Cooley Builds Multi-Person AI/Innovation Leadership Bench
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- Medium
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- Confirmed
Why this matters
Cooley is buying the talent to run AI at scale. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
Beyond CIO David Wang, Cooley staffed a multi-person innovation/AI team: Felicity Levey (Director of Practice Innovation, ex-Paladin co-founder), Zorik Pesochinsky (Associate Director, Technology Collaboration & AI Services, leading enterprise AI strategy and custom agent builds), and Simon Dandy (Director of Technology Platforms, overseeing responsible AI initiatives).
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- Medium
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- Firm Press Release
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