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The African Legal Awards 2024: Who Won What and Why?

A rundown of some of the biggest winners at this year's African Legal Awards, and how they did it.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Leaders See AI's Multitude of Uses as Both Blessing and Curse

"The best way to understand the practical benefit of AI is to use it for your specific work," said Ryan Groff, a lecturer at New England Law | Boston.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

EEOC Suit Against United Highlights Need for Speed in Probing Discrimination Claims

"It's critical that an employer who becomes aware of a complaint promptly investigate and take remedial action," Jeffrey Kopp, a Foley & Lardner partner.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

NFL Deputy GC Exits, Adding to Intrigue Over League's GC Search

Janet Nova, who'd been with the NFL five years, was part of the legal team that last month persuaded a judge to throw out a $4.7 billion judgment against the league.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Norfolk Southern Fires Legal Chief and CEO, Saying They Had Inappropriate Relationship

The company dismissed Nabanita Nag, effective immediately. She joined the rail giant in 2020 and received a major promotion two years later.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Employers Should Narrowly Tailor Noncompetes to Pass Scrutiny, Say Trade-Secrets Attorneys

"If you have a noncompete in any circumstance that is fast and broad, not tailored to the circumstances at issue and has some lengthy time period, then you're at risk in all of those circumstances," said Jess Krannich, a partner at Wilson Sonsini.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Natalie Black Kohler, Legal Chief of Bath-Fixture Giant for 26 Years, Dies at 74

Black Kohler was legal chief and her husband, Herbert V. Kohler ]r., was CEO during a golden age for the plumbing products manufacturer, which today is one of the largest privately owned companies in the country.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Part II: Corporate Regulation and Deregulation after the 2024 Presidential Election

Part I of this two-part series laid out the competing visions of former President Trump and Vice President Harris for the administrative state and suggested how each might govern based on past performance and statements. We also overviewed shifts in the legal landscape that will frame executive action and judicial oversight in the next presidential administration. Here in Part II we look forward to that new administration and propose some top-level guidance for corporations and their counsel to start planning or implementing now, and then after the election, in preparation for January 20, 2025.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Future Proofing Your Contracts for DORA

The EU wants to bring a harmonious, standards-based approach to regulating how financial businesses monitor resilience and avoid ICT-related risks. Up until now, cloudy guidance on how this can be achieved creates further risk. Enter DORA with its intentions to provide clarity to financial entities. This includes expanded requirements that must be incorporated into contracts between financial entities and ICT third-party providers.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

$10M John Deere Bribery Settlement Underscores Risks of Not Integrating Acquisitions

The Securities and Exchange Commission said that in the three years after Deere bought Wirtgen Thailand, the unit plied government officials with cash, massage parlor visits and lavish sightseeing trips to Europe. regulator found Illinois-based John Deere failed to integrate Wirtgen Thailand, a former German outfit into its existing compliance and controls environment after acquiring Wirtgen Group in 2017, resulting in "bribery schemes going unchecked for several years," the SEC's FCPA division enforcement chief Charles Cain said in a statement. "This action is a reminder for corporations to promptly ensure newly acquired subsidiaries have all the necessary internal accounting control processes in place."
4 minute read

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