Cutting Edge Legal Considerations of Employees Using Generative AI at Work

Danny is a medical doctor, successful software founder, and chair of DLA Piper’s AI & Data Analytics practice. Danny was named Financial Times’ Innovative Practitioner in 2023 and led Insider’s 2022 list of the top attorneys helping companies adopt AI. A noted thought leader and expert on the safe and effective deployment of AI systems, Danny sits on Pfizer’s Digital Health Scientific Advisory Board and the UN’s Executive Committee of the AI for Good Law Track.  He is a founding member of the Health AI Partnership with the Mayo Clinic, Duke, and others, which now includes the American Medical Association and HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as a federal observer. Danny’s AI clients include leading generative AI innovators, Fortune 500 and 100 companies, and breakthrough startups like IDx, the first FDA-approved fully autonomous AI, with whom he co-authored the peer-reviewed Lessons Learned About Autonomous AI: Finding a Safe, Efficacious, and Ethical Path Through the Development Process. Danny was an invited speaker at the AAAI’s inaugural AI, Ethics, and Society conference sponsored by Google, IBM, and others, Stanford Law School’s CODEX FutureLaw Conference, and the Swiss Embassy on AI innovation in the U.S.  Danny advised the American Medical Association on its AI policy and has been recognized by the U.S. Library of Congress for his work on liability and AI.  Danny’s writing on technology and law has been published by the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, the National Law Journal, the Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the American Health Law Association, and the Association of Corporate Counsel, among others. Danny has hosted the Principal Deputy Commissioner of the FDA in a fireside chat on AI and moderated the closed-door Ministerial Roundtable in Morocco on Improving Health Outcomes in Africa through Innovative Solutions and the fireside chat in Washington D.C. with His Excellency the President of Malawi and Pfizer, Improving Health Security in Africa through Strategic Partnerships, during the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Danny led a successful software company from inception to acquisition. His original medical research appears in Pediatric Blood & Cancer and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

Brent Yamashita is a patent litigator and prosecutor in our Silicon Valley office. Over the past 24 years, Brent has represented technology companies from around the globe. In his patent litigation practice, he has successfully represented clients such as Toshiba, Kioxia, Samsung, GSI, KUKA, and Supermicro in patent litigation in the International Trade Commission (ITC), federal district courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In his patent prosecution practice, Brent brings a litigator’s perspective and intensity to his work for clients in obtaining patents in hardware and software technologies.

Christine Ellice advises consumer financial services, banking, securities and technology companies on commercial litigation and class action defense matters. Additionally, Christine assists individuals and growth-stage companies in partnership and LLC disputes, investor actions and general business litigation. Christine also is experienced in the entertainment industry, having represented clients in film finance, copyright, defamation and licensing litigation. As a licensed lawyer in both California and New York, Christine partners with clients nationwide to resolve their disputes, and, in particular, helps them navigate California’s unique legal landscape.

Gina Durham is an experienced trial attorney and strategist who focuses her practice in the areas of trademark, copyright, right of publicity, trade dress, and false advertising. Gina approaches matters from a global perspective, often coordinating multijurisdictional strategies to advance the interests of her multinational clients primarily in the technology, media and retail sectors.

Gina represents some of the most well-known companies in the world and has achieved favorable outcomes in consequential matters for clients such as NIKE, the Estate of Marilyn Monroe, and Harley Davidson. She brings her deep understanding of the full life cycle of rights creation, clearance, prosecution, and trends in enforcement and litigation to each matter. Gina also has two decades of experience in disputes surrounding questions of proprietary rights on the Internet, having successfully litigated the enforceability of online terms of use, civil claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Internet crawling disputes.