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Am Law 100 Firm Partners With Clients to Promote More Women to Leadership

In a new 12-week program, junior partners and lawyers from clients' legal departments will learn leadership communication skills from communications agency Ginger.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Sullivan & Cromwell Partner to Become Top Lawyer at Apollo

The law firm's co-chairs called Whitney Chatterjee's move the "next chapter of her path-breaking career."
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'The Grit and the Drive': What Restoration Hardware's Legal Chief Looks for When Hiring

"I used to focus a lot on experience and skills. Now I focus so much on those things you just can't teach. I can't teach integrity, work ethic, or teach someone to really care about their work product," Edward Lee said.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In Amicus Briefs, Tech Heavyweights Say Weakening Section 230 Would Be Calamitous

Microsoft said that, if websites are no longer able to rely on algorithms, "the internet would devolve into a disorganized collection of haphazardly assembled information that would be impossible to navigate."
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ChatGPT Might Simplify Life for In-House Counsel—While Also Creating New Risks

Goodwin Procter partner Martin Gomez said ChatGPT can be useful for questions for which there are black-and-white answers, but in-house counsel are often faced with the opposite. "So much of being a lawyer is operating in the gray and making judgment calls," he said.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FTC Finalizes $3M Penalty Against Credit Karma, Vows Tough Stance on Digital 'Dark Patterns'

The agency is stepping up investigations into online marketing tactics that might mislead consumers into making purchases or might make it hard for them to cancel subscriptions they no longer want.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'FTC Is Swinging for the Fences': Sweeping Nature of Proposed Noncompete Ban Rattles Companies

"This is such a blanket rule—even rising to the top of the organization. That's what's surprising here," said Clifford Atlas, a principal at Jackson Lewis.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

US Judge Disinclined to Overturn Former Uber Security Chief's Conviction in Data Breach Case

"We're flexing our rhetorical muscles for the appeal," Joe Sullivan's defense attorney John Cline told a federal judge who said he's not likely to overturn a jury's verdict convicting the former Uber security chief of concealing a data breach in 2016.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ACC Files Amicus Brief to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege

The ACC is warning that the primary use test to determine attorney-client privilege would undercut frank and confident exchanges.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Law Firms Risk Bad Optics With Lavish Year-End Bonuses

"It's important to think carefully about these bonuses and rate increases, because decisions that clients view as tone deaf can come back to bite, said Fred Paulmann, a former senior attorney at Pfizer Inc. and founder of the Counsel Management Group.
4 minute read

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