Tag: GeneralCounsel
Airbnb Names Legal Chief New COO Amid Senior Rank Shakeup
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Bloomberg reports that Belinda Johnson, formerly chief business affairs and legal officer, has taken the new role with the company as part of a shakeup in the senior ranks.
Michigan State Trustee Calls for GC to Resign in Wake of Scandal
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Michigan State University Trustee Brian Mosallam is calling for the resignation of Bob Noto, the school’s vice president for legal affairs and general counsel, in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, reports The Detroit News.
New Research Report: Global Trends in Hiring Outside Counsel
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The Globality report has information on the latest industry viewpoint about hiring outside counsel, That information was gathered from more than 300 GCs from organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue.
Study: Companies Want Smaller Firms, But Have Trouble Finding Them
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Large companies increasingly want to work with smaller, more innovative law firms but have trouble finding them due to over-reliance on personal connections, according to a new survey reported by Courthouse News Service.
Former American Airlines General Counsel Recalls Turbulent Years
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The Dallas Business Journal looks inside “Twelve Years of Turbulence: The Inside Story of American Airlines’ Battle for Survival,” scheduled for release in February.
Invitation: The Strategic-Asset GC, February 12, Washington, DC
Event, Feb. 12, 2018, Washington, DC
This exclusive, one-day event hosted by the National Association of Corporate Directors seeks to help GCs to better align themselves with director expectations, as well as elevate their role in the boardroom
Free eBook: The In-House Counsel’s Guide to Change Management
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The LawGeex book dozens of interviews and real-life experiences from a host of industry leaders, including Pearson, Telstra, Avis Budget Group, NetApp, L’Oreal, Microsoft, Cisco, Google and many more.
New Uber GC to Staff: Cut Out the Surveillance
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Just days into his new job as chief legal officer at Uber, Tony West sent an email to the firm’s security team telling them to stop any competitive intelligence projects that included surveilling individuals, reports Recode.
Law Department Operations Survey Report & Webinar
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Blickstein Group, in cooperation with Consilio, has surveyed hundreds of law departments solely on the operations function to provide benchmarks that are useful to all law departments.
Ex-WellCare General Counsel Gets Six Months in U.S. Prison
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A former general counsel of insurer WellCare Health Plans Inc. has been sentenced to six months in prison for making a false statement to Florida’s Medicaid program, Reuters reports.
Apple’s New GC Welcomed With Multimillion-Dollar Bonus Package
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Apple’s incoming chief lawyer Katherine Adams has received a bonus package in the form of restricted stock units, or RSUs, according to a mandatory disclosure filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week, reports Mac Rumors.
What is Legal Entity Management? Beyond Corporate Secretary Functions
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Berkman Solutions has posted a new quick guide for corporate counsel and business lawyers on Legal Entity Management. This article explains how to use legal entity management and corporate secretary functions to deliver more value for the organization.
2017 In-House Benchmarking Report Just Released
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This year’s Exterro benchmarking report shows the areas of focus that corporate legal teams are homing in on in the hopes of gaining the kind of control that will bring efficiency.
Maximizing Impact of In-House Counsel Resources with Cloud-Based Matter Management
Event, Nov. 15, 1 p.m. EST
AdvoLogix will present a complimentary webinar designed to help participants learn strategies that legal teams today can employ to streamline matter intake, triage, prioritization, and assignment.
Billing Guideline Enforcement Vital, Says Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker LDO Index
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The Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker LDO Index is a new semiannual report based on anonymized data from over 1,100 legal departments. In addition, the report separately surveyed 155 legal departments on their use of cost controls.
General Counsel Salary is at a 1:3 Ratio to Their CEOs
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A new report by Equilar finds that companies with revenue between $1 billion and $15 billion pay their CEOs 3.7 times what they pay their general counsel.
An Interview with Annamaria Porcaro, Associate GC, Contracts at Ascena Retail Group
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Annamaria Porcaro, associate general counsel, contracts at Ascena Retail Group and winner of the General Commercial Individual of the Year award at the 2017 Global Counsel Awards, gives her opinion on what it takes to be a successful in-house counsel
SEC Probing Pepsi’s Former GC After She Claimed She Was Wrongly Ousted
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The former GC of PepsiCo Inc. is the focus of an investigation by the SEC after she claimed she was fired in retaliation for the way she handled earlier internal probes concerning allegations of wrongdoing in Russia.
UC Berkeley’s Chief Counsel Is Killed in Hit-and-Run Crash
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The California Highway Patrol reported that the driver of a BMW apparently lost control as he entered a curve on California 116, striking and killing Christopher Patti.
