GC Appointments

Michael Dillon is now senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Adobe Systems Inc. His 25 years of corporate legal experience includes stints as general counsel and corporate secretary at both Silver Spring Networks and Sun Microsystems. Dillon replaces Karen Cottle, who is retiring from the GC spot after a decade.

ARAMARK appointed Steve Reynolds executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. Reynolds comes to the company from Alcatel-Lucent, where he most recently served as senior vice president and general counsel. He also was vice president and chief litigation counsel at pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis and spent 18 years practicing corporate and commercial law at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione and Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens.

The Dallas City Council hired Scott Carlson as general counsel of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system. He previously was a member of DART's board of directors, and senior counsel at the law firm Cavazos, Hendricks, Poirot & Smitham.