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Corporate Counsel

Transportation Blockchain Platform DAV Hires New General Counsel

Tung Chan's varied in-house career has taken her from insurance, to an airline, to blockchain firms.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Got an Ethics Question? At This Company, Employees Just Ask the Chatbot

Katie Smith is the first chief ethics and compliance officer at Convercent, and has brought with her some new ideas about how to use technology to improve E&C.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Oberlin College Makes Interim GC Donica Thomas Varner Permanent Top Lawyer

Varner will bring with her extensive in-house experience from her years working at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insider Perspective on Balancing Cyber Safeguards, Worker Privacy

“The programs you choose need to be socialized so that the employees feel their privacy will be protected and they have the opportunity to see and understand the application of the program,” said Erika Brown Lee, assistant general counsel for privacy and data protection at MasterCard.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Merck & Co. Names Covington's Jennifer Zachary as New General Counsel

A partner in Covington & Burling's food, drug, and device practice group and a former associate chief counsel for enforcement in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Chief Counsel is named GC at the pharmaceutical giant.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Uber Brings in 'Holder Report' Co-Author as Deputy GC, Angela Padilla Out

Tammy Albarran, a partner at Covington & Burling, was named to the key post Tuesday.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Leaders Say Their Companies Can Be Change Agents for Diversity

"We need general broader power structures to change," said Marie Oh Huber, senior vice president and general counsel at eBay. "I feel like those of us who have that voice, that ability, that power, we need to push for that change."
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Building Diverse Law Departments Takes Structure, Culture and Effort

The progress of women in the law, as measured by the ratio of female law-firm partners, is alarming. Only about 20 percent of partners are female, and far fewer are female racial or ethnic minorities. But there are certainly bright spots—women who shook off our industry's sluggish advance to show a path forward.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Starbucks Gets Fresh Cup of Legal Talent With New Top Lawyer

Starbucks has named a new general counsel, EVP and secretary, nine months after the previous top lawyer stepped into a new nonlegal role with the company.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Corporate Leaders Teach Compliance With Mixture of Real Life and Pretend

The 2018 Ethisphere Global Ethics Summit provided a forum for in-house compliance leaders from Tenneco, 3M and U.S. Bancorp to share their compliance training methods.
3 minute read

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