The St. Regis New York
New York, NY
Wilson Sonsini is proud to be the Ecosystem Partner of The L Suite 2026 Legal AI Conference. Based on this year’s theme—General Counsel in the Age of AI: Frameworks, Risk, and the Future of Legal Leadership—panel discussions will cover pressing topics, including increasing regulatory scrutiny, redefinition of corporate value, and agentic workforce.
Partner Megan Baier will moderate a fireside chat with Halimah DeLaine Prado, general counsel at Google. The discussion will offer attendees a rare opportunity to gain insights into how a general counsel functions inside an AI-native company, from enterprise governance to personal leadership.
Partner Barath Chari will co-lead a group discussion on “IP Ownership in the Age of GenAI: Protecting What You Build” with Smrithi Mohan, general counsel at Awesome (SmugMug + Flickr).
Partner Rob Parr and Lea Epstein, general counsel at MyFitnessPal, will discuss “AI Integration in Product Offerings & Development: Best Practices in Product Counseling.”
This event is by invitation for L Suite members only.
Tomoko Beytien
tbeytien@wsgr.com
Megan represents technology and life sciences clients in corporate transactional matters.
Barath Chari is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Barath represents technology companies at all stages of growth, from bootstrapped start-ups to leading global enterprises, in complex business transactions involving technology and intellectual property. He also has deep experience in assisting technology companies and their investors with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financing matters. A Washington, D.C., transplant resident in the firm’s San Francisco office, Barath understands how the federal government transacts with technology companies, and helps technology companies sell products to federal government customers and collaborate with the federal government on research and development. He also leverages his pre-law experience as a software engineer to provide informed legal advice on technical topics such as open source software.
Rob Parr is a partner in the Boston office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he leads the office’s information technology transactions practice. He represents companies in transactions focused on the exploitation of intellectual property rights and technology in a variety of industries. Rob represents many companies in the digital health industry in particular and plays a key role in the firm’s digital health initiative. He regularly drafts and negotiates a wide variety of complex commercial agreements, including services, distribution, strategic alliance and joint venture, supply, asset transfer, and intellectual property license agreements. Rob also represents clients with the intellectual property and commercial issues arising from financings, mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings.