Kristen Rasmussen

July 15, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Sara Moss, executive vice president and GC at the cosmetics giant since 2003, is the latest example of companies elevating their top lawyers to nonlegal positions to make business and strategic decisions.

By Kristen Rasmussen

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July 12, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Julie Sweet was hired in 2010 as general counsel at the global consulting firm and promoted to chief executive for North America five years later.

By Kristen Rasmussen

3 minute read

July 11, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Judge Vanessa Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, however, declined to grant retailer Conn's Appliances Inc.'s motion to sanction Trista Johnson, finding that the company provided no evidence of bad faith on the former lawyer's part.

By Kristen Rasmussen

4 minute read

July 02, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Gregory St. Angelo, who was GC at First NBC Bank from its inception in 2006 to its collapse in 2017, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison and $1 million fine when he is scheduled to be sentenced on a charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in October.

By Kristen Rasmussen

2 minute read

July 01, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Farah Zaman joins Meredith Corp., a publicly traded, family-controlled national media company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, from Colgate-Palmolive Co., where she had served as senior global data privacy counsel for about a year and a half.

By Kristen Rasmussen

4 minute read

June 28, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Evan Feldstein spoke with Corporate Counsel about the prevalence of counterfeit beauty goods and the role of the legal department in preventing and remedying the practice.

By Kristen Rasmussen

6 minute read

June 28, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Uber Health's recent partnership with health tech startup Grand Rounds, which works with large, self-insured employers to provide employees with guidance on medical needs—including, now, free rides to appointments—may raise not-so-obvious risks and liabilities for the companies, legal experts told Corporate Counsel.

By Kristen Rasmussen

4 minute read

June 28, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

For Rina Yano, Kin Community's vice president of business and legal affairs and sole in-house lawyer, allows her the opportunity to work in an environment that she said represents “the wave of the future.”

By Kristen Rasmussen

3 minute read

June 28, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

In 2018, the legal department at the Dallas-based telecommunications giant, led by David McAtee, successfully defended, in a grueling six-week trial in D.C. federal court, the historic $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner and secured an injunction requiring the White House to restore the press credentials of CNN Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta.

By Kristen Rasmussen

6 minute read

June 25, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

Mellis, who has worked at some iteration of Major League Baseball for more than 20 years, will join the New York Yankees as executive vice president and chief counsel in mid-July.

By Kristen Rasmussen

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