A fantastic profile of Apple's top lawyer Bruce Sewell in Bloomberg
on Friday reveals just how large his part of Apple's empire is: He's got an in-house legal staff of 500 lawyers.
Before Sewell testified on behalf of Apple in front of Congress earlier this week, he was best known as Steve Jobs' "legal enforcer" who once went to South Korea to inform Samsung executives of all the ways its Galaxy phones infringed on iPhone patents, as part of a series of patent lawsuits that still drag on today.
Sewell's a calm operator who can look at broader business perspectives outside of the court room. For example, during the Samsung lawsuits, he was well aware of the public relations value of the lawsuit, which portrayed Samsung as rip-off artists.
Now, he's leading Apple's efforts to oppose government court orders requiring it to help the FBI and law enforcement hack criminals' iPhones.
However, Sewell's specialty isn't national security law, and few of Apple's in-house lawyers are experts at the issues in the San Bernardino case. Instead, they're best at Apple's day-to-day business, such as licensing, patents, and contracts.
on Friday reveals just how large his part of Apple's empire is: He's got an in-house legal staff of 500 lawyers.
Before Sewell testified on behalf of Apple in front of Congress earlier this week, he was best known as Steve Jobs' "legal enforcer" who once went to South Korea to inform Samsung executives of all the ways its Galaxy phones infringed on iPhone patents, as part of a series of patent lawsuits that still drag on today.
Sewell's a calm operator who can look at broader business perspectives outside of the court room. For example, during the Samsung lawsuits, he was well aware of the public relations value of the lawsuit, which portrayed Samsung as rip-off artists.
Now, he's leading Apple's efforts to oppose government court orders requiring it to help the FBI and law enforcement hack criminals' iPhones.
However, Sewell's specialty isn't national security law, and few of Apple's in-house lawyers are experts at the issues in the San Bernardino case. Instead, they're best at Apple's day-to-day business, such as licensing, patents, and contracts.
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