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Firm Accused Of Botching Arbitration In Tribal Lending Row
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and one of its former attorneys have been hit with a California federal court suit accusing them of negligence in their representation of a consulting business and its president in a 2018 arbitration they say caused them at least $17.5 million in damages.
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Are DEI Policies A Movement Or A Moment In Time?
Following the Supreme Court's summer 2023 ruling to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, experts warned corporate America about the wide-ranging implications that would likely take hold. Since then, several big-name brands have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, a list that Lowe's joined this week.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry closed out August with another action-packed week as firms hired new talent and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi was convicted by a California federal jury. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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FedEx Taps Longtime Company Atty And Exec As New GC
FedEx Corp. announced Thursday that attorney and longtime executive Gina F. Adams will succeed Mark Allen, the company's longtime executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, who retires this year.
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Memo Ties FirstEnergy's CLO, Ethics Chief To Bribery Scheme
A recently released legal memo states FirstEnergy Corp.'s then-chief legal officer and its then-general counsel and chief ethics officer knew about and failed to disclose a questionable $4.3 million payment the company later admitted was a bribe to a top Ohio regulator.
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National Labor Relations Board Appoints 1st Chief AI Officer
The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday announced the appointment of an assistant general counsel and e-litigation chief as the agency's first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer.
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Day Pitney Lands Former Reuters Tax Counsel In Conn.
Day Pitney LLP continued its recent growth in its tax practice in Connecticut with the addition of an experienced tax attorney from Thomson Reuters.
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Hybrid Aerospace Co. Taps Ex-Boeing Int'l GC As New CEO
Electra.aero Inc., a hybrid-electric aerospace company backed by major companies such as Lockheed Martin Ventures, Honeywell and Safran, announced Thursday it has found its new CEO in an experienced Boeing Co. leader and attorney.
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Ex-Lazard GC Named Hedge Fund Co-CEO Amid Founder Spat
New York-based hedge fund Two Sigma announced that the firm's two founders and co-CEOs have stepped down, with its chief business officer and a former general counsel of asset management firm Lazard set to replace them.
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Biden's Latest Judge Nominees Include Pick For Northern NY
President Joe Biden announced judicial nominees on Wednesday for federal district courts in New York, New Mexico and Arizona.
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Experienced Legal Industry Exec Joins UnitedLex As IP VP
Law firm-focused data and professional services company UnitedLex announced that an experienced legal industry executive who has spent more than 20 years working for a wide range of technology companies was appointed its new executive vice president of intellectual property.
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AI Co. Wordsmith Appoints Farfetch Atty As Lead Lawyer
Wordsmith, which developed an artificial intelligence workplace for in-house lawyers, has hired the former head of a British e-commerce company as its general counsel, the AI startup said Wednesday.
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This Fintech GC Likes Challenge Of Starting From Scratch
Early in 2024, Chris Trujillo was relaxing, sitting comfortably as a self-employed lawyer after serving as the general counsel overseeing the $1.2 billion sale of his fintech company to SoFi Technologies Inc.
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Jones Walker Adds In-House Vet To Co-Lead Privacy, AI Team
Jones Walker LLP has a new co-leader of its privacy, data strategy and artificial intelligence team in Atlanta who has served in prominent in-house roles at both global consulting firm Vialto Partners and EY.
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A Winding Path: How Lawyers' Career Aspirations Shift
The road for many lawyers to their final career destination is winding. What a person thinks they want in law school may change once, twice or more in the following decades. Here, Law360 presents four stories about the winding path of lawyer career aspirations.
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Dallas Fed. Reserve Bank Adds Goodwin Atty To Legal Team
The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank is bulking up its in-house legal team with a former Goodwin Procter LLP counsel who worked earlier in her career for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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Ex-Wilkinson Barker Atty Returns To FCC Legal Adviser Role
A former Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP attorney, who most recently worked with communications infrastructure company Crown Castle as a government relations lawyer, has returned to work at the Federal Communications Commission in Commissioner Brendan Carr's office as a legal adviser.
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Health Hires: Epstein Becker, Bradley, Winston
Epstein Becker Green and Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP deepened their healthcare benches, while Winston & Strawn enlisted a former Morgan Lewis partner with healthcare transaction expertise. Here's Law360's latest roundup of personnel moves in healthcare and life sciences.
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Polaris GC, Ex-EPA Attorney Named To Expanded Hertz Board
Florida-based Hertz announced Tuesday that the current general counsel of Polaris Inc. and the former general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been appointed as the newest members of the rental car giant's expanded board of directors.
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Colo. Startup Founder Disbarred For Conflicts, Dishonesty
A Denver attorney who co-founded and provided legal services for a publicly traded software startup has been disbarred in Colorado for widespread misconduct including failing to inform the company that he issued stock in excess of what had been authorized, practicing law with a suspended license, and conversion of thousands of dollars in corporate funds.
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New Cigna CLO Vows To Help Co. Navigate 'Dynamic' Industry
Cigna has promoted one of its in-house lawyers, who has spent her in-house and private practice career in the healthcare space, to chief legal officer, according to a LinkedIn post.
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Fish & Richardson Adds Sterne Kessler GC In Top Legal Role
Fish & Richardson PC has hired the general counsel at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC as its new chief legal risk officer, who is bringing her more than 15 years of experience with intellectual property law firm risk management and compliance to the firm.
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Oregon Investment Co. Hires Simpson Thacher Atty As GC
Alternative credit investment manager Variant Investments LLC has found its new legal leader in a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney.
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Priori Legal Adds NBC, Capital One Execs To Advisory Board
Priori Legal Inc. announced Tuesday that it has expanded its customer advisory board to include 10 new members from Fortune 500 companies in media, financial services, technology and more.
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Blank Rome Gains Dragonfly Group GC As Partner In Boston
The former general counsel and head of mergers and acquisitions for e-commerce company Dragonfly Group Inc. has returned to private practice at Blank Rome LLP.