Michael Gennaro

2 weeks ago | law.com | Michael Gennaro

Centrus Energy, a provider of nuclear fuel to the nuclear power industry whose stock is on a hot streak, is losing its legal chief. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company announced this week that General Counsel Shahram Ghasemian will depart June 29 for an unspecified new opportunity. He’s been with Centrus since 2020 and has been general counsel since August 2023. He also serves as chief compliance officer and corporate secretary.

2 weeks ago | law.com | Michael Gennaro

Merritt Farren. Courtesy photo Merritt Farren, a former general counsel of Disneyland who lost his home in January’s Pacific Palisades wildfire, is challenging California’s approval of an emergency interim rate hike for State Farm—calling the rate-review process “fundamentally flawed” because it ignores how insurers actually treat customers on the ground. Farren said State Farm is putting customers through a painful odyssey, while some insurers are expeditiously and fairly settling claims.

2 weeks ago | law.com | Michael Gennaro

Microsoft has promoted C.J. Mahoney, a trade official during the first Trump administration, to general counsel, one of several major recent changes in legal leadership at the world’s most valuable company. The Redmond, Washington-based company also said it has hired Lisa Monaco, who was deputy attorney general in the Biden administration and homeland security adviser in the Obama administration, as president of global affairs.

3 weeks ago | law.com | Michael Gennaro

The general counsel of grill-maker Weber is leaving to become chief legal officer of U.K.-based EG Group, one of the world’s largest convenience store chains. Erik Chalut, who’s been legal chief of suburban Chicago-based Weber for four years, will be based in the United States—EG Group’s largest market by revenue—and report directly to CEO Russ Colaco.

3 weeks ago | law.com | Michael Gennaro

A federal magistrate judge presiding over former Twitter executives' lawsuit alleging they were wrongly denied severance has ordered Elon Musk’s legal team to apply dozens of additional search terms to internal Twitter and X Corp. emails and Slack messages. In a May 30 order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler sided with the plaintiffs—former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and former General Counsel Sean Edgett.