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Wilmington, Delaware-based international debt collector Phillips & Cohen Associates Ltd. has named a lawyer with decades of experience in-house and in private practice as its new global general counsel as the firm works to grow across the U.S. and abroad.
A longtime in-house attorney at companies such as United Natural Foods, Wendy's and General Motors announced her decision to resign from the board of directors at shipping company Pitney Bowes, citing internal "turmoil."
Polsinelli PC grew its recently opened Philadelphia office with the addition of a real estate attorney who returns to private practice after providing in-house counsel for a commercial real estate subsidiary of Blackstone.
While in-house legal jobs in biotech, intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity are surging, some general counsel are holding off on adding more lawyers until the U.S. election concludes and economic uncertainties become clearer, according to a new report.
The former managing partner for Auto Legal Group Florida, a boutique focused on the representation of dealerships, has joined Kelley Kronenberg as the firm's complex commercial litigation business unit leader, the firm announced Monday.
Aircraft developer XTI Aerospace Inc. announced Wednesday that a veteran in-house attorney who has spent more than 25 years working in the technology industry was appointed as the Colorado-based company's chief legal officer.
A Jenner & Block LLP attorney and former Commonwealth Edison general counsel testified Tuesday that he found it "strange" to read ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was interested in the granular details of the utility's negotiations with Chicago law firm Reyes Kurson. Madigan's counsel, however, appeared to suggest a confidant and co-defendant had name-dropped the speaker in 2016 without actually talking to him.
BambooHR, which provides human resource software as a service, has appointed a former Adobe associate general counsel as its new chief legal officer.
Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing benefits, insurance and publishing for the Episcopal Church, has named a seasoned in-house attorney its next top lawyer, who brings with her nearly two decades of experience mostly focused on finance, corporate governance and compliance.
Focus Financial Partners Inc. announced that a longtime attorney at LPL Financial was named the New York-based wealth manager's general counsel as part of a series of leadership appointments.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society announced Tuesday that the New York-based research nonprofit has promoted its interim general counsel and chief legal officer to the role on a permanent basis as part of a group of leadership appointments.
While U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal calls the pandemic a disaster that "discombobulated" the federal courts, she thinks there was also a silver lining to the experience.
The interwoven business holdings of New York's Dolan family made major securities filings last week revealing that Madison Square Garden Entertainment paid its new general counsel just over $2 million in total compensation in fiscal 2024, and that separate company Madison Square Garden Sports has hired a new top legal officer.
J. Crew is asking a New York federal judge to confirm an arbitrator's ruling from earlier this month that found it hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
Tesla and an in-house attorney are facing a sanctions bid in California federal court for reportedly appearing at a mediation in a wrongful death case despite lacking settlement authority, causing "delay and unnecessary expense" to the widow of a man who died when his Tesla allegedly ran off the road, crashed and ignited.
A&E Networks announced Monday that its chief legal officer will retire after 11 years, with the company's deputy general counsel set to succeed him in February.
Telesis Bio Inc.'s chief legal officer is exiting his role on Thursday and will be receiving a severance payment of $307,500 under a separation agreement, according to a public filing.
For guiding Microsoft Corp. into lucrative business partnerships and leading on its artificial intelligence and cybersecurity efforts, the company awarded its president and vice chair with a $5 million boost in his annual pay package, taking the former chief legal officer to over $23.4 million in fiscal 2024, according to a security filing Thursday.
As it recognizes the 10th anniversary of its pro bono program, Amazon says its in-house legal and public policy professionals have contributed tens of thousands of hours of volunteer legal services, and that there are many more to come as employees continue to do important work serving those in need globally.
A former paralegal for Wells Fargo Bank NA hit her former employer with a discrimination suit alleging that she faced bias and was eventually terminated because of her health issues.
The Kraft Heinz Co. has announced that the general counsel at packaging company Sealed Air Corp. will join next month as global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, following the August departure of the food giant's top lawyer.
Most in-house legal teams expect to spend a lot more on outside counsel costs in 2025, mostly due to increased lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny. And it appears the former general counsel of Moody's Corp. will be spending the holidays in prison after being sentenced to eight months for failing to file income tax returns on $54 million in income.
As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has hired Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.'s chief employment counsel to help strengthen the firm's national labor and employment practice and its entertainment bench.
Elon Musk and X Corp. have urged a California federal court not to acquiesce to former executives' request to open discovery in their severance benefits lawsuit, saying the workers can't show they've been harmed by the court's decision to pause discovery until after ruling on a dismissal motion.
To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement?Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.
With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.