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SEC Asks For Win Following Ex-Apple Atty's Guilty Plea
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission moved for summary judgment Friday on insider trading claims against a former senior attorney at Apple Inc., arguing there is no need to relitigate claims since the lawyer already pled guilty to criminal charges related to a lucrative insider trading scheme.
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Law's Up And Coming Job Title? Coach.
A title that once belonged to the athletic field is now increasingly common in the legal industry, with law firms expanding the ways in which they use coaches and building out their in-house coaching departments.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Help for lawyers in dealing with legal data challenges has come, thanks to corporate and law firm leaders who founded a new industry framework called Legal Data Intelligence. And at least one U.S. senator is questioning Amazon and Walmart's use of new tech to create "dynamic pricing" that may harm consumers.
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5th Circ. Upholds SEC Proxy Rule On ESG Disclosures
The Fifth Circuit on Friday threw out a legal challenge to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requirement that will make it easier for investors to identify ESG issues on corporate ballots, saying that suing states like Texas haven't proven that they'll be financially harmed by the measure.
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Ex-Ballard Spahr Atty Joins DC Nonprofit Consultancy Group
Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm that helps fund and manage nonprofit organizations, has hired a former Ballard Spahr LLC partner with a range of professional experience that includes working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as its new general counsel,
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Acelyrin Promotes Atty To CLO, As Legal Chief Becomes CEO
Acelyrin said Thursday it named its legal chief — who is a seasoned attorney and leader in the biotechnology space — as its next CEO, as the founder and current top executive stepped down from her position at the biopharmaceutical company.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw made new hires across offices and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Pharvaris CLO Set To Step Down In June, CFO Will Fill In
The top lawyer for Swiss life sciences company Pharvaris will step down June 1 after two years in the role, with the company's chief financial officer set to take over her duties on an interim basis while the search begins for her replacement.
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Whistleblowing Work Is Fueling Law Firm Growth
The increasing visibility of whistleblowers and a growing array of government incentives designed to bring them forward are fueling growth for the legal industry as new practices focused on alleged corporate fraud and misconduct have set up shop in recent months.
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As Debt Rises, New Grads More Likely To Pick Law Firm Jobs
More than half of recent law school graduates are choosing jobs at law firms, an uptick from recent years, and some students and administrators say there’s a simple reason: mounting student loan debt.
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Ag Tech Co. Taps Venture Capital Veteran As GC
Amid a monthslong management and financial shakeup, Benson Hill Inc. has hired a former in-house counsel who brings a blend of business and legal leadership to help the company transition to a new business model.
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Chancery Tosses Qualcomm Investor's Diversity Suit
A shareholder who sued Qualcomm Inc. for allegedly misleading the public and investors about its efforts to diversify its board has failed to show that the company didn't consider diverse candidates, Delaware's Court of Chancery said Thursday, dismissing the shareholder's case.
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Debt Collection Agency Names New GC, VP For Compliance
Delaware-based debt collection agency Phillips & Cohen Associates Ltd. announced Thursday that a former litigation attorney at an Atlanta boutique firm was appointed its new general counsel and senior vice president of global compliance.
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Electric Motor Maker Adds Ex-Apple Atty As General Counsel
Electric motor maker Infinitum has hired as its general counsel an attorney who previously worked in-house at Apple, travel technology company Mondee and financial services business NetSpend.
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Hormel Foods Recruits Ex-Hertz Global GC As Top Lawyer
Hormel Foods Corp. — which owns brands such as Planters, Skippy and Spam — said Thursday it will bring on Hertz Global Holdings Inc.'s former general counsel to serve as its top lawyer beginning next month.
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Day Pitney Adds Former Cigna Compliance Pro In Conn.
Day Pitney LLP has grown its government enforcement and white collar criminal defense practice with the addition of an in-house attorney at the Cigna Group who spent 16 years as a federal prosecutor in Bridgeport.
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In-House Leaders On Where Legal Ops Stands And Its Future
Even though legal operations has gained footing in many corporate legal departments, the practice is different across organizations and not well understood by C-suite leaders or attorneys, panelists said at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual conference in Las Vegas.
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Law Firm, Corporate Leaders Introduce Legal Data Framework
Leaders from CrowdStrike, Moderna and Winston & Strawn LLP are among the founding members of a new industry framework launched Thursday to help legal professionals tackle data challenges.
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ABA Directs Attys To Avoid Sharing Client Info On Listservs
It is in the best interest of clients for their legal counsel to avoid sharing information related to representation while seeking advice in an online listserv forum, if the comments or questions could be connected to a client's identity, according to American Bar Association guidance published Wednesday.
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Texas Broadband Satellite Co. Names New CLO
Texas-based AST SpaceMobile Inc. announced that a longtime executive at 3D printing company 3D Systems Co. has joined the telecommunications company as its new chief legal officer.
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GCs Seeing More Risk In Increased Cross-Border Expansions
As multinational companies continue to grow across borders, in-house legal teams face more complexity and risk to stay on top of global issues, according to a new study released Wednesday.
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ABA Will Study Rape Questions' Necessity For Bar Applicants
An American Bar Association commission will issue a report and recommendations by August on the practice of requiring would-be lawyers to disclose and discuss their experiences of sexual violence during the attorney licensure process.
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Skadden Taps SoFi Bank, Shearman Attys For Co-Lead Roles
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired two new co-leaders of its financial institutions regulatory group to advise banks, financial institutions and other market participants on regulatory and legislative developments, the firm announced Wednesday.
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DLA Piper Taps Danske Bank Officer For New AI Leader Role
Global law firm DLA Piper has brought on the former group chief data officer for Danske Bank A/S — Denmark's largest bank — as its inaugural chief data and artificial intelligence officer, making it the latest BigLaw firm to have created an AI-related leader role to focus on the emerging technology.
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These Law Schools Are The Tops For BigLaw
The law schools at Georgetown, Harvard and Columbia are renowned for effectively serving as training grounds for BigLaw. But while they may consistently send the most graduates, other law schools are sending a higher percentage of their grads to larger firms.