ChatGPT: Resource or Liability? What Legal Leaders Need to Know

Ashlyn Donohue is currently a Director, Legal at Boston-based LinkSquares, Inc. Before this role, she was a Manager, Counsel at HubSpot. Ashlyn also has prior experience in operations, with a focus on using data to drive actionable insights to improve operational efficiency and align cross-functional teams. Ashlyn received her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law.

Nicolette Martz is the Director & Head of Privacy at Yelp, advising on dynamic legal issues and pragmatic business solutions. Ms. Martz is best described as a generalist with broad experience in litigation, from complex commercial disputes to international arbitration and transactions, with a focus on technology. Her responsibilities at Yelp include managing litigation matters, often with substantive First Amendment implications, directing Yelp’s GDPR compliance efforts, enforcing Yelp’s intellectual property rights, supporting technology and commercial transactions, and advising on open source. Nicolette started her career at global law firm Allen & Overy LLP in New York, before moving home to California and joining technology transactions boutique Smithline PC. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with highest honors, Ms. Martz served in the Peace Corps before earning her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School. Nicolette is admitted to practice in California and New York.

Ilona Logvinova is Associate General Counsel at McKinsey & Company, within McKinsey Digital, working closely with advanced analytics, AI/ML, cloud strategy and enablement, and digital builds across a range of industries.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Ilona was Senior Counsel at Mastercard, where she worked on ground-up technology builds and tech transactions to leverage the company’s core assets and explore broader partnership opportunities. Prior to Mastercard, Ilona was an Associate at Fried Frank, where she specialized in leveraged finance representing borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured financings.

Ilona has a BA from Columbia University with a joint major in Economics and Philosophy and her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Lucy Bassli is an attorney, author of CLM Simplified and The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation, and Founder and Principal of InnoLaw Group. Previously, Lucy was a former Assistant General Counsel of Legal Operations and Contracting at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, she redefined how legal work is done and created one of the first managed service engagements with a law firm. She was tapped to teach the Legal Operations course for Suffolk University Law School’s Legal Innovation & Technology Certificate Program. Lucy has a partnership with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, to deliver operations consulting to corporate legal departments.

Lucy is a highly sought-after legal industry expert who works with corporate legal departments and law firms on legal service delivery, automation, smart risk-taking and alternative resourcing models. She educates and consults with lawyers to take best practices in the legal industry to a new level. Lucy is also a strategy advisor for LawGeex, an AI legal start-up that automates contract review services.

Zara Roberts Gerald has spent the past 25 years helping companies grow and achieve their goals in evolving business, legal, and regulatory environments. Ms. Gerald has led multi-national, cross-functional teams of legal, government affairs, and security professionals on complex projects, providing strategic oversight following changes in control, business downturns, and M&A. She is a recognized expert in legal issues involving privacy, security, AI and digital transformation in the financial services, identity, and national security industries.

In 2020, Ms. Gerald joined Charles Schwab & Co. as Managing Director and Chief Counsel where she oversees a team of attorneys responsible for advising the company on technology, commercial transactions, privacy and cybersecurity, marketing and brand protection, and e-commerce. Ms. Gerald previously served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of IDEMIA North America and was a member of the board’s Risk Committee. At IDEMIA, she successfully oversaw restructuring and integration initiatives aimed at operational efficiency, talent development, and cost optimization. In addition, Ms. Gerald led board-level crisis committees that resolved issues of employee safety and business continuity arising from the global pandemic. Earlier, Ms. Gerald served as Vice President and General Counsel of a global business unit of Gemalto (now Thales) that sells encryption, authentication and software monetization products to technology, financial services, and government customers. During her time at Gemalto, Ms. Gerald was recognized for directing strategic communications when the company was named by Edward Snowden as a target of surreptitious government intrusions into company networks.

Ms. Gerald is a sought-after speaker on issues facing boards of directors including use of facial recognition algorithms, national security, and international relations. Ms. Gerald is a vocal advocate for and frequent panelist on achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion. In addition to her corporate board experience, she previously served on the Board of Trustees of KinderSmile Foundation and currently serves on the board of Girls on the Run of Montgomery County.

Ms. Gerald received her B.A. from Rutgers University and her J.D. from Fordham Law School. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French. During weekends, Ms. Gerald can be found spending time outdoors hiking with her husband, Larry, along the Appalachian Trail or completing chapters of her memoir.