Art Courville

Who is Art Courville?

Art Courville is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Symantec Corporation and is the company’s chief legal

officer. He is responsible for managing the company’s legal department

and government and corporate affairs group.

Courville has nearly 20 years of corporate legal experience,

beginning as an attorney at Gibson, Dunn Crutcher. Courville took

his first position with Symantec in 1993 as the third attorney in

Symantec's legal department. In 1997, Courville took the position of

director of product management for Symantec's Internet Tools business

unit, where he was responsible for all product management activities

related to Java development tools and HTML editing products. Courville

later returned to the legal department and was appointed as vice

president and general counsel in 1999.

Courville received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the

University of California, Berkeley and also received an MBA from the

business school there. Courville also has a bachelor’s degree in

economics from Stanford University.