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LEGAL AI

Quills to Quantum: Lawyers Confront Their New AI Truth

Wednesday // November 20th // 9:30AM – 10:00AM ET

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Amir Ghavi 

Partner, Intellectual Property and Technology 

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 

BIO:

Amir Ghavi leads Fried Frank's core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice and multidisciplinary Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice, while also serving as the firm’s foremost Artificial Intelligence ("AI") counsel.

Amir has advised clients on cutting edge technology and intellectual property matters for more than a decade and has translated this experience into a profound understanding of the development and adoption of disruptive technologies, particularly AI. 

Amir is a leading legal authority in the sector, advising participants in the AI ecosystem — including several foundation model developers — on product development and counseling, data procurement, AI governance and strategy, regulatory matters, government affairs, M&A and IP matters. Significantly, Amir has advised and continues to represent defendant AI model developers in several of the major AI litigations currently filed.

Amir advises disruptive technologies for a diverse range of clients - from multinational corporations, private equity sponsors, and venture capital firms to select high-growth technology-driven companies, helping the latter shape their core technology offerings and manage the cycle to commercialization and scale. 

Beyond the specific domain of disruptive technologies, clients regularly seek Amir’s counsel on dozens of transaction types including corporate and asset acquisitions and divestitures, IP-centric joint ventures, restructurings, data use and licensing, brand licensing and management and other intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, software development, the use and management of open-source software and, now, AI’s influence on these transactions and downstream implications. 

In addition to transactions and IP-centric disputes, Amir continues to pursue collaborations between academia, industry, and the law, most recently focusing on novel issues arising from broader adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. His practice is at the center of policies and social implications of rapid technology adoption — what it means to live in an increasingly automated world.

Amir is a lecturer at Cornell Tech and MIT Sloan for seminars on AI and the law, and is also a regular speaker, panelist and commentator to the media on artificial intelligence, digital assets and quantum computing.

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