Two veteran in-house counsel, Teri Wood of International Business Machines Corp. in New York and Dale Nelson of Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. in California, recently left their respective companies to go into private practice.

Wood this month joined Jackson Lewis, a labor and employment law firm, as of counsel. Previously she spent 23 years at Armonk, New York-based IBM, primarily as associate general counsel overseeing global labor and employment matters. Prior to that she spent 15 years at American Express Co., where she was managing counsel in charge of employment law matters. She also spent about a year as an administrative law judge for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and a year as an associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.