Stevin George is a strategic legal advisor who understands the commercial, technological, and legal complexities of AI/ML. He drafts and negotiates agreements related to licensing and use of generative tools; dataset acquisition and use; model packaging; commercialization; validation, accuracy, and anti-bias; and governance and regulatory compliance. He counsels regarding software, hosting, and cloud service licensing; patent licensing, manufacturing, and distribution networks for consumer hardware; and complex procurement of technology and services. As a former corporate associate at an international law firm and a secondee to numerous AI/ML and product verticals at the largest tech companies in the world, he is skilled at providing cutting-edge advice to help clients scale, develop, and address pressing challenges.
Stevin draws on his extensive experience working directly with engineers, business stakeholders, and leadership from the whiteboard stage to general availability and beyond. A lifelong puzzle solver, Stevin enjoys finding practical and innovative ways to get deals done.
Practice Highlights
Technology and commercial transactions
Licensing and data agreements
Cloud infrastructure advising
Represented leading cloud computing web service providers regarding relational and nonrelational database offerings with drafting and negotiation of service agreements, support obligations, and best practices.
Admitted to Practice
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Washington, 2021
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Wisconsin, 2017
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Texas, 2019
Education
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J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2017
- Dean's Merit Scholarship
- Executive Development Editor, Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
- Community and Economic Development Clinic
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B.A., Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2012, summa cum laude
- Academic Excellence Honors Scholar
- Commencement Speaker, School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences
- Collegium V University Honors Program
- Dean’s List
- Bill Archer Fellow
Languages
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Malayalam
Memberships & Affiliations
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- State Bar of Wisconsin, 2017-present
- State Bar of Texas, 2019-present
- State Bar of Washington, 2021-present
- Dallas Asian American Bar Association, 2019-present
- Mentor, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2019-present
Background
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- Corporate Associate, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Dallas, 2019-2020
- Associate, 2017-2019; Summer Associate, 2016 — Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., Milwaukee
- Civil Rights Intern, DC Prisoner's Project, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Washington, D.C., 2015
- Judicial Intern, Office of the Counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., 2011
- Secondary English Language Instructor through Teach For America, Lakeside High School, Lake Village, Ark., 2012-2014
- Judicial Intern, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, 2010