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SEC Files New Insider Case Tied To Stolen Covington Info
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday brought a new insider trading case tied to the theft of confidential merger information from a Covington & Burling LLP lawyer, suing the cousin of a former FBI trainee who was sentenced to prison for filching the Merck & Co. deal info at the heart of the case and then tipping off others.
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McGuireWoods Adds Ex-Prosecutor, Former Fintech GC In SF
McGuireWoods LLP continues to bolster its West Coast presence, announcing Tuesday that it has added a former federal prosecutor and the former general counsel for a fintech company as partners at its San Francisco office.
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Holland & Knight Grows In DC With Ex-IDB Invest Counsel
A former lead counsel with development bank IDB Invest has joined Holland & Knight LLP in Washington, D.C., boosting the firm's financial services team and its Latin American practice.
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Healthcare Hires: Leech Tishman, Weil, Henry Ford Health
Full-service law firm Leech Tishman and healthcare boutique Nelson Hardiman announced plans to combine in early October, while Henry Ford Health appointed a chief legal officer to serve on the executive team overseeing its upcoming merger with Ascension Michigan. Those and other moves lead Law360's latest roundup of personnel changes in healthcare and life sciences.
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Blackstone's Link Logistics Adds New GC From Realty Income
Logistics real estate company Link Logistics, a Blackstone affiliate overseeing a portfolio of more than 526 million square feet, has added a former Realty Income Corp. attorney as its new general counsel.
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Legal Pros Adopting Gen AI Faster Than Past Tech
U.S. legal professionals may be adopting generative artificial intelligence tools far faster than they started using cloud-based tools, according to results released Tuesday from a survey on technology trends in litigation and investigation that e-discovery software provider Everlaw conducted with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists.
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Former Twitter GC Named Match Group's Legal Chief
Match Group is bringing in the former general counsel of Twitter as its new chief legal officer, the online dating app creator announced Monday.
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Embattled Former Miami City Atty Joins Shutts & Bowen
Former Miami city attorney Victoria Méndez has landed at Shutts & Bowen LLP, just months after the end of her 20-year tenure with the city amid multiple controversies.
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Most Young Lawyers Say Debt Alters Their Career Plans
A recent student debt study by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division has found that student debt affects young attorneys in many ways — including changing their career plans.
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Milwaukee Brewers Scores Foley & Lardner Partner As New GC
A longtime partner and chair of the antitrust and competition practice at Foley & Lardner LLP is now the general counsel at the Major League Baseball Milwaukee Brewers, the lawyer said in a recent LinkedIn post.
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PNC's Top Lawyer To Retire, Longtime Atty Takes On GC Role
The veteran general counsel for The PNC Financial Services Group and former global managing partner of Reed Smith LLP is retiring from the financial services institution, naming its longtime deputy general counsel to take on the role.
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White House Special Counsel Joins Kramer Levin As Partner
When the White House announced in April that Richard Sauber would leave his role as special counsel, the legal matters he had been tasked by President Joe Biden to lead had all but wrapped up and helped him make the decision to join Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as its newest partner in Washington, D.C., he told Law360 Pulse Monday.
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Cipriani USA Hires General Counsel From Standard Hotels
The high-end international hospitality group Cipriani has hired a new general counsel with years of experience handling financial deals at the parent company of Standard Hotels and at Virgin Hotels.
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Frankfurt Kurnit Adds Ex-Copyright Office GC In LA
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC has brought in a new partner to the entertainment litigation group in its Los Angeles office, an attorney with vast experience in copyright law that includes serving as general counsel for the U.S. Copyright Office.
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Ex-Google Attorney Joins Freshfields' DC Office
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced Monday that it has hired for its antitrust practice a new partner who worked as an in-house attorney at Google for 15 years.
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Alight CLO Gets $400K Bonus Amid Company Changes
The chief legal officer at cloud-based human capital and technology services provider Alight Inc. was awarded a one-time retention award consisting of cash and stock worth $400,000, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Discover CLO Resigns Amid $35B Merger Deal, Will Join Ally
Discover's top lawyer is resigning and is set to depart for another position later this year, or upon the closing of the financial services company's proposed $35 billion tie-up with Capital One.
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Legal Tech Co. Everlaw Hires CLO From Commure
Investigation and litigation platform Everlaw announced on Monday the hiring of a longtime in-house counsel, most recently chief legal officer at Commure, as its new head of legal.
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Calif. Takes AI Reins With Looming Safety, Transparency Laws
A pair of groundbreaking legislative proposals aimed at ensuring the safe and transparent deployment of artificial intelligence systems are headed to the California governor's desk, raising questions about whether lawmakers are taking the right approach to regulating the emerging technology and how the state's privacy regulator will respond.
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Pillsbury Atty Goes In-House As 'Rust' Film Co.'s GC
A Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP attorney who helped navigate a studio through civil litigation over the notorious "Rust" movie production, in which actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot someone by accident, has been hired by the film company as its general counsel.
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In-House Atty At Priceline.com Set To Appear On 'Survivor'
An experienced in-house attorney currently serving as a senior counsel for travel website Priceline.com is taking part in this year's edition of the iconic TV reality show "Survivor," CBS Entertainment has announced.
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NY Gov. Taps WilmerHale Leader For Counsel Position
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that a WilmerHale partner and leader will be the next counsel to the governor, appointing an attorney who has served as New York deputy attorney general and the attorney general's chief of staff and as senior adviser to the New York City mayor.
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Ex-Albertsons Exec. Joins Exelon To Oversee Federal Affairs
Energy provider Exelon Corp. has hired a government affairs pro who formerly worked for Albertsons Cos., Raytheon Technologies, T-Mobile and Verizon to be its senior vice president of federal affairs.
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Fox Rothschild Lands Entertainment Atty From Netflix In NY
An attorney who most recently worked for streaming giant Netflix is bringing his lifelong love of film and past working as a writer and producer to Fox Rothschild LLP.
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Legal Job Market Continued Downward Trend In August
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.