Michele Gorman

Evolving federal policies and the shifting geopolitical terrain under the Trump administration have underscored the need for companies to have a proactive government relationship strategy, which starts with forming a network in Washington, D.C., a group of attorneys said during a panel Monday.

The former legal leader at Mattress Firm, who in May became chief human resources officer at the bedding retailer's parent Somnigroup International Inc., on Thursday added general counsel to her responsibilities.

The former legal leader at Mattress Firm, who in May became chief human resources officer at the bedding retailer's parent Somnigroup International Inc., on Thursday added general counsel to her responsibilities.

A lawyer who spent the past nine years at Amazon Web Services Inc. has moved back into private practice, this time as a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig LLP's corporate, innovation and artificial intelligence, and technology transactions groups, the law firm said Monday.

A longtime in-house attorney at construction equipment giant Caterpillar is scheduled to join Hub Group next month to eventually take over for its retiring chief legal officer, the truck transportation company said in a securities filing Tuesday.

In arguing that the proposed class action against the business should be denied, online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that the decision to use AI to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a new fee disclosure rule involving pharmacy benefit managers and plans to revisit retirement plan fiduciary investment advice regulations. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

On any day, Nil Loy might deal with litigation, employment law, contracts, governance or investigations. But the first chief legal officer at Feed the Children also must deal with the unexpected, and business continuity and crisis management are part of the regular mix of issues that cross her desk.

Target's former chief legal and compliance officer, who left the retailer in June after less than a year, is set to receive just over $3 million in "income continuation" payments, according to a securities filing Friday.

As legal departments face mounting pressure to manage costs, increases in hourly billing rates from law firms appear to be moderating, with the first few months of 2025 presenting a snapshot of this reality, according to a recent report from Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.

Legal ops is a centerpoint where a corporate law team can show its value to the rest of the business, the legal chief at software development company Anaconda told Law360 Pulse during a recent interview.