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Wendy's Taps Former Kellogg Legal Leader As New CLO
A former high-ranking legal executive with Kellogg Co. is joining The Wendy's Co. as its new top attorney, the fast food giant announced Monday.
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Big Ten Lands Polsinelli Litigator As New Assistant GC
The Big Ten Conference has tapped a Polsinelli PC litigator with a background in college athletics cases as its new assistant general counsel.
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World Shipping Council Taps Atty To Head US Gov't Relations
An attorney whose government experience includes key roles with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration has joined the World Shipping Council as its new director of U.S. government relations.
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Top Atty For NYC Mayor Resigns As Fed. Investigations Mount
As investigations and high-profile departures continue around New York City's embattled Mayor Eric Adams, his chief counsel resigned Saturday.
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The 2024 Regional Powerhouses
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
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Skanska On The Hunt For New Top Atty As GC Departs
Skanska said Friday that its top attorney is leaving the Stockholm-based construction and development company.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Harder-fought and more complex lawsuits may mean double-digit increases in the amount that companies spend on litigation; accuracy remains a top concern for law firms as they increasingly use artificial intelligence technology; and Norfolk Southern Corp. saw a major leadership shakeup after its chief legal officer and CEO engaged in a consensual relationship.
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Former Y Combinator GC Joins Freshfields In Silicon Valley
The former general counsel for a well-known startup accelerator that has backed companies including Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash and Instacart has jumped to Freshfields and its Silicon Valley office, the law firm announced on Friday.
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Former MilliporeSigma Patent Atty Joins Polsinelli In St. Louis
A patent expert and former in-house attorney with chemical and biotechnology company MilliporeSigma has joined Polsinelli PC's St. Louis office, continuing the law firm's expansion of its life sciences team.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Another BigLaw firm merger and a report about rising litigation spending rocked the second week of September. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Ex-ABL Space Counsel Jumps To Barnes & Thornburg
A former Barnes & Thornburg associate is returning to the firm after an in-house stint with space launch service provider ABL Space Systems, but this time as a partner.
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Linklaters Hires Shell's Qatar Legal Chief For Energy Practice
Linklaters LLP has hired the head of legal for energy giant Shell in Qatar to become its global sector lead for its energy transition practice.
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Fulton Bank Pros Join Barley Snyder Trust And Estates Team
The Pennsylvania-based regional firm Barley Snyder is expanding its trust and estates practice with the addition of two former Fulton Bank NA attorneys, including the chief fiduciary officer of Fulton's private banking division.
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Canada's Laurentian Bank Changes Legal Leadership
Canada's Laurentian Bank this week announced a new head of legal matters amid a broader leadership reshuffle.
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Litigation Spending To Rise As Cases Grow More Aggressive
A substantial number of large companies are expecting to increase their litigation spending by double digits next year in the face of more complex and hard-fought cases — and they are more open to bringing in new legal talent to navigate the matters, according to a report released Thursday.
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The Firms That Handle The Most Trade Secrets Work
Gordon Rees remains the most active law firm representing plaintiffs in trade secrets disputes, according to a new report by Lex Machina analyzing a three-year period from 2021 to 2023, while Littler Mendelson continues to lead the pack on the defendants' side during that same timeframe.
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Norfolk Southern Fires CEO, CLO Over Relationship
Norfolk Southern Corp. fired CEO Alan Shaw and chief legal officer Nabanita Nag after it found in an investigation that they'd had a consensual relationship that violated company policy, the Atlanta-based transportation giant said Wednesday evening.
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Department Of Homeland Security's Top Lawyer Steps Down
The Department of Homeland Security's top lawyer has resigned from his position in the administration, according to a LinkedIn post.
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TD Bank To Pay $28M Over Consumer Reporting Failings
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hit TD Bank with a $20 million fine on Wednesday for its failures over inaccurate consumer credit reports and ordered it to pay nearly $8 million to customers, four years after the regulator imposed a $122 million fine against the bank over illegal overdraft fees.
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Battery Co.'s CLO To Exit As It Eyes US-Based Replacement
The top attorney with Freyr Battery Inc. will leave the Georgia-headquartered battery cell producer with European roots as the company conducts a search in the U.S. for a new chief legal officer.
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McCarter & English Recruits EY Tax Pro In New Jersey
McCarter & English LLP has bulked up its tax and employee benefits team in New Jersey with a longtime Ernst & Young expert at a time when the Garden State's business community is bracing for regulations on a series of corporate tax reforms.
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SEC Files New Insider Case Tied To Stolen Covington Info
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday brought a new insider trading case tied to the theft of confidential merger information from a Covington & Burling LLP lawyer, suing the cousin of a former FBI trainee who was sentenced to prison for filching the Merck & Co. deal info at the heart of the case and then tipping off others.
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McGuireWoods Adds Ex-Prosecutor, Former Fintech GC In SF
McGuireWoods LLP continues to bolster its West Coast presence, announcing Tuesday that it has added a former federal prosecutor and the former general counsel for a fintech company as partners at its San Francisco office.
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Holland & Knight Grows In DC With Ex-IDB Invest Counsel
A former lead counsel with development bank IDB Invest has joined Holland & Knight LLP in Washington, D.C., boosting the firm's financial services team and its Latin American practice.
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Healthcare Hires: Leech Tishman, Weil, Henry Ford Health
Full-service law firm Leech Tishman and healthcare boutique Nelson Hardiman announced plans to combine in early October, while Henry Ford Health appointed a chief legal officer to serve on the executive team overseeing its upcoming merger with Ascension Michigan. Those and other moves lead Law360's latest roundup of personnel changes in healthcare and life sciences.