Key HireSeptember 11, 2026· Confirmed
Akerman hires Charles Zerner as first Director of AI Development, completing three-part AI leadership
- Significance
- Medium
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Akerman LLP is buying the talent to run AI at scale. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
Akerman hired Charles Zerner as Director of AI Development, a Harvard-educated litigator who writes production code and tunes open-weight models. Zerner completes a three-part AI leadership structure alongside Michael Adler (AI Governance) and Tricia Thomas (AI Research Services). CEO Scott Meyers described a hybrid buy/build strategy for Am Law 100-leading AI capability.
- Significance
- Medium
- Source type
- Trade Press
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