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Comment: Google general counsel emerges as public face of tech giant's legal team

Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google’s general counsel, presides over an in-house law firm of about 1,400 lawyers and legal professionals, the group charged with defending the 25-year-old Internet giant at what is arguably its greatest moment of legal jeopardy.
As DeLaine Prado stepped into a conference room in Mountain View, California,

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Mike Swift

Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent


Mike Swift is an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of covering data, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory news for more than a decade. As the Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent for MLex, in addition to reporting, he coordinates MLex’s worldwide coverage in the practice area. Formerly chief Internet reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and SiliconValley.com, Mike has covered Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies and has closely tracked technology and regulatory trends in Silicon Valley. He has wide ranging expertise from the business of professional sports to computer-assisted reporting. A former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, he is a graduate of Colby College.

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