Greg Andrews is the editor overseeing ALM Media's coverage of corporate legal departments. He previously was editor of Indianapolis Business Journal and business editor of The Indianapolis Star. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @Greg_Andr
April 24, 2023 | Corporate Counsel
Alphabet Legal Chief's Pay Surged 66% in 2022Kent Walker earned nearly $10 million more than he did in 2021, but it was only half of what he made in 2020.
By Greg Andrews
2 minute read
April 19, 2023 | Corporate Counsel
'Noisy Self-Care': How Legal Chiefs Can Show They Really Put Mental Health FirstLawyer-turned-workplace-consultant Katherine Manning said managers are in no position to set a positive tone for their employees if they allow themselves to succumb to burnout.
By Greg Andrews
4 minute read
April 13, 2023 | Law.com
Inside Track: Why Legal Department Generational Shifts Are Tying GCs in Knots"There's so much insecurity rooted in establishing a paradigm where he who works the most is the most valuable," said Foster Sayers, general counsel of Pramata.
By Greg Andrews
6 minute read
April 11, 2023 | Corporate Counsel
Former Twitter Legal Chief Vijaya Gadde Sues CompanyGadde filed the lawsuit with former CEO Parag Agrawal and former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal. The trio say the company has failed to reimburse them for more than $1 million in legal fees.
By Greg Andrews
2 minute read
April 06, 2023 | Law.com
Inside Track: Why a Sidley Austin Client Had to Disclose Paying the Firm $29MCorporate governance experts disapprove of public companies' putting a lawyer from an outside law firm on the board. When it happens, SEC transparency rules kick in.
By Greg Andrews
5 minute read
April 06, 2023 | Corporate Counsel
Bus-Transportation Startup Snags Ex-Apple, Tesla Attorney as GCLynn Miller is taking the legal reins of Zum, which had a valuation just shy of $1 billion in 2021, when it last raised funding.
By Greg Andrews
1 minute read
March 30, 2023 | Law.com
Inside Track: Legal Teams Strain to Adapt to 'Blistering Pace of Regulatory Change'"The rapid and sometimes incongruent shape of today's regulatory environment will continue to disquiet corporate legal departments," according to a new Thomson Reuters report.
By Greg Andrews
4 minute read
March 23, 2023 | Law.com
Inside Track: Navigating Legal Fallout From Cyberattacks Getting Trickier and Trickier"Being breached, paying the attackers and then not notifying law enforcement is something that happens dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of times a day in the United States," said Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory.
By Greg Andrews
5 minute read
March 16, 2023 | Law.com
Inside Track: What SVB's Collapse Should Tell Us About Risk"Behind the fancy facade, depositors never really know how safe their money is, and when fear starts to spread, depositors run to get their money out," London School of Economics' Jon Danielsson, Robert Macrae and Nikola Tchouparov wrote this week.
By Greg Andrews
5 minute read
March 02, 2023 | Law.com
Inside Track: Determining when to Allow Executive Stock Sales is Getting TrickierNewly tightened rules on prearranged trading plans for executives likely will reduce their usage, putting GCs more often in the hot seats on whether to approve or block proposed sales.
By Greg Andrews
5 minute read