OpenAI Recruits MoFo Partner for New AI Research Legal Role

Oct. 4, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

OpenAI has brought on Morrison & Foerster intellectual property litigation partner Allyson Bennett to be its lead lawyer for artificial intelligence research, a key position at the company as it copes with an array of legal challenges to its business model amid another massive fundraising round.

The Sam Altman-led company, now valued at $157 billion following a $6.6 billion haul in new funding this week, has leaned on the law firm—best known by its nickname MoFo—to handle copyright and IP-related litigation filed against San Francisco-based OpenAI by a variety of content creators and publishers.

Bennett disclosed her new ...

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