Michele Gorman

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing electronic delivery to be the default method for sending investors information, and a panel of investor activists said the 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing electronic delivery to be the default method for sending investors information, and a panel of investor activists said the 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

Chief legal officers using external service providers outside traditional law firms are barely a blip on the radar, despite the ever-rising costs of working with private practice attorneys. But a general counsel’s use of ALSPs can be more complicated than the surface level tells us.

Coinbase CLO Grewal To Exit, Advise Company Through Oct.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, who led the cryptocurrency exchange through a prolonged, high-profile battle with U.S. regulators, will step down at the end of the month and be succeeded by the company's current vice president of legal, according to a securities filing late Thursday.

The top lawyer at Liquid AI, which aims to build general-purpose AI at every scale, recently told Law360 Pulse that innovation can't replace human judgment, persuasion or negotiation. It can, however, supercharge lawyers by allowing them to do "exponentially more" with their time.

Corporate Legal Spending Hit 6-Year Low In 2026

A seasoned media and M&A lawyer who spent almost three decades in-house at The Walt Disney Co. is set to join Starz Entertainment LLC next week as chief legal and strategy officer, the TV network said Monday.

A seasoned media and M&A lawyer who spent almost three decades in-house at The Walt Disney Co. is set to join Starz Entertainment LLC next week as chief legal and strategy officer, the TV network said Monday.

Target told Law360 Pulse exclusively on Thursday that the general counsel at Kimberly‑Clark, who was expected to stay at the company following its pending $48.7 billion acquisition of the maker of Tylenol, will soon take over as the new chief legal officer at the retailer, a year after its former top lawyer left that role.