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Ex-Meta Counsel Joins Kasowitz As Data Security Leader
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP announced that a former associate general counsel at social media giant Meta Platforms Inc. has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner and chair of the data security, privacy and security team.
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Steelcase Hires New GC From Whirlpool
Michigan-based Steelcase has tapped a veteran Whirlpool Corp. attorney to serve as its next general counsel following the retirement of the workplace furniture manufacturer's top attorney last year.
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Nucor Corp. Plans Legal Team Shake-Up As GC Retires
Charlotte, North Carolina-based steel manufacturer Nucor Corp. has put into motion a succession plan for several leadership roles following the recent announcement of its general counsel's retirement plans.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q4
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the fourth quarter of the year.
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Miller & Chevalier Adds Former IRS Chief Counsel
Miller & Chevalier Chtd. has found a new co-leader for its tax controversy and litigation practice as it brings aboard the former chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service during President Donald Trump's first term.
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Ex-Jones Day Partner Named For Key DOJ Civil Division Post
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump intends to nominate three people to key posts in the department, including former Jones Day partner Brett Shumate as assistant attorney general for the DOJ's Civil Division.
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How Gov't Attys Can Prepare For A Private Sector Job Search
As a wave of government attorneys seek private sector posts amid the Trump administration’s slashing of the federal workforce, recruiters and other industry experts in Washington, D.C., say job applicants should closely examine their skill sets, be entrepreneurial, and have patience as law firms evaluate a deluge of candidates.
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Newmark CLO To Lead Boards As Lutnick Takes Cabinet Post
Newmark Group Inc., a commercial real estate adviser, and BGC Group Inc., a brokerage and financial technology company, said Wednesday they had named Chief Legal Officer Stephen Merkel to replace his longtime friend and boss, Howard Lutnick, as chair of both companies' board of directors following Lutnick's confirmation as Secretary of Commerce.
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Seattle Mariners Promote Ex-Perkins Coie Atty To GC
Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners has expanded the team's senior leadership from within, with the recent promotion of its deputy general counsel to general counsel.
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White Collar Litigator Hired To Lead Hecker Fink DC Shop
Hecker Fink LLP has added a white collar litigator, known for representing a former FBI attorney in a high-profile federal case related to Russian interference in the 2016 election, to lead its office in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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Ancora Says US Steel CEO May Have Made Insider Trades
Ancora Holdings Group LLC is claiming that U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt "may have engaged in insider trading" tied to the company's proposed $14.9 billion merger with Japan's Nippon Steel, and the investor said it could bring related litigation, according to documents released Tuesday.
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SiriusXM Appoints Ex-Airbnb Legal Chief As Next GC
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. said Tuesday it was appointing the former legal chief of Airbnb Inc. as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary effective March 3.
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That's A Wrap For AMC Theater Chain's Longtime GC
For the past 23 years, general counsel Kevin Connor has played a starring role in the legal and business affairs of the world's largest movie theater company, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.
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Ex-Goldman Atty Squires Expected To Be Named USPTO Head
John A. Squires — Goldman Sachs' longtime chief intellectual property counsel, co-founder of Fortress' IP Investment fund and current Dilworth Paxson LLP partner — is expected to be chosen as the Trump administration's nominee for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, about a half-dozen sources with knowledge of the agency said Tuesday.
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Career FERC Atty, Enforcement Leader Joins McGuireWoods
Following a 16-year career at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that spanned myriad leadership roles, the former deputy director of the agency's enforcement wing has moved his practice to McGuireWoods LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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WilmerHale Adds Former US Dept. Of Education GC
Lisa Brown, who most recently served as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education, has entered private practice at WilmerHale, the firm said Tuesday.
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DOJ Noncommittal On Cognizant Bribe Trial Amid FCPA Order
In the wake of President Donald Trump's Feb. 10 executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, prosecutors told a federal judge Monday that they are preparing for a March 3 trial in their charges alleging two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. authorized a bribe to an Indian official, but that the case is under review.
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GCs Face More Compliance Risk As Data Sources Multiply
Corporate risk and demand on the legal department will accelerate this year thanks in part to the growing number of emerging data sources, according to the results of a new survey report on Tuesday.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Amid a slew of Trump administration actions this week that will impact corporate legal departments, the Federal Communications Commission announced it will investigate Comcast and NBCUniversal over their diversity efforts.
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Concentrix GC Gets 10% Pay Bump To Move Closer To Median
Business technology company Concentrix Corp. boosted its general counsel's pay by 10% in 2024, in what it described as a bid to address the "significant difference" between her salary and the median compensation among the company's peers, according to recent documents lodged with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.
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Sumo Logic Atty Rejoins Wilson Sonsini As GC In Residence
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has launched a general counsel in residence program with the addition of the former legal leader for Sumo Logic Inc. and Informatica Inc.
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Berry Producer Driscoll's First-Ever GC To Retire This Year
Driscoll's first general counsel and human resources leader is set to retire from the berry producer after a decade with the company.
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Ex-JPMorgan Atty Pleads Guilty To NYC Housing Fraud
A one-time Bronx, New York, prosecutor and former JPMorgan Chase & Co. assistant general counsel pled guilty along with two relatives to a scheme to fraudulently obtain affordable housing units and benefits, state investigators announced Friday.
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Akerman Brings On GC For Land Developer In Miami
Akerman LLP has expanded its real estate practice in Miami with a partner who formerly served as general counsel for the land developer of a master-planned community in South Florida.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and President Donald Trump flexed his executive power with new appointments and policies. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Expert Analysis
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.