Generative AI for the Legal Profession

Wei Chen is the General Counsel of Infoblox, the company uniting networking and security. She has over 20 years of legal experience advising businesses of all sizes on corporate governance, strategic transactions, compliance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, operations and legal innovations. Prior to joining Infoblox, Wei served as the SVP and Associate General Counsel, Strategic Transactions, at Salesforce, Inc. and the Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.

Wei founded The Atticus Project, a non-profit organization and the curator of CUAD and MAUD, two high-quality, open-sourced, AI training dataset of legal contracts. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and a frequent lecturer on the topic of AI innovations. Wei started her legal career at Skadden Arps and Cooley. She is a sub-4-hour marathoner and an active volunteer in her community and local schools.

Nick Abrahams has been a partner at international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright for over twenty years, spending the last eight years in global technology and innovation leadership roles. Nick is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Technology and was just named in Engatica’s 2023 list of the World’s Top 200 Business Innovators. He is a Professor at Bond University where he researches high performance in legal services and teaches a successful lawyer coaching & innovation program, The Breakthrough Lawyer. 

Nick co-created the world’s first AI-enabled privacy chatbot and won the Financial Times newspaper’s Asia Innovator or the Year Award. He is the Co-founder of LawPath, an online legal solution which has served over 400,000 customers. Nick is on the boards of the Vodafone Foundation, the Sydney Film Festival and world-leading genetics research organisation, the Garvan Foundation. He is the host of the popular podcast Web3 goes Mainstream and the author of the Amazon best-selling books Big Data, Big Responsibilities and Digital Disruption.

Scott Anthony is a Partner with Covington & Burling LLP, a multinational law firm working at the intersection of law and policy.  He has more than 25 years of legal experience advising technology companies on their most important and critical strategic transactions (mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, partnerships and financing matters) and corporate governance matters.  He has extensive experience working on cross border matters between Asia (particularly China and South Korea) and the United States.  He has been associated with, and a supporter of, The Atticus Project from its early days. 

Chantal Hwang Barksdale is a Senior Counsel at Apple Inc.’s Intellectual Property team. She works closely with and advises product marketing and engineering teams on new product and feature launches while engaging and supervising an extensive global network of outside counsel. Her role entails collaborating on brand protection, licensing, and marketing guidelines for company trademarks and logos. Barksdale effectively manages large and expanding global portfolios of well-known brands across EMEIA, APAC, and the Americas, handling company response in domestic and international intellectual property disputes, including developing and implementing settlement or litigation strategies, while balancing company sensitivities and potential PR considerations.

Hannah is a senior corporate counsel with over 14 years of legal experience working at a NY law firm, a Fortune 10 company and a healthcare startup advising on M&A, investments, corporate governance, strategic transactions, commercial contracts, intellectual property, equity administration, privacy and product development.

Miriam Kim is a partner in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.

Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation and high-stakes investigations, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property matters, marketing and false advertising claims, and technology disputes. Ms. Kim has a reputation for solving her clients’ most challenging problems as if they were her own. She is currently serving as a practitioner fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology focused on the use of generative AI and the practice of law. She is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee and Generative AI Task Force.

Irene Liu is an Executive in Residence at Berkeley Law and the founder of Hypergrowth GC. Previously, Irene was Hopin’s Chief Financial and Legal Officer and the General Counsel of Checkr. She was also formerly a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and the Federal Trade Commission.

Ariana Shaffer is a Founding Attorney at a Seed-stage startup called Tome that uses AI to summarize common legal contracts. She was previously a venture capital attorney at Cooley LLP.  

Adam Sterling is the assistant dean for executive education at Berkeley Law and the lead instructor for VC University. Previously, Adam was the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and before academia was a startup and venture capital attorney.

Lyla Sax is a third-year law student and Institute for International Law and Justice Joyce Lowinson Scholar at New York University School of Law. Lyla previously volunteered with the Atticus Project to label MAUD, an open-sourced, AI training dataset of legal contracts. She will join a law firm in New York after graduation.

Adam Shankman is a researcher for the Atticus Project and a third-year law student at Columbia Law School, where he is a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Previously, Adam was an Associate at Stabilis Capital. He will join a law firm in New York following graduation.

Yuyang Sun is an undergraduate student at Yale University currently in her third year of study and double majoring in Evolutionary Biology and Statistics.

Anwen Chen is a high school student at The Nueva School in San Mateo, California. She has a passion for analytical writing and all things visual arts-related.