The Philadelphia-based media conglomerate Comcast Corp. has tapped its outside counsel Thomas Reid Senior as its general counsel and secretary. He’ll report directly to CEO Brian Roberts. He succeeds longtime GC Arthur Block, who is retiring. Reid starts next month, and comes from the corporate powerhouse law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. And Reid’s not just […]
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Clear Channel promotes CFO, GC as it prepares for spinoff
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc., which will shortly become a standalone publicly traded company, announced that Brian Coleman will become chief financial officer and Lynn Feldman will be the general counsel of the independent company. Right now, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. is a division of iHeart Media. Coleman currently serves as senior VP and […]
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U.K. Parliament report calls Facebook a digital gangster, says it
There’s more bad news on the Continent for Facebook. A report by a U.K. parliamentary committee calls the platform a “digital gangster” and has singled it out for inadequately protecting user data, and for spreading disinformation. This follows a similar denunciation by the German antitrust agency about Facebook’s user data sharing practices. The report comes from […]
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Lessons, continued: Facebook faces increased pressure from EU regulators over
Facebook, already under pressure in the United States over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other previously unknown instances of data sharing, faced more pressure this week, Reuters reports. The controversy is a strong reminder to companies and in-house lawyers doing business in the European Union that there is a higher data protection standard than exists […]
Milan, Madrid 31 January – LC Publishing Group (“LC Srl”), the Italian publisher of market leading MAG, Legalcommunity.it, Inhousecommunity.it, InhousecommunityUS.com, Financecommunity.it, Foodcommunity.it and Foodcommunitynews.com, has closed the acquisition of a 60% share of Iberian Legal Group, the Spanish publishing house, the legal information leader and publisher of Iberian Lawyer (Iberianlawyer.com) and The Latin American Lawyer […]
David Kenny, Nielsen’s chief executive officer announced on Friday that the media ratings giant has hired George Callard as chief legal officer, effective January 22. Callard succeeds Eric Dale, who has been CLO since 2015 Callard has 25 years of experience in media and communications. He joins Nielsen from The Weather Channel, where he was […]
LeoVegas, the mobile gaming company, has recruited Avshalom Lazar as chief compliance & legal officer (CCLO). Avshalom served most recently headed the legal/compliance function at Fortuna Entertainment Group; he’ll start his new job in April, and he’ll be based in Malta. Lazar has more than 10 years of experience in the gambling industry, with a […]
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As of now, “geo-blocking” is blocked in the European Union
Does your company have apps or other online interfaces for online transactions? Does it block any citizens from other countries? If so, you might want to fix that, according to a client note from WilmerHale. Why? This week, the EU Geo-Blocking Regulation (GBR) bcame into effect. It bans “unjustified geo-blociing and other forms of discrimination […]
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iHeart Media’s general counsel to leave and relinquish job to
iHeart Media, one of the largest radio station owners in the U.S., announced in an SEC filing that its general counsel, Robert Walls (in the photo above), is leaving the privately held company as it emerges from bankruptcy. Walls has been with iHeart for 10 years and before coming to the company, had mostly worked […]
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Crisis leads Facebook GC to say “never mind” about leaving
Back in July, we reported that Colin Stretch, the top lawyer of the social media giant Facebook, was leaving the company. But a recent crisis following disclosures of the company’s practices in The New York Times has led Stretch to, ahem, stretch out his lame-duck time while he helps his colleagues sort things out, reported […]
