Phillip Bantz

July 29, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

A new survey of in-house lawyers shows that most give less than 10% of their business to diverse outside counsel, according to a report from the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.

By Phillip Bantz

4 minute read

July 28, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Sydney Schaub, who kicked off her in-house legal career at Google, will lead a team of more than 24 legal professionals at Opendoor, which aims to disrupt the $2.3 trillion U.S. residential real estate market.

By Phillip Bantz

2 minute read

July 27, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

The digital marketing agency's new top lawyer, Ruchi Prasad, most recently served as GC for the Americas at competitor Media.Monks.

By Phillip Bantz

2 minute read

July 27, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"If you get somebody who's doing incredibly important work at the top, you need to retain that person and you figure you can always fill in the other roles at a certain point," said in-house counsel recruiter Michael Sachs.

By Phillip Bantz

4 minute read

July 25, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Karen Nachbar advised Vanilla, which was a client of her solo consulting practice, before she joined the Los Angeles-based estate planning company as its GC.

By Phillip Bantz

2 minute read

July 22, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Gregory Zerzan, the first-ever general counsel at enCore Energy Corp., talks with Corporate Counsel about his new GC role and the effort to restart domestic uranium production for nuclear power.

By Phillip Bantz

8 minute read

July 22, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"GCs have to make their own judgment about how we balance our role in the corporation, our role as a credible legal adviser, and our own sense of personal values and humanity," said Cox Media Group legal chief Eric Greenberg.

By Phillip Bantz

7 minute read

July 19, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Kyle McLaughlin now leads all legal, risk and privacy functions at Secureframe, which has raised $79 million since its 2020 launch and has been on a bit of a hiring spree.

By Phillip Bantz

2 minute read

July 19, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

"The market remains very competitive. There are incredible amounts of hiring. Money is being thrown at everyone," said Deborah Ben-Canaan, senior practice leader for in-house counsel recruiting at Major, Lindsey & Africa.

By Phillip Bantz

8 minute read

July 18, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Gregory Zerzan brings more than 20 years of experience as a legal, compliance and policy adviser in the public and private sectors to enCore, which wants to ramp up uranium mining in the U.S.

By Phillip Bantz

3 minute read