Italian-born Elisabetta Righini joined Latham & Watkins’ Brussels office in 2015 after a 15-year stint at the European Commission. In an interview with Law.com International, Righini reflected on that shift, as well as on the world’s first AI law and the challenges and rewards of working in Europe’s premier antitrust jurisdiction.
Righini was one of the first WTO litigators in private practice in the late 1990s—an expertise that got her recruited by the European Commission, where she would spend over a decade.