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Southwest Flight Attendant Fights To Revive Nixed Sanctions
A flight attendant urged the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its move to axe a contempt order against Southwest Airlines in her wrongful termination suit, arguing it shouldn't be scrapped just because the panel took issue with court-ordered religious liberty training for Southwest attorneys.
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Proxy Proposal Omissions Rose Post-SEC Bulletin, Study Finds
There was a sharp drop in the total number of shareholder proxy proposals submitted this year and a rise in the number of submitted proposals that were omitted from corporate ballots following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rescission of past guidance, ISS Corporate Solutions Inc. said Thursday.
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Pitney Bowes GC Joins New CEO In Company Review
Connecticut-based Pitney Bowes Inc. has named sitting director and the founder of activist investor Hestia Capital Management as its CEO and has appointed its general counsel and four other executives to a planning group to conduct a strategic review of the company.
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Koskoff Taps Hartford HealthCare Atty As Med Mal Intake Head
Connecticut law firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC has added a veteran in-house attorney from Hartford HealthCare to serve as the leader of its medical malpractice intake team.
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Advisory Firm Swiftwater & Co. Hires Ex-Wolters Kluwer VP
Swiftwater & Co., a legal business advisory firm, announced Thursday that it hired a former vice president and general manager at legal software provider Wolters Kluwer as a managing director overseeing technology, financial and legal operations strategy.
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Discover Interim Legal Chief Exits As Capital One Deal Closes
Discover Financial Services' interim chief legal officer and general counsel departed on Sunday, the same day Capital One Financial Corp. finalized its $35 billion acquisition of the financial services company.
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Judge Warns Attys Using AI To 'Advocate — Not Hallucinate'
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned two attorneys in a shipping contract dispute for filing a brief that included a nonexistent case citation added by artificial intelligence, warning lawyers that they must "carefully evaluate, elucidate and advocate — not hallucinate" in their legal briefs.
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Koch Pro Bono Lawyers Help Clear Path For Kansans To Work
In-house counsel at Koch Inc. are helping hundreds of low-income residents every year get their driver's licenses reinstated or their criminal records expunged in Kansas, where Koch is based in Wichita, as well as across the U.S. where it has offices, to help restore their access to services and job opportunities.
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Toyota Taps Assistant GC For Compliance Chief Role
Toyota Motor North America Inc. has promoted its assistant general counsel to chief compliance and ethics officer ahead of the current compliance and ethics leader's retirement.
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How An Ex-Cummins GC 'Changed A Little Part Of The World'
As Sharon Barner prepares for her last day at Cummins next week, the general counsel-turned-chief administrative officer reflects on her decades-long legal career and shares how she plans to use her knowledge to continue to help people thrive at work.
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Ex-Holland & Knight Atty Returns As Litigation Partner In Ore.
A former Holland & Knight litigator has returned recently to the firm's Portland, Oregon, office after spending nearly three years as a top attorney in the city's auditor's office.
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Insurance Exec Rejoins Books-A-Million For Sequel As GC
A business insurance consultant at Marsh McLennan Agency has rejoined Books-A-Million as senior vice president and general counsel.
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Target's CLO Departs After Less Than A Year Amid Shake-Up
The chief legal and compliance officer at Target Corp., who has been in her roles for just nine months, is among two executives departing the retailer amid a new corporate initiative, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
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Dell Technologies GC Earned $4.5M More Than Last Year
The longtime general counsel for Dell Technologies Inc. saw his compensation jump by nearly $4.5 million last fiscal year, to $11.4 million, according to a recent securities filing.
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AI Use Surges In-House, Driving Legal Tech Revolution for GCs
In a surprising surge, almost all respondents in a recent global survey of general counsel said their legal teams are using generative artificial intelligence to some degree.
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Former Prologis GC Joins BarkerGilmore's Advisory Team
After nearly 30 years of helping to build Prologis Inc. as a top real estate investment trust, or REIT, the company's former general counsel has joined executive search and talent advisory BarkerGilmore LLC to help up-and-coming in-house legal talent advance their careers.
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Patriot Growth Insurance Adds Unit President To GC's Duties
Pennsylvania-based insurance company Patriot Growth Insurance Services has tapped its current top in-house attorney to take on an additional role leading one of the company's divisions.
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Berkshire Hathaway RE Affiliate GC To Lead Pacific Sotheby's
Pacific Sotheby's International Realty, a luxury brokerage firm in the Southern California market, has found its new president in the former general counsel for San Diego-based Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties.
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Legal Marketplace Lawtrades Hires 1st Chief Strategy Officer
Legal talent marketplace Lawtrades announced Tuesday the hiring of its first chief strategy officer, the former head of legal operations at healthcare financial tech service Cedar Cares Inc.
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Insurers Say Legal Malpractice Costs Keep Outpacing Inflation
The frequency at which major law firms faced malpractice claims held relatively steady in 2024, but payouts on claims continued to boom at a rate outpacing general inflation, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey, with nearly half of insurers surveyed reporting having paid at least one claim over $150 million.
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Texas Bar Bans Cos. From Hiring Out In-House Attys
For-profit companies in Texas can't provide legal services to customers, even if they offer those services on an "at cost" basis, the State Bar of Texas has said.
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Feds To Use FCA To Go After Antisemitism, DEI Policies
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it will use the False Claims Act to go after any recipients of federal funds that the agency determines promote diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and allow antisemitism to thrive.
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Why GCs Should Prepare Now For Disclosure Rule Changes
Public companies and their general counsel need to prepare now for upcoming changes to regulatory frameworks that could alter their disclosure requirements across several areas, including climate, diversity, resource extraction and cybersecurity.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Ex-Carlyle Director To Funds Practice
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has added the former legal director to global investment firm The Carlyle Group as a partner in its private funds practice in Washington, D.C.
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Ex-Bank GC Fights $7.4M Fraud Restitution Schedule
A former Webster Bank general counsel has opposed part of a government plan for repaying the $7.4 million he pled guilty to taking by fraud, saying he will be in prison for four years, resigned as an attorney, remains unemployed and cannot work in banking once he's free.
Expert Analysis
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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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 — 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 work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.Â
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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.