Willkie Farr Hires Naveed Huq as Associate Director, Applied AI & Engineering
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher is buying the talent to run AI at scale. A directional signal rather than a step change.
Willkie hired Naveed Huq -- previously AI Product Manager at Paul, Weiss -- as Associate Director, Applied AI & Engineering, to architect a secure firmwide conversational AI/agent ecosystem, including a knowledge-grounded custom agent platform and AI contract-intelligence tools for the funds team.
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