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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Venture Global, Alphabet
Several general counsel welcomed spring by harvesting some fresh stock sales in March. Keith Larson of Venture Global led the way with sales valued at $76.8 million. United Therapeutics' Paul Mahon sold $8.4 million in stocks, while Alphabet's Kent Walker unloaded $2.5 million worth.
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Intel Lands Zoom's COO As Its New Legal Chief
Intel Corp. has hired Zoom Communications Inc.'s chief operating officer to serve as its new top attorney, replacing the technology company's outgoing legal chief following a four-year stint in the role.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Atlanta Braves CLO Saw Comp. More Than Double In 2025
The chief legal officer of the Atlanta Braves earned almost $4.5 million in total compensation in 2025, which is $2.6 million more than the year before.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Healthcare GC In Dallas
Greenberg Traurig LLP has boosted its healthcare and U.S. Food and Drug Administration practice with a shareholder in Dallas who brings substantial in-house experience, most recently serving as general counsel to ophthalmology administrative services provider Sight Growth Partners.
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CFTC Appoints Deputy GCs For Regulation, Litigation
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has hired a former U.S. Senate staffer and a lawyer with experience at the Virginia Attorney General's Office as deputy general counsel overseeing regulation and litigation at the agency.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another busy week of BigLaw hires and insights about how attorneys use artificial intelligence. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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HFW Hires Senior In-House Amazon Pro For Paris Office
Holman Fenwick Willan has boosted its office in Paris with the hire of a senior in-house lawyer at Amazon, which it says will strengthen the firm's services in global disputes and regulatory investigations.
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Connecticut Judge Nominee Defends Domestic Incident
The co-chair of Connecticut's judiciary committee expressed "real concerns" Thursday about the way a former state lawmaker answered questions related to a 2019 disorderly conduct incident, hinting during his nomination hearing that it may affect the vote on his candidacy for a Superior Court judgeship.
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Transportation Services Biz GC To Join Scopelitis Garvin
Transportation services Landstar System Inc. announced Thursday that its general counsel will be leaving next month for transportation-focused firm Scopelitis Garvin Light Hanson & Feary PC.
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Cigna Expands Top Atty's Role To Include Compliance, Risk
The Cigna Group has expanded the role of its chief legal officer to take on responsibility for enterprise compliance and risk.
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Tripadvisor's CLO Will Depart Next Month
The chief legal officer at Tripadvisor Inc. has agreed to step down next month — after nearly 15 years in the position — and the company will replace him with another long-term in-house lawyer there, a spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Thursday.
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Rinnai America GC Promoted To Legal Senior VP
Georgia-based Rinnai America Corp. has elevated its vice president and general counsel to senior vice president of legal, government affairs and people, promoting a legal leader who has handled the company's legal and policy issues as well as supported its growth goals.
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Rutgers Compliance Chief Named New URochester Top Atty
The University of Rochester announced that the current chief compliance officer at Rutgers University will join the upstate New York institution in August as its new general counsel.
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Phillips 66 General Counsel Earns $6.8M In 2025
The top in-house attorney for energy conglomerate Phillips 66 saw a boost in her total compensation in 2025, taking home nearly $6.8 million in salary, bonuses and stock awards while the company endured a proxy fight with an activist investor and legal disputes over trade secrets and employees' wages, according to a recent securities filing.
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The Top In-House Hires Of March
Legal department hires during the third month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at the NAACP, Walmart and Marriott Vacations. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.
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IBM Legal Chief Recasts Risk As Tool To Innovate
"Ruthless prioritization" is how IBM Chief Legal Officer Anne Robinson says she guides her legal department to focus on the most important company issues.
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Lyft's CLO Saw $2.6M Decrease In Comp Last Year
The top attorney for rideshare platform Lyft saw her compensation package drop by $2.6 million last year to about $5.3 million compared to nearly $8 million in 2024, according to a recent securities filing.
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Shopify Lawyer Says Clients Should Insist Firms Embrace AI
As top corporate lawyers face increasing pressure to control outside counsel spending — while continuing to deliver high-quality legal work — they should ensure that law firms have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways and allowing for client feedback, according to a Shopify lawyer who spoke during a webinar Tuesday.
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AIG GC Took In Almost $6.7M In 2025
The general counsel and executive vice president of American International Group Inc. took in nearly $6.7 million in 2025, according to a Tuesday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that comes a little over two years after her appointment to the role.
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NFL Lands Snap, Former Fox Sports GC As Deputy GC
The National Football League has announced it hired a media and tech industry attorney from Snap Inc. as its new deputy general counsel.
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Unity Biotech CLO Joins Wilson Sonsini's GC Residence
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced Tuesday it has added a former assistant White House counsel, most recently the chief legal officer of the now shuttered Unity Biotechnology Inc., as the latest in-house attorney to join its general counsel in residence program.
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Lumber Co. Elevates Deputy Atty To GC
Pittsburgh-area building materials supplier 84 Lumber has internally promoted one of its in-house attorneys to take over leadership of its legal department following the recent retirement of his predecessor, who held the role for nearly 40 years.
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Apartment Co. Promotes Asst. To GC Amid Leader Changes
Management Support, an apartment owner and operator, said it has elevated its assistant legal counsel to general counsel as part of a series of leadership changes following the death of the company's founder.
Expert Analysis
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Key Ingredients For Effective Law Firm Strategic Planning
As the legal industry faces political turmoil and economic uncertainty, the time is ripe for firms to revisit their strategic plans, ensuring they contain a few essential elements — from accountability systems to broad-based input — to achieve sustainable growth and profitability, says Joe Calve at Calve Communications.
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AI-Powered Biz Development Can Democratize Rainmaking
As fluency in artificial intelligence becomes a competitive imperative in the legal industry, the next generation of rainmakers likely won’t be defined by their Rolodexes or club memberships, but by their ability to leverage AI business development tools effectively, says Jessica Aries at By Aries.
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How Law Students Can Effectively Use AI In Their Job Search
Law students can use artificial intelligence tools strategically throughout the job application process to review materials, prepare for interviews and navigate employers’ use of similar tools, but there are several key missteps they should be careful to avoid, says Lauren Wong at University of San Diego School of Law.
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An After-Placement Plan Maximizes Legal Content's Potential
Before landing a published quote, feature or interview, law firms should articulate the content’s purpose and develop a strategic plan for repurposing it to ensure they’re aligning public relations efforts with measurable business outcomes, says John Hellerman at Hellerman Communications.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should I Coordinate Pro Bono Projects?
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.
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6 Strategies For Navigating Legal Leadership Transitions
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.
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The Augmented Lawyer: Crafting Responsible AI Policies
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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6 Ways To Build Pro Bono Culture If You Lack Dedicated Staff
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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Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
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Why Law Firm Leaders Should Care About Student Debt Crisis
As 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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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy
Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
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Fla. Bar's Cyber Incident Response Plan Sets Precedent
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 — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
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Why Attorneys Should Write About Justices' Minority Opinions
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 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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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.