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The Google Spain and Portugal legal team currently has six lawyers, including five legal counsels and one legal trainee. The head of the team is María González Ordóñez as legal...
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Sarah Lennon is the regional counsel for Ireland at global internet technology company Google, whose team provide round-the-clock legal counsel on a broad range of issues across a wide geographical...
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Led by Maria Gonzalez Ordoñez, who is legal director for the disparate jurisdictions of Portugal, the UK, Ireland, Israel and Sub-Saharan Africa, Google’s team in Spain manages a diverse workload with a fairly lean team of five lawyers and one legal intern. As one would expect, the team is at the forefront of new legal techniques. Senior legal counsel Flor Grinberg explains the team’s attitude: ‘Since 20th century laws don’t always solve 21st century problems, our team needs to take innovative approaches for tackling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age’. An excellent example of this was their work on the headline-grabbing “right to be forgotten” ruling. Grinberg describes their extensive response to this new imperative: ‘Following the ruling in May 2014, which allowed users to request the removal of search results about themselves which they believe include outdated or irrelevant information, we worked around the clock to ensure Google’s compliance with the decision. This included preparing a new internal removals policy, launching an online webform to allow individuals to exercise their right, handling a vast amount of delisting requests addressed to the company relying on the new “right to be forgotten” (over 167,000 URLs reviewed as of today), and managing an increasing caseload, including over 60 pending appeals (recursos de casación) before the Spanish Supreme Court, in which the Court decided in our favour’. The team has also been involved in the launching of three key initiatives by the company. Firstly, it launched YouTube Kids in Spain, which entailed ‘a huge cross-functional effort locally to guarantee a smooth launch, making sure local regulators, policy makers and the media industry would welcome the launch positively’. Secondly, it launched a ‘special Google Arts & Culture channel dedicated to Cervantes’, which required working ‘very closely with the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture’. Finally, the team was involved in ‘the launch of Actívate, an educational platform launched to offer free digital skills trainings for young Spaniards, including offline trainings on Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship’. These are just some of the projects that the Google legal team has worked on recently, and they are a testament to the team’s versatility and position at the cutting edge of what in-house legal teams can achieve.
