Why These Three In-House Leaders Have Returned To Law Firm Life | Corporate Counsel - Law.com

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• Kamau Coar, chief legal officer and chief inclusion officer at Heidrick & Struggles, has joined Nixon Peabody.
• Truveris chief privacy officer and associate general counsel Manish Shah has joined Garfunkel Wild.
• Steve Tsoneff has returned to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher after five years at Madison Wells Media.

A handful of in-house attorneys kicked off the new year by joining law firms, with some choosing to return to the same teams they left for in-house roles years earlier.

On Tuesday, Nixon Peabody announced it had rehired Kamau Coar, who left a partner role at the firm in 2012 to join Heidrick & Struggles. Coar last served as chief legal officer and chief inclusion officer at the Chicago-based executive search firm, which he departed this month.

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source: https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2022/01/05/trio-of-in-house-legal-chiefs-return-to-law-firms-for-varied-reasons/

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