As Data Privacy Day 2026 approaches, organizations face an inflection point in privacy, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity compliance. The pace of technological adoption, in particular AI tools, continues to outstrip legal, governance, and risk frameworks. At the same time, regulators, plaintiffs, and businesses are increasingly focused on how data is collected, used, monitored, and safeguarded….
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AI Use in the Workplace: What Employers Should Do Now to Manage Risk
Artificial intelligence tools, particularly generative AI, are increasingly being used in the workplace, often through informal adoption driven by individual employees rather than enterprise-level deployment decisions. This Alert provides an overview of these issues and suggestions for how employers can manage potential legal risks.
Trump’s AI EO: Reducing Regulatory Fragmentation Not Employer Responsibility
- The AI EO attempts to establish a unified national policy for artificial intelligence, directing federal agencies to challenge state AI laws that conflict with federal objectives. However, it does not change existing antidiscrimination statutes governing employment decisions.
We get AI for work™: Analyzing “Brewer v. Otter.ai” — A Case Study of the Legal Risks of AI Note Takers
What if your next business call ended up training someone else’s AI without you ever knowing? In this episode, we unpack the Brewer v. Otter.ai case and explore how automated note takers are reshaping privacy, legal compliance, and trust in today’s workplace.
As Artificial Intelligence Becomes More Self-Regulated on Federal Level, Employers Must Ensure Compliance with State & Local Laws
We get AI for work™: New Efforts to Ensure a National AI Policy
A December 11, 2025 executive order marks the beginning of an aggressive federal push to short circuit growing state-level AI intervention with standardized AI regulation nationwide. Podcast hosts Joe Lazzarotti and Eric Felsberg discuss the substantial compliance, risk management and governance consequences employers face in this shifting regulatory landscape.
Trump’s Executive Order on AI and the Potential Impact on State Healthcare Laws Governing AI
President Trump’s new executive order on artificial intelligence (“AI”) seeks to impose broad and strict impediments to state-level regulation of AI. Signed on December 11, 2025, the order establishes a “minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI” and states that fragmented state AI laws slow innovation and hinder the country’s competitiveness in the global AI market in a number of ways. According to the executive order, state-by-state laws and regulations:
White House Issues Executive Order on National AI Policy Framework and Preemption Of State AI Laws
On December 11, 2025, the White House issued an executive order (“Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”), calling for a single federal AI policy to ensure “national and economic security and dominance” and preempting state AI laws (with a few exceptions – see Section 8 below) to avoid “cumbersome regulation” that would “thwart” these “imperative[s]”. This executive order follows a series of previous AI-related executive orders, including:
President Trump Signs EO to Stop State and Local Regulation of AI
On December 11, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) seeking to stop local U.S. jurisdictions from enacting laws or regulations restricting the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, asserting that fragmented regulation could impede the United States’ competitiveness in this space. The order, which comes
President Signs Executive Order to Limit State Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
President Signs Executive Order to Limit State Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to limit the ability of states to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
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White House Issues “Genesis Mission” Executive Order on AI
We get AI for work™: Where to Start When Evaluating AI Tools
Although it is tempting to rush to implement the newest AI tools, taking inventory of what tools your organization uses, which laws you are subject to and which obligations flow from those laws are all critical steps to maintain legal compliance.
Auditing Artificial Intelligence Systems for Bias in Employment Decision-Making
Employers are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across the talent life cycle, from candidate sourcing and ranking, to pre-hire assessments, to onboarding, performance reviews, development, promotions, and retention.
While these tools promise efficiency and consistency, they also introduce heightened legal risk if they produce biased outcomes. Many states, localities, and
Bipartisan “AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act” Would Require Employer Reporting
A new Senate bill, the AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act (S. 3108), would create a federal reporting framework for how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting employment in the United States. The aim is to produce timely, public data on AI-driven layoffs, hiring, unfilled roles, and retraining, with the Department of Labor (through the Bureau of…
AI Adoption Surges Among S&P 500 Companies—But So Do the Risks
According to Cybersecurity Dive, artificial intelligence is no longer experimental technology as more than 70% of S&P 500 companies now identify AI as