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CFTC's Pham Will Head To Crypto Co. MoonPay After Exit
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's acting Chair Caroline Pham is set to join cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay as its top lawyer following her impending departure from the commission, MoonPay announced Wednesday.
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NC Panel Revives Part Of Solar Co. Ex-Atty's Sex Bias Suit
A North Carolina attorney can proceed with a piece of her lawsuit alleging a solar company discriminated against her based on sex while she served in a senior legal role, after a state appeals court revived one of her claims Wednesday.
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Ex-Celsius GC To Join Taft From Krevolin & Horst In Atlanta
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Wednesday that a lawyer with Krevolin & Horst LLC — who previously served as the first general counsel for the global beverage company Celsius Holdings Inc. — will join its Atlanta office as the firm is set to complete its merger with Morris Manning & Martin LLP on Dec. 31.
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Ex-SEC, O'Melveny Atty Joins Food Tech Startup As CLO
Venture-backed food technology startup GrubMarket Inc. has found its new legal leader in a longtime O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorney and former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney, the company said Wednesday.
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LawVu Acquires ClauseBase And Rebrands It To LawVu Draft
LawVu, which provides in-house legal teams a workspace using artificial intelligence, announced Wednesday its acquisition of Belgium-based legal drafting platform ClauseBase, which will rebrand as LawVu Draft.
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How One GC Finds Synergies Leading HR And Legal Teams
General counsel LaTanya Langley prides herself on being a "people first" leader, and an even better one now that she has returned from maternity leave after giving birth at age 50.
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Legal Ops Teams Are Feeling Executive Pressure To Adopt AI
The pressure for legal operations teams to implement generative artificial intelligence has intensified as outside counsel spend jumps and demonstrating tangible cost savings from the technology remains elusive, according to a new survey report Tuesday.
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Year-End Billing Sprint Is Upon Us As Collections Lengthen
It takes longer for corporate clients to pay their legal bills today than in the past, creating a challenge for law firms looking to nail down strong year-end revenue results, as collections continue to be heavily weighted to the year's final quarter.
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Legal Sector Jobs Held Steady During Gov't Shutdown
The number of U.S. legal industry jobs remained level in November after inching up just 300 positions in October from the previous month, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Talen Energy GC To Retire In June
Houston-based Talen Energy announced Monday its general counsel will be retiring at the end of June and will assist with transition efforts as the power producer searches for his successor.
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Ad Services Co. Moore Gives GC Admin. Chief Title
Marketing and data giant Moore announced Monday the company has tapped its general counsel to take on additional responsibilities as chief administrative officer.
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Shipman & Goodwin Adds Enviro. Pro In Conn.
Ahead of a year that'll see new environmental regulations go into effect in Connecticut, Shipman & Goodwin LLP has grown its environmental practice with a legal leader from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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PSEG Deputy GC, Former Prosecutor Tapped As Next NJ AG
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill named utility lawyer and veteran prosecutor Jennifer Davenport on Monday as her choice for state attorney general, selecting a longtime law enforcement leader she said will be central to her administration's agenda on affordability, public safety and government accountability.
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Oppenheimer Fined $1.2M In SEC Muni Bond Disclosure Case
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $1.2 million for allegedly skirting municipal bond disclosure requirements, the regulator announced Friday.
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Pierson Ferdinand Litigator Tapped To Be Atlanta's City Atty
The mayor of Atlanta has named a Pierson Ferdinand LLP litigation partner to succeed the current city attorney, who is retiring from the practice of law, tapping an attorney who brings more than two decades of legal experience in the private and public sectors.
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2nd Circ. Probes ConEd's Sudden Firing Of Atty Alleging Bias
The Second Circuit raised questions during a hearing about Con Edison's decision to terminate a longtime company lawyer shortly after she complained her boss was targeting her because she's an older woman, hinting some support for the attorney's fight to have her discrimination suit reinstated.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
President Donald Trump issued an executive order to review the influence that proxy adviser firms have, and law firms saw a 9.8% increase in compensation expenses along with a similar increase in billable rates. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Real Estate Tech Platform Adds GC From Realtor.com
Real estate technology company Place announced Dec. 5 that it has hired as its general counsel Jamie Jatzlau from Realtor.com, along with adding two other executives.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as law firms announced year-end bonuses and continued to expand their bench of talent. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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SEC Must Provide Names To Compliance Chief In Fraud Suit
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to comply with a chief compliance officer's request for the names of agency staffers familiar with his whistleblower claims as he defends allegations that he played a role in a purportedly fraudulent stock offering by a "sham" energy company.
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Elevance Health Adds Former Pfizer GC To Its Board
Insurer Elevance Health has appointed former Pfizer Inc. general counsel Amy Schulman, currently a managing partner of Polaris Partners, to serve on its board of directors.
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Securitize Taps PayPal Stablecoin Designer As Its GC
Securitize LLC, a platform for trading, issuing and servicing tokenized securities, announced Tuesday that it has tapped PayPal's head of legal for digital and cryptocurrencies as its general counsel.
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Longtime Aon Leader Takes GC Spot At Howden US
Global insurance group Howden has appointed a longtime leader at professional services firm Aon to the role of general counsel for Howden's U.S. retail broking and advisory business.
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RingCentral GC's Pay Dropped By $4.9 Million In 2024
Cloud-based communications platform RingCentral Inc.'s legal leader saw his total compensation chopped nearly in half last year, marking the lowest compensation he's received in the past three years.
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Anderson Kill Adds Saxe Doernberger Insurance Litigator
An experienced insurance coverage attorney has made the jump from Saxe Doernberger & Vita PC to Anderson Kill PC in Connecticut and New York.