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A veteran insurance industry attorney has joined insurance group MSIG USA as its new legal leader from insurance company Amynta Group.
Stuart Levey, the executive vice president and chief legal officer of software giant Oracle, saw his total compensation jump from about $13.6 million in fiscal year 2024 to nearly $14.7 million in the fiscal year that ended in June, according to a securities filing.
Port Houston, which owns and operates the eight public facilities along the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel, has selected the former leader of Crowley Maritime's legal team as incoming chief legal officer as retirement nears for the attorney currently filling the role.
As legal leaders worry about meeting candidates' compensation expectations going into 2026, enhanced benefits and perks such as bonuses, work-life balance and retirement planning play an increasingly important role in helping them remain competitive, according to a new report released Monday.
President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that Microsoft fire its new President of Global Affairs Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general in the Biden administration and homeland security adviser in the Obama administration, in what seems to be the president's latest effort to exact revenge on his perceived political enemies.
Tech industry giant Oracle will monitor the U.S. operations of social media platform TikTok after a deal turns 80% of the formerly Chinese-owned subsidiary over to a U.S.-based joint venture. And a new compensation study of large company general counsel finds steady growth since 2020, although it still trails pay for chief financial officers.
Fox Corp.'s chief legal and policy officer saw his compensation rise to over $10.3 million in fiscal year 2025, a more than $1 million increase compared to the previous year, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hall Booth Smith PC announced that a former in-house trial attorney with insurance giant Allstate has joined the firm's Atlanta office as a general liability of counsel.
Florida health system Lee Health tapped one of its own in-house attorneys as its next chief legal officer and general counsel.
The general counsel and executive vice president of the tech company Siemens USA, who has been with the company for more than 26 years, has been named its interim CEO.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has expanded its Minneapolis office with the return of an attorney who previously worked in-house at Teradata Corp.
The legal industry had another action-packed week, with a Democratic investigation into BigLaw firms' pro bono work for the federal government, and a former New York state judge leaving the bench to dodge ethics charges. Test your legal news savvy here with 蓝莓视频 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Paramount Skydance Corp. announced Thursday that a Latham & Watkins LLP antitrust and competition attorney, who was head of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust unit during President Donald Trump's first term, has been tapped to be its new chief legal officer.
The chief legal and administrative officer of H&R Block Inc. tax service earned total compensation of nearly $2.26 million in fiscal 2025, or about $130,000 more than in 2024 thanks to taking on additional duties, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted one of its longtime in-house attorneys, who recently helped with next-day streaming agreements for "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune," to executive vice president of global distribution, business and legal affairs, the entertainment giant told 蓝莓视频 Pulse Thursday.
Jennifer Miller, who has led the legal department at the writing assistance tool provider Grammarly Inc. for almost two years, told 蓝莓视频 Pulse she never wants to be a general counsel who must stand up to say, "We delegated our responsibility to a tool to check this, and we never asked a person."
An attorney specializing in the life sciences will be returning to private practice next month after more than nine years as an in-house counsel for several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, joining WilmerHale's Boston office.
Pro bono legal work is a major part of law firms' social responsibility portfolios, with firms leveraging their training and experience to help those who can't pay typical billing rates. See which firms took the lead in pro bono hours.聽
When lawyers work pro bono, what services are they offering and what areas of the law are they focusing on? Here, 蓝莓视频 Pulse looks at firms' 2024 pro bono priorities.
One BigLaw firm reclaimed the top spot in the latest edition of the 蓝莓视频 Pulse Social Impact Leaders ranking, which recognizes the 100 firms that made the greatest strides on social responsibility in 2024. Find out which firms set the pace.
The median compensation for a large company general counsel has risen steadily from $2.8 million in 2020 to $3.4 million in 2024, a 20.5% increase over that period, according to a new study released Wednesday.
As universities face frozen funds, federal probes, and demands for change to diversity programs and curriculum, their general counsel face heightened pressure as they navigate school presidents and boards through the storm.
Hall Booth Smith PC built out its aging services practice this week with the hire of a Paramus, New Jersey-based of counsel attorney specializing in litigation and risk management for clients in the acute care and post-acute care fields.
A longtime in-house attorney at construction equipment giant Caterpillar is scheduled to join Hub Group next month to eventually take over for its retiring chief legal officer, the truck transportation company said in a securities filing Tuesday.
Pennsylvania-based Patriot Growth Insurance Services has promoted one of its associate general counsels to serve as the company's top in-house attorney, in one of several recent elevations within its leadership team.
Julie LaEace at Perkins Coie offers tips for attorneys acting as pro bono coordinators, including how to choose appropriate projects, how to encourage participation and why it is important to keep in touch with legal aid partner organizations.
Amid uncertainty in the legal job market, attorneys who are considering a transition to a leadership role must fundamentally reimagine their approach to value creation and develop a new set of skills, say Stacy Bratcher at Cottage Health and Michael Watkins at Genesis Advisers.
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations鈥 internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
Firms can develop a strong pro bono culture without hiring dedicated professionals through strategies like demonstrating active involvement by leadership, tailoring volunteer tasks to individual professional development needs and building trusted partnerships within the legal aid community, says Stacy Zinken at Paladin.
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鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧婣s the student debt crisis evolves under changing federal policies, firms that proactively address the burden will have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining the best young lawyers, says Brian Kabateck at Kabateck.
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The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle聽鈥 and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson鈥檚 searing dissents this past term serve as a reminder for attorneys to analyze U.S. Supreme Court minority opinions in their thought leadership for three key reasons, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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As in-house legal departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, developing a thoughtful framework to measure key performance indicators can help them both maximize and demonstrate their contribution to business success, say co-founders at New Era ADR.
A few key trends have arisen in partners鈥 lateral movements in the first half of 2025, reflecting a legal market defined by macroeconomic uncertainty, shifts in firm structures and rising scrutiny of firm affiliations, say legal recruiters at Macrae.
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