Corporate Counsel

Credit: insta_photos/Adobe Stock In the wake of a nearly $1 billion judgment against it in New Mexico, a bruised Meta Platforms is gearing up for a federal trial in Northern California that may be the most significant threat to its foundational business model, with 29 states arguing the social media platform is intentionally addictive and harmful to the health of young users. The trial before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is scheduled to start on Tuesday.

Kyle Hauptman, chair of the National Credit Union Administration, during a Feb. 26 Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg Federal regulators are moving at an accelerated pace in troubled credit union interventions, having placed eight in liquidation or conservatorship in the first eight months of this year, compared with 10 for all of 2025.

Credit: MohamadFaizal/Adobe Stock The U.S. Justice Department’s recent announcement that it would not prosecute the management company behind a New Jersey optometry practice and surgery center after the company voluntarily disclosed a Medicare fraud scheme by its CEO shows a path for healthcare companies to avoid fraud prosecutions, attorneys say.

Okta Inc.'s headquarters in San Francisco. Credit: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock Okta Inc., a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-based identity and access management tools, has hired the former top lawyer at security analytics firm Splunk Inc. as its new legal chief. Scott Morgan succeeds Larissa Schwartz, who had been Okta's chief legal officer for nearly four years as part of her decade-long tenure at the San Francisco-based company.

Suzana Blades, senior vice president and general counsel of Kimberly-Clark. Courtesy photo Kimberly-Clark has promoted longtime in-house attorney Suzana Blades to senior vice president and general counsel, elevating a litigation and government affairs leader to the company's top legal post as the consumer products giant works to complete its transformative acquisition of Kenvue.

The American Lawyer Awards preparation. Credit: PWP Studio for ALM The American Lawyer's annual Industry Awards aim to highlight the legal industry's most impactful and important work of the past year—and in some cases, well beyond that. Please join us in congratulating and celebrating the below finalists for our Best Legal Departments awards.

Credit: BigTunaOnline/Shutterstock.com The chief legal officer who steered Reddit through its $748 million initial public offering will step down next month and be succeeded by former Time Warner and AOL general counsel Paul Cappuccio. San Francisco-based Reddit did not disclose why Benjamin Lee will depart Sept. 14 in its filing Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Lee has been legal chief of the social media and discussion platform since September 2019.

Credit: zoyas2222/Adobe Stock Fast-food chain Taco Bell and produce supplier Taylor Farms are facing a growing wave of lawsuits over this summer’s outbreak of the parasite cyclospora, which has been linked to iceberg lettuce. At least 10 such cases, filed in various courts around the country and picked up by Law.com Radar, demonstrate the potential for liability at multiple points in a food supply chain. What Happened?

Credit: Nadia/Adobe Stock Corporate legal departments are thinking too narrowly about AI if their strategy begins and ends with making lawyers more efficient, according to legal technology expert Richard Susskind, who says the real opportunity is to build systems that prevent much of that legal work from arising in the first place.

Charles F. Robinson, CLO of University of California. Courtesy photo Charles F. "Charlie" Robinson, the longtime top lawyer of the University of California, plans to retire in June 2027 after 20 years serving as general counsel and senior vice president for legal affairs, the university announced.