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Corporate Counsel

Ex-Twitter GC Joins Match Group as Legal Chief

Sean Edgett had been at Twitter a decade when Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion in 2022 and immediately fired him and the rest of the leadership team.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Joining Effort to Beat Down NLRB, Amazon Suit Calls Agency's Administrative Process 'Constitutional Infirmity'

The e-commerce giant's beef stems from an administrative injunction the NLRB filed against it in March 2022, about a week before workers at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse voted to unionize.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Longtime GC of Nation's Sixth-Largest Bank to Retire

PNC Financial's Gregory Jordan is retiring as legal chief but will stay with the bank as vice chair, a role that will focus on advising the CEO and board.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Hope Mehlman Is Leaving Discover for Nation's Biggest All-Digital Bank

Discover revealed late Friday that Mehlman was departing for a new job but didn't say what it was. A North Carolina company with a long history but a disruptive culture resolved that mystery Monday.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Discover CLO Hope Mehlman Slows Down Exit in Exchange for Millions

Discover agreed to let Mehlman, who joined Discover in January 2023, keep her entire $3.4 million signing bonus and to pay her as much as $1 million more to stay aboard until Nov. 29.
6 minute read

International Edition

Former Chief Justice of South Africa Honoured at African Legal Awards While Local Firms Come Out Top

Local firm Bowmans came out as the biggest winners of the night, securing seven gongs across a number of different categories.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Lawyers Weigh In on How AI Will Revolutionize Dispute Resolution

For years, China has employed AI agents as online "robot judges." Could that happen here?
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Recession Fears Cloud Outlook for In-House Hiring

"It is too difficult for anyone to predict the outcome for the year, but we are optimistic that there will be a place for business-minded lawyers with high emotional intelligence." said John Gilmore, co-founder of BarkerGilmore.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Scientist, Scholar, Lawyer: Remembering Blank Rome's First General Counsel William Roberts

The Philadelphia lawyer died Aug. 30 at the age of 79 following a brief illness.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Compliance Chiefs See Pay Surge as Regulatory Onslaught Buries Perception It's a Backwater Role

"Companies have increasingly trended toward moving the compliance function to an independent organization, sitting as a peer to the legal function." according a Major, Lindsey & Africa report.
3 minute read

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