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Corporate Counsel

Volvo to Switch Gears in Legal With New General Counsel

Helen Hu is taking the legal reins of the automaker, succeeding Maria Hemberg, whom Hu calls her mentor.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Latham Goes Global for Witness Testimony in Case for 'Fully Distributed' Freelance Platform Client

Latham partner Kevin McDonough and associate Megan Behrman led an effort to gather testimony in a civil case in Nevada state court from witnesses in Portugal, Spain, South Africa, and Canada for freelance platform Toptal, whose employees have been remote since the company's founding.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Longtime Weil Partner Joins Major Lindsey to Advise Firms on European Expansion

Joe Tortorici helped build the New York firm's footprint in Europe and later in the Middle East.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Behind the Algorithms: 3 International Regulators Share Their Approach to AI Governance

Every country is treading their own path with AI governance. At the IAPP AI Governance 2023 conference, panelists from Singapore, Canada and the EU shared their regulatory approach to AI.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

A Father and Daughter Merged Their Boutiques Together After Leaving Big Law, Offering Flexible Fee Structure

"The attorneys who are going to join us are the attorneys who want to bet on themselves. They know what they are worth, and they want to be able to have agency over their time and over the type of work that they deliver to their clients," said Concepción Global partner Christine Concepción.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Massive International Dispute Lands in Nueces County Court

"Vale admitted in the Brazilian litigation that it discarded 31 million cubic meters of waste into dumps in the Polygonal. This corresponds to 108.5 million tons of low-grade ore. Vale has admitted that it extracted iron tailings from within Polygonal, sold it to buyers in Texas," the complaint states.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Why Lewis Roca's Doug Tumminello Treks to Ukraine to Offer Material and Moral Support in Fight Against Russia

Tumminello, who leads about 100 litigators at the Am Law 200 firm, has made three trips to Ukraine since the start of fighting to bring humanitarian aid and tactical medicine supplies.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

To Certify or Not to Certify: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework

While some data privacy professionals expect more companies to certify under the DPF than they did with prior frameworks, they still warn that organizations should weigh costs and benefits before taking such a leap.
4 minute read

Law.com

The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: Did Transferring Personal Data from the EU to the U.S. Just Get Easier?

Businesses and organizations that (regularly) transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. should carefully assess, on a case-by-case basis, whether it makes sense to rely on the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or to use one of the other data transfer tools that are available under the GDPR.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Innovation Concerns Grow Over EU AI Regulation

"From the perspective of AI companies, people want clarity around which applications are prohibited, and what the obligations are associated with each category," said Shannon Yavorsky, an Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe partner.
5 minute read

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