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Amid sweeping cost-cutting and reorganization, Paramount Global Inc. general counsel Christa D'Alimonte is leaving the company June 28 and being replaced by her deputy.
Wordsmith, which developed an artificial intelligence workplace for in-house lawyers, secured a $5 million seed investment on Thursday.
Emy Trende has spent most of her career so far as a healthcare attorney, which she told Law360 Pulse is an “honorable responsibility.” But, she added, it’s also a challenge to compartmentalize the legal role from the emotion. Here, the top lawyer at the United Network for Organ Sharing talks about how being an attorney has helped her navigate the healthcare system in her personal life.
Boston-based biotherapeutics company Seaport Therapeutics announced Tuesday that a life sciences and corporate attorney with more than two decades of experience in-house and in private practice was named its new general counsel.
Online art marketplace Artsy announced its chief financial officer and general counsel Jeffrey Yin has been elevated to chief executive officer following his predecessor's decision to leave the company this summer.
Kriya Therapeutics Inc., which develops gene therapies to address common diseases, said Tuesday it has chosen a veteran bioscience general counsel to be its chief legal officer.
Cooley LLP has expanded its fund formation practice with the addition of an experienced fund formation attorney who previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and founded a venture advisory group for asset managers.
Law360 Pulse asked respondents to our Lawyer Satisfaction Survey for their thoughts on misconceptions about being a lawyer, what the best parts of the job are and what they would tell newer lawyers. Here's what they said.
The legal industry is notoriously high-pressure and competitive. But most attorneys report high levels of job satisfaction, even with pervasive stress in the profession, according to a new survey.
Lawyers' satisfaction with their firms' investment in technology has declined over the past year, a new Law360 Pulse survey shows, but new artificial intelligence tools could provide a solution.
In books, television shows, and perhaps a few news articles, law firms are dens of treachery — places where, as one California federal judge recently put it, "partners stab each other in the back every day and move on to the next one." But reality for most lawyers does not reflect that cynical view, Law360 Pulse's new survey shows.
The general counsel for the State Bar of Georgia plans to retire in January after providing "stability and knowledge" as she oversaw the bar general counsel's office for nearly 15 years, ending a bar career that spanned 36 years.
A new general counsel and corporate secretary is taking the legal reins at the franchisor behind casual dining chains Perkins Restaurant & Bakery and Huddle House, departing his previous role as chief legal and people officer for Florida-based Pollo Tropical owner Fiesta Restaurant Group Inc.
An attorney with more than 20 years of experience advising business clients on commercial litigation has joined Blank Rome LLP's Pittsburgh office after nearly four years as an in-house counsel for a healthcare technology provider.
Cloud computing software company Nutanix Inc. has found its new top attorney in a veteran in-house attorney who most recently was general counsel to electric-vehicle battery maker Lyten Inc., Nutanix said Monday.
Bumble Inc., the parent company of the dating app Bumble, said Monday it had promoted its former assistant general counsel to chief legal officer.
The State Bar of Texas said in-house lawyers working for companies owned by nonattorneys are barred from providing legal services to the businesses' customers unless the work meets specific criteria because otherwise, the companies run afoul of rules forbidding the unauthorized practice of law, according to a proposed ethics opinion.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a wage and hour case from a supermarket distributor, teeing up an opportunity for the justices to articulate the standard by which an employer must demonstrate workers are exempt from overtime.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived investors' claims over chipmaker Nvidia's crypto mining sales, giving the high court a chance to weigh in on the pleading requirements needed to sustain a shareholder class action.
Florida-based space technology company Redwire Corporation has announced that a former attorney at Virgin Galactic with over 20 years of space industry experience, was named its new executive vice president, general counsel and secretary.
Autodesk paid its chief legal officer close to $4 million during the recent fiscal year, most of which was stock awards, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Four years since it launched in 2020, Husch Blackwell LLP's remote office, called The Link, has grown from 50 attorneys and business professionals to more than 700, with around a quarter of the law firm's attorneys practicing as part of the office.
The chief legal officer of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. earned nearly $3.5 million in total compensation in 2023, with the biggest portion consisting of stock awards, according to the company's annual securities filing late Thursday.
The governor of Vermont vetoed a legislative proposal that would have given consumers not only new data privacy rights but also the rare opportunity to sue large businesses for certain violations, and a multipart Delaware General Corporation Law amendment that would let boards cede some governance rights to big stockholders sailed through the state's Senate without debate or an opposing vote. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
This was another busy week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms expanded their reach and the U.S. Supreme Court term heated up. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.