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Transportation Services Biz GC To Join Scopelitis Garvin
Transportation services Landstar System Inc. announced Thursday that its general counsel will be leaving next month for transportation-focused firm Scopelitis Garvin Light Hanson & Feary PC.
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Cigna Expands Top Atty's Role To Include Compliance, Risk
The Cigna Group has expanded the role of its chief legal officer to take on responsibility for enterprise compliance and risk.
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Tripadvisor's CLO Will Depart Next Month
The chief legal officer at Tripadvisor Inc. has agreed to step down next month — after nearly 15 years in the position — and the company will replace him with another long-term in-house lawyer there, a spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Thursday.
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Rinnai America GC Promoted To Legal Senior VP
Georgia-based Rinnai America Corp. has elevated its vice president and general counsel to senior vice president of legal, government affairs and people, promoting a legal leader who has handled the company's legal and policy issues as well as supported its growth goals.
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Rutgers Compliance Chief Named New URochester Top Atty
The University of Rochester announced that the current chief compliance officer at Rutgers University will join the upstate New York institution in August as its new general counsel.
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Phillips 66 General Counsel Earns $6.8M In 2025
The top in-house attorney for energy conglomerate Phillips 66 saw a boost in her total compensation in 2025, taking home nearly $6.8 million in salary, bonuses and stock awards while the company endured a proxy fight with an activist investor and legal disputes over trade secrets and employees' wages, according to a recent securities filing.
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The Top In-House Hires Of March
Legal department hires during the third month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at the NAACP, Walmart and Marriott Vacations. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.
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IBM Legal Chief Recasts Risk As Tool To Innovate
"Ruthless prioritization" is how IBM Chief Legal Officer Anne Robinson says she guides her legal department to focus on the most important company issues.
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Lyft's CLO Saw $2.6M Decrease In Comp Last Year
The top attorney for rideshare platform Lyft saw her compensation package drop by $2.6 million last year to about $5.3 million compared to nearly $8 million in 2024, according to a recent securities filing.
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Shopify Lawyer Says Clients Should Insist Firms Embrace AI
As top corporate lawyers face increasing pressure to control outside counsel spending — while continuing to deliver high-quality legal work — they should ensure that law firms have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways and allowing for client feedback, according to a Shopify lawyer who spoke during a webinar Tuesday.
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AIG GC Took In Almost $6.7M In 2025
The general counsel and executive vice president of American International Group Inc. took in nearly $6.7 million in 2025, according to a Tuesday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that comes a little over two years after her appointment to the role.
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NFL Lands Snap, Former Fox Sports GC As Deputy GC
The National Football League has announced it hired a media and tech industry attorney from Snap Inc. as its new deputy general counsel.
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Unity Biotech CLO Joins Wilson Sonsini's GC Residence
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced Tuesday it has added a former assistant White House counsel, most recently the chief legal officer of the now shuttered Unity Biotechnology Inc., as the latest in-house attorney to join its general counsel in residence program.
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Lumber Co. Elevates Deputy Atty To GC
Pittsburgh-area building materials supplier 84 Lumber has internally promoted one of its in-house attorneys to take over leadership of its legal department following the recent retirement of his predecessor, who held the role for nearly 40 years.
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Apartment Co. Promotes Asst. To GC Amid Leader Changes
Management Support, an apartment owner and operator, said it has elevated its assistant legal counsel to general counsel as part of a series of leadership changes following the death of the company's founder.
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Siemens Promotes Longtime Atty To Lead US Legal Unit
A longtime attorney for Siemens USA has been tapped to serve as the tech company's legal leader, months after its previous general counsel was named interim president and CEO.
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eCapital Finds GC In Longtime NV5 Global Atty
Miami-based eCapital Corp. has tapped a new chief legal officer who was previously the executive vice president and general counsel at NV5.
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Threat Or Opportunity: Junior Attys Face The AI Future Now
Early-career and senior attorneys alike said they believe artificial intelligence could replace responsibilities usually performed by junior lawyers, causing concern among some early-career legal professionals about their future job prospects, a new Law360 Pulse survey found.
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Power Users Get Real About AI's Role At Work
Attorneys who frequently use artificial intelligence tools are starting to feel less positive and more neutral about the technology's adoption in the legal industry, a trend that might be driven by lawyers developing more realistic expectations about AI's capabilities.
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What Attorneys Really Think About AI
Seventy percent of attorneys at law firms report using artificial intelligence at least once a week as part of their jobs, a sharp increase from 2025, according to the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.
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5 Takeaways From 2026 ABA Techshow In Chicago
Artificial intelligence's impact on the legal profession dominated much of the conversation as more than 2,000 attendees and over 100 vendors gathered last week at McCormick Place in Chicago for the American Bar Association Techshow 2026. Here are five highlights from the event.
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Seneca Resorts Promotes From Within For CLO Role
Seneca Resorts & Casinos has tapped a longtime in-house lawyer and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP alum to serve as its chief legal officer and general counsel, the company announced Monday.
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Ex-Frontier CLO 'Excited' For 'A New Chapter' At Day Pitney
The former chief legal and regulatory officer at Frontier Communications, who resigned in January following Verizon's takeover of the national fiber network internet service provider, has returned to private practice as of counsel at Day Pitney LLP, the firm said Monday.
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ConocoPhillips GC Took In $6.5M Last Year
The senior vice president for legal and general counsel of ConocoPhillips Co. received $6.5 million in total compensation in 2025, a $357,000 increase over the previous year, according to a securities filing on Monday.
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Manatt Adds Ex-FTC, Microsoft Leader As Adviser
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP announced Monday it has hired a former Microsoft executive and commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, who is joining the law firm's team in Boston as a national adviser to work with privacy and data security issues.
Expert Analysis
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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.