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Why Tonix's External Atty Saw GC Role As A 'Natural Choice'
At first, Irina Ishak thought her appointment as general counsel at Tonix Pharmaceuticals was the first job she's landed without an interview. But on second glance, she realized that she'd been unofficially interviewing for the position for about eight years, while she served as outside counsel for the biotechnology company.
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GC Of DuPont Electric Spinoff Qnity Gets $3.3M Comp In 2025
The general counsel for DuPont spinoff Qnity Electronics Inc. received total compensation of roughly $3.3 million in 2025, including a salary of about $442,000, according to a public filing.
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Baker Botts Hires Int'l Development Finance Corp. Leader
Baker Botts LLP has hired an attorney who has worked at the center of the U.S. agency responsible for investing in developing countries as its top attorney, who has joined the firm as a senior counsel in Washington, D.C.
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Colgate-Palmolive Taps Deputy To Replace Retiring CLO
Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s longtime legal chief is retiring, and her successor will be the New York City-based consumer products company's current second-in-command for legal matters, the business said this week.
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Pinterest's Legal Chief Saw Comp Double In 2025
Pinterest's chief legal officer saw her total compensation double to $12.4 million in 2025, up from the $6.2 million she earned in 2024, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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FanDuel's Former CLO Goes To Fintech Startup Airwallex
Australia-based financial technology startup Airwallex will continue its expansion into the U.S. market next week as the company welcomes the former chief legal officer of FanDuel as its new compliance officer.
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McNees Continues Philly Growth With Construction Atty
A week after adding a new office in the Philadelphia suburbs with a team of attorneys and professionals from Fox Rothschild LLP, McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC continued expanding its resources in the region by welcoming a seasoned construction and real estate attorney.
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Labor Dept. Policy Adviser Named Top Atty At PBGC
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has tapped a policy adviser who worked for the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm to serve as the PBGC's general counsel.
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Dollar General GC's Compensation Rose By $4.5M Last Year
Dollar General's top attorney, Rhonda Taylor, saw her salary jump several million dollars in 2025 as a result of stock awards and netted more than $7.6 million, the company has disclosed in a securities filing.
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Supermicro Lawyers Up After Founder, 2 Others Indicted
Super Micro Computer Inc. has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation and assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review after the company's founder and two associates were indicted last month for allegedly exporting banned technology to China.
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Texas Panel Keeps Ex-GC's Suit Over Unpaid Bonuses Alive
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday kept in play a suit by a dairy equipment manufacturer's former general counsel over unpaid bonuses, holding that updated anti-SLAPP rules applied to newly added claims in the suit and that the company failed to meet procedural requirements in trying to dismiss them.
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Kraft Heinz Global GC Pocketed More Than $3.8M Last Year
The top in-house attorney for Chicago- and Pittsburgh-based corporation Kraft Heinz Co. earned more than $3.8 million in total compensation during her first full year with the company as it experienced what its new CEO calls a "challenging" 2025, according to recent public documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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FanDuel's CLO Exits With 'Gratitude And Pride' After 7 Years
The head of legal and compliance at FanDuel Inc. said in a recent LinkedIn post that she has left the online gaming company and hinted that she would share her next career steps soon.
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Cheniere Energy's Legal Chief Saw Comp Increase In 2025
Cheniere Energy Inc.'s chief legal officer saw his total compensation increase to roughly $6.3 million in 2025, up from roughly $6 million the year before, in large part due to more brought in from stock awards, according to a Tuesday public filing.
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Travelers' Insurance CLO Got Million-Dollar Pay Raise In 2025
The Travelers Cos. Inc.'s top attorney earned nearly $8.5 million in total compensation last year, an almost $1 million increase compared to his 2024 pay package, according to a Tuesday securities filing.
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Verizon CLO's Compensation Climbed To Over $7.4M In 2025
Verizon Communications Inc.'s legal leader saw her compensation rise by almost $1 million last year, bringing home just over $7.4 million, a recent securities filing shows.
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Ex-Microsoft Employee Says Judge Can DQ Ogletree
An attorney and former Microsoft employee suing the company for pregnancy discrimination is calling on a Washington federal judge to reject the company's dismissal bid, and doubled down on her efforts to have its Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC lawyers disqualified.
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Severance Boosts Ex-Compass GC's Comp Nearly 10 Times
The former general counsel of Compass Inc. saw his total compensation jump from about $1 million last year to over $10 million in 2025, according to a securities filing on Friday.
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RJ Reynolds Fights Altria's Trial Subpoena Of In-House Atty
Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. said one of its in-house attorneys should not be forced to testify in person at an upcoming evidentiary hearing in a royalty fight with rival Philip Morris' parent company, arguing a recording of his deposition is all a North Carolina judge should need.
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CBRE Legal Chief's Compensation Rose To $4.46M In 2025
CBRE's legal leader saw his pay package rise to $4.46 million in 2025, compared with nearly $3.4 million the previous year, a recent securities filing shows.
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Fla. Biz Firm Jimerson Birr Hires 1st COO
Business law firm Jimerson Birr PA announced Monday the hiring of its first chief operating officer, an experienced manager who previously held executive roles at a digital marketing business and a personal injury firm in Florida.
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Morgan Stanley's CLO Took In $19.2M Last Year
The top in-house attorney at financial services giant Morgan Stanley took in nearly $20 million in total compensation for 2025, according to documents recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak
The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Ex-GE Vernova GC's Comp Soared Into Double Digits In 2025
The former general counsel at GE Vernova who left the company about a year ago saw her pay soar into double digits in 2025, with almost $14 million in total compensation, according to a Friday securities filing.
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Expert Analysis
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3 Business Development Lessons From Mozart's 'Magic Flute'
Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” offers a useful framework for attorneys to build relationships and develop new business, inspired by Prince Tamino’s curiosity, courage and consistency, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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5 Ways Legal Teams Can Use KPIs To Quantify Their Value
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.
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5 Emerging Themes Shaping Lateral Partner Moves This Year
A few key trends have arisen in partners’ 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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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be A Mentor Or Mentee
Mentorship is a powerful tool for business development when both mentors and mentees approach their relationships with strategic purpose, ensuring professional success while supporting broader business goals, say Angela Liu at Dechert and Jessica Lewis at WilmerHale.
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4 Biz Dev Steps For Attys Who Don't Know What They Want
Junior attorneys are increasingly expected to start building books of business while they are still figuring out their long-term career goals, but a few pointers can help young lawyers develop business even when they’re uncertain about their future direction, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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Protecting Client Funds From Cyberattacks
As cyberattacks on law firms continue to escalate, bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers must all take steps to protect client funds in attorney trust accounts — from imposing cyber hygiene mandates to reimagining malpractice coverage — because once that money is gone, it’s generally gone for good, says Michael Epstein at The Epstein Law Firm.
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Making Legal Cents: For Billing, Think Value, Not Time
Pricing strategy is one of the most consistently discussed but underleveraged tools in a firm's arsenal, and rather than keeping hourly billing because it's easy, firms should consider their differentiators when structuring more effective fee models, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.
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Achieving Organic Growth For A Legal Nonprofit
We started Law Rocks to promote music education for underprivileged youth and raise funds for local nonprofits, and our 15-year journey has shown that enthusiasm, persistence and a great network can lead to a surprising amount of organic growth, say Nick Child and Ted Scott at Secretariat.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Engage With The Media
Business development is all about awareness — and by taking existing skills and adapting them to build media relationships and thereby address today's audiences, lawyers can expand their outreach and use thought leadership to build a more complete, compelling personal brand, says Michael Goodwin at Stanton PR.
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What GCs Value Most: 7 Habits Of Great Relationship Partners
When seeking outside legal advisers, general counsel want commercially savvy lawyers who cultivate relationships of trust with their in-house counterparts, back up the GC's authority and focus on actionable advice instead of abstract legal analysis, say Andrew Dick at The L Suite and Rob Morvillo at Olo.
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5 Ways In-House Counsel Can Stay Ahead Of New HSR Rules
Now that the Trump administration’s new Hart-Scott-Rodino Act rules have been in effect for several months, in-house counsel should consider several practice pointers that can help spearhead management of M&A-related antitrust risk, say attorneys at Squire Patton.
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Roundup
Nonprofit Launch Tips From Founders In The Legal Industry
In this season of giving, take a look back at this Law360 series featuring legal professionals who have founded industry-related nonprofits. They discussed the biggest challenges to getting started, and how to balance the launch and management of an organization along with the demands of their primary work.
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Nonequity Partner Frustrations Reflect Erosion Of Opportunity
Nonequity partners report the lowest satisfaction, highest stress and poorest financial outlook of any group of lawyers, highlighting a growing structural disconnect that leaves attorneys at many firms feeling like the ladder has been pulled up behind those who already ascended, says Jake Carroll at Nelson Mullins.
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Learn Your Colleagues To Cross-Sell Their Services Fearlessly
Understanding where colleagues in other practice areas shine can help attorneys confidently cross-sell each other's services and bring in business to keep the firm afloat in hard times, says Joe Calve at Calve Communications.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Advertise Ethically
Business development in the legal industry is about building authentic connections and showcasing expertise in a way that reflects reality, and, when done right, it can elevate a practice, establish credibility and bring in clients without risking an ethics violation, says Melody Jackson at Robinhood.