hikes
Billing rates from law firms varied widely in the first half of 2025, and corporate legal departments will need to anticipate tiered and regional shifts in fee dynamics to keep costs under control next year, according to a report released Monday by Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.
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Lawyers Don't Expect AI To Lower Billing Targets
Generative AI is raising questions about how time-based billing adapts when tasks become faster to complete, but most attorneys recently surveyed by Law360 Pulse are skeptical that AI will shift expectations anytime soon.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
In one of the stories in corporate legal news from the past week, almost half of the in-house legal professionals in a recent survey said they were either actively or passively seeking new jobs, citing stress, a struggle to build multidisciplinary teams and anxiety around artificial intelligence.
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Hunton Brings On Longtime In-House Energy Atty In Houston
An experienced in-house counsel for oil and gas companies has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a new partner in its Houston office.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week with a mega law firm merger announcement and eye-popping year-end bonuses at a handful of elite boutiques. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Rutgers Expands GC Shop With Connell Foley, AG Office Attys
Rutgers University has welcomed two experienced attorneys to its office of general counsel, including a Connell Foley LLP attorney, just months after another Connell Foley attorney became the school's general counsel.
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If GCs Can't Do It, How Do We Hold Boeing Accountable?
Several years ago, Ben Heineman Jr. — often referred to as the father of modern-day general counsel — spoke with me about his view of a general counsel's role in shaping a company's corporate culture and ethics.
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NFLPA's Longtime Associate GC Files $10M Sex Bias Suit
A longtime associate general counsel for the NFL Players Association on Thursday filed a $10 million sex discrimination and retaliation suit, claiming the union intimidated and retaliated against her for cooperating with a federal investigation into misconduct by "men in positions of power" at the NFLPA.
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Ex-Connecticut Utility Regulator Fined Amid Records Brawl
Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission voted unanimously to fine the former chair of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for the state agency's failure to comply with record requests from an Eversource subsidiary that has accused her of using her position illegally.
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Tyson Foods CLO Saw $5.4M In Compensation For Fiscal 2025
Tyson Foods Inc.'s chief legal and administrative officer received roughly $5.4 million in compensation for the 2025 fiscal year, the first year he was a named executive officer for the company, according to a public filing.
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Digital Mortgage Exchange Maxex Taps Ex-BigLaw Atty As GC
An experienced CEO and chief compliance officer, who most recently was a Connecticut-based partner at Garris Horn LLP, has taken on the general counsel role at digital mortgage exchange Maxex in Atlanta.
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Google, Fidelity Legal Leaders Join Axiom's Advisory Board
Legal staffing and services provider Axiom announced on Tuesday the addition of eight new senior legal executives to its U.S. Client Advisory Board, including members from Google, Capital One, and Fidelity.
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Gilead Sciences Promotes In-House Atty To General Counsel
Gilead Sciences Inc. announced Thursday that it had promoted of an in-house attorney who has worked for the biopharmaceutical company for 14 years to serve as its general counsel to steer its legal and compliance functions.
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Looking Back At A Year Of Upheaval For GCs
Most general counsel came into 2025 expecting a change in federal priorities with the inauguration of President Donald Trump. What they may not have anticipated was the magnitude of disruption — new laws and policies, overhauled federal agencies, swirling government expectations.
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Compliance Chiefs' Enforcement Risks Didn't Ease Up In 2025
The landscape for chief compliance officers' liability might relax a bit in the coming years as experts anticipate the Trump administration will rely less on a "failure to supervise" theory of liability that financial regulators used to target one chief compliance officer this year.
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Rising Pressures Heighten Risks Of In-House Talent Flight
Mounting workload pressure has led to nearly half of in-house legal professionals either actively or passively seeking new jobs, while departments that partner with alternative legal service providers cut their attrition risk among active job seekers in half, according to a new report.
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Maximus CLO Will Depart In New Year For Parsons Corp.
Maximus Inc.'s chief legal officer and corporate secretary will leave his position to join Parsons Corp., where he'll take over as its chief legal officer on Feb. 16, according to announcements on Thursday.
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CFTC's Pham Will Head To Crypto Co. MoonPay After Exit
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's acting Chair Caroline Pham is set to join cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay as its top lawyer following her impending departure from the commission, MoonPay announced Wednesday.
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NC Panel Revives Part Of Solar Co. Ex-Atty's Sex Bias Suit
A North Carolina attorney can proceed with a piece of her lawsuit alleging a solar company discriminated against her based on sex while she served in a senior legal role, after a state appeals court revived one of her claims Wednesday.
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Ex-Celsius GC To Join Taft From Krevolin & Horst In Atlanta
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Wednesday that a lawyer with Krevolin & Horst LLC — who previously served as the first general counsel for the global beverage company Celsius Holdings Inc. — will join its Atlanta office as the firm is set to complete its merger with Morris Manning & Martin LLP on Dec. 31.
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Ex-SEC, O'Melveny Atty Joins Food Tech Startup As CLO
Venture-backed food technology startup GrubMarket Inc. has found its new legal leader in a longtime O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorney and former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney, the company said Wednesday.
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LawVu Acquires ClauseBase And Rebrands It To LawVu Draft
LawVu, which provides in-house legal teams a workspace using artificial intelligence, announced Wednesday its acquisition of Belgium-based legal drafting platform ClauseBase, which will rebrand as LawVu Draft.
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How One GC Finds Synergies Leading HR And Legal Teams
General counsel LaTanya Langley prides herself on being a "people first" leader, and an even better one now that she has returned from maternity leave after giving birth at age 50.
Expert Analysis
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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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.