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We offer practical, forward-looking advice in the fast-changing world of artificial intelligence, including at the leading edge of generative, agentic and physical AI technologies.
We partner with the thought leaders driving innovation and the dreamers who are responsibly developing AI to transform our world for the better. Investors, entrepreneurs, inventors, enterprises of all sizes, and community players all seek the guidance that is informed by our deep understanding of AI's role in our future.
Our work with AI-enabled technologies and businesses covers various industries and stages of growth, but follows a core guiding principle:
At every turn, set the stage for AI innovation and then get out of the way.
As a firm, we walk the talk. We have deployed best-in-class legal technology firmwide. Our lawyers and professionals are dedicated to using AI tools to boost our efficiency, allowing us to prioritize client relationships. We're focused on AI's ability to give us more time to foster individual connections with our clients.
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Conducted an independent Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) commissioned by Microsoft that examined Microsoft’s licensing of cloud services, including those incorporating AI, to federal and state law enforcement and immigration enforcement agencies in the United States, using the UNGPs on Business and Human Rights as a framework
Conducted a state-by-state survey on behalf of a software company, detailing existing consumer privacy laws or laws limiting the use of AI in businesses. Advised the company on issues relating to privacy, employment and other concerns based on requirements by state
Provided an in-depth analysis of new comprehensive state data protection laws on behalf of a health insurance company, comparing them to HIPAA and the GDPR in terms of scope, definitions, and compliance requirements related to the use of AI
Advised global health care provider on US rollout of its AI solution for cancer treatment, which included how to manage data feeding the AI
Represented a research institute in a license agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for access to health data to feed AWS AI
Advised on FDA regulatory and human subject protection implications of a proposal to deploy AI-fueled radiology and pathology software as a medical device in offshores telemedicine service
Represented an AI-based platform that uses self-reported clinical information to facilitate the search for clinical trials and other advanced treatment options, in its Series A-1 Financing
Represented a developer of an automated data platform designed to accelerate time to analytics from months to minutes, in its Series C Financing
Advised a biotechnology company on the licensing of a machine learning platform to manage computations for the client to train its AI/ML models
Advised an education company, an insurance company, and an author on potential copyright implications of using generative AI
Advised a biotechnology company on a subscription agreement for software that uses AI to generate software code (competing product to Github CoPilot)
Advised an edtech company on implications of building large language models using “copyleft” open-source materials
Advised research university on patent prosecution matters surrounding hybrid quantum classical generative models
Advised research university on patent prosecution matters surrounding generative models for sampling many-body quantum mechanical systems
Represented research university in a variety of patent prosecution matters surrounding generative AI, particularly regarding generative adversarial networks (GAN)
Represented a multinational technology company in a variety of patent prosecution matters surrounding generative AI, particularly regarding generative adversarial networks (GAN)
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