"They expect you to teach them, and of course to be the best-informed person in the C-suite," said David Bamlango, general counsel of the Eastern and Southern Africa Trade and Development Bank.

"Get involved in as many transactions as possible. Take ownership of your work streams. Ask questions. If you do that, you'll automatically be a more valuable member of the team and more likely be on the right track for partnership. Also, try and develop your own network of contacts early. They don't need to be decision makers now, but they may be in the future."

"Get involved in as many transactions as possible. Take ownership of your work streams. Ask questions. If you do that, you'll automatically be a more valuable member of the team and more likely be on the right track for partnership. Also, try and develop your own network of contacts early. They don't need to be decision makers now, but they may be in the future."

U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney of the Western District of North Carolina granted a consent judgment Oct. 1 in a patent dispute brought by Power Probe, a Charlotte-based company that provides tools for auto technicians, against Toolsmart Limited, which is based in the United Kingdom. Within a week of filing the complaint, Toolsmart reached an agreement with Power Probe.

New studies show successful gen AI adoption is hard work, and companies sometimes undermine their efforts by failing to set ground rules for employee use and scrimping on education and training.

"It shows that if you hire the top talent... then the London legal market is a fantastic investment for law firms," says London co-head Neel Sachdev.

"This is a new direction in civil litigation and a new approach by the defense," said Tyson & Mendes partner and head of communications Ashley Fetyko.

"If [law firms] don't have the right volume, the right connections, the right associates and the right knowledge management tools, they will burn out. The big players won't," said Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's Ranesh Ramanathan.

"We will miss Michael dearly and forever cherish his invaluable contributions to Manatt," the firm said in a statement Friday.

Jennifer A. Golinveaux and Samantha K. Looker, attorneys at Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office, filed a complaint on behalf of Musi on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose. The suit alleged breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

The year is still on track to surpass 2023's business bankruptcy filings by 25%, a new report shows.

"[Tijuana] Decoster properly placed both the merits and remedy of her retaliation claim at issue by filing her complaint containing allegations which sufficiently state a claim of retaliation under Title VII," Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin wrote in her opinion for the Fourth Circuit.

A Chicago federal judge preliminarily approved a settlement providing $10 million in increased pension payments for Citgo retirees.

"His successes on behalf of clients are legion, including his representation of Santa Fe Pacific in a merger that created the largest North American rail network," the firm said in a statement.

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Cravath, Swaine & Moore tax partner Len Teti discusses the firm's only podcast, "On Tax", which he hosts. Teti has now been doing the show for eight 'seasons', and the podcast has been a hit. Here, Teti explains its genesis, why he does it on top of his practice and why he feels it is an effective recruiting tool for the firm.

AI is one likely driver behind the "greatest shake-up" in law firm staffing over the last year.

The complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts.

"The writing was on the wall that we needed to get out of there. It forced us to make a decision," said Asheville office managing partner Adam Peoples of Hall Booth Smith.

This year is also the first that the overall pass rate for July applicants reached 70% since 2014, with the lowest rate of the last 10 years being 61.2% in 2018.

Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Anar Rathod Patel last week denied a motion to dismiss from defendants Reata and Biogen, finding that fact questions remained.