Major companies from newly public Beyond Meat to scandal-ridden Boeing filled and created in-house positions in May as more general counsel assumed the CEO role.

Within the first day of the month, Nestlé, Boeing and Jo-Ann Stores announced new general counsel. The Boeing Japan general counsel in Tokyo transitioned to the main company in Chicago as the aircraft maker still battles backlash on its handling of two fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia involving its 737 MAX 8 planes. The former Boeing general counsel assumed a new role at the company as counselor and senior adviser to the CEO, showing how in-house counsel tend to be appointed to other C-suite nonlawyer positions.