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Life360 Brings On Ex-Porch Group, Expedia Atty As GC
California-based information technology company Life360 announced Monday that it has added an attorney who previously worked for software company Porch Group and major online travel booking company Expedia to serve as its general counsel.
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Incyte Hires Goodwin Life Sciences Pro As General Counsel
Delaware-based biopharmaceutical company Incyte announced Monday that it has hired a Goodwin Procter LLP partner as its general counsel to steer its legal and compliance functions.
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Kasowitz Litigator To Join New York Mets As GC
A longtime Kasowitz LLP complex commercial litigator is departing the firm to become the legal leader for the New York Mets, the firm confirmed on Wednesday.
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Gov.-Elect Sherrill Taps Dozens Of Attys For Transition Teams
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill's recently announced transition teams feature a number of legal professionals from within New Jersey and outside the state working in a variety of roles as she prepares for her term to begin.
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Exelon's CLO Tapped To Take On Compliance Duties
Utility company Exelon Corp. has recently announced a plan to split the duties of a departing executive vice president between the company's top in-house attorney and its chief financial officer, according to a new federal filing.
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Gordon Rees Adds Healthcare Litigator, Ex-DEI Leader In SF
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is expanding its California team, bringing in a healthcare litigator who recently was the director of diversity, equity and inclusion in the San Franciso City Attorney's office.
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Ex-Bank GC Faces Garnishments After $7M Restitution Order
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC has told the Connecticut federal court it blocked a former Webster Bank general counsel from drawing money from five accounts totaling close to $178,000 in response to recent garnishment actions, presumably filed by prosecutors to satisfy part of a $7.4 million fraud restitution order.
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Holtec Can Pursue Suit Over Alleged Scheme Involving Ex-GC
Holtec International prevailed over motions to dismiss its lawsuit in New Jersey state court accusing its former general counsel and others of running an embezzlement scheme that cost the company over $700,000.
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How GCs Are Turning Litigation Into Strategic Profit Tool
For most general counsel, litigation has meant playing defense to guard their corporations against outside threats. In 2025, however, a growing number have been taking on roles as quarterbacks seeking to score large policy or financial victories for their companies.
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Ex-IBM Unit GC Joins Telecom Somos In Deputy Role
New Jersey-based telecommunications company Somos Inc. has added a vice president and deputy general counsel of corporate and legal affairs who previously worked in-house at IBM for over 15 years.
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Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Saber Law Employment Atty In SF
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Saber Law Group employment litigator as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.
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Picture This: Snap Inc. Woos New GC With $23M In Stock
Snap Inc., owner of the photo and video social media platform Snapchat, helped lure its new general counsel away from Munger Tolles & Olson LLP with a signing bonus of nearly 3 million shares of class A common stock.
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Wargo French Brings Back Corporate Ace From In-House Role
Wargo French Singer has brought back an of counsel in Atlanta after her stint as chief operating officer and chief legal officer of cannabis-focused insurance company Frontier Risk Group.
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Google Calls Rumble's Recusal Bid Irrelevant To Its Appeal
Google is urging the Ninth Circuit to disregard concerns Rumble has raised about the trial judge's relationship with the tech giant's litigation vice president, saying Friday that the information is irrelevant to the YouTube rival's appeal of the court's ruling that its antitrust lawsuit was filed too late.
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Google Calls Rumble's Judge Recusal Bid 'Cynical Maneuver'
Google argued Friday that a California federal judge need not recuse himself from YouTube rival Rumble's antitrust suit despite his friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief, saying Rumble's push for the recusal was a "cynical maneuver" for its Ninth Circuit appeal of a summary judgment loss.
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Ex-DOGE Atty Tapped As GC Of Elon Musk's AI Startup
James Burnham has been named general counsel for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup company, xAI, after spending six months working as the top legal officer for the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
This week's edition of GC Cheat Sheet explores which top legal officers take home the most money and why. And the general counsel of SolarWinds Corp. can finally leave its data breach regulatory problems behind after the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its unprecedented case against the company and its chief information security officer.
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Transit Agency Taps Ex-Sidley Austin Atty As Chief Counsel
A former Sidley Austin LLP managing associate who joined the U.S. Department of Transportation in August has been tapped as chief counsel of the Federal Transit Administration, where he'll manage the agency's legal operations and lead a team of more than 20 attorneys.
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Big 12 Atty Joins Southeastern Conf. As Legal Chief
A longtime attorney for the Big 12 collegiate athletic conference has jumped to the Southeastern Conference to serve as its new legal leader.
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Veolia Inks $3B US Waste Deal As Enviri Preps GC-Led Spinoff
France's Veolia Environnement SA will buy Clean Earth from Philadelphia-based Enviri Corp. for $3.04 billion in cash, in a deal that will double Veolia's U.S. hazardous waste operations and create an Enviri spinoff headed by Enviri's general counsel, the companies said Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms kicked off year-end bonus season and announced partner promotions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Conn. Agency GC Tried To 'Mislead The Court,' Judge Says
A Connecticut judge said Wednesday that he notified ethics officials after finding the general counsel of the state's utilities authority tried to mislead the court and opposing counsel over deleted text messages in a rate dispute with a pair of natural gas suppliers.
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Williams Mullen Securities Partner Moves To Passco CLO Role
California-based Passco Cos. announced Thursday that it had tapped a securities pro to step in as the real estate investment firm's new chief legal officer, who will join the firm from a partner role at Williams Mullen.
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Dell Says Atty's Pregnancy Bias Suit Belongs In Arbitration
A former in-house attorney for Dell can't pursue a lawsuit alleging that the company fired her because she chose to work remotely to accommodate her high-risk pregnancy, the technology company told a Massachusetts federal judge, arguing she is bound by an arbitration agreement.
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BrainBox AI Atty Sees Herself As 'Swiss Army Knife Of Legal'
Catherine Stephanou, the legal chief at BrainBox AI, started building the company's legal department from scratch when she was hired in 2020 and has guided the company through the usual growing pains, including its acquisition earlier this year by HVAC giant Trane Technologies.
Expert Analysis
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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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 Law Firms
Law 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 Law360 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.
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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.