By Keith Ecker | December 10, 2006
In-house counsel will see a 4.6 percent increase in average compensation in 2007, according to a recent survey by Robert Half Legal, a legal staffing agency based in California. According to the report "Robert Half Legal 2007 Salary Guide," in-house attorneys with one to three years of experience will see...
By Staff Writer | December 10, 2006
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Symyx, is hiring its first general counsel to supervise all legal matters for the company. Symyx seeks a well-rounded corporate lawyer with 20-plus years of general corporate experience, a strong commercial orientation and demonstrated experience in securities compliance, M&A and "deal." The ideal candidate will have trained at...
By Staff Writer | December 10, 2006
Google's GC Gets Promotion Google Inc. hired John Kent Walker Jr. to be vice president and general counsel. Walker joins Google from eBay where he served as deputy general counsel. Walker succeeds David Drummond, who has been named as Google's CLO. Drummond retains his previous title, senior vice president of...
By Keith Ecker | November 30, 2006
20 Stories That Shook the In-house Bar in 2006
By Staff Writer | November 30, 2006
An animal loving lawyer finds his niche as GC of PetSmart.
By Staff Writer | November 13, 2006
A global company headquartered in Houston seeks an attorney with 15-plus years of experience to manage its intellectual property division. This is a high-level position in the department and has supervisory responsibility for the IP group. Responsibilities include: Advising company business units on transactions relating to the creation, protection, ownership,...
By Staff Writer | November 13, 2006
H&R Block Fills GC Position H&R Block Inc. appointed Carol Graebner as executive vice president and general counsel. Graebner most recently served as executive vice president and general counsel of Dynegy Inc. based in Houston. She succeeds Nicholas Spaeth, who left the company. NYSE Appoints New General Counsel The New...
By Keith Ecker | November 13, 2006
The hiring environment has been good to legal departments over the past two years and is about to get even better. According to the 2006 Altman Weil Law Department Metrics Benchmarking Survey, lawyer staffing in corporate law departments rose by 19 percent in 2005. The key measure--lawyers per billion dollars...
By Staff Writer | October 31, 2006
Melanie Hansen keeps her client happy by serving up a variety of legal services.
By Keith Ecker | October 12, 2006
Job confidence among legal professionals plunged in September, according to the Hudson Employment Index, which measures worker confidence in the employment market. The current statistics are the lowest on record for the legal field, as nearly all indices contributing to the index fell. "The only reason that we've come up...
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