Julia Brickell is an experienced legal consultant and educator. She frequently speaks and writes on topics of legal ethics and technology including managing risks posed by the explosion of electronically stored information and advancing professionalism in the age of artificial intelligence. Ms. Brickell served as general counsel of H5, a search and analytics company, until its August 2021 acquisition. Prior to joining H5, from 2000 to 2008, Ms. Brickell was associate general counsel of Altria Client Services addressing a variety of current and potential future litigation and electronic data management topics. From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Brickell served as vice president and deputy general counsel of Philip Morris USA, after beginning her career as a litigator at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York. Ms. Brickell serves on the faculty of Columbia University’s Executive Master of Science in Technology Management where she builds awareness and skills to increase collaboration between technologists and lawyers in the digital era. Ms. Brickell is an active participant in committees addressing artificial intelligence and technology in DRI, FDCC, and other organizations, and also serves on the board of the American AI Forum, an organization dedicated to education on AI. Ms. Brickell obtained her B.A. from Smith College and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
