Last week, we put forward in HBR a fairly straightforward argument but one that hadn’t really been made before: If political volatility is going up and the cost of legal actions (due to AI) is going down, then legal exposure of companies will go way up. This will likely give rise to a flood of legal attacks …
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I contemplate terms and conditions while taking an autonomous taxi. Hence also launches a fashion fundraiser to support the next generation of female Rwandan coders! Last Saturday night, I was chauffeured around Los Angeles in an autonomous Waymo taxi with a friend. The taxi had no driver but picked us up and dropped us off …
Legal departments in multi-national corporations must navigate the impacts of trade wars and economic sanctions, political instability and conflict, inter-region regulatory divergence, cybersecurity and state-sponsored cyberattacks, and standards applying to environmental stewardship and human rights throughout supply chains. In this interconnected global environment, says Sean West, an entrepreneur, consultant, and author, in-house counsel must increasingly …
Erin Levine is on a mission to provide affordable divorce services to expand access to justice. She told me she first looked to scale up her family law practice using technology, but quickly realized ABA’s Rule 5.4 on lawyer independence would prohibit her from raising capital from non-lawyers. That meant she’d have to run a technology company …
One of the great paradoxes of the legal profession is that lawyers are stereotyped as allergic to technology while simultaneously being at the bleeding edge of the way society interacts with technological advancement. The Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Gathering in Las Vegas, which I attended last week, provided a first-hand opportunity to explore this …