AI Accelerated Career Route: Tech Lawyer Anna Gressel Lands Leadership Position at Freshfields

New York technology lawyer Anna Gressel had been a litigation partner at Paul, Weiss for less than a year. 

In a profession which tends to move slowly in upward mobility, reports Bloomberg Law, Gressel catapulted from that to co-leading Artifical Intelligence at Freshfields. Along with Freshfields' London-Giles Pratt she will oversee about 150 tech and data labor lawyers. 

It was chair of Paul, Weiss himself - Brad Karp - who hammered the importance of talent skilled in technology to law firms. During an interview with Lawyer Monthly last March, he predicted demand for entry-level lawyers declining because of AI. The shift in demand will be to those expert in technology and data. That played out at his own law firm, but not how he might have anticipated it.

Obviously, law students should pay attention to the direction in which the Law of Supply and Demand is moving. Gressel present that emerging model. Her success has been meteoric.

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