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Maria Dinzeo

Maria Dinzeo

Maria Dinzeo is a San Francisco-based journalist covering the intersection of technology and the law, with a focus on AI, privacy and cybersecurity.

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July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

After Exiting Bankruptcy, Joann Crafts Expanded Role for GC

Ann Aber, who helped the company manage the high of record sales during the pandemic and the low of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing four years later, is taking on human resource and corporate communications responsibilities.

By Maria Dinzeo

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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.

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July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

FedEx General Counsel Cruising Into Retirement After 42 Years With Shipping Giant

Mark Allen hopscotched around the globe helping build the company's international operations before taking the legal reins in 2017.

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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.

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July 11, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Parent Company of Knicks, Rangers Promotes General Counsel to COO

MSG 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."

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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.

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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.

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July 10, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Judge Tosses Ex-Twitter Workers' $500M Severance Case

The 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.

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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.

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July 06, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Robocar Startup Backed by Altman and Gates Hires CLO

JoAnn 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."

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