Michael Rubin likes to say that he anticipated the AI wave.

Rubin—a partner in Latham & Watkins' San Francisco office and a finalist for Attorney of the Year in the 2024 California Legal Awards—launched the firm's AI Task Force in 2022, the same year that OpenAI debuted its game-changing generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT. The team includes more than 150 lawyers from 30 practice areas and 15 offices globally.