7 noteworthy in-house career moves
Charting some of the most recent GC and in-house appointments
August 14, 2013 at 08:23 AM
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Sean McLaughlin has been named executive vice president, secretary and general counsel for Erie Indemnity Co., replacing the recently retired James Tanuous. Before going to Erie, McLaughlin was chief district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, first appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
GC Appointments
SSM Health Care has appointed Patricia Williams as its first-ever corporate vice president, general counsel and head of the newly-formed Legal Affairs Department. Williams previously served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for RehabCare Group, Inc., from 2007 until its acquisition by Kindred Healthcare, Inc. in 2011.
Cambium Networks, a provider of wireless broadband access and backhaul network solutions, has named Steve McKenna general counsel. Prior to joining Cambium, McKenna served as vice president and first general counsel of Telmar Network Technology.
Medical technology company LipoScience, Inc. has announced Kathryn Twiddy as the company's vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Twiddy formerly worked at M*Modal, Inc., a provider of clinical documentation solutions and data analytics. She has also worked as vice president and senior associate general counsel for Quintiles Transnational Corp., and general counsel and corporate secretary of Misys Healthcare Systems.
ThedaCare, which operates five hospitals and other medical services in northeast Wisconsin, has named Jim Prosser as the company's new general counsel. Prosser previously worked with ThedaCare as an attorney with Godfrey & Kahn, the firm that ThedaCare will continue to retain as outside counsel. ThedaCare is the largest employer in Northeast Wisconsin with more than 6,175 employees.
Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association, has hired Bobby Perez as senior vice president general counsel and corporate relations. Perez previously served as a prosecutor for Bexar County, a San Antonio city council member, and an attorney for almost 20 years at Shelton & Valadez.
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Other In-House Moves
Kansas City Royals GC Daniel Crabtree was among the lawyers nominated by President Obama to serve on U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Crabtree has been a partner at Stinson Morrison Hecker since 1988. It has been during his time at Stinson that Crabtree has served as Royals GC.
Sean McLaughlin has been named executive vice president, secretary and general counsel for Erie Indemnity Co., replacing the recently retired James Tanuous. Before going to Erie, McLaughlin was chief district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, first appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
GC Appointments
SSM Health Care has appointed Patricia Williams as its first-ever corporate vice president, general counsel and head of the newly-formed Legal Affairs Department. Williams previously served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for RehabCare Group, Inc., from 2007 until its acquisition by
Cambium Networks, a provider of wireless broadband access and backhaul network solutions, has named Steve McKenna general counsel. Prior to joining Cambium, McKenna served as vice president and first general counsel of Telmar Network Technology.
Medical technology company LipoScience, Inc. has announced Kathryn Twiddy as the company's vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Twiddy formerly worked at M*Modal, Inc., a provider of clinical documentation solutions and data analytics. She has also worked as vice president and senior associate general counsel for
ThedaCare, which operates five hospitals and other medical services in northeast Wisconsin, has named Jim Prosser as the company's new general counsel. Prosser previously worked with ThedaCare as an attorney with
Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association, has hired Bobby Perez as senior vice president general counsel and corporate relations. Perez previously served as a prosecutor for Bexar County, a San Antonio city council member, and an attorney for almost 20 years at
Other In-House Moves
Kansas City Royals GC Daniel Crabtree was among the lawyers nominated by President Obama to serve on U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Crabtree has been a partner at
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Who Got The Work
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Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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