Compliance

Create an assurance evidence register for legal AI

Track security reports, contract commitments, service scope, review dates, and unresolved evidence requests in an EU legal AI procurement.

Sep 9, 20263 min read

Build an EU legal AI use-case inventory

Map legal AI tasks, inputs, decision owners, and review controls before assessing the rules that apply to an EU deployment.

Sep 9, 20265 min read

AI literacy under Article 4 after the 2026 amendment

The July 2026 AI Omnibus simplified Article 4. Here is how legal teams can use the amended wording while maintaining practical training and professional review.

Sep 9, 20268 min read

The EU AI Act for law firms: deployer obligations, explained practically

Law firms are deployers under the EU AI Act, and deployer duties arrive in three waves: prohibitions and AI literacy already bind, Article 50 transparency starts August 2026, and the heavy high-risk set now lands in December 2027. Here is the practical, dated to-do list - and the traps that turn a firm into a provider.

Is legal AI "high-risk" under the EU AI Act? How to classify your tools

Most AI tools lawyers use for research, drafting, and review are not high-risk under the EU AI Act - the administration-of-justice category targets systems used by or on behalf of courts. But two traps catch law firms anyway: HR uses of AI and the prohibited-practices list. Here is a classification walkthrough.

EU AI Act timeline: what became enforceable on 2 August 2026

2 August 2026 was meant to be the EU AI Act's big-bang date. It still matters - transparency duties, GPAI enforcement, and the full penalty framework all activate - but the Digital Omnibus moved the high-risk regime to December 2027. Here is the corrected timeline, wave by wave.

Data Residency for Legal Teams: Why Where Your Documents Live Matters

Client mandates, data protection regimes, and professional secrecy rules increasingly care about geography. A practical guide to what data residency does and does not solve for legal teams: and the vendor questions that separate real residency from a checkbox.

Sep 9, 20265 min read

The EU AI Act in legal practice: a current deployment review

Assess the amended timeline and the actual use of each system. Keep legal duties, vendor evidence, and the firm’s practical review controls in a reproducible record.

Sep 9, 20264 min read

Questions to Ask Any Legal AI Vendor About Confidentiality and Security

Before any client document touches a legal AI platform, someone at your firm should be able to answer: where does the data go, who can see it, and what is it used for? Here is the complete vendor questionnaire, with what good answers look like.

Sep 9, 20265 min read

AI for Regulatory Compliance: Staying Ahead of GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX

AI-powered regulatory compliance is the use of artificial intelligence to automate, monitor, and verify an organization’s adherence to regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX: shifting compliance from reactive to proactive.

Compliance in the Age of AI: What Law Firms Need to Know

Regulatory compliance in the age of AI refers to the challenge of adopting AI-powered legal tools while meeting obligations under data protection regimes like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX.

Sep 9, 20269 min read

India

Whistleblower protection: India vs US (SOX/Dodd-Frank) vs EU Directive

Three regimes, three philosophies: the US pays whistleblowers (over $2.2 billion awarded by the SEC), the EU mandates protected reporting channels in every 50+ worker company, and India's dedicated statute has sat un-commenced since 2014 while SEBI and the Companies Act carry the load. A comparison for teams designing one policy across all three.

Jul 21, 202611 min read

HIPAA for Legal Teams Handling PHI

Personal-injury, med-mal, and mass-tort work routinely brings protected health information across a lawyer's desk. This guide explains business-associate status, BAAs, the minimum-necessary rule, required safeguards, de-identification, and what to verify before sending PHI to any AI vendor.

Data Security for Law Firms Using AI

Using AI does not lower a lawyer's duty of confidentiality - it raises the bar on vendor diligence. This guide covers encryption, access controls, audit logging, no-training-on-your-data, hosting and residency, incident response, and what SOC 2 and ISO 27001 actually mean.

The EU AI Act Explained for Legal Teams

The EU AI Act introduces a risk-based regime for artificial intelligence. This guide explains the four risk tiers, obligations for general-purpose AI, the phased 2025-2027 timeline, and what the rules mean for lawyers both advising clients and using AI tools themselves.

GDPR for Law Firms: A 2026 Compliance Guide

Law firms process personal data on a vast scale, which makes GDPR a daily concern. This guide covers controller and processor roles, lawful basis, special-category data, vendor DPAs, data-subject rights, breach notification, international transfers, and how to vet an AI vendor.

Vendor due-diligence questions for legal AI under the AI Act

Security questionnaires ask where your data goes; the EU AI Act adds a second file - what the system is, who is responsible for it, and whether its paperwork lets you meet your own duties. Here is the AI Act question set for legal AI procurement, theme by theme, with the red-flag answers.

Jul 19, 20269 min read

FRIA vs DPIA: which assessments your legal AI deployment needs

Two assessments now orbit every serious AI deployment in the EU: the GDPR's DPIA and the AI Act's fundamental rights impact assessment. Most law-firm deployments need a DPIA analysis and no FRIA at all - but in-house teams at banks, insurers, and public bodies are squarely in the FRIA's scope. Here is how to tell, and how to run both in one file.

Jul 19, 20269 min read

EU AI Act vs UK's regulator-led approach vs US state AI laws

Three regulatory models now govern the same technology: the EU's horizontal risk-based statute, the UK's regulator-led principles with no AI act at all, and a US state patchwork under federal preemption pressure. A mid-2026 comparison for legal teams operating across all three - what binds, when, and what to do about it.

Jul 19, 202611 min read