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Buchanan Ingersoll Faces DQ Bid Over Former GC's Role
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC attorneys defending Amerilife should be disqualified for allegedly running "roughshod" over ethical rules by using a former general counsel of a retirement planning agency to gain an upper hand in a dispute in a Florida federal court, according to a bid to boot the firm from the case.
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Hanes' CLO Resigns For 'Another Business Opportunity'
The chief legal and human resources officer at HanesBrands Inc., whose resume includes stints at Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart, this week told the clothing giant that she will step down from her roles next month, according to a securities filing Friday.
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Voir Dire: Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigÂ鶹´«Ã½ firms hired new talent and the D.C. Bar kicked off its annual election. Test your legal news savvy here with Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Insurance Expert Promoted At Armed Forces Benefit Group
An attorney who has worked for insurers for more than 20 years has been promoted to a senior role at the Armed Forces Benefit Association and its affiliate, 5Star Life Insurance Co., according to a recent announcement.
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Latham Atty Named Silver Lake CLO After Closing $8.75B Deal
Days after announcing its purchase of a 51% stake in an Intel Corp. semiconductor solutions business, private equity tech investor Silver Lake announced it has brought a key outside counsel inside the c-suite, with the addition of a new chief legal officer from Latham & Watkins.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Google and its chief legal officer have now lost two major antitrust cases to DOJ prosecutors after a federal judge ruled Thursday the search engine monopolized markets and servers related to display advertising. Meanwhile, a new study shows companies are disclosing their business risks, and how they are trying to mitigate those risks, amid changing tariffs and the uncertainty of the U.S.-China trade war. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Former In-House Atty Wants To Improve Client Convos With AI
Earlier this month, generative artificial intelligence-powered client conversations tool Querious, which was launched by a former in-house lawyer, tied for first place at the American Bar Association Techshow 2025 startup pitch competition.
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Netflix CLO Saw Comp Jump 26% To $17.3M In 2024
The longtime chief legal officer of Netflix saw his total compensation jump $3.6 million to $17.3 million in 2024, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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7-Eleven Parent Floats Refreshed Board With 4 New Nominees
Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co. on Thursday proposed a refreshed slate of directors and reaffirmed its commitment to pursuing both internal reforms and a potential acquisition by Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard.
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Retired Target CLO Becomes Legal Chief Of FanDuel Parent
A former chief legal and compliance officer at Target Corp. has come out of his short retirement to serve as the top attorney at Flutter, the parent company of sports betting and iGaming operator FanDuel, the business confirmed Thursday.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Private Wealth, Finance Attys In Texas
Greenberg Traurig LLP has bulked up both its private wealth services and finance practices in Austin, Texas, with one attorney coming aboard from Jackson Walker LLP and another returning to the firm following an in-house role with JPMorgan Chase & Co.Â
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Juniper GC Earned $3.35M Amid Challenged HPE Merger
The top lawyer for Juniper Network Inc. earned over $3 million last year as the company was working through a $14 billion attempted merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. that has since been challenged by the Justice Department, according to a securities filing Thursday.
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Salesforce Atty Sees Rooney Â鶹´«Ã½ Return As 'Right Challenge'
A former Salesforce attorney, who spent the past nearly 10 years working under the cloud-based software company's umbrella, is now leading the technology practice as a partner in Rooney Â鶹´«Ã½'s new Chicago office, the boutique law firm said Wednesday.
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DocuSign CLO Saw Comp Rise By $2.1M After Prior Drop
The chief legal officer for DocuSign Inc., a former attorney with HP and Workday, saw his total compensation jump almost $2.1 million to more than $7 million for the fiscal year ending in January after a decrease in the preceding year, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Investor Seeks Lobbying Info At L3Harris Technologies
At its virtual annual meeting on Friday, aerospace and defense industry giant L3Harris Technologies Inc. will be voting on one shareholder proposal, which seeks fuller disclosure about its lobbying expenses. Â
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Legal Staffing Co. Latitude Expands In DC, San Diego, NYC
National legal recruitment and staffing provider Latitude has recently expanded its roster with three attorneys who will lead the company's new offices launched in Washington, D.C., San Diego and New York City.
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Meridian Capital Promotes Legal Head To General Counsel
Meridian Capital Group announced Tuesday that its head of legal has been promoted to general counsel in a move that comes about a year after the firm came under new leadership.
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Elastic's CLO Says AI Won't Replace Legal Judgment
The legal chief at search artificial intelligence company Elastic told Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse during a recent interview about why she thinks AI won't take away from lawyers' professional responsibility to apply judgment.
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Legal Tech Co. Harbor Hires GC, Chief Integration Officer
Harbor Global, a legal technology services provider, announced Wednesday that it has hired a former Barge Design Solutions executive as its chief integration officer and general counsel.
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Legal Leaders Largely Favor Agreement Management Tools
Legal teams are cutting down on case resolution times, reducing out-of-compliance requests and seeing more favorable litigation outcomes when using advanced agreement tools, according to the results of a new survey on Wednesday.
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How Companies And GCs Are Navigating Shifting Tariffs
A study of 10-K financial statements filed by 19 large companies, mostly retailers, between March 1 and April 13 indicates that the businesses are reacting to the intensified U.S.-China tariffs war by updating disclosures of their possible risks.
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Former Hallmark CLO Joins 'Dirty Soda' Company Swig
The former chief legal officer for Hallmark Cards Inc. is joining "dirty soda" company Swig as its chief legal and administrative officer, the company announced Tuesday.
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Building Materials Co. Paid GC Over $5.3 Million In 2024
Roselyn R. Bar, the general counsel for building materials company Martin Marietta Materials Inc., saw her compensation increase slightly last year to just over $5.3 million, a Tuesday securities filing shows.
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Former Transportation Department Deputy GC Joins Hunton
The former deputy general counsel of the Transportation Department's Office of the Secretary has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner with the firm's environmental practice in Washington, D.C.
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Former In-House Health Atty Joins Pierson Ferdinand
Ben Hefflinger, a new healthcare partner at Pierson Ferdinand, talks to Â鶹´«Ã½360 about the move from an in-house role to private practice at an "awesome intersection" for digital health.
Expert Analysis
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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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 Â鶹´«Ã½ Firms
Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½360 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.Â
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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.