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McDonald's CLO Saw Compensation Dip For Third Straight Year
Following a year that did not meet the expectations of McDonald's Corp.'s board of directors, the fast food giant's entire executive team including its top in-house attorney saw a dip in their compensation for 2024, according to documents recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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ADT CLO Sees 2024 Compensation Rise To $2.4 Million
The chief legal officer of security company ADT Inc. saw his overall compensation rise in 2024, earning around $2.4 million compared to approximately $1.7 million in 2023, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Former Prada GC Fashions Move To Fisher Phillips In NY
Fisher Phillips has hired the legal function leader of Prada Group as a New York office partner to expand the firm's retail industry offerings.
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USPTO Gets New Acting General Counsel, Policy Officer
The personnel shuffle at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continues, with familiar faces at the agency temporarily taking over the general counsel and chief policy officer roles.
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Ex-TBS GC Chairs CoStar Board In Latham-Advised Refresh
Latham & Watkins LLP advised CoStar Group on a "refreshment" of the company's board of directors that includes a new role for a former Turner Broadcasting Systems general counsel, according to a Monday announcement that follows pressure from hedge funds D.E. Shaw and Third Point.
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Home Depot's GC Saw '24 Comp Increase To $3.6M
The Home Depot Inc. paid its general counsel more than $3.6 million in total compensation in 2024, a 7% increase from her total compensation in 2023, the Atlanta-based company said in a securities filing.
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Compensation Up For Quest Diagnostics GC After Earlier Dip
Quest Diagnostics' longtime senior vice president and general counsel brought home $2.43 million in 2024, up from $2.25 million in 2023, according to a proxy statement filed recently by the company.
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Spirit Airlines Expands Legal Head's Duties After CEO Resigns
Spirit Airlines said it has recruited its general counsel and two other executives to lead the company while the board searches for a replacement for its CEO, who resigned Monday following the budget air carrier's completion of its bankruptcy.
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Seattle Seahawks Promote From Within For GC Role
The Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League have promoted their legal affairs director to vice president and general counsel, making her part of its front office senior leadership team.
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CBRE Chief Legal Exec Raked In $3.4M As GC Last Year
CBRE's newly crowned chief legal and administrative officer Chad Doellinger was paid $3.39 million in 2024, a year in which the executive served as the commercial real estate services firm's general counsel, per a securities filing.
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AT&T's GC Saw Compensation Climb Past $13M In 2024
AT&T's legal chief saw his total compensation rise to $13.6 million in 2024, up about $1.2 million from the $12.4 million he earned in 2023, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Climate And Political Spending Top Shareholder Concerns
The 2025 proxy season so far has seen a sharp drop in the number of shareholder proposals, especially in ESG resolutions, which are down 34% from the same point in 2024.
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FirstEnergy Legal Chief Saw Pay Drop To Nearly $2.5M In 2024
FirstEnergy Corp.'s top attorney saw his compensation decrease from just over $3 million to about $2.5 million last year, a recent securities filing shows.
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Class Action Spending Could Top $4.5B As Settlements Drop
Companies are facing more class action lawsuits and are spending more money to defend against them than ever before, with that spending expected to exceed $4.5 billion in 2025, according to a new report from Carlton Fields.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
A group of Republican state attorneys general asked close to two dozen law firms for information聽about their workplace diversity practices, and new data showed which law firms continue to be among the top picks for general counsel. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.鈥�
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Ex-CapitalG, Ivo Counsel Joins Legal AI Co. Ruli
Austin-based legal operations startup Ruli AI announced Thursday the hiring of a general counsel who formerly worked as an in-house attorney at legal software developer Ivo and Alphabet's venture fund CapitalG.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Frost LLP Brings On Ex-NBCUniversal Atty As IP Partner In LA
Business litigation boutique Frost LLP is boosting its litigation team, bringing in an intellectual property expert who most recently was an in-house counsel with NBCUniversal as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Diageo GC Resigns For Top Legal Role At Thermo Fisher
The general counsel at Diageo PLC will depart the British spirits maker for a similar position at biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., he announced in a LinkedIn post.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Broadcom, Meta And More
The top legal officers at Broadcom, Merit Medical Systems and Meta gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay days in March by selling stock in their companies.
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Judge OKs Toss Of FCPA Case Against Ex-Cognizant Execs
A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday聽granted the federal government's bid to end聽the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., ending a legal battle that was beset by delays throughout its six-year run.聽聽
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Ex-JPMorgan Atty Gets Probation For NYC Housing Fraud
A former Bronx prosecutor and JPMorgan attorney was sentenced in New York state court Thursday to probation and community service for fraud and grand larceny, after she pled guilty to using forged records to obtain low-rent apartments.
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Motorcycle Retailer RumbleOn Severs Ties With Its CLO
RumbleOn has cut ties with its chief legal officer聽鈥� who joined the powersports vehicle retailer just over a year ago聽鈥� months after it ended a proxy fight with stockholders, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
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Meta FinTech Atty Joins Wealth Management Co. As CLO
Scottsdale,聽Arizona-based wealth management firm Osaic has named the head of legal for Meta's financial services division聽as its new chief legal officer and general counsel.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes 鈥� which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful聽work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.聽
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.