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Corporate Counsel

Zoom Taps Silicon Valley Veteran to Fill CLO Post That's Had an Interim Leader for 4 Years

"I want to make sure that we have an engaged legal team and that they are as excited about that engagement as I am," newly appointed Chief Legal Officer Cheree McAlpine said.
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The Recorder

Former Twitter Legal Chief, General Counsel and Other Executives Sue Elon Musk for Severance

"Because Musk decided he didn't want to pay plaintiffs' severance benefits, he simply fired them without reason, then made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various companies to uphold his decision," says a complaint filed Monday by Twitter's former Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett.
4 minute read

International Edition

Pinsent Masons Takes Two Partners From KPMG for Australian TMT Practice

The TMT practice is the firm's third new practice in Australia since December.
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Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: Susman Lands $287M Verdict Against Samsung in Marshall, Texas … State Court

Alexandra (Lexie) White and her Susman Godfrey trial team convinced a state court jury that Samsung breached a 2016 settlement agreement with Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN N.V. when Samsung later took a license to a patent pool without paying KPN its due share.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Cities Can't Get Fees From Netflix and Hulu: Court Finds No Basis

"To find a right of action for the municipalities would mean the (Board of Public Utilities) would no longer hold all enforcement authority. Because this would change the plain meaning of the (Cable Television Act), we find no constitutional basis for finding a private right of action for municipalities," Judge Jane Roth wrote for the court.
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Texas Lawyer

4 Days, 300 Exhibits and a $287M Verdict Against Samsung in Texas

Susman Godfrey said that in the 2016 agreement KPN gave Samsung certain rights to KPN's voluminous patent portfolio in return for future payment conditions that KPN contended Samsung was not honoring.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Latham & Watkins Secures Win in 'Busted Deal' Litigation Over Failed Telecom Merger

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Andrew Borrok of the commercial division also found that Telefónica had been deprived of the full $623 million final purchase price on the date of the breach, and that plaintiffs were owed around $140 million in damages.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-Officials Fret Hacked Firms, Fearing Legal Liability, Will Keep Law Enforcement in Dark

Twenty former federal law enforcement and national security officials filed an amicus brief in the SEC's fraud lawsuit against the IT company SolarWinds, which was hit by a massive 2019-2020 breach.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

IBM's Michelle Browdy Bringing Decade-Long Run as GC to End

Browdy told Law.com in a 2017 interview that she viewed helping members of her team grow and advance as a key part of her job.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Former Bumble Legal Chief Takes CLO Posts at 2 NYC Public Companies

Laura Franco is becoming a key executive for the Dolan family as it seeks to grow MSG Entertainment and a spinoff that recently opened a $2.3 billion Las Vegas venue.
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