{"id":2272,"date":"2024-08-16T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/veteran-legal-chief-who-quit-2-years-ago-declaring-i-need-a-break-returns-to-in-house-game\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:52:07","slug":"veteran-legal-chief-who-quit-2-years-ago-declaring-i-need-a-break-returns-to-in-house-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/veteran-legal-chief-who-quit-2-years-ago-declaring-i-need-a-break-returns-to-in-house-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Legal Chief Who Quit 2 Years Ago\u2014Declaring &#8216;I Need a Break&#8217;\u2014Returns to In-House Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>After a year at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin &amp; Hachigian, Brett Pletcher is going back in-house, this time as chief legal officer at late-stage biopharma Cytokinetics.<\/p>\n<p>Pletcher was previously the top lawyer and corporate secretary at Gilead Sciences, where he guided the pharmaceutical giant through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercepharma.com\/pharma\/gilead-and-teva-unanimously-win-over-jury-36b-hiv-pay-delay-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high-profile lawsuits<\/a> over its patents for drugs to treat HIV and hepatitis C. He also steered Gilead through its $11.9 billion landmark purchase of Kite Pharma in 2017, an acquisition that helped give Gilead an edge in developing cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin &amp; Hachigian, Brett Pletcher is going back in-house, this time as chief legal officer at late-stage biopharma Cytokinetics. Pletcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3002,3003,616,2822,661,136,1660,2298,148],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-agodeclaring","tag-breakreturns","tag-chief","tag-game","tag-inhouse","tag-legal","tag-quit","tag-veteran","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}