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Recalling Cam Findlay, Legal Chief At Aon, Medtronic, ADM
After his death earlier this month at age 65, friends and colleagues are remembering D. Cameron "Cam" Findlay III, the former lead in-house attorney for companies including Archer-Daniels-Midland and Aon, as a witty general counsel who mentored his legal teams with kindness and integrity.
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Ex-Airbnb GC To Tackle Climate Change At Watershed
The former general counsel at Airbnb and Chegg Inc. announced Monday that he has accepted a job as general counsel and global head of policy at Watershed, a six-year-old sustainability measurement platform.
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Ex-J&J Atty Slams Bid To Dismiss Her Bias, Retaliation Suit
A former Johnson & Johnson data privacy lawyer is urging a New Jersey federal court to keep alive her racial bias suit, arguing the pharmaceutical giant's dismissal bid is based on flawed legal arguments.
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Debevoise Builds Tool To Help In-House Attys Assess AI Risk
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is currently building a subscription platform to more efficiently assist in-house counsel with managing risks while adopting artificial intelligence tools.
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Amazon's First GC Co-Launches Private Chatbot Company
Amazon's first general counsel has joined forces with a patent attorney and a tech adviser to launch a personalized private artificial intelligence chatbot for individuals, the technology's creator announced Tuesday.
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Ex-Deputy GC For Mike Pence Joins Holtzman Vogel In DC
The former deputy general counsel for Mike Pence who worked for the onetime vice president when he was governor of Indiana has left his role with the Republican Attorneys General Association to join Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC.
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Pa. Co. Air Products Hires General Counsel From BASF
Pennsylvania-based industrial gas supplier Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has found its new legal leader from German chemical manufacturer BASF SE less than two weeks after its former general counsel resigned.
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Survey Finds AI May Reshape Billable Hour's Reign In Law
The legal industry's billing practices may soon undergo a seismic shift, as a survey of nearly 300 professionals highlights the growing influence of generative artificial intelligence, with many predicting the end of the billable hour's dominance.
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Texas Investment Biz Drops CEO For Ex-CLO Amid Shakeup
Beneficient, a troubled alternative asset management and services company based in Dallas, said Monday it had separated its board chair and CEO roles, and had named its former chief legal officer as the interim CEO.
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Davis Wright Adds Ex-Charles Schwab Associate GC In SF
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is expanding its litigation team with the addition of a former associate general counsel from Charles Schwab who has also worked at Morgan Stanley and was general counsel at a cryptocurrency exchange, the firm announced Monday.
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O'Melveny Adds Ex-Latham, McDonald's Public Co. Atty In NY
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday that a former Latham & Watkins LLP counsel with in-house experience at McDonald's Corp. has joined the firm as a public company adviser and capital markets partner in New York.
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Law360 Names 2025's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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ArbitralWomen President Takes Up In-House Role At Aramco
The president of ArbitralWomen, an organization focused on increasing diversity in international arbitration, said she has accepted a new position as senior counsel at Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.
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Geragos Owes $100K For Role In Nike Extortion, Jury Says
Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos was ordered to pay $100,000 to a youth basketball coach by a Los Angeles jury that found he aided and abetted disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti in a failed attempt to extort Nike that landed Avenatti with a 2½ year prison sentence.
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Meet The Attys Facing Off In Lawyer's Bias Suit Against J&J
A discrimination suit in New Jersey federal court against the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, featuring charged allegations and a motion for sanctions, is pitting a trio of discrimination and plaintiff-side employment specialists against a Morgan Lewis & Bockius employment law team.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
President Donald Trump has chosen the chief labor counsel at Boeing Co. for one of two vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board, whose confirmation would help restore a quorum. And Meta reached a midtrial agreement with stockholders in an $8 billion suit.
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Newly Promoted Nike CLO Earned $6.8M In FY '25
Nike's newly promoted legal leader, who took on the role in November after his predecessor was promoted to a new role, earned more than $6.8 million in fiscal year 2025.
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Ex-Toys 'R' Us GC Joins Cousteau-Founded Climate Tech Co.
The former general counsel for Toys 'R' Us is part of the recent additions to the leadership team at Voyacy Regen, a blue technology company co-founded by Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau.
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Armstrong Teasdale Adds Former CLO As A Litigator In Miami
A former chief legal officer at professional services company Indelible has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a litigation counsel in Miami.
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Big 12 Collegiate Athletic Conference Promotes Atty To GC
The Big 12 collegiate athletic conference has announced that it has promoted one of its longtime in-house attorneys to serve as its chief operating officer and general counsel to steer its legal affairs and other operations.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as attorneys took on new roles and law firms expanded their reach. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Seward & Kissel Adds VC Partner To Investment Mgmt. Group
Seward & Kissel LLP is bulking up its venture capital offerings, bringing on a partner with a background in fund formation and deal structuring and with more than two decades of experience in both BigLaw and in-house roles.
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Circle's Bank Plans Include Regulatory Vets At Helm
Stablecoin giant Circle has tapped Heath Tarbert, its president and former top derivatives regulator, as well as a former Office of the Comptroller of the Currency chief counsel to help oversee its proposed national trust bank, according to application materials made public Thursday.
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Ex-Burning Man, MAPS GC Joins Psychedelics Boutique
The former general counsel to both the organization behind the annual Burning Man festival and to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has joined the recently launched psychedelics firm Antithesis Law as of counsel, the firm announced Thursday.
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Amazon Attys Jump To Crowell & Moring In San Francisco
Crowell & Moring LLP has expanded its litigation resources in its San Francisco office with the addition of two former in-house attorneys for Amazon, who bring more than 30 years of combined experience to advise clients on product liability claims.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark
Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
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A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
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Burnout Prevention Requires Effort From Attys And Firms
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
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Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
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3 Reasons To Embrace Jargon In Legal Marketing Content
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.
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Future Lawyers Expect DEI Commitments Beyond Recruiting
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Law Students Build Real-World Skills?
Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.
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How Firm Leaders Can Build And Sustain Culture
In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.
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The Case That Showed Me The Value Of E-Discovery Plans
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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Opinion
CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning Outcomes
Given the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.
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Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
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Persuading The Court With Visual Aids In Written Argument
Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.
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BigLaw Vs. Mid-Law Summer Programs: The Pros And Cons
There are major differences between BigLaw and Mid-Law summer associate programs, and each approach can learn something from the other in terms of structure and scheduling, the on-the-job learning opportunities provided, and the social experiences offered, says Anna Tison at Brooks Pierce.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Take Time Off?
David Kouba at Arnold & Porter discusses how attorneys can prioritize mental health leave and vacation despite work-related barriers to taking time off.