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    Hanes' CLO Resigns For 'Another Business Opportunity'

    The chief legal and human resources officer at HanesBrands Inc., whose resume includes stints at Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart, this week told the clothing giant that she will step down from her roles next month, according to a securities filing Friday.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the D.C. Bar kicked off its annual election. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Insurance Expert Promoted At Armed Forces Benefit Group

    An attorney who has worked for insurers for more than 20 years has been promoted to a senior role at the Armed Forces Benefit Association and its affiliate, 5Star Life Insurance Co., according to a recent announcement.

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    Latham Atty Named Silver Lake CLO After Closing $8.75B Deal

    Days after announcing its purchase of a 51% stake in an Intel Corp. semiconductor solutions business, private equity tech investor Silver Lake announced it has brought a key outside counsel inside the c-suite, with the addition of a new chief legal officer from Latham & Watkins.

  • GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    Google and its chief legal officer have now lost two major antitrust cases to DOJ prosecutors after a federal judge ruled Thursday the search engine monopolized markets and servers related to display advertising. Meanwhile, a new study shows companies are disclosing their business risks, and how they are trying to mitigate those risks, amid changing tariffs and the uncertainty of the U.S.-China trade war. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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    Former In-House Atty Wants To Improve Client Convos With AI

    Earlier this month, generative artificial intelligence-powered client conversations tool Querious, which was launched by a former in-house lawyer, tied for first place at the American Bar Association Techshow 2025 startup pitch competition.

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    Netflix CLO Saw Comp Jump 26% To $17.3M In 2024

    The longtime chief legal officer of Netflix saw his total compensation jump $3.6 million to $17.3 million in 2024, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

  • 7-Eleven Parent Floats Refreshed Board With 4 New Nominees

    Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co. on Thursday proposed a refreshed slate of directors and reaffirmed its commitment to pursuing both internal reforms and a potential acquisition by Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard.

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    Retired Target CLO Becomes Legal Chief Of FanDuel Parent

    A former chief legal and compliance officer at Target Corp. has come out of his short retirement to serve as the top attorney at Flutter, the parent company of sports betting and iGaming operator FanDuel, the business confirmed Thursday.

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    Greenberg Traurig Adds Private Wealth, Finance Attys In Texas

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has bulked up both its private wealth services and finance practices in Austin, Texas, with one attorney coming aboard from Jackson Walker LLP and another returning to the firm following an in-house role with JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

  • Juniper GC Earned $3.35M Amid Challenged HPE Merger

    The top lawyer for Juniper Network Inc. earned over $3 million last year as the company was working through a $14 billion attempted merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. that has since been challenged by the Justice Department, according to a securities filing Thursday.

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    Salesforce Atty Sees Rooney Law Return As 'Right Challenge'

    A former Salesforce attorney, who spent the past nearly 10 years working under the cloud-based software company's umbrella, is now leading the technology practice as a partner in Rooney Law's new Chicago office, the boutique law firm said Wednesday.

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    DocuSign CLO Saw Comp Rise By $2.1M After Prior Drop

    The chief legal officer for DocuSign Inc., a former attorney with HP and Workday, saw his total compensation jump almost $2.1 million to more than $7 million for the fiscal year ending in January after a decrease in the preceding year, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

  • Investor Seeks Lobbying Info At L3Harris Technologies

    At its virtual annual meeting on Friday, aerospace and defense industry giant L3Harris Technologies Inc. will be voting on one shareholder proposal, which seeks fuller disclosure about its lobbying expenses.  

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    Legal Staffing Co. Latitude Expands In DC, San Diego, NYC

    National legal recruitment and staffing provider Latitude has recently expanded its roster with three attorneys who will lead the company's new offices launched in Washington, D.C., San Diego and New York City.

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    Meridian Capital Promotes Legal Head To General Counsel

    Meridian Capital Group announced Tuesday that its head of legal has been promoted to general counsel in a move that comes about a year after the firm came under new leadership.

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    Elastic's CLO Says AI Won't Replace Legal Judgment

    The legal chief at search artificial intelligence company Elastic told Law360 Pulse during a recent interview about why she thinks AI won't take away from lawyers' professional responsibility to apply judgment.

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    Legal Tech Co. Harbor Hires GC, Chief Integration Officer

    Harbor Global, a legal technology services provider, announced Wednesday that it has hired a former Barge Design Solutions executive as its chief integration officer and general counsel.

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    Legal Leaders Largely Favor Agreement Management Tools

    Legal teams are cutting down on case resolution times, reducing out-of-compliance requests and seeing more favorable litigation outcomes when using advanced agreement tools, according to the results of a new survey on Wednesday.

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    How Companies And GCs Are Navigating Shifting Tariffs

    A study of 10-K financial statements filed by 19 large companies, mostly retailers, between March 1 and April 13 indicates that the businesses are reacting to the intensified U.S.-China tariffs war by updating disclosures of their possible risks.

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    Former Hallmark CLO Joins 'Dirty Soda' Company Swig

    The former chief legal officer for Hallmark Cards Inc. is joining "dirty soda" company Swig as its chief legal and administrative officer, the company announced Tuesday.

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    Building Materials Co. Paid GC Over $5.3 Million In 2024

    Roselyn R. Bar, the general counsel for building materials company Martin Marietta Materials Inc., saw her compensation increase slightly last year to just over $5.3 million, a Tuesday securities filing shows.

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    Former Transportation Department Deputy GC Joins Hunton

    The former deputy general counsel of the Transportation Department's Office of the Secretary has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner with the firm's environmental practice in Washington, D.C.

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    Former In-House Health Atty Joins Pierson Ferdinand

    Ben Hefflinger, a new healthcare partner at Pierson Ferdinand, talks to Law360 about the move from an in-house role to private practice at an "awesome intersection" for digital health.

  • UK Co. Says Ex-Sikorsky Atty Gave 'Inconsistent' Testimony

    A British company locked in a $64 million contract feud with Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft accused its former in-house counsel of giving testimony "blatantly inconsistent" with other evidence at a Connecticut trial, requesting the alleged transgressions be discussed after a Texas bankruptcy judge slammed the lawyer for providing "false statements" in a separate matter.

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Expert Analysis

  • What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties Author Photo

    As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.

  • NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times Author Photo

    New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.

  • Opinion

    Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark Author Photo

    Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.

  • A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate Author Photo

    Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.

  • Burnout Prevention Requires Effort From Attys And Firms Author Photo

    To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law Author Photo

    Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.

  • Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions Author Photo

    Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.

  • 3 Reasons To Embrace Jargon In Legal Marketing Content Author Photo

    Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.

  • Future Lawyers Expect DEI Commitments Beyond Recruiting Author Photo

    To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.

  • Series

    Ask A Mentor: How Can Law Students Build Real-World Skills? Author Photo

    Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.

  • How Firm Leaders Can Build And Sustain Culture Author Photo

    In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.

  • The Case That Showed Me The Value Of E-Discovery Plans Author Photo

    Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.

  • Opinion

    CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning Outcomes Author Photo

    Given the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.

  • Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review Author Photo

    While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.

  • Persuading The Court With Visual Aids In Written Argument Author Photo

    Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.

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