Simon Hedlin is a litigation counsel in the firm’s Washington, DC office, and a member of the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Group, First Amendment Group, and Insurance Group. He is a versatile attorney who has represented clients ranging from individuals and smaller business organizations to government entities and Fortune 500 companies in complex commercial litigation, product safety investigations, mass torts, public policy, technology, and regulatory matters. Simon’s experience includes advising on AI adoption, providing regulatory counseling, conducting policy research, guiding clients in pre-litigation, drafting and responding to complaints, coordinating discovery, preparing technical expert witnesses for depositions and trial, deploying AI products to improve efficiency and accuracy, and briefing appeals.

Simon recently completed a seasonal fellowship at the think tank GovAI in DC, where he was researching and writing about AI policy and governance, such as safety regulatory approaches to open-weight models and potential applications of the First Amendment to the regulation of frontier AI.

Drawing on his recent fellowship and past work in journalism, academia, and policy, Simon is an experienced writer who has drafted dozens of motions and briefs at every stage of litigation in state and federal court as well as in domestic and international arbitrations. He has also worked on numerous appeals in state and federal court, including several cert petitions and a merits brief in the United States Supreme Court.

Simon is also deeply committed to his pro bono practice, including protecting reproductive rights, increasing access to disability benefits, and defending veterans’ rights.

Prior to joining O’Melveny, Simon worked as a journalist at The Economist, an empirical researcher at an anti-trafficking nonprofit, and a policy advisor at the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office. His work has appeared in Tech Policy Press, Law360, The Atlantic, TIME, The Guardian, The Hill, Forbes, and many other publications.