Overview
As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates globally, you increasingly face novel legal risks and ethical concerns that can disrupt business practices and lead to financial exposure. With one of the legal industry’s most sophisticated AI law practices, McDermott Will & Schulte can help you set the pace for both AI innovation and compliance.
We partner with public and private companies across sectors – from startups to Fortune 100 leaders – to advance their AI innovation while mitigating risk. You can turn to our multidisciplinary team of more than 50 lawyers across the United States, Europe, and globally to navigate the full AI life cycle, including AI regulation, deals and transactions, governance and risk mitigation, and enterprise training.
Empowering responsible AI innovation
McDermott Will & Schulte is trusted by the world’s most innovative companies, including Big Tech leaders, that are shaping the future of AI. Our lawyers provide strategic guidance to help your organization manage risk and drive growth across the life cycle of traditional and generative AI technologies, from development and procurement to deployment and oversight. We offer holistic support on the legal, ethical, and business considerations that surround the development, training, and use of AI technologies. With deep experience in this area, we can help you unlock the transformative power of AI while protecting your business interests.
Here’s how we can guide you:
- Transactions. Structuring, licensing, and implementing transactions involving all types of AI technologies
- Contract terms. Developing form contract terms for AI technology procurement, licensing, and implementation
- Governance. Developing AI governance policies and procedures tailored to your needs to ensure AI risk mitigation processes are developed and adopted across the entire enterprise
- Regulatory. Counseling on legal, regulatory, policy, and compliance considerations around the development, procurement, deployment, and use of AI-enabled tools, including industry-specific compliance planning, cybersecurity, privacy, and consumer protection
- Policies. Producing AI and generative AI corporate use standards and policies to guide responsible and compliant AI adoption
- Diligence. Conducting detailed due diligence for (a) companies looking to license or procure AI tools and (b) M&A and private equity transactions involving targets that develop or use AI, including relevant reps, warranties, and risk assessments
- Risk mitigation. Creating AI risk memos covering legal, ethical, operational, and organizational risks, including algorithmic bias, misinformation, transparency, human oversight, automation bias, and workforce impacts
- Training. Delivering training and guidance on the development, procurement, deployment, and use of AI within the enterprise
- Disputes and litigation. Advising on disputes involving AI and data licensing, including intellectual property litigation
- Investigations. Assisting with responses to government investigations and other inquiries into the development or use of AI
- Employment decisions. Advising on the compliant use of AI in workforce decisions (i.e., hiring, payroll, timekeeping, performance management, reductions in force), including through policy assessments, bias audits, process governance, and risk mitigation
- Ongoing monitoring. Tracking evolving US, EU, and UK regulatory and legislative developments, shaping AI policy through government and industry responses, translating AI-focused “soft law” into actionable guidance, and developing compliance strategies for highly regulated jurisdictions