Michelle Rule
Senior Associate
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
+44 20 3206 2856
Email Michelle
michelle.rule@smb.london
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Michelle is a Senior Associate in the Technology, Corporate & Commercial teams.
She is a specialist commercial lawyer and advises clients on day-to-day business issues, with a focus on advising, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial, technology and intellectual property contracts, including software agreements, terms of business and supply of goods and services agreements as well as advising organisations on data protection considerations and compliance.
Michelle joined the firm in 2021 following periods working in private practice and in-house for a renewable energy developer. Michelle retrained as a solicitor in 2008, following 12 years working in digital media and technology businesses as a product manager and IT director.
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Insights featuring Michelle
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9th January 2025LLMs – The Great Data Heist
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that use deep learning algorithms to understand and generate text, images and videos in a way that mimics similar outputs created by humans, basing its responses on the vast quantities of data they are trained on. While LLMs can generate creative text formats, legal documents, or summarise information, they are not designed to be inherently truthful or unbiased and can generate inaccurate or misleading content
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20th November 2024Digital Markets Competition and Consumer Act 2024 Overview
The Digital Markets Competition and Consumer Act (the Act) is a new Act that received Royal Assent in the twilight hours of the last Government. The scope of the Act is wide but the coming into effect is staggered over the coming months depending on the subject area.
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16th April 2024What is copyright?
Tech, IP & Digital Rights Partner, Raoul Lumb and Senior Associate in our Corporate department, Michelle Rule, discuss Copyright and how usage of original content is governed.
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News featuring Michelle
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9th December 2024 Corporate, Commercial & Finance, Employment & Immigration
SMB acts for founders of employee benefits specialists Drewberry Limited sale to global insurance leader Brown & Brown
Simons Muirhead Burton is pleased to have acted for founders of employee benefits specialists Drewberry Limited on their sale to global insurance leader Brown & Brown.
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13th September 2022 Tech, IP & Digital Rights
What to consider for your privacy policy
It’s old news that the GDPR has significantly changed data privacy laws in the UK and EU. One thing that changed was the introduction of the privacy policy. This is the link on the bottom of a webpage setting out what will happen to personal data entrusted or acquired by the website owner.
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2nd November 2021 Corporate, Commercial & Finance
What does it mean to agree to act “in good faith?”
The phrase “in good faith” is sometimes found in clauses of commercial contracts and can be easily glossed over as innocuous. However, there is no general doctrine of good faith in contracts under English Law.
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