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AMC GC's Compensation Reached Almost $2.8M In 2023
AMC paid its general counsel close to $2.8 million last year, up from the nearly $2.6 million he saw in 2022, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
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Seyfarth Picks Up BCLP Corporate Finance Pro In Atlanta
Seyfarth Shaw LLP is expanding its corporate team with a Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP finance specialist as a partner in its Atlanta office, the firm said Wednesday.
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In-House Vet Named NantHealth's New Legal Chief
Healthcare software company NantHealth announced that an experienced in-house attorney who has spent nearly 25 years working in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries was named its new chief legal officer.
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Mitsubishi Promotes Top Lawyer To Newly Created Position
Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. has promoted its highest-ranking attorney to a new, more senior position: senior vice president and chief legal and administrative officer, the company announced Tuesday.
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Tesla's Risky Ride To Revive Musk's Multibillion-Dollar Pay
Tesla Inc. and its mercurial CEO Elon Musk are banking on a bold strategy to salvage his multibillion-dollar compensation plan, invoking a recently enacted corporate power to first patch Tesla's charter and then reincorporate in Texas, potentially triggering stockholder claims of fiduciary breaches and waste.
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Ex-Facebook GC Earns $7.1M In First Year As Etsy Legal Chief
Former Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch, who joined online marketplace and e-commerce website Etsy as chief legal officer in February 2023, earned around $7.1 million in total compensation last year, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Ex-Cozen O'Connor Atty Moves In-House To DraftKings
Cozen O'Connor's former co-chair of its state attorneys general practice has moved in-house to join major sports betting company and firm client DraftKings Inc. as its new chief responsible gaming officer.
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Hunton Hires Martin Marietta Assistant GC In San Francisco
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP said Tuesday it is growing its environmental team by bringing in a land use and mining expert as a partner in the firm's San Francisco office from building supply company Martin Marietta Materials Inc., where he was assistant general counsel.
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Proxy Snapshot: Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
As a sign of the times, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is facing shareholder resolutions questioning its policies on climate change risk, including one that suggests it is doing too much and others that imply it's doing too little. The resolutions will be voted on at the company's annual meeting Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Former Kraft GC Named Celanese's New Lead Board Director
Chemical maker Celanese Corp. has announced the appointment of Kim K.W. Rucker, formerly general counsel for Kraft Foods and Avon Products, as the lead independent director of its board.
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UnitedHealth CLO Saw Comp Drop To $6.4M Last Year
The top lawyer at UnitedHealth Group Inc. earned just over $6.4 million in 2023, down from the more than $11.3 million he saw the previous year when he was hired, the company said in a securities filing.
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Ex-Mary Kay CLO Says Firms Should Work As Co. Partners
Almost a month into her new role at Texas litigation firm Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann LLP, former Mary Kay chief legal officer Julia Simon shares more about her decision to rejoin private practice, and why when she was in-house she rehired outside counsel who viewed their role to be a partner.
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Aimbridge Hospitality Welcomes Ex-CLO Back To The Role
Texas-based Aimbridge Hospitality has found its new top attorney in a familiar face — its longtime former chief legal officer, who returns to the role following a short stint at another management company.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Rosenberg Fosters Young Talent
Soon after U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida began presiding over her first multidistrict litigation — a case alleging the heartburn medication Zantac caused cancer — she took a novel approach to selecting leadership on the plaintiffs' side.
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Veteran GC Joins Capstone Green Energy As It Rebuilds
The longtime general counsel for Jafra Cosmetics International Inc. has moved to Capstone Green Energy Holdings Inc., as the generator manufacturer pushes forward after filing for Chapter 11 protection in 2023.
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Legal Talent Platform Legal.io Opens NYC Office
In-house legal talent hiring platform Legal.io is opening an office in New York City to better serve existing and new clients in the area, the Silicon Valley-based company said Tuesday.
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Where Lawyers Stand On Generative AI Tools
Lawyers are approaching generative artificial intelligence with caution, despite its promised advantages, and the use of legal AI tools is only slowly catching on, according to a new survey.
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How Law Firms Can Create Winning Generative AI Policies
Relatively few firms are encouraging their lawyers to use generative AI, according to a new survey by Law360 Pulse, and many do not seem to have policies about AI use in place.
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What Lawyers Really Think Of AI
Most lawyers aren't worried about being replaced by robots, but they are broadly concerned about the accuracy and ethical implications of generative artificial intelligence, a new survey shows.
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Brownstein Ahead As Lobbying Shops Are Off To Strong Start
This year has opened with record first-quarter profits for some BigLaw lobbying practices in Washington, D.C., as clients focus on issues such as artificial intelligence regulation and taxes, new figures show.
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Former Norton Rose Atty Joins WildBrain As General Counsel
WildBrain Ltd., a Canada-based children and family entertainment company, has hired a former Norton Rose Fulbright attorney as its new general counsel.
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Law Firm Billing Rates Rose At 'Record Setting Pace'
Average law firm partner billing rates rose 5.4% in 2023, higher than any other year in the last decade, with the largest law firms hiking prices the most, according to a report released Tuesday by LexisNexis' CounselLink.
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Husch Blackwell Helping Lawyers Become In-House Counsel
In June, Husch Blackwell LLP is going to start training 25 of its lawyers on how to become successful in-house counsel, with the firm's new chair saying "it makes all the sense in the world."
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Unemployment Rate For Recent Law Grads Improves, ABA Finds
Fewer recent law school graduates were unemployed in March than in the previous year, as the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic further recede into memory, according to data released Monday by the American Bar Association.
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Asbury Automotive Group CLO Plans Retirement
The longtime top attorney for automotive retail and service company Asbury Automotive Group Inc. is retiring from the company after more than a decade as chief legal officer.