Search

With the goal of enhancing women senior associates’ leadership skills, McGuireWoods held its 12th Women’s Leadership Development Forum (WLDF) May 2-3, 2024, at the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. The associate-participants included Nicole M. Allaband, Jessica Barrera, Emily G. Blair, Laura J. Cooley, Megan Italiano, Emily Erb Kelley, Laura Grace Mezher, Alice O’Donovan, Sarah Y. Oh, Anne Curtis Saunders, Samantha E. Aparicio Wallace, Kelly A. Warlich, Brooke A. Weedon and …

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can be a helpful tool for lawyers, but legal judgments are best left to humans for the foreseeable future, McGuireWoods London partner Simon Hems and associate Alice O’Donovan wrote in the December 2023 edition of Financier Worldwide. In the article, “Generative artificial intelligence in dispute resolution,” Hems and O’Donovan explored whether GenAI is an “all or nothing tool” or one that can be useful despite its limitations. GenAI can …

The November-December 2020 issue of Corporate Counsel Business Journal published an article by McGuireWoods discovery counsel Cristin Traylor and associate Alice O'Donovan discussing the outlook for national privacy legislation in the United States. In the article, the authors considered how federal data privacy legislation introduced in September 2020 — the SAFE DATA Act — would establish a nationwide standard that could work in conjunction with the GDPR and other global privacy laws to help the …

McGuireWoods London associate Alice O’Donovan explained the most common misconceptions about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in an article written for Total Business Magazine.“It is a complex piece of legislation with broad applicability and significant potential sanctions for noncompliance,” wrote O’Donovan, who advises multinational clients on GDPR compliance and other data privacy issues. “Myths and misconceptions have arisen about it as a result.”For example, some businesses think …

McGuireWoods London associate Alice O’Donovan (Business & Securities Litigation) was quoted extensively in a recent Compliance Week article on EU General Data Protection Regulation preparedness. As organizations wrestle with the new responsibilities and weigh the associated risks of GDPR — which takes effect May 25 — O’Donovan encourages documentation of “all the personal data you hold, where it came from, why you process it, and who you share it with. This is probably the most important …