One of the oldest leaders of Apple, and during the past year, his average monthly revenue from the company was more than $ 2 million, due to his important role in leading the company's legal armies in its wars against competing companies, organizations, individuals and even governments. Get to know Bruce Sewell.

[12] Geniuses who made Apple: Bruce Sewell

Bruce was born in 1957, then he studied law at Lancaster University and moved to America to obtain a doctorate in law in 1986. He started working as a lawyer in California in the same year and Washington the following year 1987 and then participated in establishing a law firm and a legal consulting firm in 1989. It was the beginning of the launch. Bruce worked with major companies after joining Intel in 1995 to be one of the most prominent attorneys for the company, then in 2001 he was promoted to Intel Vice President for Legal Affairs, and after that he became responsible for all Intel operations and contracts, relations and legal regulations in 30 countries.

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In September 2009 Bruce joined Apple to become Apple's Vice President of Privacy, Legal and Consulting. In 2013, he joined the executive leaders in the company and became the first responsible for everything related to the laws in Apple, meaning that he performs the following tasks:

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Defending Apple in the cases launched by the US government against Apple, the most recent of which is the encryption crisis.

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Various companies are sued and accused of using innovations and copying products for Apple without their consent. And he won several victories in this field (especially over Samsung), in which the value of compensation exceeded half a billion dollars.

3

Reaching a settlement with other companies that wants Apple to use their patents, most famously Nokia, as well as agreeing to enable companies like HTC to use Apple's patents.

4

Defending Apple in the cases brought against it by companies accusing it of using its patents. And the last of these cases was what we talked about in news on the sidelines, in which he was able to reduce the judgment against Apple from $ 625 million to $ 25 million.

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Preparing legal responses and commenting on the accusations from various authorities, the most recent of which was Spotify, as well as a member of Congress.

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Preparing regulations and laws that ensure that Apple's laws do not conflict with state regulations, especially that Apple operates in dozens of countries and each has different internal laws. The most famous of these matters was the amendment of the guarantee in some countries to become 24 months instead of 12 commitments by states that impose this matter.

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Communicate with Apple's development departments to ensure that any procedures or applications do not conflict with privacy regulations, as they are responsible for security and privacy at Apple.

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In 2015, Bruce got $ 5 million from Apple "in cash" in addition to $ 20 million in shares in the company, thus making it one of the top 3 employees in Apple for revenue and profits.

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