Ruud van Herpen is the Global Chief Legal Officer at Xebia, a global AI-first consulting, software engineering, and training company. Based in the Netherlands, the interview touches on the role of legal and on the in-house profession in general.
This has led courts to be overwhelmed by hallucinated case law or non-existent authorities being used as part of legal arguments. Additionally, the case shows that the judiciary themselves also might not fully understand the technical functioning of AI.
The traditional postulate of the General Counsel (GC) as a reactive risk mitigator, operating as an isolated corporate "Department of No," is fundamentally obsolete.
Not a “new profession” and not a personal professional secret, but rather a statutory confidentiality attaching to certain written in-house legal consultations under tightly defined conditions.
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