Compliance & Regulation

The privacy law landscape has never been more fragmented, more demanding, or more consequential for legal practitioners. Lawyers sit at a uniquely uncomfortable intersection: they are simultaneously subject to privacy law and advisors on it. Getting this wrong carries professional discipline liability, regulatory exposure, and...

The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024. Most prohibited-use provisions kicked in last February. The high-risk requirements — the ones that will reshape how law firms procure and deploy AI — become enforceable in August 2026. That gives your firm roughly three...

The compliance technology market is now worth north of $20 billion, and vendors will tell you every piece of it is essential. They're lying. After a brutal few years of regulatory tightening — FinCEN's revised AML program rules, the SEC's climate disclosure framework finally surviving...

Six months into meaningful EU AI Act enforcement posture — following the February 2025 prohibited practices prohibition date and the August 2025 GPAI model obligations deadline — the legal sector is demonstrating a classification gap that regulators are beginning to notice. Based on a synthesis...

Thirty-one state bars have now issued some form of AI-related ethics guidance, up from nineteen at the close of 2024. Eight of those thirty-one bars have issued formal ethics opinions carrying binding or near-binding precedential weight. The remainder have produced informal guidance, FAQs, or standing...

Law firms occupy a uniquely dangerous position in the cybersecurity ecosystem. They hold confidential communications protected by attorney-client privilege, transaction data from pending mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property files, and personal identifying information for thousands of clients — all under one roof, often with security...

The legal profession sits in an uncomfortable position relative to data privacy: law firms are simultaneously among the most trusted custodians of sensitive personal information and, historically, among the least scrutinised by privacy regulators. That calculus is changing rapidly. Between GDPR enforcement actions, the Australian...