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Blackstone Paid Kirkland $101.3M In 2024 Legal Fees
Private equity giant Blackstone paid Kirkland & Ellis LLP roughly $101.3 million in legal fees in 2024, according to its newly filed annual report.
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EnCore Energy Abruptly Appoints Legal Chief As Acting CEO
Uranium extraction company enCore Energy has promoted its chief legal officer to chief executive after its previous CEO stepped down after the company reported more than $60 million in losses for 2024, according to an announcement filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
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Ex-Obama, Biden White House Atty Joins Latham
An ex-White House counsel for both former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden has joined Latham & Watkins LLP's Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices as a white collar partner, the firm announced Monday.
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Meet The Ex-Prosecutors Defending Former Cognizant Execs
Law360 Pulse took an in-depth look at the legal teams representing two former Cognizant executives whose long-awaited Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial is scheduled to begin in New Jersey federal court next week.
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Carnival Legal Chief Cruises To Over $3M Pay Bump In 2024
Carnival Corp.'s top attorney saw his compensation spike by more than $3 million last year, more than doubling his pay from the year before, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Florida Aviation Co. Hires New CLO Amid Biz Changes
More than a week after agreeing to sell its fleet business segment for $230 million, aviation parts and services provider VSE Corp. has made some changes to its leadership with the hiring of a new chief legal officer and the promotion of two executive team members.
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Atlanta-Based Genuine Parts GC Earned $1.8M In 2024
As it brought in more than $20 billion in sales and added 500 stores in 2024, Atlanta-based Genuine Parts Co. paid its general counsel more than $1.8 million in salary and other compensation in 2024, the company said Friday in a securities filing.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Flag Football League Exec
Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired an attorney with experience as a high-level executive for a sports league and teams, including the American Flag Football League and the Houston Roughnecks, now of the United Football League, to expand its sports law practice.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
While many companies are removing diversity language from their public websites, a new survey shows that about half of its respondents do not plan on changing their DEI programs. And the general counsel for the new Tiger Woods/Rory McIlroy golf league talked about his love of the sport and the legal work involved in the new venture.
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Cognizant Execs' Trial Could Test Force Of FCPA Pause
The government's decision to proceed with a trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives despite the Trump administration's retreat from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement adds a layer of intrigue to a legal saga that has already captivated the white collar bar given the rarity of such cases ever reaching juries.
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Financial Services Group Taps WilmerHale Atty As GC
Pennsylvania-based financial services company Ascensus LLC has brought onboard an attorney who formerly practiced at WilmerHale to serve as the company's top in-house attorney in the Boston-area office.
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Selendy Gay Names New Managing Partner, COO
Litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC announced Thursday that it has appointed bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer Kelley Cornish as managing partner and landed the top legal head of Cinch Home Services as its new chief operating officer.
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NetApp Expands CLO's Role To Chief Administrative Officer
NetApp Inc., a data management and software company, has changed its leadership structure by appointing its legal leader to the newly expanded role of chief administrative officer.
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Number Of DEI Execs Was Up Ahead Of Election, Study Finds
A recent study of America's biggest corporations concluded that last year, before President Donald Trump returned to the White House, top companies had hired an increasing number of chief inclusion and diversity officers and chief sustainability officers.
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Ex-HHS Litigator Brings Regulatory Expertise To Arnall Golden
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Thursday the firm brought on as a partner an experienced healthcare litigator whose career includes more than a decade worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Former Seyfarth Partner To Chair DOL's Review Board
The U.S. Department of Labor tapped a former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner with more than 25 years of experience on employment and immigration law to be chair of the Administrative Review Board.
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How This GC's Love Of Golf Helped Innovate The Sport
Chris Murvin, who struggled early on to settle into a career, turned his love of golf into the legal job of a lifetime, becoming the first general counsel for the new TMRW Golf League, a startup co-founded by pro golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
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Ex-White House Enviro Justice Leader Joins Legal Nonprofit
An environmental policy official from the Biden White House has joined the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government to help lead the organization's climate change and environmental justice initiatives.
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Mastercard Rehires Ex-CLO After State Dept. Stint
Mastercard's former chief legal officer is returning to the company to serve as chief administrative officer following a nearly two-year stint as deputy secretary with the U.S. Department of State.
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Sysco Hires Longtime In-House Attorney As New Legal Chief
Food service distribution giant Sysco is bringing on an attorney with decades of in-house experience for the roles of executive vice president and chief legal officer.
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Cos. Not In Rush To Abandon DEI Measures, Report Says
Companies don't appear to be dropping their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in droves even though President Donald Trump's administration has made workplace DEI programs an early target, according to a new report issued by Littler Mendelson PC.
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Apple Litigation Director Threatened With Sanctions At Hearing
A California federal judge presiding over a high-stakes evidentiary hearing into whether Apple has complied with her 2021 antitrust injunction threatened to sanction Apple's commercial litigation director Tuesday, telling counsel she has "significant concerns" about Apple's over-designation of attorney-client privilege, saying, "Your client is not entitled to have you engage in unethical conduct."
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Meet The FDA's New Chief Counsel Robert Foster
Announced as the top attorney for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in recent days, Robert Foster brings a career spanning the government's early COVID-19 pandemic response, biopharmaceutical company leadership and legal oversight matters for the U.S. Senate.
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Apple, Deere Stand Up For Diversity At Annual Meetings
The pro- and anti-diversity corporate battles are heating up this week, as Apple Inc. shareholders on Tuesday rejected a proposal to abolish its inclusion and diversity program, while Deere & Co. has managed to convince pro-diversity investors to trust it and withdraw their proposal.
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.