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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001289848-24-000076"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HURN"
cik: "0001289848"
company_name: "Huron Consulting Group Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T23:42:08.220447+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Huron Consulting announces departure of EVP, General Counsel Ernest W. Torain; Hope Katz assumes duties

## Summary
- EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Ernest W. Torain Jr. departing March 15, 2024.
- Mutual separation agreement; severance consistent with existing senior management agreement.
- Hope Katz, Corporate VP Legal Affairs, assumes majority of Torain's responsibilities effective immediately.
- Katz joined Huron in 2018 and served as Deputy General Counsel prior to new role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001289848-24-000076
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HURN
- cik: 0001289848
- company_name: Huron Consulting Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289848/000128984824000076/0001289848-24-000076-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289848/000128984824000076/hurn-20240310.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001289848-24-000076.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ernest W. Torain, Jr. departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Huron Consulting Group Inc..
  - Action: leaving
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On March 11, 2024, Huron Consulting Group Inc. (the “Company” or “Huron”) announced that Ernest W. Torain, Jr., Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary will be leaving Huron, effective March 15, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289848/000128984824000076/0001289848-24-000076-index.htm

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