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Retired Sidley Austin Atty Joins Pharma Group's Case
A former Sidley Austin LLP attorney said Thursday that he is coming out of retirement to work for a pharmaceutical coalition in its push for protection from anti-kickback restrictions in a federal lawsuit.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Discover argued that allegedly misleading statements on compliance and risk management protocols from top brass were "aspirational" remarks on general practices, and an affiliate of Walt Disney Co. shareholder Blackwells Capital asked Delaware's Court of the Chancery to force Disney to open its books and records. 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 end of March marked another busy week for the legal industry as BigLaw made notable hires and shifted office locations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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ADT Legal Chief Saw Comp Dip To $1.7M In 2023
The chief legal officer of security company ADT Inc. earned $1.7 million in total compensation in 2023, about $250,000 less than what he earned in 2022, according to a proxy statement filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Feds Say Ex-OneCoin Atty Should Serve 'Substantial' Time
Manhattan federal prosecutors have requested a "substantial" amount of prison time for a Bulgarian woman who worked on the legal team at the fraudulent OneCoin cryptocurrency exchange, but said the sentence should fall below the guidelines range of 10 years.
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WeightWatchers Adds 23andMe's Ex-Legal Head As Its GC
WW International Inc., formerly known as WeightWatchers, hired Jacqueline Cooke from ancestry-tracking company 23andMe this month as its new general counsel and corporate secretary.
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Busy Chief Lawyer Lands On List Of Highest Paid 3M Execs
While 3M Co. laid off thousands of employees in 2023, including some lawyers, its chief legal affairs officer saw his pay increase, earning over $6.7 million in total compensation as he joined the list of the company's five highest paid executives.
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Greenberg Traurig Investment Pros Join DLA Piper In Ga., Fla.
DLA Piper announced Thursday that it has expanded its investment funds practice with three former Greenberg Traurig LLP attorneys, including a partner and of counsel in Atlanta and a senior attorney in Miami.
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AFL-CIO Names Ex-CWA General Counsel For Advocacy Role
Union federation AFL-CIO announced it has named an experienced attorney who spent nearly 25 years working on government and labor movement matters, including a stint as general counsel with the Communications Workers of America, as its new director of advocacy.
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Mercy Taps Seasoned Health System GC To Lead Legal Team
St. Louis-based hospital system Mercy has revealed it will have a new lawyer heading up its legal team starting Monday, with the addition of an experienced in-house healthcare industry counsel who brings more than 30 years of legal experience.
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Olympus Names New Corporate GC With Deputy Promotion
Medical technology company Olympus announced that its deputy general counsel was promoted to corporate general counsel of the company's American unit, as part of a major change in leadership that includes the appointment of a new CEO.
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Ex-BigLaw Atty Named Acting GC At Neptune Wellness
Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. elevated to acting general counsel one of its in-house lawyers, who previously worked in BigLaw, the consumer-packaged goods company said in a securities filing on Wednesday, just days after a federal judge's order to replace its legal counsel.
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GC For Del.-Based Chesapeake Utilities Earned $1.4M In '23
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation's general counsel James F. Moriarty saw his total compensation package increase to roughly $1.4 million for 2023, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says.
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Consilio Added More Women Leaders To Ranks In 2023
Consilio LLC has announced the progress it made last year in hiring and promoting more women to serve in leadership positions, while the e-discovery and document review company continues to see stagnation in racial and ethnic representation at those decision-making levels.
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How GCs Can Leverage AI And Mitigate Risks
Experts at a cybersecurity summit for in-house counsel this week agreed that the best governance strategies for using artificial intelligence should balance the company's business and ethical culture with its tolerance for risk.
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SEC Cyber Enforcement Top Concern For Compliance Pros
More than 40% of compliance personnel from asset management, investment adviser and private markets firms are concerned about how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will enforce its new cybersecurity rules, according to findings from a recent survey.
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Ex-GC With Lockheed Martin Space Joins Sherman & Howard
A former general counsel and longtime attorney at Lockheed Martin has joined Sherman & Howard LLC as co-leader of the aerospace industry group, the law firm said Wednesday.
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Cleveland Clinic Recruits Texas Health System Atty As CLO
An experienced healthcare in-house attorney is leaving her post at Texas' Memorial Hermann Health System to join Cleveland Clinic as its top attorney, the Ohio-based healthcare organization announced Wednesday.
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Colgate-Palmolive Legal Chief's Compensation Rises To $4.2M
Colgate-Palmolive's legal chief, who has been with the consumer products company for a decade, earned more than $4.2 million in total compensation in 2023, up slightly from the previous year, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
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How Senior Associates Can Build Their Books Of Business
As associates grow into their positions, there can come a point at which they realize that mastering the art of the legal brief or the deposition is not enough: They also need to learn how to attract and retain clients.
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Why This First-Time General Counsel Focuses On Authenticity
In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, Vertical Bridge's new general counsel — who said she's proud she grew up in a working-class family in the Florida Keys — recalled realizing quickly in her career that her success came when she showed her "true self."
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Meridian Capital Taps Former Top Regulator As New CEO
Meridian Capital Group announced Tuesday that it has appointed top banking executive and former financial regulator Brian Brooks as its CEO and chairman amid a breakdown in the firm's relationship with Freddie Mac.
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Trailblazing SEC Commissioner Roberta Karmel Dies At 86
Roberta Karmel, a well-regarded legal scholar who pushed back against early-career sexism to become the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first female commissioner, died over the weekend at the age of 86, according to the law school where she taught for decades.
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Ex-Worthington Steel Legal Chief Named Corning's New GC
New York-based glass and ceramic company Corning announced that the former legal chief at Worthington Steel has been named its new general counsel and senior vice president.
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Proxy Snapshot: Bank Of New York Mellon
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. has filed its 128-page proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for its 2024 annual meeting. The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. April 9 at 240 Greenwich St. in New York City.