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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Venture Global, Alphabet
In-House Counsel Pick Latham As Top Business Developer
Intel CLO Saw Compensation Soar To Double Digits Last Year
Goldman Sachs' Departing CLO Took In $25M Last Year
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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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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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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.
Expert Analysis
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5 Firm Structure Changes To Adequately Address Atty Burnout
While wellness programs, flexible schedules and mental health resources are meaningful steps toward addressing burnout in the legal industry, a more effective approach must involve a redesign of law firm incentive structures, says retired attorney Jason Ward.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be An Industry Expert
Although taking the time to fully invest in a client and its industry is a big ask, it is well worth it for attorneys to understand the pressures, trends and constraints of a client's industry in order to build enduring business relationships, says Nonnie Shivers at Ogletree.
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Talking Mental Health: Fostering Cultures Where Women Excel
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Sylvie Rodrigue at Torys discusses why authenticity is essential to women's career growth, why burnout is not the result of a lack of resilience, how the legal industry can better support women's mental health needs, and how firms can address gender gaps in senior roles.
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How Clients Can Make The Most Of Law Firm Partner Moves
Outside counsel’s lateral career moves can create uncertainty and disruption for companies, but if managed strategically, in-house legal teams can leverage partner mobility for more complete service, better pricing and stronger relationships with their law firms, says Theodore Edelman at GCE Advisors.
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The Augmented Lawyer: Countering 4 AI Efficiency Myths
Perceived efficiency gains from artificial intelligence can create unsustainable workload expectations for in-house legal departments, so general counsel must proactively educate executives, reframe assumptions and tie legal judgment to business outcomes, say Karineh Khachatourian at KXT Law and Catie Cambridge at Docsum.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge On Lateral Hiring Strategy
In regional recruiting, firms that stand out to laterals can articulate a clear vision that connects local insight with global opportunity, demonstrate a culture that is lived rather than stated, and offer genuine room for growth, says Jason Novak, leader of Norton Rose's San Francisco office.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Team Up With Marketing
There are several ways attorneys can engage with resources already at their fingertips in the form of their in-house law firm marketing departments, which can help you gain some visibility, earn kudos and build a solid book of business, say Ada Kase and Liz Lindley at Jaffe PR.
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Biz Dev Impostor Syndrome May Actually Be Good Judgment
Attributing lawyers’ sense of unease with business development to self-doubt or weakness may misidentify an important source of discomfort — a keen intuition that an ask isn’t yet appropriate for the relationship — and lead to advice that ultimately backfires, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Handle Unproductive Feedback?
Maggie Potter at Segal McCambridge offers advice for associates who receive unproductive criticism from superiors and tips for gently pushing back with an eye to growth and efficiency.
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How To Prep As Private Equity Starts Investing In Law Firms
Law firms eyeing legal services organization models, which allow outside capital to support nonlegal business functions while preserving lawyer ownership, can prepare for the expansion of private equity investment in the area by balancing commercial objectives and compliance imperatives, say attorneys at Rivkin Radler.
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What Legal Leaders Can Learn From Marine Corps Principles
The small-unit leadership principles that are foundational to the U.S. Marine Corps experience — from tight feedback loops to top-down tactfulness — offer a blueprint for addressing leadership gaps that persist in the legal profession, says Edet Nsemo at Tucker Ellis.
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Venture Capital Practices Can Improve Law Firm Lateral Hiring
As law firms pursue increasingly ambitious growth goals in a competitive market for talent, they should consider supplementing traditional lateral hiring due diligence with practices inspired by the venture capitalist framework, says Henry O’Connor at Jones Walker.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2026
After a pivotal year for the legal industry, lawyers and their clients face an evolving litigation finance landscape in 2026 that will be shaped by developments ranging from new policies governing patent lawsuits to the reemergence of appellate monetization funding, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Think Like A Waiter
To convert casually interested restaurant patrons into satisfied, repeat customers, a good waiter relies on four service-oriented habits that proactive attorneys can borrow to cultivate lasting client relationships, say attorneys at Maynard Nexsen.
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6 Strategies To Set Up New CCOs For Success
As demand for chief compliance officers rises among a growing range of complex issues, organizations looking to hire and retain top-notch CCOs can adopt a series of strategies including defining success metrics and allowing the CCO to build a team, says Cara Bain at Major Lindsey.