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Jackson Lewis Adds Disney, Fisher Phillips Employment Pros
Employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC is expanding its ranks, bringing in a former director of labor relations at the Walt Disney Co. as a principal in its Los Angeles office and a former Fisher Phillips litigator as a principal in its Houston office.
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ACC Honors 8 Corporate Legal Depts. For Smart Tech Use
Calgary-based Brookfield Properties partnered with outside counsel at Reed Smith LLP to create an innovative third-party vendor vetting solution that resulted in a drop in review times from days to hours, a 48% cost reduction and an estimated $750,000 in savings. The project earned the pair a spot as a 2025 ACC Value Champion.
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HHS To Eliminate 6 Regional Offices For Legal Staff
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it will close six out of 10 regional offices where attorneys for the agency work.
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X Games Grabs Dish Network GC To Lead Its Legal Team
Extreme athlete competition X Games has hired the former Dish Network general counsel as its chief legal officer, the brand announced Tuesday.
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IBM Legal Chief Earned $9.87 Million In First 6 Months
A $750,000 sign-on bonus boosted IBM's new chief legal officer's compensation to nearly $10 million for her first six months at the company, according to a securities filing this week.
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By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing
Lateral hiring among the top 200 law firms rebounded in 2024, with firms adding 900 lateral hires, according to a new Leopard Solutions report that also highlighted ongoing transitions in the legal industry, including generational leadership shifts, evolving career aspirations, and growing pressures on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Nelson Mullins Real Estate Ace Joins Kutak Rock In Fla.
A former Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partner who has helped close more than $1 billion in real estate transactions in just the past two years has moved her practice to Kutak Rock LLP's Tallahassee, Florida, office.
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Moderna CLO Saw Comp Jump Fourfold To $17.3M
The top attorney for Moderna Inc. saw her compensation skyrocket last year to over $17.3 million compared to $4.3 million in 2023, driven by stock awards.
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Feds, Ex-Cognizant Execs Ink April Date For FCPA Trial
A New Jersey federal judge set an April 7 trial date for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives on Wednesday, firming up a case timeline that's been beset by multiple delays, most recently due to the Trump administration's retreat from enforcing the statute.
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4 Tips For Women On How To Advance Their Legal Careers
Contract management platform LinkSquares held a virtual event this week where women attorneys discussed their legal careers and challenges they have encountered. Here are four tips they shared for how women lawyers can excel in their careers.
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How This Legal Ops Attorney Found His In-House Niche
As a pioneer in the legal operations field, Adam Becker went from a BigLaw associate to a legal recruiting manager, law office administrator and attorney development manager until he finally found his sweet spot in-house, working in legal ops.
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Trump Taps Amazon Corporate Counsel As US Atty In Philly
President Donald Trump has tapped David Metcalf, a former U.S. Department of Justice official, currently at Amazon, to be U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Trump Taps DOJ Vet To Serve As Energy Dept.'s Top Lawyer
President Donald Trump has nominated a Winston & Strawn LLP partner, who formerly led the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division during Trump's previous term, to serve as the U.S. Department of Energy's general counsel.
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Ex-EEOC Chair Dhillon Nominated To Lead Pension Corp.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Janet Dhillon, a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair and commissioner, to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
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Ex-TD Bank Atty Back To Basics Of Litigation At Ballard Spahr
A former in-house attorney for TD Bank has gone back to private practice and joined Ballard Spahr LLP's Philadelphia office in a move aimed at returning his focus to the nuts and bolts of litigation.
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New Chief Legal Officer Jumps To Sky Zone Franchise
Sky Zone, an indoor trampoline park and family entertainment franchise, has found itself a new legal leader, the company said Tuesday.
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Domino's Pizza Names Longtime In-House Atty As GC
Domino's Pizza Inc. has promoted one of its longstanding attorneys to the role of general counsel.
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US Atty, Ex-Cognizant Execs Can Delay FCPA Trial For 30 Days
A federal judge granted an adjournment of up to 30 days in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives to allow the newly anointed U.S. attorney for New Jersey to review the case.
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Office Depot Parent Co. CLO's 2024 Comp Dropped To $1.67M
The chief legal officer for the Florida-based parent company of Office Depot LLC saw her total compensation drop by almost $400,000 to less than $1.7 million in 2024.
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Ex-J&J Atty Says She Was Fired For Making Ethics Complaint
A former in-house data privacy attorney for Johnson & Johnson has sued the company for discrimination in New Jersey federal court, alleging that she was passed over for a promotion based on her Latina ethnicity and fired for reporting unethical behavior by the attorney who got the job.
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Ex-Google AI Counsel Joins King & Spalding In San Francisco
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired for its business litigation practice group a former Google in-house attorney who helped steer the tech giant's artificial intelligence regulatory strategy.
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Social Security Admin. Atty Rejoins Potomac Law Group
A former senior investigative counsel for the Social Security Administration has rejoined Potomac Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday, and she told Law360 Pulse in an interview she was looking forward to rejoining the firm she left about a decade ago.
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White House Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Atty To Lead USPTO
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated John Squires, Goldman Sachs' former longtime chief intellectual property counsel, to serve as the next U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.
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J. Crew Wins Confirmation Of Ex-GC's Arbitration Loss
A New York federal judge confirmed an arbitrator's ruling Monday that found J. Crew hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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Commerce Dept. Telecom Atty Rejoins Akin In DC
The former deputy chief counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce group focused on telecommunications has rejoined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in Washington, the firm announced Monday.