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PHILADELPHIA — According to an article in Bloomberg Law News, Rite Aid Corp. has a temporary new top legal executive to guide the drugstore chain as it faces opioid litigation and fallout over U.S. abortion drug distribution.
Christin Bassett, a former Reed Smith litigation partner in Philadelphia who Rite Aid hired in 2021 as vice president of litigation, is now acting general counsel and corporate secretary, company spokeswoman Catherine Carter said. Rite Aid had promoted her last year to deputy general counsel.
Rite Aid is “actively engaged in a search for our next general counsel,” Carter said.
Paul Gilbert, hired by Rite Aid in 2020 to succeed the Philadelphia-based company’s former general counsel James Comitale, left April 7, according to Gilbert’s auto-response email. Rite Aid telegraphed his departure in a securities filing last month, saying Gilbert would resign to “pursue other opportunities.”
