{"id":25646,"date":"2019-06-13T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25646"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:59:36","slug":"legal-at-apple-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/legal-at-apple-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal at Apple Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/06\/10\/apple-lawyer-bruce-sewell-google-negotiations\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/06\/10\/apple-lawyer-bruce-sewell-google-negotiations\/\">\n<p>Establishing a billion dollar search engine deal with Google took Apple more than four months, according to new details shared today by former Apple lawyer Bruce Sewell.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sewell says that in his time at Apple, he had 900 people working under him. 600 of those were in the law group and included lawyers and paralegals.<\/p><p>In just one of the Samsung lawsuits, Apple had 350 people billing time on that case at any given moment, most of which were outside counsel because it&rsquo;s impossible for Apple to handle cases of that magnitude with an internal team. &ldquo;And this was just one of them. There were seven of them going on,&rdquo; said Sewell.<\/p><p>There were seven or eight billion documents to review, and collectively, law firms billed Apple 280,000 hours. Sewell says his budget was &ldquo;just shy of a billion dollars a year.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder whether Apple is looking at ways to protect the privacy of the customers it&rsquo;s sending to Google search. Right now, services revenue seems to trump privacy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Establishing a billion dollar search engine deal with Google took Apple more than four months, according to new details shared today by former Apple lawyer Bruce Sewell. [&#8230;] Sewell says that in his time at Apple, he had 900 people working under him. 600 of those were in the law group and included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-06-13T19:59:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"40eac049-a209-4a2e-9b1d-10ed41127996","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-06-13T19:59:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQOrASaIJSi6bHRDtQRJ5lg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,51,295,209,42,343],"class_list":["post-25646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-history","tag-legal","tag-samsung","tag-search"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25647,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions\/25647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}