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July 19, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

'This Worries Me Gravely': Regulators Struggle to Set Ground Rules for AI Decision-Making Tools

A debate that broke out this week at a meeting of California Privacy Protection Agency provides a window into the wide range of perspectives on what would be appropriate oversight and what would be overkill.

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July 18, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Judge Tosses Most of Landmark SEC Suit Alleging SolarWinds and Its Security Chief Hid Cyber Vulnerabilities

But Judge Paul Engelmayer's ruling did not challenge the SEC's decision to include Chief Information Security Officer Tim Brown as a defendant—a decision that has rattled the cybersecurity industry.

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July 18, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

FINRA Hires Senior JPMorgan Chase Attorney to Lead Beefed-Up Enforcement Team

Julie Glynn is boomeranging back to FINRA, where she spent seven years as an enforcement attorney before joining the banking giant in 2011.

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July 17, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Indie Film Juggernaut Taps Ex-MGM Legal Chief to Lead In-House Team

Lesley Freeman is coming from Amazon, which she joined after leading its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM.

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July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

After Exiting Bankruptcy, Joann Crafts Expanded Role for GC

Ann Aber, who helped the company manage the high of record sales during the pandemic and the low of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing four years later, is taking on human resource and corporate communications responsibilities.

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July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Novel Suit Calling Workday's AI-Driven Hiring Tool Biased Advances, Setting Up Precedent-Setting Showdown

"We're going to be talking about this a lot as employers and companies rely upon technology like this to make their jobs easier," said Jason Tremblay, a partner at Saul Ewing.

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July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

FedEx General Counsel Cruising Into Retirement After 42 Years With Shipping Giant

Mark Allen hopscotched around the globe helping build the company's international operations before taking the legal reins in 2017.

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July 15, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Viewing AI Through Cheaper/Faster Lens Misses Its Full Potential

"The challenge and the excitement is that it gives us an opportunity to reexamine what it is we thought was important and valuable, and to actually try to justify it," said Kate Orr, global head of practice innovation at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

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July 11, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Parent Company of Knicks, Rangers Promotes General Counsel to COO

MSG Sports CEO Jim Dolan said that newly appointed COO Jamaal Lesane has "proven to be a strategic and effective leader, and his multifaceted experience across numerous aspects of our operations will be an asset as we continue to grow and innovate in our business."

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July 11, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Business Case for DEI Is Still Strong, Experts Say, but Many Companies Approach Topic Clumsily

"A lot of times, those mentoring, sponsorship and leadership development programs are done in these kinds of ad hoc ways that actually benefit people who are already already in privileged positions," UC Davis law professor Afra Afsharipour said.

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