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Top Netflix Lawyer Made $8.1M Last Year

According to the company's latest proxy statement, Chief Legal Officer David Hyman's total compensation for 2019 represents a nearly 24% increase over his pay the prior year, when he earned about $6.4 million in salary and stock grants.
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Airbnb Chief Ethics Officer Robert Chesnut On Acting With Integrity at Work and in Community During COVID-19

"A crisis like this sort of pressure tests your character as a company," Chestnut said. "How you handle it can really have a substantial impact that will linger on long after this is over."
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'No One Really Knows How All This Is Going to Play Out': A Q&A with Axiom Executive VP David Pierce

Pierce, the San Francisco-based executive vice president and global head of commercial for alternative legal service provider Axiom, says that the "amount of work that is going to more traditional providers will probably shrink and most buyers will start to really think about whether the work streams are in the proper hands."
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Law Firm Survey Finds GCs Too Busy With Coronavirus Fallout to Focus on Cybersecurity

"As difficult as things are now, it will be even more challenging if they have a major data breach," said David Newman, head of Morrison & Foerster's coronavirus task force.
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Companies, Trade Organizations Ask Becerra to Push Back CCPA Enforcement Date

"The undersigned organizations employ millions of individuals who are faced with this crisis and are doing their best to manage their personal and professional lives in the face of uncertain times. Many companies have instituted mandatory work-from-home measures to limit community," reads a letter from companies and trade organizations to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
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Coinbase's Top Lawyer Takes Treasury Department Post

Brian Brooks will be based in Washington, D.C., and oversee Comptroller of the Currency Office's bank supervision policy, economics, compliance and community affairs and innovation units.
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Wells Fargo Taps Banking Vet As Acting GC While Continuing Search For Permanent Hire

Wells Fargo & Co. has named Douglas Edwards as acting general counsel while it searches for a permanent legal chief who will be acceptable to federal regulators. Edwards is a longtime veteran of the scandal-ridden bank.
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In Google Antitrust Discovery, a Small Victory for In-House Counsel

Google had sought to limit what discovery documents could be seen by outside experts in investigations brought by state attorneys general before the company reached an agreement last week on narrower limitations.
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Waymo COO Discusses Her Journey From Lawyer to Investor

Waymo Chief Operating Officer Tekedra Mawakana, who started her career at Steptoe & Johnson, recently participated in a conversation hosted by former BET Networks general counsel and CEO Debra Lee in Culver City to highlight the investing power women of color have.
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United Talent Agency Promotes In-House Vet To GC Role

Sinclair, who has worked for the global talent agency for nearly a decade, was previously associate general counsel.
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