CHRISTINE KUREK
Global Employment Counsel
Verily Life Sciences LLC
Christine Kurek is global employment counsel at Verily Life Sciences LLC (a Google affiliate). Verily’s mission is to bring the promise of precision health to everyone, every day. Verily launched from Google X in 2015 and is Google’s sister company focused on life sciences. Kurek leads employment and labor law for Verily. Since joining in January 2021, she has successfully contributed to a number of corporate-wide initiatives, including the acquisition of SignalPath.
In her role, Kurek collaborates with stakeholders across the business to find creative and forward-thinking solutions for legal matters in the US and across international regions (including the establishment of various international offices). Prior to joining Verily, she was a vice president in the legal department at Activision Blizzard. She has extensive experience in employment, benefits, and litigation, and in August successfully obtained certification as a mediator at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University.
At Verily, one of Kurek’s key contributions has been working to create a diversity accelerator program for legal interns. She collaborated with other key legal team members to create a summer program where Verily partners with law firms to employ diverse, rising 2L law students. The team recently completed its second successful summer, with four interns employed with four different law firms. Verily is working to help expand the program to other companies, as well. In doing so, Verily hopes to enhance the pipeline of diverse students with its partner law firms to develop the best future lawyers to work in the profession, and hopefully again with Verily.
