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Q3 Law Firm Lateral Hiring Reflects Cautious Optimism
Lateral attorney hiring at the nation's largest law firms continued to climb in the third quarter of 2025, signaling that the legal talent market is gradually stabilizing after a sluggish start to the year, according to a new report from legal intelligence provider Firm Prospects.
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Spinoff Versant Media's GC Appoints Legal Leadership Team
The general counsel for Versant, a new, soon-to-be publicly traded company created by Comcast and composed of a portfolio of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, has named her legal leadership team.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
It is of little solace to general counsel that most big law firms hiked their billing rates this year just slightly less than last year's increase. And it looks like Elon Musk is settling with the former chief legal officer and the general counsel of Twitter, along with two other executives, over their suit to obtain millions in promised severance pay. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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News Corp Raised GC's Pay A Million, To $6.2 Million In 2025
News Corp general counsel David Pitofsky earned $6.2 million in total compensation in fiscal 2025 — a $1.2 million increase over the previous year, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Florida Polytechnic Eliminates General Counsel Office
Florida Polytechnic University has eliminated its general counsel office and will outsource for legal services going forward, the school's president said this week, explaining that the cut was done "as part of our ongoing efforts to manage resources wisely and ensure long-term sustainability."
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Texas Regional MLS Hires MLS Pro To General Counsel Role
North Texas Real Estate Information Systems has announced the appointment of a new general counsel, who joins the multiple listing service from a leadership role at the Council of Multiple Listing Services.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
A law firm combination and BigLaw group hires made this another action-packed week for the legal industry. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Shopify Elevates Former Facebook, Biden-Harris Atty To COO
Shopify has promoted its general counsel, whose previous roles include working for the Biden administration, Facebook and Jenner & Block LLP, to chief operating officer.
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Ex-Twitter CLO, 3 Others Settle Severance Suit With Musk
Four executives of Twitter, now X Corp, including the former chief legal officer and former general counsel, have reached a tentative settlement with Elon Musk in a lawsuit over $128 million in promised severance pay that Musk allegedly withheld after he bought the social media company and fired them.
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Ex-Paramount Legal Chief Named Media Biz Wasserman's CLO
The former general counsel for Paramount Global Inc. who departed the company in 2024 during its ownership transition will join sports, music and entertainment company Wasserman as its top attorney, the company said Thursday.
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Mattress Co. Names HR Head As General Counsel Too
The former legal leader at Mattress Firm, who in May became chief human resources officer at the bedding retailer's parent Somnigroup International Inc., on Thursday added general counsel to her responsibilities.
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Why Eventbrite's GC Doesn't Need A 'Massive' Legal Team
At the ticketing and events marketplace Eventbrite, Lisa Gorman's 10-person law department is built around specialization in four areas, which are each led by long-tenured attorneys who are experts in their domains.
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Exxon Retail Voting Program Green Light Inspires Other Cos.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent green light of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors has sparked interest among other firms exploring implementing their own such programs, as the oil and gas giant moves to counter activist groups.
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One Of In-House Counsels' Least Satisfying Features: The Pay
The highest-paid in-house jobs belong to lawyers who work at companies with revenue over $5 billion, who graduated from one of the top 20 law schools, and who were law firm attorneys before going in-house, according to a new report from the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Ex-Teva Counsel Joins Moore & Van Allen's IP Team
An attorney who provided in-house counsel for Teva Pharmaceuticals for 10 years has moved back to private practice and joined Moore & Van Allen PLLC's Charlotte, North Carolina, office.
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Jones Walker Adds Lumen Technologies' Former GC
A longtime former general counsel for telecommunications company Lumen Technologies Inc. and its predecessors has returned to private practice at Jones Walker LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Senate Confirms Boyden Gray Atty As Trump's Labor Solicitor
The Senate confirmed on Tuesday a Boyden Gray PLLC managing partner as President Donald Trump's nominee for labor solicitor, the third-highest-ranking position at the U.S. Department of Labor.
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MoFo Brings On Calif. Financial Protection Agency GC
Morrison Foerster LLP is growing its financial team, bringing in the general counsel of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation as a partner in its San Francisco office, the firm said Tuesday.
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Disney Recruits Gibson Dunn 'Driving Force' As Deputy GC
A Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorney who throughout her career has represented big technology companies such as Meta Platforms Inc. in high-profile cases has chosen to take on her first ever in-house role, at The Walt Disney Co. as deputy general counsel for litigation and patents, the entertainment giant confirmed Tuesday to Law360 Pulse.
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BarkerGilmore Adds Trailblazing Ex-Dentons Atty As Adviser
BarkerGilmore LLC has added an attorney previously with Dentons who once served as the first female general counsel of a Fortune 500 company as a strategic adviser and executive coach, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Litigation Funder, Ex-GC To Take Fight Out Of Texas Court
Litigation funder Siltstone Capital LLC has agreed to arbitration with a former general counsel it has accused in a Texas state lawsuit of diverting business opportunities and using confidential business information when secretly forming a new rival litigation funder, Signal Peak Partners LLC.
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Holland & Knight Adds Ex-EPA GC As Team Co-Chair In DC
Tampa, Florida-headquartered Holland & Knight LLP has hired as its new co-chair of the national environmental practice a former Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner who served as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's general counsel during Donald Trump's first term and as the top attorney in Florida's Department of Environmental Protection.
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On The Ballot: NYC Mayoral Candidates' Plans For Law Dept.
The New York City Law Department could boost the number of attorneys on its bench or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits, according to proposals from two of the three candidates vying to be the next mayor.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In September? Palantir, Gemini & More
In September, the chief legal and revenue officer at Palantir Technologies earned more than $5 million in stock sales for the third month in a row.
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AWS Atty Takes AI Post At Greenberg Traurig In Minneapolis
A lawyer who spent the past nine years at Amazon Web Services Inc. has moved back into private practice, this time as a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig LLP's corporate, innovation and artificial intelligence, and technology transactions groups, the law firm said Monday.
Expert Analysis
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
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.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
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.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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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.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
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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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.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
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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In the first installment of Law360 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.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
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.