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A former in-house attorney at NextEra Energy Resources who was most recently with Heise Suarez Melville PA moved his practice to Squire Patton Boggs LLP in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
An SEC enforcement officer has told business leaders to expect more empathy from the agency, as well as fewer outside compliance monitors. And an ousted ATF chief counsel is fighting back by co-founding a boutique law firm to defend federal workers in employment battles.
Retail company QVC Inc. has reshuffled its top in-house legal team as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
A team of two general counsel and a human resources executive announced the launch of Velocity Edge Advisors, offering businesses outsourced legal and workforce services.
The legal industry marked mid-May with another busy week as attorneys landed new roles and firms expanded their offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Pulse's weekly quiz.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $512,500 to end a former commission lawyer's discrimination claims alleging she was denied a promotion due to her race and age, according to court documents filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday.
The Resorts Companies Inc. announced that the firm has appointed as its general counsel John Alvarez, who comes to the hospitality company from Holiday Inn Club Vacations.
Pamela Hicks, the former U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives chief counsel fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, announced this week that she has teamed up with another federal agency alum to form a boutique focused on defending federal workers.
Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health has brought on Envision Healthcare's former general counsel to serve as the company's top in-house attorney and lead the legal department.
Fastly Inc., a cloud computing services provider, has named a new chief legal officer with 20 years' experience, including as deputy general counsel at Cisco Systems Inc.
The Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America on Thursday named one of its own in-house attorneys as its new chief legal officer, effective next month.
The 30 largest U.S. law firms have more LinkedIn followers, but smaller firms in the top 200 have higher engagement rates despite fewer followers on the platform, according to a report released Thursday by BTI Consulting Group.
Adobe Inc. announced Wednesday it is bringing in a technology industry veteran who most recently was the general counsel of Roku as its new chief legal officer.
Oberlin College's former top in-house attorney has been tapped by Lehigh University to replace its retiring general counsel.
A longtime Eli Lilly & Co. attorney is set to take over as global general counsel at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. this summer, the company said Tuesday.
Tonix Pharmaceuticals has found as its new general counsel a former Celgene Corp. lawyer involved in that company's integration with Bristol Myers Squibb.
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. ¼«ËÙÈü³µ reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the first quarter of the year.
Jamie Anderson said it's important to find a mission-driven company to join — and when that mission aligns with an attorney's personal life, it's even more inspiration to work hard and contribute to the success of the business.
Neon, an American independent film production and distribution company known for films "Anora" and "Parasite," has found a new legal leader in a film industry veteran.
The former assistant general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has joined Holland & Knight LLP's international trade group.
Goodwin Procter is continuing to grow its resources in the life sciences practice with the recent addition to the Boston office of an attorney who has gone back to private practice after more than seven years as an in-house counsel for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
A seasoned in-house lawyer who has spent more than three decades at IBM Corp. switched gears Monday to become chief privacy and trust officer at General Motors Co., she said on LinkedIn.
General counsel Marc Taxay wasted no time when he left computer networking company Arista Networks for the same job at computer tool designer Cadence Design Systems. Taxay left Arista on May 7, and then he reported in a regulatory filing for his new company's annual meeting held the next day.
Maynard Nexsen PC announced Tuesday that after over a decade with UBS Financial Services, its longtime associate general counsel of legal and compliance has joined the firm's New York office as a shareholder.
New Jersey-based national healthcare boutique Frier Levitt has hired a former in-house counsel at University Hospital in Newark this week as a partner in the firm's healthcare practice group.
In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning OutcomesGiven the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.
There are major differences between BigLaw and Mid-Law summer associate programs, and each approach can learn something from the other in terms of structure and scheduling, the on-the-job learning opportunities provided, and the social experiences offered, says Anna Tison at Brooks Pierce.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Take Time Off?David Kouba at Arnold & Porter discusses how attorneys can prioritize mental health leave and vacation despite work-related barriers to taking time off.
The traditional structure of law firms, with their compartmentalization into silos, is an inherent challenge to mental wellness, so partners and senior lawyers should take steps to construct and disseminate internal action plans and encourage open dialogue, says Elizabeth Ortega at ECO Strategic Communications.
The key to trial advocacy is persuasion, but current training programs focus almost entirely on technique, making it imperative that lawyers are taught to be effective storytellers and to connect with their audiences, says Chris Arledge at Ellis George.
Female attorneys in leadership roles inspire other women to pursue similar opportunities in a male-dominated field, and for those who aspire to lead, prioritizing collaboration, inclusivity and integrity is key, says Kim Yelkin at Foley & Lardner.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza, now at Wilkinson Stekloff, recalls the challenges of her first case as a civil defense attorney — a multibillion-dollar multidistrict class action against Allergan — and the lessons she learned about building rapport in the courtroom and with co-counsel.
Most legal professionals lack understanding of the macroeconomic trends unique to the legal industry, like the rising cost of law school and legal services, which contributes to an unfair and inaccessible justice system, so law school courses and continuing legal education requirements in this area are essential, says Bob Glaves at the Chicago Bar Foundation.
While the American Bar Association's recent amendments to its law school accreditation standards around student well-being could have gone further, legal industry employers have much to learn from the ABA's move and the well-being movement that continues to gain traction in law schools, says David Jaffe at the American University Washington College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Build Rapport In New In-House Role?Tim Parilla at LinkSquares explains how new in-house lawyers can start developing relationships with colleagues both within and outside their legal departments in order to expand their networks, build their brands and carve their paths to leadership positions.
Piper Hoffman and Will Lowrey at Animal Outlook lay out suggestions for attorneys to maximize the value of their pro bono efforts, from crafting engagement letters to balancing workloads — and they explain how these principles can foster a more rewarding engagement for both lawyers and nonprofits.