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Amazon Highlights 'Global Good' Of Its Pro Bono Program
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.
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Ex-Paralegal Hits Wells Fargo With Disability Bias Suit
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.
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Kraft Heinz Hires New Global GC From Sealed Air
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.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
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.
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Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In
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.
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Mitchell Silberberg Hires Warner Bros. Discovery Attorney
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.
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No Reason To Open Discovery, X, Musk Say In Severance Fight
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.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Lennox's Top Atty Retiring, Deputy To Take Reins
Lennox International Inc., known for its cooling and refrigeration systems, has announced that John Torres, executive vice president and chief legal officer, will retire effective Feb. 28 after 16 years with the company and will be replaced by his deputy general counsel on Jan. 1.
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Norton Rose Adds Experienced Cybersecurity & Privacy Duo
Norton Rose Fulbright announced that a pair of attorneys with more than 50 years of combined experience have joined it New York and St. Louis offices as senior counsel, in what it said will help clients navigate the increasingly complex cybersecurity and privacy areas of law.
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East Carolina U. Taps Interim GC As Top Atty Departs
East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, abruptly replaced its general counsel Thursday, with the university's chancellor announcing in a memo to faculty and staff that the school's deputy general counsel had been tapped to take the top lawyer's spot on an interim basis while a permanent replacement is sought.
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Gambling Machine Maker Elevates Deputy Legal Chief To CLO
Australia-based gambling machine manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure announced Thursday that the company's deputy chief legal officer has been elevated to the chief legal officer role following her predecessor's retirement.
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Syniverse Appoints Veteran Atty As Chief Legal Officer
Telecommunications software provider Syniverse announced that an experienced attorney who spent nearly two decades in-house at Verizon has been named executive vice president and chief legal officer.
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Ex-GC, CEO Joins Manatt As Adviser Amid San Diego Growth
Professional services firm Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has brought on an adviser with broad experience in business, education and technology law, in a move to bolster the firm's expanding San Diego office and its national government advocacy and contracting practice, according to a Thursday announcement.
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Ex-Moody's GC Gets Prison For Tax-Filing Fail On $54M In Pay
The former general counsel for Moody's Corp. was sentenced Thursday to eight months in prison for willfully failing to file federal income tax returns for four years in which he collected $54 million in income.
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Jet Leasing Co. Promotes Longtime Atty To Chief Legal Officer
Connecticut-headquartered Aircastle Ltd., a company that acquires, leases and sells commercial jet aircrafts to airlines around the globe, will have a new legal leader in 2025.
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Delaware Justices Deny In-House Atty's Limited Practice Bid
The Delaware Supreme Court has denied a limited practice application filed by an in-house attorney for a real estate closing services company, in part because the business doesn't have an office in the state.
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Big Jump In Outside Counsel Spending Forecast For 2025
Spending on outside counsel will rise 6.9% in 2025, the largest increase in 10 years, according to a report Thursday from BTI Consulting Group, which forecasts that litigation spending will see the biggest jumps and that practice areas including labor and employment and mergers and acquisitions will also see large spending increases.
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Legal Sector Is Adopting GenAI, Preparing For Talent Shifts
The integration of generative AI is fundamentally transforming how legal professionals manage their daily tasks, with many anticipating that these AI-driven efficiencies will lessen the reliance on billable hours, according to a survey report posted Thursday.
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SEC's Peirce Calls For Compliance Advisory Committee
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Hester Peirce on Wednesday detailed her vision for a compliance advisory committee that would give the agency a way to collect and evaluate concerns about new rules from in-house compliance staff.
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Once An Actor, She Now Finds More 'Joy' As EBay's CLO
The new chief legal officer at San Jose, California-based eBay Inc. quit law school to pursue a career in acting, but when that turned out not to be the dream job Samantha Wellington envisioned, she returned to law.
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OpenAI Hires Uber Ethics Head As New Compliance Chief
OpenAI Inc. has brought on Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief ethics and compliance officer to head up its compliance department as it works to "build on [its] ongoing efforts to responsibly advance AI," the company said Tuesday.
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First Horizon Hires Baker Donelson Atty As Next GC
Memphis, Tennessee-based First Horizon Corp. announced that a Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC partner has been hired as the company's deputy general counsel, adding that he will be elevated to general counsel at the start of 2025.
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Ex-SEC Atty, Fintech GC Joins Stradling's Securities Team
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC has added a former fintech general counsel and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney, reinforcing the firm's offerings for companies facing enforcement investigations or grappling with other compliance issues.
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Chemical Co. GC Fires Back At Pregnancy Bias Claims In NJ
Arxada and its general counsel struck back at a former in-house attorney's claims in a New Jersey state court lawsuit that the specialty chemicals company unlawfully dismissed her in the days after she talked about taking leave to recover from a miscarriage.