Bloomberg Law
Oct. 3, 2017, 12:09 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: CBS Fires Attorney for Comments on Las Vegas Shooting

• CBS fired a company lawyer after she posted on Facebook that some victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting are “Republican gun toters” who don’t deserve sympathy. The company said her comments “are deeply unacceptable.” Hayley Geftman-Gold, who was vice president and senior legal counsel at CBS in New York, apologized for her “shameful” post. ( Washington Post )

• Accounting giant KPMG said it hired a new general counsel, Tonya T. Robinson, who was acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C and is a former WilmerHale litigation partner. Robinson replaces Joseph I. Loonan, who steps down after 12 years in ...

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