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Alexander Macgillivray is Senior Product and Intellectual Property Counsel at Google. As such, he is the primary attorney for a wide variety of Google products, including Web Search, Gmail, Print and Scholar. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Macgillivray was a litigator with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. There he also concentrated on intellectual property and internet law issues while representing clients such as Canal+ Technologies, DirecTV, Streamcast Networks, Borland, the Internet Archive and Creative Commons. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and is an affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Speaker Bio Alexander Macgillivray is Twitter's General Counsel. Prior to Twitter, Mr. Macgillivray was Deputy General Counsel for Products and IP at Google and a litigator with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and is an affiliate at Harvardgrs"s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He tweets, blogs and bakes bread.

Ethan Zuckerman's musings on Africa, international development and hacking the media. 07/21/2009 (3:36 pm) Alex MacGillivray explains the Google Books settlement Filed under: Berkman,Geekery :: John Palfrey introduces Alex MacGillivray as one of the first students of the Berkman Center. Heo’s now a major player in the world of internet law, formerly serving as Senior Product and Intellectual Property Counsel at Google. He/’s represented Google in a number of key cases as one of the first lawyers to join the company. Twitter recently r“stole/” him away, appointing him as General Counsel, which may leave him for free to talk about the Google Book Search settlement, the conversation around our lunch table today.