"First and foremost, focus on improving your skills and being the best attorney you can be. Develop client service skills that set you apart. These are foundational, and opportunities for leadership and management will come in time."

"Based on the numerous representations made to BlueRadios of the facts underlying the basis of the claims and well as the ability for them to independently discover any alleged issues with the patents as they were publicly visible, BlueRadios was on notice of their claims as of 2009 at the latest as no reasonable jury could find that BlueRadios acted with the requisite level of diligence in discovering the purported inconsistencies in ownership and inventorship underlying the basis for their claims," wrote U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper of the District of Massachusetts.

"More than anything, being well and successful and living your dream should be easy. It should be enjoyable, and it should be fun, and that's the way I've always lived my life,' Venus Williams said.

Relying on recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit precedent, a federal judge in Missouri is allowing an employee's religious discrimination

Jason Morris has extensive crisis management experience, which may come in handy if the independent law firm probe that found the CEO and CLO were having a romantic relationship turns up other problems.

"Companies are now more focused on getting the 'best' in each area of the law. Firm A for M&A, Firm B for IP work, Firm C for securities litigation, for example," one law firm leader noted.

"But I'm an old dinosaur," Adam Seiden conceded, "and I've been doing things a certain way, and I realize I've had to adapt to the new way of practicing law. And I've adapted to the extent I can and I keep trying to learn."

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Senior partners have been encouraged to retire early, while capital markets and M&A teams also have been cut as deal work dries up. A Law.com analysis of Hong Kong Law Society data shows just how dramatic those cuts have been over the past year.

District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Ellison's cooperation was substantial, but could not be a literal "get out of jail free card" given the scale of the fraud.

"Tonight, Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus 'Khaliifah' Williams," said Williams' attorney, Tricia Rojo Bushnell.

The Miami school faces a lawsuit alleging defamation and breach of contract after it fired a tenured professor, who is being accused of ignoring a school shooting threat and having an inappropriate relations with a student.

As David Boies and three colleagues joined the suit against Meta on Tuesday, a magistrate judge said CEO Mark Zuckerberg must sit for a deposition in the case.

"We've fallen down on our duty as a regulator, not to be precise," said Securities and Exhange Commission member Hester Peirce.

"Brooks is a leader in developing new technologies for running shoes and apparel. Brooks has maintained the largest market share in adult performance running footwear for 10 consecutive quarters in the U.S. national retail market, whereas Puma is a newcomer to the performance running market," said Barbara Barrilleaux, vice president of general counsel at Brooks Running. "Brooks will continue to take the actions necessary to defend itself and its innovative products against Puma's unfounded allegations."

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"Whether you're a well-known divorce firm or a well-known criminal firm, it's very likely that your competitors are buying your name and trying to put up ads that will direct people looking for you to someone else, oftentimes in a very deceptive way," the plaintiff's counsel said.

The firm announced Keith Enright's hiring three months after his departure from Google.

About 16 Am Law 50 firms have third-year associates with rates over $1,000, but Valeo Partners project around half of the Am Law 50 to have rates of over $1,000 for this group of lawyers by 2025.