Corporate Counsel

10/07/2025

“Numbers are the language of the business," said Laura Budzichowski, general counsel of National Gypsum Co. "They like to count. So if you can find things in your legal practice to count and report on, you’ll be in good stead with the business.”

10/07/2025

10/06/2025

They allege fatal design flaws in the Cybertruck trapped their college-age children inside a burning vehicle after a 2024 crash.

10/06/2025

The "Supreme Court Brief" debuts this week on the ALM Podcast Network! Check out our preview of the pilot episode, featuring Jimmy Hoover's with Erwin Chemerinsky. https://loom.ly/y04uh9w

10/06/2025

“People will see a data breach notice and say, 'Where there’s smoke there has to be fire,'" said Paul Greene, a partner at Harter Secrest & Emery.

10/06/2025

No doubt, the most complex, high-value, high-stakes matters are still going to law firms, meaning that the most sophisticated law firms have been largely insulated from competition with AI tools.

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“I think they’re going to have to grapple with the fact that we don’t have to go to firms for soup-to-nuts work on any issue,” said one general counsel.

10/06/2025

Several states and Native American tribes contend prediction market platforms that allow users to wager on sporting events amount to illegal gambling contracts. https://loom.ly/aM-rpTs

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission still has not taken any official position on the legality of sports event contracts traded on designated contract markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.

10/06/2025

A man President Donald Trump booted off a board that will decide whether to approve the $85 billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail merger, has sued the president, claiming his removal was without cause and therefore illegal. https://loom.ly/lmpoAUk

“Members today, and in the future, must have the autonomy to review matters that come before the Board without political or partisan pressure.” Robert Primus said on LinkedIn Wednesday, the day he sued President Donald Trump in federal court.

10/06/2025

Coherent Corp. Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer Rob Beard received most of his pay on paper—in the form of $13.2 million in stock awards that have yet to vest.

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Rob Beard's equity compensation offsets $9.25 million he forfeited by leaving Mastercard.

10/06/2025

"The general counsel I worked for at Seagate would just walk between things and talk to people, and by doing that, he really understood what was going on at the company. I try to emulate that throughout my career, too." https://loom.ly/-mbyD7g

"For a young lawyer, it’s really important to be able to bounce things off people," said Regan MacPherson, general counsel and vice president of HR at Ventiva. "So I really do think that some of the early GCs I worked with formed me as a lawyer, and I'm very grateful for it."

10/06/2025

“I have seen an attorney use it in a lease negotiation and know her time was cut from 7 hours to one," said Noga Rosenthal, general counsel and chief privacy officer at Ampersand.