Maria Dinzeo

April 18, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Heidi 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

AI 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

"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

"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

"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

"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'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

"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

"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

Krista 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