AI is evolving at an exponential pace, creating opportunity and risk. This resource center helps your business stay on top of the latest.
The EU AI Act imposes obligations on providers, importers, distributors and deployers of AI systems.
Here’s what’s coming:
The U.S. is churning out AI legislation. This tracker summarizes key AI-specific laws in effect today that may impact your business.
Information updated monthly
*Excludes biometric and comprehensive privacy laws that may also impact AI regulation.
At Orrick, we are at the forefront of providing comprehensive AI-related legal solutions. Recognized on a short list of “Standouts for AI Expertise” (American Lawyer 2024), our team of 350 lawyers globally has delivered transactional, litigation and regulatory advice to more than 500 clients in the past 12 months.
We act for emerging leaders across the AI tech stack – models, apps and infrastructure – as well as enterprises across all sectors that are transforming their businesses through AI. The volume of transactions we are supporting and our defense of the most closely watched cases enables us to offer unique insight into emerging market trends and forward-looking risk mitigation. Here’s how we are helping our clients develop and execute their AI strategies:
We advise the largest and most sophisticated AI users on adopting durable policies, compliance programs and governance. Our advice includes:
We play a leading role in the most significant AI transactions – having advised on $6.4B+ in M&A transactions and $19.7B+ in venture financings for AI companies and investors in the past 12 months. Our notable achievements include:
Through this work, we have developed a specialized M&A due diligence playbook for AI-related technologies and insights into the unique AI considerations in scaling venture-backed companies. We are also partnering with leading AI incubators and accelerators.
We assist our clients in managing AI-related risks by defending them in litigation and advising them regarding dataset acquisition and model development. We are defending cutting-edge issues for the world’s leading innovators. Ongoing matters include:
Using an ML-based system to create text, code, art, video, or music raises a host of intellectual property and other legal issues. Our team advises regarding the terms of use for AI tools and identifies potential legal issues arising out of their use. Once you choose a tool, we help you define and manage the risks during implementation and help perfect your ownership rights in content created using AI tools and mitigate other legal risks.
We are the most active law firm globally in helping the tech community power data centers sustainably, having completed innovative PPAs in 14 countries with a total generating capacity of 3.8+ GW in 2023. We also have experience helping clients negotiate agreements for computing power with the leading data center hyperscalers.
We are partnering with many leading corporate legal departments as we all get up to speed on the AI learning curve together, including through a training curriculum and sharing knowledge of emerging AI legaltech solutions.
A guide to the online safety, privacy and harmful content state laws and global regulatory developments that may impact your business.