Rite Aid Taps Acting Top Lawyer to Cope With Opioids, Abortion

Rite Aid Corp. has a temporary new top legal executive to guide the drugstore chain as it faces opioid litigation and fallout over US 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 ...