Dan Clark

October 26, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Marla Crawford sued Goldman Sachs in state court, alleging the investigation was not handled properly by the department's leadership and that she was fired for offering further information to investigators.

By Dan Clark

5 minute read

October 26, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

In-house counsel are now "expected to understand the business on a very detailed basis," said Nora Dahlman, general counsel at Sunlight Financial, during a panel at ALM's virtual "Women, Influence & Power in Law" conference.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 26, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Legal department leaders are more frequently called on to think of their company's greater strategy, making the transition to another c-suite role less of a leap.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 22, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Charlotte Edelman, vice president of legal at Skillz, joined the company earlier this year coming from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo.

By Dan Clark

7 minute read

October 20, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

Lori Schechter, executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer of McKesson Corp., was the highest-paid general counsel in Texas in 2019, according to ALM Intelligence General Counsel Compensation Data.

By Dan Clark | Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

October 20, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Julia Johnson, coming from the Agency for the Performing Arts, was also previously an in-house lawyer at Lifetime Television, Fox21, BBC Worldwide Productions and ABC Studios.

By Dan Clark

2 minute read

October 19, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"In addition to engendering greater trust with their customers, a strong privacy law will provide companies with clear guardrails about how they can use data for responsible innovation with greater assurance," Julie Brill, deputy general counsel and chief privacy officer at Microsoft, wrote.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 16, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Jerome Krulewitch "has been advised by doctors to step down from his role immediately," the filing states.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 15, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"I went back to them to say, 'Let's look at all of the experience I've had with mergers and acquisitions, crisis management and risk management,'" said Maureen Brundage, a board member of MAPFRE USA and former general counsel of Chubb. "You need to be prepared to articulate and demonstrate the legal value you bring to the board."

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 14, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"You need to build an ecosystem within legal that serves the different needs of the department," Eric Gorman, a partner at KPMG, said. "There are specific technologies that don't always fit together and they're not adopted the right way."

By Dan Clark

2 minute read