Phillip Bantz

January 21, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Jacqueline Simmons quietly stepped down in December, ending her nine-year run as the university's legal chief. The departure followed a feud with a law school professor.

By Phillip Bantz

4 minute read

January 20, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Braverman's total compensation spiked a year after he and other Disney execs agreed to pay cuts as part of pandemic-related corporate austerity measures.

By Phillip Bantz

2 minute read

January 20, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"The longer you're in a law firm, sometimes there are generalizations made about you that may or may not be true," said an in-house legal recruiter.

By Phillip Bantz

6 minute read

January 19, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Damon Jones' exit from Washington occurs as the team looks to build a new stadium, and rebrand and revamp the organization's workplace culture.

By Phillip Bantz

3 minute read

January 18, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Vanessa Allen Sutherland helped streamline legal services at Norfolk Southern and saved the company $2 million in outside counsel fees.

By Phillip Bantz

2 minute read

January 14, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"We're all trained as lawyers and professionals to be deferential to regulators and to not pick fights with regulators. But Ripple didn't pick a fight with the SEC. The SEC picked a fight with Ripple."

By Phillip Bantz

7 minute read

January 13, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"So much for 'justice delayed is justice denied.' How about publicly committing to moving the Ripple case as 'swiftly' as possible with no more delays?" Stu Alderoty wrote in a series of Twitter posts lashing out at the SEC.

By Phillip Bantz

4 minute read

January 12, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"The GCs of the major companies that signed on to the brief were intimately involved," said Paul Weiss partner Liza Velazquez.

By Phillip Bantz

3 minute read

January 11, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Valerie Workman, who most recently served as Tesla's head of human resources, will build the legal department at Handshake, a job search platform for college students.

By Phillip Bantz

3 minute read

January 10, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Steven Fabrizio was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to threatening and sexually abusing a woman he met online and paid for sex.

By Phillip Bantz

3 minute read