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Berry Corp. Taps Phillips 66 Atty As New GC
Upstream energy company Berry Corp. announced Monday that it has appointed a former deputy general counsel with Phillips 66 to lead its legal team, effectively immediately.
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Ex-NY Rail Official Named EVP Of Hudson Tunnel Project Body
The Gateway Development Commission, the body overseeing a project to create four modern rail tracks between New York and New Jersey, announced last week that it has hired the former president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro-North Railroad as its executive vice president.
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Lyft Legal Chief Earned Nearly $8M In 2024
Lyft's chief legal officer earned almost $8 million in 2024, according to a preliminary filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Top Lionsgate Atty Signs New Multiyear Deal
Lionsgate Studios Corp. will retain its general counsel, who signed a new multiyear deal, setting the head lawyer up with an annual base salary of $1.2 million, according to a regulatory filing.
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Cipriani & Werner Adds Trio Of Mullen Coughlin Attys In Philly
Cipriani & Werner PC has strengthened its cybersecurity incident response team and litigation group in Philadelphia with the addition of five attorneys to the practice, including three who moved their practices from Mullen Coughlin LLC.
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Ex-CLO For Truck Stop Giant Pilot Switches Gears
Truck-stop chain Pilot Flying J's chief legal counsel is set to become fuel company Global Partners LP's next top lawyer, Global Partners announced Friday.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Former general counsel who signed an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie's fight against the Trump administration shared with Law360 Pulse the details behind their decisions. Meanwhile, Florida's attorney general said the state will no longer tap law firms with DEI programs to serve as external counsel. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry has had another busy week with another executive order targeting a law firm, several lateral moves and notable office changes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Mondelez In-House Atty Returns To Ogletree Deakins In NJ
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC's Morristown, New Jersey, office this week has welcomed back a former partner with 15 years of legal experience who left the firm for an in-house role at the food company Mondelez International.
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BigLaw Shying Away From Some Pro Bono Work 'Out Of Fear'
Amid President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting BigLaw firms, nonprofit leaders whose organizations have long worked with the industry tell Law360 Pulse they have seen attorneys shy away from certain legal work that may be looked on unfavorably by the administration.
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Eventbrite Elevates Deputy To Replace Outgoing GC
Eventbrite Inc. has promoted one of its in-house lawyers to take over for its outgoing general counsel early next month, the online ticketing platform said in a securities filing Thursday.
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Wilson Taps Health Tech Pro For GC In Residence Program
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced that it has added a healthtech industry expert who currently chairs the board of leading drug development preclinical trial solutions provider Instem to its recently launched general counsel in residence program.
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Amazon CLO's Pay Soared Above $25M On Stock Award
Amazon.com Inc.'s top in-house attorney brought home a massive stock award that pushed his total compensation for 2024 to more than $25 million, a new securities document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows.
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How Baltimore Orioles GC Just Fell Into Sports Law
Kamaal Jones always loved going to the Baltimore Oriole baseball games with his father, but he never aspired to be a sports lawyer, let alone the general counsel of the Orioles.
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What's Stopping Legal Departments From Using Gen AI Today
Disorganized data, the lack of data scientists and cost constraints are holding legal departments back from adopting advanced technology such as generative artificial intelligence, according to a new survey from EY.
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Litigation Funder Nera Capital Hires Banking Expert As GC
Nera Capital has appointed a finance expert with nearly a decade's experience in banking as general counsel, part of a series of senior hires as the firm looks to expand its reach.
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Pinterest's Legal Chief Saw Comp Drop By Nearly $4M In '24
Pinterest's chief legal officer saw her total compensation drop to $6.2 million in 2024, down over $4 million from the $10.3 million she earned in 2023, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tech GC Moves To Private Practice At Sheppard Mullin
Sheppard Mullin has added a special counsel to its Silicon Valley corporate practice group who brings a range of diverse experience, most recently serving as general counsel at a venture-backed digital privacy company.
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Why Some GCs Joined Perkins Coie's Trump Order Fight
Former and current general counsel who joined an amicus brief this week supporting Perkins Coie LLP's fight against the Trump administration say their decision to back the firm wasn't a hard one, but added they understand why many corporate legal leaders may feel their fiduciary duties keep them from signing.
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Florida Won't Hire Law Firms With DEI Initiatives, AG Says
The state of Florida will no longer hire law firms with diversity, equity and inclusion programs to serve as outside general counsel, according to a new memo from Attorney General James Uthmeier.
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Dow's GC And Other Execs See Pay Dip In 2024
Dow Inc. general counsel and secretary Amy Wilson earned $4.66 million in total compensation in 2024, according to proxy materials she prepared and filed in advance of the company's annual meeting on Thursday.
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Health Co. Deputy GC Joins Pierson Ferdinand In Philly
An attorney with more than five years of experience as an in-house counsel for behavioral healthcare providers has moved back to the law firm environment to focus on building up his practice at Pierson Ferdinand LLP's Philadelphia office.
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Longtime Cummins Atty Tapped To Be New Legal Chief
Global power technology company Cummins Inc. has put plans into motion for some executive leadership changes, including the promotion of one of its in-house attorneys to lead the legal department.
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Cushman Atty Transitions In-House As Kidder Mathews GC
Kidder Mathews announced Monday that it has hired Edward Castro, a 30-year corporate attorney with experience in commercial real estate law, as general counsel advising the company and its 19 West Coast offices.
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Compliance Chief Wants Out Of SEC Fraud Suit
The chief compliance officer and general counsel of a wealth management firm has urged an Illinois federal judge to dismiss him from a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit over an alleged offering fraud by former representatives at his firm, saying "the commission does not even understand what its own pleading burden in this case is."
Expert Analysis
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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.