Our Practice

The Digital Technology group comprises the nation’s most experienced practitioners and former government officials in each key discipline. The team includes a former federal district judge recognized as the country’s leading specialist in AI and the law; the former acting deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice who is the country’s leading authority on national security and cybersecurity matters; a former Secretary of Homeland Security; a former member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office; a senior financial institutions litigator with experience in probes of algorithmic trading practices and virtual currencies; a former principal deputy general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and deputy general counsel at the Treasury Department; a leading corporate advisor on technology transactions; and the chair of the firm’s Patent Litigation group.

Clients across diverse industries look to Paul, Weiss to help them capture fast-emerging business opportunities across the emerging digital technology spectrum, and safely navigate legal and business threats involving the use of these powerful new tools. Within the larger Digital Technology group, our specialized teams offer advice on artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and blockchain, and cybersecurity and data protection. Many of our lawyers have technical backgrounds, enabling us to understand the evolving challenges confronting technology clients. The practice was recently named a Law360 “Technology Group of the Year” (2021) and “Fintech Group of the Year”(2022), and the team includes several members who are widely recognized for their cutting-edge work at the intersection of digital technology and the law.

• Corporate: With clients that include the biggest technology companies and most active private equity investors in the industry, our firm has advised on some of the largest and most transformational deals involving cutting-edge technologies. The Digital Technology group includes members of our market-leading M&A and IP & Technology Transactions Practices. We have helped hundreds of companies and investors appropriately value, protect and leverage a vast range of digital assets and cutting-edge innovations. We have extensive experience structuring, negotiating and executing groundbreaking transactions involving emerging technologies, including transformative deals in AI and machine learning, AR/VR, and cryptocurrency and blockchain.
• Litigation and Regulatory: As government entities and private litigants take aim at business practices involving new digital technologies, no firm is better equipped than Paul, Weiss to successfully defend clients in cases of first impression and leading-edge enforcement actions involving emerging digital technologies. Our Digital Technology team leverages the invaluable insights of practitioners who recently held senior agency, judiciary or regulatory enforcement roles, and of the firm’s Litigation Department’s formidable bench of specialists in patent, copyright, class action defense, antitrust and complex commercial litigation.

Members of the practice offer real-world experience in fast-evolving technologies, including: