Dan Clark

March 18, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Jillian Raines left her role at Apple Inc. earlier this year and took a job as a partner at Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna. She is another in-house attorney from major corporations such as Facebook, Honeywell International Inc. and Goldman Sachs who have left the in-house world to return to private practice.

By Dan Clark

4 minute read

March 18, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"As far as the CFO role, dealing with restructuring requires you to work very closely with CFOs and boards of directors. It requires you to closely analyze and prepare budgets and closely scrutinize the finances of the company because you're seeking to approve a plan that is going to be public and the court is going to have to approve it," said Kevin Meek, general counsel and CFO of Z2 Comics.

By Dan Clark

6 minute read

March 17, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

UNITY Biotechnology's new general counsel, Alexander Nguyen, most recently served as the general counsel for Alyvant, a Roviant company. He has also served in the U.S. Attorneys' Office and as assistant counsel in the Obama White House.

By Dan Clark

2 minute read

March 16, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Justin Ergler, director of alternative fee intelligence at GlaxoSmithKline, said that by learning more about law firm economics, he was better able to understand when law firms would be more willing to collaborate and work with flat-fee arrangements.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

March 16, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Mindy McPheeters has worked at the company since 2015 in several positions in the legal department. She takes over the role from Stacy Cozad who left Spirit AeroSystems in January to become general counsel of Ingevity.

By Dan Clark

2 minute read

March 15, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

The Big Ten Conference also announced Monday that Adam Neuman has been made deputy general counsel, in addition to his role as chief of staff overseeing strategy and operations.

By Dan Clark

4 minute read

March 15, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Monice Barbero, general counsel and chief administrative officer of MVP Health Care, said she finds efficiencies by pushing certain work outside of the legal department to give her attorneys time to concentrate on high-level work and show value to the business.

By Dan Clark

4 minute read

March 12, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"They [legal operations professionals] can demonstrate not just where they're spending money and how they're spending money. But how they are proactively saving the company and where they are proactively ensuring compliance. That sometimes goes unnoticed by the broader business," Hillary McNally, general manager of corporate legal at Thomson Reuters, said.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

March 11, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Only 60% of companies successfully defended their online agreements in 2020, according to PactSafe's 2021 Clickwrap Litigation Trends Report. While that is more than half of companies who faced litigation in 2020, the number is down from 70% of companies who successfully defended their online agreements in 2019.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

March 10, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

In addition to announcing Michael Boyd's hiring, the company noted that it had tapped Rachel Donnelly as assistant general counsel. Donnelly most recently served as the general counsel and chief compliance officer of Hawkeye Partners.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read