Corporate Counsel

GameStop CEO Fined $1M for Failing to Disclose Wells Fargo Investment

By March 2018, Ryan Cohen had amassed more than $100 million in Wells Fargo shares, the threshold for disclosure under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. But he didn''t submit the required filing until January 2023.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Confusion Over New SEC Cyber Rules Leading Firms to Overstate Attack Readiness

"We believe—and evidence shows—that the SEC's new rule sets a high bar that most companies and their investors cannot achieve today," the report says.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Smitten Co-Workers More Likely to Follow Heart Than Company Policy

The Norfolk Southern scandal highlights how difficult it is to set rules for workplace romances, but an ethics expert said companies are doing themselves no favors by treating discussion of the topic as taboo.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Google Taps One of Its Own for Senior Litigation Post

The appointment comes as the tech giant restructures its legal department and parts ways with Chief Privacy Officer Keith Enright and Director of Competition Law Matthew Bye.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

GCs Jettisoning Zero-Based Budgeting in Quest to Be Nimble, More Efficient

"Traditional corporate budgeting approaches can feel like dinosaurs in a world demanding legal departments perform like gazelles," said Jason Winmill, chair of the Buying Legal Council.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Three Steps for Building Great Relationships with In-House Counsel

Legal podcasters Stacy Bratcher and M.C. Sungaila draw from interviews with dozens of in-house attorneys to offer up these tips for outside counsel.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Kellogg Veteran Takes Legal Reins of Wendy's

John Min worked his way from the bottom to the top of Kellogg's legal department before overseeing the legal aspects of last year's split of the company into two businesses—snack-maker Kellanova and cereal maker WK Kellogg.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lisa Zornberg, Chief Counsel to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Resigns Post

"I have concluded that I can no longer effectively serve in my position," she wrote Adams in a letter on Sept 14.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Lacking Votes but Not Vigor, GOP FTC Members Trying to Slow Down Lina Khan's Steamrolling Majority Any Way They Can

"The pushback doesn't change what the commission is going to do. But I think it does make staff and the majority button things up a bit more," said John Villafranco, a partner at Kelley Drye Warren.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Paradox: Gen Z Employees More Likely to Bend Rules—and to Consult Codes of Conduct

Boomers "are doing their less experienced colleagues a disservice if they can't be a good example of what values-based behavior looks like," LRN Corp. said in a report exploring how different generations approach workplace rules.
4 minute read

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