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A former chief legal officer at professional services company Indelible has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a litigation counsel in Miami.
The Big 12 collegiate athletic conference has announced that it has promoted one of its longtime in-house attorneys to serve as its chief operating officer and general counsel to steer its legal affairs and other operations.Â
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as attorneys took on new roles and law firms expanded their reach. Test your legal news savvy here with À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Pulse's weekly quiz.
Seward & Kissel LLP is bulking up its venture capital offerings, bringing on a partner with a background in fund formation and deal structuring and with more than two decades of experience in both BigLaw and in-house roles.
Stablecoin giant Circle has tapped Heath Tarbert, its president and former top derivatives regulator, as well as a former Office of the Comptroller of the Currency chief counsel to help oversee its proposed national trust bank, according to application materials made public Thursday.
The former general counsel to both the organization behind the annual Burning Man festival and to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has joined the recently launched psychedelics firm Antithesis Law as of counsel, the firm announced Thursday.
Crowell & Moring LLP has expanded its litigation resources in its San Francisco office with the addition of two former in-house attorneys for Amazon, who bring more than 30 years of combined experience to advise clients on product liability claims.
The general counsel for Ansys Inc. has been tapped to take over as the top attorney and corporate secretary for Synopsys Inc. after Synopsys' acquisition of Ansys took effect this week.
Truck stop chain Pilot Travel Centers announced Thursday that Eva Rigamonti has been promoted to chief legal officer, part of a journey that has taken her from teaching children with special needs in the South Bronx to leading a 90-person legal team at the country's largest convenience store-refueling group.
Former American Bar Association President William H. "Bill" Neukom, the first head lawyer for Microsoft and a longtime partner at a predecessor firm to K&L Gates LLP, has died at age 83, the bar said Wednesday.
Real estate software provider Tango announced that it has hired the general counsel for infrastructure consulting firm Halff as its new chief administrative officer, tasked with overseeing legal and compliance matters.
In-house and law firm leaders are finding many different ways to use legal and nonlegal generative artificial intelligence tools in their law practices, according to a panel hosted by contract management platform Ironclad.
In-house legal teams need to develop deep financial literacy while helping chief financial officers better understand the potential cost of compliance risks, according to a new report that examined the collaboration between legal and finance.
Provable, a company focused on developing products for compliant, confidential payments and creating tools for developers to use on the Aleo blockchain, has added a former CoinList legal leader as its general counsel.
Hanson Bridgett LLP has announced the hiring of a former University of California, San Diego Health attorney as a partner, which officially marks the Golden State firm's entry into the state's second-largest city.
Zum, the California company focused on providing sustainable school transportation, announced on Wednesday that it has hired a seasoned technology legal chief as its next general counsel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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®ÊÓÆµ Pulse talked about HB In-House with firm Chair Josef Glynias and a program graduate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?In the first installment of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 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
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.