In-House Counsel The EU AI Act's Big Deadline Just Moved to 2027 — What US Founders and In-House Counsel Should Actually Do Now The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline slipped from August 2026 to December 2027 under the Digital Omnibus. But several obligations did NOT move, and US companies are squarely in scope. Here's what changed, what didn't, and what to do with the runway.
Founders Texas's AI Law Is Now in Force: What TRAIGA Actually Requires of Founders and In-House Counsel Texas's Responsible AI Governance Act (HB 149) has been in force since January 1, 2026 — and it is far narrower than the bill it grew from. Here is who TRAIGA reaches, what its intent-based prohibitions mean, how the Texas AG enforces it, and the NIST safe harbor to build toward.
Law Firms Can You Prove That Image Is Real? AI Verification Tools Lawyers Need to Understand OpenAI just shipped a tool that checks whether an image was AI-generated. It is one of many — and for lawyers, the gap between what these provenance checkers actually prove and what a courtroom requires is where the real risk lives.
Founders Earnouts, Bad Faith, and a Chatbot: What Fortis Advisors v. Krafton Means for Founders Who Sell A Delaware court ordered Krafton to reinstate the ousted Subnautica 2 CEO after its own chief executive used ChatGPT to engineer a 'takeover' and dodge a $250M earnout. Here is what founders who sell their companies should take from the ruling.
AI Law AI-Washing Litigation in 2026: What Public-Company GCs Need to Know On Jan 14, 2025, the SEC charged Presto Automation with the first public-company AI-washing action. Four enforcement surfaces — SEC, plaintiffs' bar, FTC, and EU AI Act — now scrutinize every public AI claim. The GC's pre-clearance workstream is the answer.
AI Law Drafting AI Disclosures for the 10-K: Materiality Without Hype Two-front pressure: 92 SEC comments / 56 companies push toward disclosure; AI-washing enforcement (Presto) punishes overstatement. Six-element Item 1A architecture, four-step pre-clearance workflow, integrated documentary spine.
AI Law The Marchand Test for AI Governance: What Boards Owe Their Shareholders Marchand creates heightened-scrutiny zone for mission-critical risk. Glass Lewis 2026 + CalPERS treat AI oversight gaps as director recall signals after material incidents. Six-artifact board record satisfies Marchand, TRAIGA, and Glass Lewis.
AI Law After McDonald's: Why Chief AI Officers Are Now Personally Liable for Oversight Failures In re McDonald's (Del. Ch. 2023) extended the Caremark oversight duty to corporate officers within their domain. With 60% of enterprises naming a CAIO, the named officer faces a personal-stakes posture that DGCL § 102(b)(7) does not cover.
Startup Central Cap Tables & Governance for AI-Enabled Digital Health Startups: Reduce Telehealth Fraud & Compliance Risk This practical checklist is built for AI-enabled digital health founders, finance/ops leaders, in-house counsel, and seed/Series A investors operating…
Startup Central Cap Table & Legal Strategies for Startups Pursuing Federal Funding & Government Contracts A practical guide for founders and in-house counsel to stay diligence-ready, bid-ready, and resilient when rules (and administrations) change
Intellectual Property & Branding Web-Scraping Limits, State AI Transparency & Hiring Laws, and Federal AI Policy: How They Change Fair-Use Risk for Training Generative Models This is a practical guide/checklist for AI founders, product leaders, in-house counsel, and ML teams building or fine-tuning generative models.
Policy, Compliance & Cybersecurity LLM Feature Governance for Law Firms: Embeddings, RAG, Memory & Vendor Controls Who this is for: managing partners, firm IT/security, in-house GC/privacy leaders, and legal-tech product teams building RAG, embeddings, and "memory"…
Regulatory Compliance & Legal Risk Management Featured Supreme Court Agency Shifts: Enforcement Risk & Dispute Strategy for Austin Startups Practical guide / checklist: This is a founder- and GC-friendly playbook for navigating a regulatory inquiry when the legal ground is shifting under…
Legal Tech & Automation Building with LLMs in Legal Tech: Current Uses, Hard Limits, and What’s Coming Next You're the GC (or a practice group partner) and three vendors in one week pitch "AI-powered" contract review, "AI research," and "AI matter management"…
Startup Central Cap Table Discipline: A Practical Guide for Startup Founders and In-House Counsel A capitalization table (or "cap table") is the record of who owns what in your company — across shares, equity awards, and convertibles — and how that…
