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SEC Drops Bribery Suit Against Ex-Cognizant Execs
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New Jersey federal court Tuesday that it will drop its lawsuit against the former president and chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. over an alleged bribery scheme, after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a related criminal case.
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Recent Law School Grads Have Already Held 2 Different Jobs
Nearly two of three attorneys who graduated from law school three years ago have already held two jobs, but only 13% are on the hunt for a new gig, according to a report from the National Association for Law Placement released on Tuesday.
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J&J Demands Sanctions Over Atty's 'Frivolous' Bias Suit In NJ
Johnson & Johnson has blasted a former in-house data privacy attorney's discrimination suit against the company as "baseless and defamatory" and demanded sanctions against the ex-employee in New Jersey federal court.
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Verve Offers $416K Award To GC Amid Lilly Acquisition
Verve Therapeutics Inc. on Tuesday announced a retention program that includes $416,000 for general counsel Andrew Ashe, to keep him in his job as the company prepares to be acquired by Eli Lilly and Co. in a $1 billion deal.
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Moses & Singer Lands Former Showtime Networks GC
Moses & Singer LLP has grown its intellectual property, entertainment/media and technology and artificial intelligence and data law practice groups with the addition of the former general counsel for Showtime Networks Inc.
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Why Husch Blackwell Helps Its Attorneys Go In-House
Husch Blackwell LLP recently kicked off the second year of HB In-House, a professional development program that prepares the firm's attorneys for future in-house legal roles. À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Pulse talked about HB In-House with firm Chair Josef Glynias and a program graduate.
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Inspire Brands Hires Ex-Yum! Brands Exec As Its CLO
Inspire Brands, the company that owns franchises such restaurant chains as Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin' and Jimmy John's, announced Monday that it has hired a former long-time executive with fast-food giant Yum! Brands as its new chief legal and administrative officer.
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Ex-Treasury Atty To Lead Trade Risk Mitigation At Baker Botts
Baker Botts LLP announced new partner hires in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday, adding a U.S. Department of the Treasury official to lead national security and risk mitigation for the firm's international trade section, and a dealmaker previously with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to its corporate department.
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Computer Co. IonQ Taps Veteran Tech GC As New CLO
Quantum computing company IonQ Inc. announced Monday that it has hired as its new chief legal officer a veteran tech industry attorney who spent 32 years leading corporate legal teams.
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Stevens & Lee Opens In Pittsburgh With Ex-Penguins Exec
The former president of business operations for the Pittsburgh Penguins has joined Stevens & Lee, launching the Pennsylvania-based firm's first location in Pittsburgh, the firm announced Monday.
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Atty Who Led NBA Union To Head Sports Consulting Practice
The former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association has found a new leadership role at Secretariat Advisors LLC's Washington, D.C., office and in the firm's sports consulting practice.
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UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC
A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.
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Renewable Energy Company Promotes Atty To First CLO
Chaberton Energy has promoted a longtime in-house attorney to serve as its first-ever chief legal officer amid the renewable energy company's growth, it said Monday.
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Kaplan Kirsch Welcomes Another Former DOT Atty
Kaplan Kirsch LLP announced last week that the former acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation under former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and a onetime chief counsel of the Federal Transit Administration has joined the firm as a partner.
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Dolphin Co. Says Ex-CEO Blocked Records, Violated Orders
Dolphin encounter company Leisure Investments Holdings LLC told a Delaware bankruptcy court that its former executives ignored the court's order to submit the debtor's business records, therefore it should impose sanctions until they comply with the order.Â
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BigLaw Firms Tap In-House Talent To Corner Finance Market
As elite law firms continue to battle to secure highly profitable legal work in the finance space, an increasing number are adding high-level in-house lawyers to their ranks, marking a departure from historic norms in which general counsel-to-law firm partner moves were less common.
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Latham Adds Ex-Senate Intelligence Atty From DLA Piper
An attorney who worked for the U.S. Senate committee that investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has joined Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, D.C.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Carma has accused its former chief legal officer and president of misappropriating the brand licensing company's trade secrets, filing a $10 million lawsuit in Illinois federal court. Meanwhile, T-Mobile became the latest company to end DEI programs under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission's chair. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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EV Charging Company's CLO Pulling The Plug On July 25
ChargePoint Holdings Inc. has announced that its chief legal officer is leaving the company, which provides charging networks for electrical vehicles, on July 25 "to pursue another professional opportunity."
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Former GE Atty Named CLO At Morehouse School Of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine announced this week that it has hired as its chief legal officer an attorney who formerly worked in General Electric's legal department for a decade and also has experience helping steer legal affairs for healthcare providers.
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Voir Dire: À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry continued July with another busy week as attorneys took on new roles and firms expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ex-Houston Texans Atty Tackles Munsch Hardt Sports Group
Former Houston Texans in-house attorney Sunil Jamal joined À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Pulse to discuss joining Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC and launching the firm's new sports and entertainment group.
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How GCs Can Help Win Back Investor Trust On Compensation
A new study of Fortune 1000 companies shows how 24 of them used investor engagement to increase say-on-pay approval votes this year, including Norfolk Southern, Salesforce, Boeing and Disney.
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Veteran In-House Atty Heads McAllister Olivarius' US Practice
A former general counsel at PepsiCo and GE is now head of the U.S. practice at McAllister Olivarius, bringing decades of in-house experience to the British-American firm that represents survivors of sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination, according to an announcement.
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Air Products GC Resigns After CEO Succession Plan Failure
Pennsylvania-based industrial gas supplier Air Products and Chemicals Inc. is on the hunt for a new top in-house attorney after its current general counsel announced his resignation, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.