Blizzard Chief Legal Officer leaves amid SEC\u2019s Activision-Blizzard investigation Pexels, Shora Shimazaki \/ ActivisionWith legal action ramping up against Activision-Blizzard, including an SEC investigation, Blizzard\u2019s Chief Legal Officer, Claire Hart, has announced her resignation. The first of Activision-Blizzard\u2019s major allegations came back in July 2021, when it was revealed that the industry-leading gaming company was being sued by the Californian government over sexual discrimination. In the months since, the company has been implicated in a number of other situations \u2014 including a lawsuit by shareholders over \u201cmisleading\u201d communication and a federal labor complaint by employees over \u201cintimidation concerns.\u201d Now, amidst subpoenas by the US federal government\u2019s Securities and Exchange commission, Blizzard\u2019s CLO has resigned. It is entirely unclear if there is any relation to the ongoing legal activity, but social media users have raised eyebrows at the timing. Blizzard Entertainment\u2019s Chief Legal Officer has left the company, per a post on her LinkedIn profile today. \u2014 CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) September 21, 2021 As brought up by CharlieINTEL, Hart announced on September 20 that she was relieving her post and had officially left Blizzard, after three-plus years, on the preceding Friday. In her LinkedIn post, the CLO kept the announcement relatively short and sweet: \u201cThe past three years have been full of unexpected twists and turns, but I feel honored to have worked with and met so many great people at Blizzard and across the Activision Blizzard businesses.\u201d While Hart\u2019s resignation has come with zero mentions of the ongoign legal situation, social media users were quick to tie the two together. One joked about her \u2018bailing\u2019 on the trouble while others speculated about potential impact on the company\u2019s stock. For now, it remains unclear who will be filling Hart\u2019s shoes as Blizzard\u2019s CLO or where she will land next. For concerned investors and gaming enthusiasts, we will continue monitoring the various cases and keep people up to date as the investigations progress or as Activision-Blizzard respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blizzard Chief Legal Officer leaves amid SEC\u2019s Activision-Blizzard investigation Pexels, Shora Shimazaki \/ ActivisionWith legal action ramping up against Activision-Blizzard, including an SEC investigation, Blizzard\u2019s Chief Legal Officer, Claire Hart, has announced her resignation. The first of Activision-Blizzard\u2019s major allegations came back in July 2021, when it was revealed that the industry-leading gaming company was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}