Google Goes All In On Legal AI: Halimah DeLaine Prado

Legal AI is a big deal—and a big business. How do we know this? It’s attracting interest beyond specialized, law-focused providers like Harvey and Legora (which are themselves already multibillion-dollar businesses).

Last month, Google announced Gemini Enterprise for Legal, part of the company’s growing suite of purpose-built industry solutions. But what makes this new product different from general-purpose AI?

To learn more about Gemini Enterprise for Legal, I interviewed Halimah DeLaine Prado, who has served as GC of Google since 2020. But given the breadth and importance of Halimah’s role and Google’s many appearances in the news these days, we covered other subjects as well—including the ad-tech antitrust litigation, in which a major ruling came down last week, and the proliferation of lawsuits against social-media platforms like YouTube, which Google owns.

Thanks to Halimah for her time and insight, and congrats to her and her colleagues on the launch of Gemini Enterprise for Legal.

Show notes:

* Halimah DeLaine Prado bio and blog posts, Google

* Exclusive: Google’s general counsel says AI can’t replace human judgment, by Ina Fried for Axios

* Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal, by Thomas Kurian for Google Cloud

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