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Frost Brown Adds Former Houston City Atty To Finance Team
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced that it has hired an attorney from the ranks of Houston's city government to strengthen its public finance group, adding his expertise in state and local government operations, taxation and economic development.
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Women In Legal Ops Continue To Be Underpaid, Study Finds
Women continue to be compensated less than men in legal operations positions, according to a report released Thursday from e-billing and matter management platform Brightflag, despite making up three-quarters of the survey's respondents.
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Aflac's Top Lawyer Saw Compensation Rise To $4.5M In 2024
Aflac Inc.'s top attorney saw her compensation grow to more than $4.5 million in 2024, an increase of more than a half million dollars from the previous year, according to a securities filing on Thursday from the Georgia-based insurance giant.
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Audacy Promotes Deputy GC To Replace Outgoing Legal Chief
As part of a leadership shakeup of the company's top executives, Philadelphia-based radio and broadcast company Audacy Inc. has tapped a longtime deputy general counsel to replace its top legal chief.
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Chemours GC Saw Compensation Bump To $1.8M In FY 2024
The general counsel of Delaware-based Chemours saw her total compensation increase to roughly $1.8 million for fiscal year 2024, up from about $1.4 million the prior year, according to a public filing Thursday.
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Malbek Promotes Legal Tech Influencer To General Counsel
Malbek has promoted its very first legal hire to general counsel to help guide an ambitious growth phase, the New Jersey-based contract management software company announced Thursday.
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Atlanta's Transit System Appoints New Legal Leader
The public transit system for the Atlanta area has named a new chief legal counsel who had been serving in the position on an interim basis after his predecessor departed to join Greenberg Traurig LLP in December.
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Hilton Time-Share Co. CLO's Comp More Than Doubles In '24
The longtime legal chief for time-share company Hilton Grand Vacations saw his compensation more than double last year to $5.1 million, driven by his stock and option awards.
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AI Is Growing Focus For Corporate Boards, Proxy Proposals
Public companies and their investors increasingly set their sights on artificial intelligence last year, according to a report released Wednesday indicating the rapidly evolving technology was a major focus when it came to both board-level oversight and shareholder proxy proposals.
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Ex-Cognizant CLO Fires Paul Weiss After Trump Order
A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing a bribery trial next month has fired Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from his defense team following the Trump administration's revocation of the firm's security clearances, according to a withdrawal motion filed Wednesday by firm partner Roberto Finzi.
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Sequoia Financial Names Benesch Atty As GC
Wealth management firm Sequoia Financial Group LLC has brought a member of its outside legal team at Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP in-house as general counsel.
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ConocoPhillips' GC Saw Uptick In Compensation To $6.1M
The top lawyer at ConocoPhillips saw her pay package continue to rise in 2024, with her earnings totaling just over $6.1 million for the year, according to the oil giant's preliminary proxy filing Wednesday.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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FCPA Uncertainty May Lead Attys To 'Gamble' On Disclosure
The Trump administration's pullback on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement is sowing confusion in the white collar bar, as companies consider whether to voluntarily disclose potential violations of the anti-bribery law while the chances of getting a favorable resolution seem good or keep quiet until the dust settles.
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Trump Media Group Execs See Total Pay Skyrocket
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which runs President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, has started paying its executives more than 50 times what they earned before, despite the company losing over $400.8 million last year, according to a securities filing Tuesday.
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Haynes Boone Grows Enviro Practice With EPA Vet In Dallas
Haynes Boone has bulked up its environmental practice group with a partner in Dallas who brings nearly a decade of experience as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lawyer, the firm said this week.
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PBF Energy GC Pay Dropped Over 30% In 2024
New Jersey-based PBF Energy paid its general counsel more than $3.6 million in total compensation in 2024, a 31% decrease from her pay a year earlier, as she and other executives received significantly smaller bonuses because the company missed its financial goals, it disclosed Tuesday.
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Cigna Group GC Earned Nearly $5.8M Last Year
Cigna Group's top lawyer, who last week had her remit expanded to include enterprise marketing, earned nearly $5.8 million in 2024 — up slightly from her $5.3 million pay the previous year — according to a recent securities filing.
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11th Circ. Nixes College GC Applicant's Age Bias Suit
The Eleventh Circuit won't revive an attorney's suit claiming she lost out on a general counsel position with a Florida college to someone four decades younger due to age bias, finding she gave up her right to challenge the case's dismissal by not objecting to a lower court decision.
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Semiconductor Co. AMD Paid GC Nearly $16.9M In '24
Semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s legal chief made nearly $16.9 million in her first year with the company, including a $2 million sign-on bonus, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Debevoise Atty Goes In-House As TPG's Legal Chief
Global asset manager TPG announced Monday that it has hired Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner Jennifer Chu to take over as its chief legal officer and general counsel, saying her deep "experience, leadership expertise and judgment" are an ideal match for the rapidly expanding firm.
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How Public Companies Are Changing Their DEI Disclosures
So far in 2025, public companies appear to be adjusting to new legal and regulatory pressures surrounding diversity issues, with some jettisoning all mention of DEI in their disclosures and others maintaining broad commitments to equity in their operations, according to a study released on Monday.
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Royer Cooper Grows Healthcare Practice With Veteran Atty
A former Pennsylvania attorney general candidate, in-house counsel for several health insurers and a key lobbyist for several health care initiatives passed in Harrisburg has joined Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC's Philadelphia office where he expands the firm's presence in the healthcare sector.
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Clearway Energy GC's Compensation Rose To $1.4M In '24
Compensation for the New Jersey-based general counsel of San Francisco-headquartered Clearway Energy climbed to about $1.4 million in 2024, according to a recent proxy statement.
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Berkshire Hathaway Paid Munger Tolles $21M In Fees In 2024
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. paid Munger Tolles & Olson LLP $21.2 million in legal fees in 2024 — nearly double the amount toward that law firm since the previous year — according to its recently filed annual report.
Expert Analysis
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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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.