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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.
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Paramount REIT Taps GC, Hires Latham For 'Strategic Review'
The Paramount Group commercial real estate investment trust announced Monday it had retained Latham & Watkins as its legal adviser as it started a strategic review following a shakeup that saw the company name a new general counsel and chief financial officer.
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Kirkland Hires Former TPG Counsel As PE Real Estate Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP said that private equity real estate attorney Yaman Shukairy has rejoined the firm as a partner after serving as general counsel for the private equity firm TPG Real Estate Partners for nearly a decade.
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Squire Patton Adds Miami Litigator With In-House Experience
A former in-house attorney at NextEra Energy Resources who was most recently with Heise Suarez Melville PA moved his practice to Squire Patton Boggs LLP in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
An SEC enforcement officer has told business leaders to expect more empathy from the agency, as well as fewer outside compliance monitors. And an ousted ATF chief counsel is fighting back by co-founding a boutique law firm to defend federal workers in employment battles.
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QVC General Counsel Replaces Legal Chief Amid Restructure
Retail company QVC Inc. has reshuffled its top in-house legal team as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ex-GCs Co-Found Legal Outsourcing Co. Velocity Edge
A team of two general counsel and a human resources executive announced the launch of Velocity Edge Advisors, offering businesses outsourced legal and workforce services.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked mid-May with another busy week as attorneys landed new roles and firms expanded their offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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SEC Cuts $512K Deal To End Atty's Racial Bias Suit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $512,500 to end a former commission lawyer's discrimination claims alleging she was denied a promotion due to her race and age, according to court documents filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday.
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The Resorts Companies Adds GC From Holiday Inn Arm
The Resorts Companies Inc. announced that the firm has appointed as its general counsel John Alvarez, who comes to the hospitality company from Holiday Inn Club Vacations.
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ATF's Ousted Top Atty Opens Firm Defending Gov't Workers
Pamela Hicks, the former U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives chief counsel fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, announced this week that she has teamed up with another federal agency alum to form a boutique focused on defending federal workers.
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Geisinger Recruits Envision Healthcare Atty To Be CLO
Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health has brought on Envision Healthcare's former general counsel to serve as the company's top in-house attorney and lead the legal department.
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Ex-Cisco Atty Joins Cloud Software Co. Fastly As CLO
Fastly Inc., a cloud computing services provider, has named a new chief legal officer with 20 years' experience, including as deputy general counsel at Cisco Systems Inc.
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TIAA Promotes From Within For Chief Legal Spot
The Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America on Thursday named one of its own in-house attorneys as its new chief legal officer, effective next month.
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BigLaw Has More LinkedIn Followers, But Less Engagement
The 30 largest U.S. law firms have more LinkedIn followers, but smaller firms in the top 200 have higher engagement rates despite fewer followers on the platform, according to a report released Thursday by BTI Consulting Group.
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Adobe Hires Former Roku GC As Its New Chief Legal Officer
Adobe Inc. announced Wednesday it is bringing in a technology industry veteran who most recently was the general counsel of Roku as its new chief legal officer.
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Lehigh Recruits Oberlin College CLO To Replace Retiring GC
Oberlin College's former top in-house attorney has been tapped by Lehigh University to replace its retiring general counsel.
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Longtime Eli Lilly In-House Atty Named Takeda's Global GC
A longtime Eli Lilly & Co. attorney is set to take over as global general counsel at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. this summer, the company said Tuesday.
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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Recruits Seasoned Industry Atty As GC
Tonix Pharmaceuticals has found as its new general counsel a former Celgene Corp. lawyer involved in that company's integration with Bristol Myers Squibb.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q1
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the first quarter of the year.
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Virta Health's Diabetes Mission Is Personal For Its GC
Jamie Anderson said it's important to find a mission-driven company to join — and when that mission aligns with an attorney's personal life, it's even more inspiration to work hard and contribute to the success of the business.
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'Anora' Studio Neon Hires FilmNation's Legal Leader As GC
Neon, an American independent film production and distribution company known for films "Anora" and "Parasite," has found a new legal leader in a film industry veteran.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.