Corporate Counsel

Incoming legal chief J. Colby Cox, who previously led the legal departments at Gray and EMJ Corp., will succeed 32-year JE Dunn Construction veteran Tom… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/30/je-dunn-taps-construction-veteran-j-colby-cox-as-clo-as-longtime-legal-chief-retires/

SEC enforcement director David Woodcock has said the SEC enforcement program should not be judged by the number of cases or the size of penalties. www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/30/sec-enforcement-hits-new-low-for-second-straight-year-report-finds/

Corporate legal leaders are asking: As AI takes over more routine work, what happens to the people who have traditionally managed it? www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/30/does-ai-make-legal-operations-more-essential-or-less-necessary-/

Dana Steele joins BSA after nearly two decades at Autodesk, taking a legal leadership role at an influential trade association representing enterprise software companies… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/29/longtime-autodesk-lawyer-takes-gc-post-at-business-software-alliance/

Katherine Piper's move to XGS Energy makes her the latest among several experienced lawyers joining fast-growing companies involved in the enormous infrastructure build-out required to… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/29/former-calpine-gc-joins-geothermal-developer-xgs-energy/

Letters from the FTC say that, under Section 5, the price of a medical procedure is a material term that needs to be conspicuously disclosed so that consumers are not deceived. That… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/29/ftc-puts-hospitals-on-notice-about-price-transparency/

At IBM and Mastercard, legal operations leaders are examining which tasks can be handled internally, which should go to lower-cost providers and how law firms… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/29/ai-is-upending-law-firm-pricing-ibm-and-mastercard-want-a-share-of-the-savings/

Lead counsel for a class of Zillow investors said the deal—reached in a case over its failed home-flipping business—could be the largest single securities settlement ever reached in… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/29/zillow-agrees-to-pay-2125m-to-end-investor-class-action/

AI is changing the work around which legal careers have been built. Four skills will help in-house lawyers design better work, exercise judgment and deliver more value to the business. www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/29/ai-is-changing-what-in-house-lawyers-need-to-learn/

"You need to consider your shipping promises and make sure they match reality," said Zach Lerner, of tech law firm ZwillGen www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/28/ftc-probe-of-shein-spotlights-legal-risks-for-online-retailers/

Legal recruiter Chantal Raymond cautions lawyers against waiting until circumstances force them to begin looking for their next role. A pending merger, an… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/28/you-want-to-direct-your-life-whats-driving-in-house-lawyers-to-make-a-move/

The leadership shuffle moves Jonathan Lippert from the legal department into an operations role, while elevating longtime compliance executive… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/28/porsche-financial-services-elevates-compliance-chief-to-gc-as-top-lawyer-moves-into-operations/

Following the November midterm elections, companies with federal government business face heightened congressional oversight as House Democrats prepare corruption… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/28/congressional-corruption-probes-call-for-a-white-collar-playbook/

"In many instances, you've got people that have been highly successful doing things a certain way for long periods of time, and you're asking them to rethink… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/28/legal-departments-want-to-scale-ai-first-they-may-need-to-rethink-how-they-work/

Sara Romine, credited for leading the insurance brokerage's litigation strategy and resolution of "numerous" high-profile matters, succeeds 26-year CLO Trey Humphrey www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/27/lockton-promotes-litigation-strategy-leader-to-legal-chief-/

Allen Lo, the former Meta deputy general counsel, took over as MSG Entertainment's chief legal officer in March, months before the company was hit with litigation over a… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/26/msg-entertainment-paid-new-legal-chief-26m-in-first-three-months/

Bigger deals stir demand for elite legal talent at PE firms, while their portfolio companies need entrepreneurial-minded counsel ahead of exit www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/26/private-equity-comeback-quickens-need-for-legal-talent-/

Three months into her first general counsel role, Agiloft's Kristin Esche is embracing humor, intelligent risk-taking and AI to build a legal department that helps… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/26/agiloft-gc-on-humor-intelligent-risk-and-why-legal-shouldnt-run-on-heroics/

Leaders for both firms have their names on the filing, which follows a confidential submission from June. www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/26/wilson-sonsini-freshfields-usher-in-anthropic-ipo-filing/

BNY General Counsel Kevin McCarthy discusses how AI is reshaping the bank's legal department, from streamlining contract reviews to changing the skills lawyers… www.​law.​com/corpcounsel/2026/10/26/ai-in-practice-ai-is-cutting-contract-review-time-for-bnys-legal-team-by-75/