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‘As the GC for an aggressively innovative company like Snapchat, the trick is determining how our unprecedented products and features square with musty legal precedents and statutes written during an altogether different era,’ says Chris Handman, regarded by many as one of the US’s top appellate lawyers. ‘Reasoning from first principles to determine how the law will let us do all we want to do for our users is a constant – and rewarding – challenge’. Former partner Handman was named image-sharing app Snapchat’s first general counsel in 2014. His appointment followed privacy expert Christopher Soghoian’s warning of class actions, resulting from millions of Snapchat users being hacked.