April 18, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Founding GC of Animal Health Giant Zoetis Steps DownHeidi Chen spent 13 years at Pfizer before she helped spin out the company's animal-health business into a stand-alone public company in 2012 and became its first legal chief.
By Maria Dinzeo
2 minute read
April 18, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Playing 'Catch-Up in the AI Race,' Panicked Amazon Cast Aside Worker Rights, Suit AllegesAI researcher Viviane Ghaderi says Amazon pressured her to quit after she disclosed her pregnancy and fired her while she had discrimination and retaliation claims pending with the company.
By Maria Dinzeo
5 minute read
April 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Orthofix Replaces Legal Chief Fired for 'Offensive Conduct'"This is an exciting time for the company, and I look forward to helping Orthofix become an even stronger competitor in the market," Andres Cedron said.
By Maria Dinzeo
3 minute read
April 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Netflix Legal Ops Chief Exits, Says She'll Take Operations to New Heights"If I sound defiant, it's because I am," Jenn McCarron wrote. "I cannot and will not accept the status quo. The stakes are too high, and our industry will get left behind if we do."
By Maria Dinzeo
4 minute read
April 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Longtime Mary Kay Legal Chief Julia Simon Joins Top Texas Litigation Firm"If I wanted to stay in-house, I would have stayed at Mary Kay. What I wanted was a different challenge," retired Mary Kay legal chief Julia Simon told Law.com on her return to private practice in April. "The idea of bringing my broad knowledge and skills back to private practice and to a top tier trial firm was compelling."
By Maria Dinzeo
4 minute read
April 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Firms Are Stuck With Abiding by New Anti-Secrecy Law, Even Though Judge Ruled It Unconstitutional"Treasury's targets are those dubious LLCs without operations and employees that are holding shell companies hiding assets," said Snežana Gebauer, a partner at the compliance consulting firm StoneTurn.
By Maria Dinzeo
6 minute read
April 15, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Twilio GC Sees Pay Drop 73% in 2023Twilio's chief legal officer Dana Wagner is no longer one of the highest-compensated general counsel, as his stock award shrank by more than $20 million in 2023.
By Maria Dinzeo
2 minute read
April 12, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
2 Extremes of AI's Copyright Fight: Permit IP Theft on Colossal Scale or Hinder Advancements in Human Expression"We should be prepping ourselves for what directions we want society to move in. We probably want society to maximize creative expression, rather than let everyone assert property interests over every idea," Midjourney General Counsel Maxwell Sills said.
By Maria Dinzeo
8 minute read
April 10, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Microsoft's Ben Glatstein on How to Be a Real AI Lawyer, Not Just One Who Throws the Acronym Around"Just to be a mediocre lawyer in general, you have to understand AI," Glatstein told Berkeley Law's Irene Liu during an online event Tuesday. For those with higher aspirations, he said, "there's really no substitute for just digging in and doing the work."
By Maria Dinzeo
5 minute read
April 10, 2024 | Corporate Counsel
Bears Hire Up-and-Comer as Legal Chief Amid Stadium NegotiationsKrista Whitaker's chance meeting with Kevin Warren, now the Bears' CEO, while she was a Stanford Law School student has paid off again, this time landing her one of the top CLO roles in professional sports.
By Maria Dinzeo
4 minute read
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