DWT hires Amazon legal-ops veteran as Senior Director, AI Programs; promotes De Novo leadership
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Davis Wright Tremaine is buying the talent to run AI at scale. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
Davis Wright Tremaine hired Sam Bernstein, a 19-year veteran of legal operations at Amazon, as Senior Director of AI Programs. Concurrently, the firm promoted Jeff Sabado, formerly director of knowledge management, to head De Novo (DWT's internal R&D/innovation unit), and legal-tech veteran Benjamin Capps rejoined as senior AI solutions architect. The moves expand DWT's dedicated AI leadership bench beyond the existing De Novo incubator structure.
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