AI Collaborations between Legal Departments, Law Firms, and Solutions Providers

Huu Nguyen is a deal lawyer with a strong technical background. He focuses his practice on commercial and corporate transactions in the technology and venture space, and counsels and assists clients with fintech and payment systems transactions, artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicle (AV) matters, licensing, outsourcing, complex commercial arrangements, strategic relationships, financial regulatory matters, privacy and security matters, cyber law and intellectual property (IP) rights matters. He also helps his clients with accelerator and foundry formations and associated fund formations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate formation and other related matters.

Before practicing corporate, commercial and technology law, Huu focused on intellectual property litigation and patent prosecution. Prior to joining Squire Patton Boggs, Huu seconded as an in-house counsel with a global financial services company. Huu was a board member of the Vietnamese-American Bar Association of Washington and has worked on IP and transactional matters pro bono for nonprofits.

Huu is a Vice-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Committee of the American Bar Association (2018-2019), and has spoken widely on artificial intelligence law and written about the subject. He is also co-editor of Thomson Reuters' Fintech Law Report.

In his first career, Huu was a robotics, machine learning and AI research scientist and consulted with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on technology.

Scott D. Bailey is the director of research at Eversheds Sutherland (US)LLP. There are five guiding values at Eversheds Sutherland, and Bailey is building a service that resonates with them. Collaborative, Creative, Professional, Inclusive, and Open. As a champion of success through authentic intelligence and building knowledge community, he is one of those people who works collaboratively with a variety of professionals within and beyond the legal industry. Bailey believes in creatively fostering situations where aligning the right people, data, and resources leads to multiplied value for everyone involved.

Lara is a legal technologist and former in-house attorney with a cross-functional perspective (Supply Chain/IT/Legal) and deep experience related to Merger & Acquisition activities across multiple industries/commodities. She is a leader in contract lifecycle transformation including intricate contract separation/consolidation activities utilizing machine learning/AI data mining. Lara is a highly skilled negotiator and known for excellent transactional drafting with particular emphasis on issues relevant to data privacy. In addition to significant experience in the IT strategic sourcing and procurement space, Lara is a subject matter expert in strategic supplier management and software asset management (SAM). Lara is a committed advocate for inclusive workplaces and passionate about leveraging technology to support information accessibility for all.

Lara is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois and in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Eligible for admission in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.

Amy Sellars is an Assistant General Counsel for Walmart focused exclusively on discovery issues. Before becoming an attorney, Amy was a theater producer and stage manager, English teacher, and operations manager for an ed-tech start-up company, where she learned all about databases. (And, more importantly, how to work with database programmers.) A lifelong lover of narrative, Amy enjoys discovery because finding the facts and building the story is the fun part of litigation, and technology tools help us build better stories faster.

As a co-founder and COO/CFO of eBrevia, Adam Nguyen is responsible for the company’s strategy, product development, and finance, as well as its daily operation. Adam’s experience extends to founding Ivy Link, an education advisory firm with clients in the US, Europe, and Middle East, and serving as the Chief-of-Staff and Legal Officer of Vantage Properties, a 350-person real estate investment and management firm. In addition to operational management, finance and in-house legal experience, Adam has practiced law at the global law firms of Paul, Weiss and Shearman & Sterling, where he focused on private equity, hedge fund formation, and mergers and acquisitions — as well as at AQR Capital Management, a multi-asset investment management firm, where he helped to expand the firm’s products and managed accounts. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Judge Faith Hochberg, US District Court, NJ.

Adam holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Columbia and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. He has also studied at the University of California, Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Public Policy and International Affairs, and at the University College London.