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RE/MAX Atty Moves To Midwest Real Estate Data As GC
A veteran in-house real estate attorney has joined Illinois-based Midwest Real Estate Data LLC as its general counsel.
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Women Attys Mobilizing For Harris Say They Can't Sit This Out
As Vice President Kamala Harris seeks to become the first female president, women in BigLaw and the broader legal community are rallying behind her, motivated by issues such as reproductive rights.
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Crypto Lobbyist Hit With FTX Campaign Finance Charges
Manhattan federal prosecutors announced Thursday that Michelle Bond, a crypto industry lobbyist and the girlfriend of convicted former FTX executive Ryan Salame, has been charged with getting the now-defunct digital asset exchange to illegally finance her unsuccessful 2022 congressional campaign.
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Wilson Sonsini-Backed Legal AI Startup Hires CLO
Dioptra.ai, which sells generative artificial intelligence aimed at contract review, has hired technology and legal operations veteran Laurie Ehrlich as its chief legal officer, according to an announcement Wednesday.
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Commercial Contracts Cases Spike After COVID-Era Decline
Commercial contracts litigation increased in 2023 after hitting its lowest point in a decade in 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report out Thursday.
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Oath Keepers Atty Pleads Guilty In Jan. 6 Case
A former attorney for the far-right Oath Keepers group pled guilty Wednesday to charges connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, copping to entering restricted Capitol grounds and advising Oath Keepers affiliates to delete incriminating digital evidence following the riot.
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Ahead Of Bankruptcy Exit, Rite Aid CLO Departs Co.
Rite Aid's chief legal officer, who joined in 2023 and brought more than four decades of legal experience to the now-bankrupt retailer, left the company shortly after a New Jersey judge approved its Chapter 11 restructuring plan, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Delta Deputy GC Named Top Atty At Aviation Co. Wheels Up
Private aviation company Wheels Up Experience Inc. has named the deputy general counsel at Delta Air Lines to replace its chief legal officer, who will be departing for new opportunities next month, the company announced Tuesday.
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3rd Circ. Rejects Ex-Engineering Co. GC's Benefits Suit
The Third Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a former general counsel for an engineering company's suit claiming he was stiffed on over $100,000 in retirement benefits, rejecting his argument that a $1 million payout he got from the company should have been factored into his benefits package.
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Former Pyxus Atty Rejoins Agriculture Co. As Legal Chief
Pyxus International Inc. announced that a former attorney rejoined the agricultural company as its new senior vice president, chief legal officer and secretary after spending the last few years working as general counsel for a specialty materials company.
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Why This New GC Says 'Buy-In' Is Crucial For Any Top Lawyer
As the first general counsel and lawyer building the legal department at Radar, Morgan Levine isn't meeting resistance from colleagues throughout the business. But she simultaneously acknowledges the importance of buy-in. Levine, who started at the New York-based technology platform in May, recently spoke with Law360 Pulse about her new role and her experiences over the past few months.
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Paul Weiss Hires TDR Capital's GC For Private Equity Team
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Wednesday that it has recruited a partner from private equity firm TDR Capital as it continues its expansion in London.
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Health Hires: K&L Gates, Manatt, Cytokinetics
K&L Gates and Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP have deepened their healthcare and life sciences benches, while biopharma company Cytokinetics Inc. has enlisted a former Gilead executive to serve as its chief legal officer, highlighting Law360's latest roundup of personnel moves in healthcare and life sciences.
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Ex-SEC Senior Counsel, AUSA Joins Tech Co. As CCO
A former assistant U.S. attorney with senior counsel experience at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined technology company Tools For Humanity, a startup co-founded and chaired by OpenAI head Sam Altman, as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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Texas Judge Blocks FTC's Impending Ban On Noncompetes
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked the Federal Trade Commission's looming ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts, setting aside the regulation with a conclusion that it's beyond the agency's authority.
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Some Wis. State Bar Officers Let Out Of Diversity Bias Suit
A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.
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Porter Wright Lands Trade Atty From Advisory Firm Pollination
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP has added a Washington, D.C., attorney as partner in its international business and trade practice group.
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Former SEC And Vanguard Counsel Joins Stradley Ronon
An attorney who previously worked in-house at Vanguard and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has jumped to private practice for the first time in his 20-year career, joining Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP in Pennsylvania.
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A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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Representation In The Ranks: How Firms Are Faring
The Law360 Pulse Women in Law Report provides a data-driven view of U.S. law firms at the end of 2023. Here, we look at the representation of women at all levels of a typical law firm, from associates to equity partners.
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These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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The 2024 Women in Law Report: How Firms Stack Up
Female attorneys have reached a new high in their share of law firm equity partnerships, but firms' progress simply hasn't been significant enough to shatter the longstanding glass ceiling in the industry.
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Clorox Co. Atty Named New CLO At Eastman Chemical
An in-house attorney for the Clorox Co. is preparing to join Eastman Chemical Co. next month as its new head of legal, the Tennessee-based specialty materials company said Tuesday.
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Private Equity Firm Kinderhook Hires Law, Compliance Chief
New York-based private equity firm Kinderhook Industries LLC has added a veteran in-house private funds attorney as its legal leader.
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University Of Florida GC Tapped For Athletics Role
The University of Florida announced that its general counsel has been tapped as deputy athletic director and senior women's administrator following her predecessor's appointment as chief operating officer of the athletics department.