July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Novel Suit Calling Workday's AI-Driven Hiring Tool Biased Advances, Setting Up Precedent-Setting Showdown"We're going to be talking about this a lot as employers and companies rely upon technology like this to make their jobs easier," said Jason Tremblay, a partner at Saul Ewing.
By Maria Dinzeo
6 minute read
July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
FedEx General Counsel Cruising Into Retirement After 42 Years With Shipping GiantMark Allen hopscotched around the globe helping build the company's international operations before taking the legal reins in 2017.
By Maria Dinzeo
3 minute read
July 15, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Viewing AI Through Cheaper/Faster Lens Misses Its Full Potential"The challenge and the excitement is that it gives us an opportunity to reexamine what it is we thought was important and valuable, and to actually try to justify it," said Kate Orr, global head of practice innovation at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
By Maria Dinzeo
5 minute read
July 11, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Parent Company of Knicks, Rangers Promotes General Counsel to COOMSG Sports CEO Jim Dolan said that newly appointed COO Jamaal Lesane has "proven to be a strategic and effective leader, and his multifaceted experience across numerous aspects of our operations will be an asset as we continue to grow and innovate in our business."
By Maria Dinzeo
3 minute read
July 11, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Business Case for DEI Is Still Strong, Experts Say, but Many Companies Approach Topic Clumsily"A lot of times, those mentoring, sponsorship and leadership development programs are done in these kinds of ad hoc ways that actually benefit people who are already already in privileged positions," UC Davis law professor Afra Afsharipour said.
By Maria Dinzeo
4 minute read
July 11, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
AI Isn't Meeting Legal's Expectations, New Research Finds"Lawyers have a high bar. I strongly believe that there's an amazing use case for AI here, and the bar hasn't been met by the crop of early stage startups that are trying to solve this," said Mary O'Carroll, chief community officer of Ironclad.
By Maria Dinzeo
9 minute read
July 10, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Judge Tosses Ex-Twitter Workers' $500M Severance CaseThe case, brought on behalf of about 6,000 Twitter workers, alleged Elon Musk violated a federal law that governs benefit plans. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said ERISA did not apply to the severance program at issue but gave the plaintiffs the opportunity to refile using a different legal basis.
By Maria Dinzeo
3 minute read
July 09, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
FTC Bans Popular Messaging App From Signing Up Kids, Says It Bullied Them"This alleged conduct, tailormade to manipulate the vulnerable teenage psyche, was reprehensible and unfair," FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson said.
By Maria Dinzeo
5 minute read
July 06, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Robocar Startup Backed by Altman and Gates Hires CLOJoAnn Covington, who has three decades of Silicon Valley experience, is taking the legal reins of Gldyways, which aims to operate self-driving cars on a dedicated track. apid transit system" with its own dedicated track and robo cars that can carry up to four passengers at a time; a customer experience it likens to "ride hailing, but at public transit prices."
By Maria Dinzeo
3 minute read
July 05, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
US Treasury General Counsel With 5-Star Resume DepartsNeil MacBride announced on LinkedIn that last week marked the end of his tenure with the Treasury department, and that he "was so honored to spend the last several years working with the incredible 2,000 lawyers in the Treasury Legal Division."
By Maria Dinzeo
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