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'A Case of First Impression for Everyone': Silicon Valley In-House Lawyers Discuss Navigating COVID-19, And What Comes Next

In-house lawyers from Uber Technologies Inc., HP Inc., and Applied Materials encouraged law firms to keep up their efforts on diversity and inclusion and to focus on personal relationships with clients during a videoconference panel sponsored by the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
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Lawyers React to California Attorney General's Submission for Final CCPA Regulations

"The attorney general is supposed to pass regulations that address exceptions under state and federal laws, including intellectual property rights," Michelle Hon Donovan, a partner at Duane Morris in San Diego, explained. "There is an exception that talks about trade secret rights, but nothing about IP rights."
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General Counsel, Corporations React Publicly to George Floyd's Death

"We didn't think of this necessarily as a political issue," said Minority Corporate Counsel Association chair Stuart Alderoty, general counsel of San Francisco-based fintech firm Ripple Labs Inc.
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Former Tesla In-House Lawyer Takes on GC Role For Lucid Motors

"I think the benefit of having worked at Tesla is that I was exposed to so many interesting and challenging projects and undertakings," said Jonathan Butler, the new general counsel of Newark, California-based Lucid.
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How To Be a Leader at Any Level and Any Age During a Crisis

What exactly does it mean "to lead"? Can anyone be a leader? How does today's pandemic provide each of us with the opportunity to shine?
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CCPA 2.0 Backers Say They Have the Signatures to Get on the California Ballot

"Fewer businesses are covered [under the California Privacy Rights Act].," says Alastair Mactaggart, founder of Californians for Consumer Privacy. "My intention all along with this was to regulate the businesses that cause problems,"
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Robinhood Taps Former SEC Commissioner, Wilmer Partner as Top Lawyer

Daniel Gallagher, who is set to become chief legal officer of the Menlo Park-based fintech company, is currently deputy chair of the securities department of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C.,
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Reopen For Business? What Stanford's COVID-19 Memo Database Has to Say

Stanford University law professor Joseph Grundfest says he's used the school's database of COVID-19 legal memos from top firms to surface advice for GCs seeking guidance related to the possibility of opening facilities.
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LA Recruiter Launches Program to Link Out-of-Work Lawyers to Legal Departments

Cadence Counsel CEO Monique Burt Williams, who assumed her position at the Los Angeles-based firm Monday, said the program is no cost to the lawyers looking for work or to the corporations for two weeks when they receive newly placed lawyers.
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Former Retail GC-Turned-Mediator Sees Growing Role For In-House Lawyers (and His Dog) in ADR

Mark LeHocky, the former GC of Ross Stores, says companies are investing in more in-house counsel with litigation savvy to help shape their resolution strategies. Meanwhile, his 92-pound black Labrador retriever, Gunnar, has made cameos in recent Zoom mediation sessions.
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