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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.
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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.