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Apple's head lawyer steps down
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The company on Monday confirmed the departure of general counsel Nancy Heinen, who was its highest-ranking female executive, but did not say when she left, or why.
"Nancy Heinen is no longer an Apple employee," said company spokesman Steve Dowling. "We've already begun the search for a (new) general counsel. In the interim, Peter Oppenheimer, our chief financial officer, will oversee Apple's legal department."
Heinen's exit follows that of iPod division chief and longtime hardware executive Jon Rubinstein, as well as that of chief software technology officer Avie Tevanian. Tevanian on Monday joined the board of directors of voice portal company Tellme Networks.
Word of Heinen's departure comes just as Apple scored a major victory in a British court, with a judge ruling that Apple can keep using the Apple logo in conjunction with its iTunes Music Store.
Heinen's departure was noted Friday on Apple enthusiast site Apple Insider.
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Apple legal so shallow it has no Deputy Counsel to serve
interim?
Cnet wouldn't have held it back to coincide with a possible Apple
defeat now would they...?! The headlines would have looked
great together:
Beatles defeat Apple
and,
Apple's head lawyer steps down
months. Causes me considerable concern.
And, given Jobs high-profile antics regarding a book critical of
him, antics at Pixar (not giving credit to those who helped make
him) , his refusal to write a forward for Wozniak, and an overly
expensive new campus for Apple tells me Jobs' ego is out of
control and Apple execs are bailing out. Jobs' behavior leading
to his dismissal from Apple years ago is likely reappearing.
There will soon be another book: The Rise and Final Fall of Apple
and Jobs.
I certainly hope I'm reading the tea leaves wrong.