Caroline Spiezio

June 13, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Airbnb general counsel Rob Chesnut shared his role in educating employees on company ethics, including in-person training, creative videos and international visits, at the Peer 150 General Counsel Institute West at the UC Berkeley.

By Caroline Spiezio

4 minute read

June 12, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

As general counsel of Ripple, Stuart Alderoty works with regulators to educate them on emerging blockchain technology. He's also tasked with keeping Ripple in regulatory guidelines that aren't always clear.

By Caroline Spiezio

6 minute read

June 11, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Company patent lawyers from Qualcomm, IBM and Nokia backed aspects of a draft bill that would amend patent eligibility rules.

By Caroline Spiezio

3 minute read

June 10, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Former Apple and Intel general counsel Bruce Sewell gave early career lawyers advice for in-house success in an interview with Doreen Benyamin, a Columbia Law School student and the founder of YouTube channel Before You Take the LSAT.

By Caroline Spiezio

3 minute read

June 07, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

The general counsel who brought SolarCity through its IPO and sale to Tesla has taken a chief legal officer role at Oakland-based payment card platform Marqeta, his first in-house role in more than two years.

By Caroline Spiezio

3 minute read

June 07, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Tom Orrison, Microsoft's director of legal operations, shared what he's learned from his team's successes and challenges working with alternative legal service providers.

By Caroline Spiezio

5 minute read

June 05, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

It's been a year of fines, complaints and calls to investigate Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook at home and abroad, escalating this week with the House Judiciary Committee's probe into major U.S. tech companies' competitive practices and market share. Here's a look at a year of tech's tumbles with antitrust.

By Caroline Spiezio

1 minute read

June 05, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

A new report from Buying Legal Council found procurement professionals are increasingly involved in outside counsel and legal service hiring decisions, though more than half are still sometimes left out, especially on high-risk matters.

By Caroline Spiezio

3 minute read

June 05, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Paxos, a New York-based regulated crypto custody and investment platform, has tapped its interim chief compliance officer Dan Burstein to lead its legal team as general counsel full time.

By Caroline Spiezio

2 minute read

June 05, 2019 | The Recorder

In-house leaders from Oracle, Facebook and Juniper Networks dished on outside counsel and their daily work stressors at a Tuesday evening ABTL event in Woodside.

By Caroline Spiezio

3 minute read