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Sep

1:00pm – 6:00pm

Debevoise and Plimpton

Cybersecurity & Law Conference

Oct

10:00am – 5:00pm

Herbert Smith Freehills

AI Law: what every business (and their lawyers) needs to know

Nov

1:30pm – 5:30pm

Mayer Brown International LLP

Tech Transactions Masterclass 2025

Vanquishing the IT Contract Delivery Demons

Analysis • August 4, 2025

Clive Davies condenses years of experience in IT contract delivery and suggests how the processes can be better handled by the lawyers. I commenced my career in an in-house legal function, but one that also had an associated private practice. I stayed in industry with the energy and IT sectors before moving into private practice…

AI Data Leaks & Shadow AI: The Legal Minefield Facing UK Organisations in 2025

Analysis • June 18, 2025

Camilo Artiga-Purcell, General Counsel at Kiteworks, identifies some of the ever-increasing risks and potential consequences of rushing to use AI in legal practice Picture a partner at a leading UK law firm, racing to finalise a high-stakes merger. With a deadline looming, they turn to a free online AI tool, uploading sensitive deal documents for…

The (Speculative) Rise of AI Agents in Legal

Analysis • June 3, 2025

Amanda Chaboryk, Chris Cartmell, and Stephanie Baker, of PwC, raise some early considerations about the seemingly inevitable spread of agentic AI into legal departments IntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly prominent role within legal, starting as early as the 90’s, when legal databases started incorporating natural language processing to optimise search and retrieval. Leaping…

LLMs are Left-Leaning Liberals: The Hidden Political Bias of Large Language Models

Analysis • May 19, 2025

A team from Cripps reveal the perhaps surprising results of their research in to the political leanings of LLMs. In this article, Cripps’ specialist AI and Data team unpacks the political bias in generative artificial intelligence large language models (“LLMs”). We present the available research, explain our own test results and conclude that LLMs have…

Telecoms, resilience and corporate governance risk and compliance

Analysis • May 6, 2025

James Humphrey-Evans and Nedko Nedev set out the corporate risk factors associated with communications networks, including those exposed by the recent Iberian outage. Along pavements and roads in major cities, you will cross over the groundworks and chambers used by telcos for the networks we all use, just as the utility networks bring power and…

Another Chinese court finds that AI-generated images can be protected by copyright: the Changshu People’s Court and the ‘half heart’ case

Analysis, Cases • April 15, 2025

Chinese courts take a different approach to the issue of AI generating copyright protected images, the DLA Piper team reports. On 7 March 2025, the Changshu People’s Court (in China’s Jiangsu province) announced that it had recently concluded a case on the topical issue of whether AI-generated works can be protected by copyright. In the…