Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter
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Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Palo Alto office and co-chair of its global artificial-intelligence practice. Her work concerns AI-related product advice, regulatory compliance, privacy and transactions. She also leads the firm's State Privacy Law Task Force.[1]
Roles and affiliations
Her firm biography describes counseling on global compliance programs, enforcement matters and technology-related transactions. It identifies her as a California lawyer, licensed patent attorney and Certified Information Privacy Professional. It also records her service as chair of the Practising Law Institute's annual AI program in 2023 and 2024.[1]
Contributions and positions
AI and employment compliance
Gaedt-Sheckter is one of the lawyers credited with preparing Gibson Dunn's October 5, 2026 Artificial Intelligence in Employment Newsletter. The coauthored analysis compares automated-decision-making and anti-discrimination regimes affecting workplace uses of AI.[2]
The authors emphasize determining whether a particular tool falls within each jurisdiction's coverage. They describe differences in notice requirements, bias audits, human review and record retention, and recommend compliance programs that can adapt as rules develop. Their discussion connects regulatory compliance with potential employment-discrimination litigation.[2]
The newsletter treats notification as an important recurring requirement while explaining that a single notice may not satisfy every regime. It also urges employers to consider obligations beyond notice and to participate in ongoing rulemaking. These are the authors' professional recommendations in a dated client analysis.[2]
Development of AI legal practice
In Roy Strom's October 15, 2026 Bloomberg Law career column, Gaedt-Sheckter described moving from patent litigation into privacy counseling and then AI work. Strom reported that she entered the developing AI practice in 2018. She discussed responding to changing practice opportunities as her legal career developed.[3]
The column places her experience alongside other lawyers' accounts of training, technology adoption and career development. Its observations about AI and junior lawyers are attributed commentary about professional change.[3]
Selected works
- Artificial Intelligence in Employment Newsletter – October 2026 — coauthored client analysis.[2]
- United States: Artificial Intelligence, in the Global Data Review Insight Handbook — coauthored chapter identified in her firm's bibliography.[1]
Coverage
- Strom's October 2026 career column discusses her move into AI-related practice.[3]
Related articles
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gibson Dunn, Cassandra L. Gaedt-Sheckter, professional biography. Reviewed October 15, 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roy Strom, Bloomberg Law, October 15, 2026, Big Law Business column on the 2011 law-school class and AI; complete accessible article reviewed.