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Disney Seeks AI Enablement Director Amid Legal Team Cuts
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Disney Seeks AI Enablement Director Amid Legal Team Cuts
- •Disney is creating a new Director of AI Enablement and Legal Engineering role to redesign legal workflows using AI and other technologies.
- •The position will cover contract review, legal research, and regulatory analysis, assessing internal development versus external vendors for AI systems.
- •The role also involves measuring AI investment returns and helping lawyers adopt new work methods.
- •The appointment coincides with impending layoffs within Disney's Legal and Global Affairs department as part of a broader workforce redesign.
- •Disney's chief legal officer, Horacio Gutierrez, stated the legal department will become a "much smaller organization" through automation, self-service models, and outsourcing.
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Disney is seeking a director of AI enablement and legal engineering to redesign legal workflows using artificial intelligence and other technologies.
Disney is restructuring its legal department to automate workflows, introduce self-service models, and improve operational efficiency through technology.
Horacio Gutierrez, Disney's chief legal and global affairs officer, informed employees in a September 18 memo that the division would become much smaller.
