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W&T Offshore Hires Former White House Atty As GC
Houston-based oil and gas producer W&T Offshore Inc. has found its new general counsel in an experienced attorney who worked as a White House appointee and as general counsel at traffic camera company American Traffic Solutions Inc.
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Tegna's Legal Chief To Depart Less Than 1 Year After Hire
Tegna Inc., which provides media services and content across various platforms, is about to be in the market for a new chief legal officer less than a year after hiring its current legal leader.
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Lowenstein Sandler Gains Ex-NJ Prosecutor, Hedge Fund GC
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced Tuesday that it has added a former New Jersey federal prosecutor and a longtime lead attorney for Echo Street Capital Management as partners.
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'Price Of Innovation': Young Legal Tech Startups Lack Security
Many early-stage legal tech startups don't initially meet law firms' security requirements, and instead are focused on product development and marketing, according to legal industry experts.
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The Top In-House Hires Of August
Legal department hires over the last month included high-profile appointments at Target, Cigna and Estée Lauder. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from the last full month of summer.
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Another Biz Owner Called To Appear In Judge's Patent Probe
U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly has ordered the owner of another business affiliated with patent litigation funding outfit IP Edge and its affiliate Mavexar to appear before him amid his probe into possible fraud he says may have been perpetrated on the Delaware federal court in certain infringement cases.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
The National Labor Relations Board chose an in-house lawyer as its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer. And new documents reveal where FirstEnergy Corp.'s lawyers were when company executives ordered up a questionable multimillion-dollar payment to the man who would become the top state regulator: They were in the room, listening.
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Ex-Lloyd's GC Takes New Compliance, Legal Role At Aspen
The former general counsel for insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London has joined Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., a specialty insurance and reinsurance company, as a legal and compliance leader.
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Omni Bridgeway In-House Atty Joins Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added an intellectual property partner with experience as a software engineer to its growing Minneapolis office, the firm said Thursday.
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Ex-Lockheed Martin Atty Lands At Woodward As GC
Woodward Inc., an aerospace and industrial parts manufacturer, has grown its executive team with the addition of a new general counsel and chief compliance officer from Lockheed Martin Space.
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More Took, Passed Multistate Bar Exam In July
An influx of law students in 2021 has led to an increased number of examinees taking and passing the multistate bar exam in July, according to an announcement this week from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
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FTX Exec Drops Bid To Undo Plea Amid Partner's Indictment
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame is no longer seeking to vacate his guilty plea that he says Manhattan federal prosecutors induced with a false promise to halt a campaign finance probe into his partner Michelle Bond, though his claims that they broke their word will still be litigated before two different judges.
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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.