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SolaREIT Names New GC, Transaction Counsel
Renewable energy real estate investment company SolaREIT has hired Marisa McCurdy as its new general counsel and Daniel Leppert as its new transaction counsel, the company announced Thursday.
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Civitech Names Ex-Uber Legal Leader As General Counsel
Civitech, an Austin, Texas-based public benefit corporation focused on advancing progressive candidates and causes, has bulked up its executive leadership team with a new general counsel who has served as chief of staff at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and as a senior legal director at Uber.
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Winstead Adds Former GC To Houston Real Estate Team
Winstead PC said it has added a Houston-based shareholder in its real estate development and investments practice group with experience in both private practice transactional work and in-house leadership.
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Webcor's GC Used Business Fluency To Land The CLO Spot
Over the past 12 years, Patrick Kirby has gone from outside counsel for Webcor to assistant general counsel, general counsel and chief legal officer at the commercial general contractor — and he says there's a factor to consider in landing a promotion that he says likely applies for many of his peers.
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader COO Takes Mormon Church Role
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's global chief operating officer has left the firm to take a position at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Law360 Pulse has learned.
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Now Boarding: Delta Recruits Former Ga. US Atty As GC
A former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney and two-time Alston & Bird LLP lawyer said Tuesday that he's moving in-house as the new general counsel at Delta Air Lines Inc.
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Diversity Lab CEO To Replace Retiring Midwest Bank Co. GC
The chief executive officer of Diversity Lab/Talent Multipliers will serve as Associated Banc-Corp's next executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary in Wisconsin, the company announced Wednesday.
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Cravath's Capital Markets Pro To Become Liberty Media's CLO
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's former London office leader will be taking over as chief legal officer of Liberty Media Corporation on Oct. 1, according to a Wednesday public filing.
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Ex-Warriors GC, DEI Exec Say Bias Complaints Led To Firings
The Golden State Warriors' former associate general counsel and its former vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion allege they were unlawfully fired in retaliation for speaking up about enduring a workplace marked by gender and race-based discrimination.
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Former In-House Atty May Take Whistleblower Claim To Trial
An Illinois state appellate panel has revived a whistleblower claim a medical device company's former in-house counsel lodged alleging he was fired for refusing to "hide or park" money in the intellectual property division's budget, while upholding the company's early win on other claims.
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The Top In-House Hires Of August
Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Anthropic, Zillow and ConocoPhillips. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from August.
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Meta's In-House Legal Moves Blur Line Between Risk, Error
Ahead of the company's $17 billion settlement over claims its content harmed children, Meta's in-house lawyers drew criticism from a federal judge last week over their handling of privilege claims and damaging internal research. But attorneys and academics differ over whether the moves reflect legal missteps or defensible efforts to manage litigation risk.
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Linklaters Welcomes J&J Litigation VP In New York
Linklaters LLP announced on Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson's vice president of litigation has joined its ranks in New York, touting his experience "leading the company through some of its most significant and complex legal challenges, including the litigation and resolution of one of the largest and most consequential mass torts in U.S. history."
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SEC Gears Up To Pull Shareholder Proposal Rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may soon propose regulations that could change the way corporate ballots are written and voted on, informing the White House of plans to address proxy solicitation and to rescind a commission regulation on shareholder proposals.
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K&L Gates Adds Northrop Grumman Atty To Trade Team In DC
K&L Gates LLP said Monday it added an international trade and national security attorney who brings in-house and law firm experience, hiring a Washington, D.C., partner who most recently was a senior corporate counsel with Northrop Grumman.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Ex-Meta Atty In DC And Miami
A longtime Meta Platforms Inc. in-house attorney has jumped to Greenberg Traurig LLP to work in its digital infrastructure group in Washington, D.C., and Miami, the firm announced Monday.
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Snell & Wilmer Hires Former Lucid Motors Assistant GC In DC
Snell & Wilmer has hired the former assistant general counsel of environmental and sustainability at Lucid Motors, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., as part of the natural resources practice group, the firm said Monday.
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New Jersey's Rocket Pharma Strikes New Pay Deal For Its GC
Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reached a new half-million-dollar compensation deal with its general counsel, the Cranbury, New Jersey-based company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report this week.
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Dollar General's Legal Leader Will Retire After 26 Years
Dollar General's top attorney is retiring after 26 years with the company and will be replaced by the discount retailer's assistant general counsel, it announced Friday.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
KKR will pay a $250 million civil penalty to end allegations that it hid key documentation and entire transactions for merger notification. In the meantime, Apple told an Illinois federal judge that a recent Seventh Circuit decision affirming Samsung's win in a biometric privacy suit means the tech giant should prevail over similar claims. These are among 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 is closing out August with fresh insight into law firm performance and a flurry of BigLaw career moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Energy Biz Names Ex-SFO Senior Official As GC
North American Blue Energy Partners has appointed a former senior legal official at the Serious Fraud Office as its general counsel as the oil and gas company prepares to expand operations, increase production and pursue new partnerships.
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Fujifilm Picks Ex-Elekta GC As Americas Top Lawyer
Fujifilm Holdings America Corp. on Thursday announced the appointment of a new general counsel, selecting a top lawyer from the medical technology company Elekta.
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SEC Moves Closer To Curtailing Executive Pay Disclosures
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has moved one step closer to curtailing the amount of information that corporate executives must reveal about their pay, informing the White House that the agency could soon propose updated executive compensation regulations.
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Howard Hughes' GC Earned Nearly $2M In Comp Last Year
The chief legal officer and secretary for Texas-based real estate developer Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. earned about $1.9 million last year, roughly the same total compensation he received in 2024, according to a securities filing.
Expert Analysis
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.