Apple Has Named a New General Counsel

Apple Computers announced Friday that its longtime general counsel Bruce Sewell will retire at the end of 2017 and be replaced by Katherine Adams, the former general counsel of Honeywell.

At Apple, Adams will hold the title of general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Global Security, and will report to CEO Tim Cook, according to a press release .

Sewell, who has been general counsel since 2009, has been in the spotlight over the years: Most recently, he has been leading the company at a time when it is in a long running patent feud with Samsung, where billions of ...