AI Governance
Set rules for company AI use, review proposed deployments, and document approvals and accountability.
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A reading path from the first request to company policy.
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Bring an AI Request Into Review
AI Governance Intake: 7 Questions That Trigger Review - 02
Approve an Agent’s Access and Actions
AI Agent Governance: An Approval Checklist for In-House Counsel - 03
Set Company-Wide Rules
AI Acceptable Use Policy Template: Copy All 8 Sections - 04
Understand AI Regulation
EU AI Act for In-House Counsel: 2026 Compliance ChecklistState AI Laws in 2026: SB 53, SB 942, and Preemption
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AI Agent Access ControlPublished Oct 29, 2026AI Agent Access Control: A Guide for In-House CounselReview AI agent access control with IT. Define permitted data and actions, check approval boundaries, and use a worked example to document the decision.Read article
Law Ninjas American GC Summit New York 2026 GuideUpdated Oct 14, 2026Law Ninjas American GC Summit New York 2026 GuideExplore Law Ninjas GC Summit 2026 in New York, with a day of peer discussions and workshops for general counsel and their in-house teams.Read article
Thinking Beyond MCPPublished Oct 9, 2026Thinking Beyond MCP, What We Learned Building Integrations for Legal AIWhat GC AI learned building more than 20 Agent Connectors: how tool design, scoped outputs, and approval controls shape integrations for legal work.Read article
AI Acceptable Use Policy Template: Copy All 8 SectionsUpdated Oct 8, 2026AI Acceptable Use Policy Template: Copy All 8 SectionsAn AI acceptable use policy template with the legal reasoning behind every clause, ready to adapt. Only 38% of companies have a formal AI policy.Read article
Is ChatGPT Confidential?Updated Oct 8, 2026Is ChatGPT Confidential? What Counts as a Breach in 2026Is ChatGPT confidential under your NDA? Check permitted recipients and business terms before an upload, and see what to do after a disclosure.Read article
AI Agent Governance ChecklistPublished Oct 7, 2026AI Agent Governance: An Approval Checklist for In-House CounselDecide which permissions an AI agent can receive. Use eight checks and a copyable approval record to scope a pilot and document who signs off.Read article- ChatGPT in Slack and Teams: Who Can See the Answer?Published Oct 7, 2026ChatGPT in Slack and Teams: Who Can See the Answer?Review shared ChatGPT access in Slack and Teams: connected accounts, reply audiences, file permissions, and tests for in-house legal.Read article
State AI Laws in 2026Published Oct 7, 2026State AI Laws in 2026: SB 53, SB 942, and PreemptionWhich state AI laws bind now? SB 53 and SB 942 are live, the DOJ is in court, and Congress is stalled. Here is the verified map for in-house counsel.Read article
Is Microsoft Copilot Private? Copilot vs. ChatGPTPublished Oct 5, 2026Is Microsoft Copilot Private? Copilot vs. ChatGPTCompare Copilot and ChatGPT by account, then test the controls and legal workflow your team needs before sharing a contract.Read article- Is Gemini Private? What In-House Counsel Need to KnowPublished Oct 5, 2026Is Gemini Private? What In-House Counsel Need to KnowGemini's consumer terms let human reviewers read sampled chats and keep them up to 3 years. Here is the plan-by-plan privacy answer for in-house counsel.Read article
- Is ChatGPT Private?Published Oct 2, 2026Is ChatGPT Private? A Lawyer's Guide to Data ControlsIs ChatGPT private enough for legal work? Check training, retention, connected apps, and sharing before approving a workflow for your team.Read article
OpenAI Dots: An Approval Checklist for In-House CounselPublished Oct 2, 2026OpenAI Dots: An Approval Checklist for In-House CounselDecide what OpenAI Dots can read, retain, and do for your company. Use a pilot approval record with named owners and action limits.Read article
Clay Launched an AI Writing Policy. Here's the Legal Angle.Updated Sep 28, 2026Clay Launched an AI Writing Policy. Here's the Legal Angle.Clay's AI writing policy makes employees responsible for what they share. See how that standard connects to legal review of AI-drafted work.Read article
MCP for Legal TeamsUpdated Sep 4, 2026MCP for Legal Teams: Best MCP Servers for In-House CounselSee the best MCP servers for legal teams in 2026, ranked for in-house fit, plus the security and privilege questions to ask before you connect one.Read article
AI Governance Intake: 7 Questions That Trigger ReviewPublished Aug 21, 2026AI Governance Intake: 7 Questions That Trigger ReviewThe 7 questions an AI governance intake form should ask, the privacy assessment each answer triggers, and how to tier what comes back.Read article
EU AI Act for In-House CounselPublished Aug 20, 2026EU AI Act for In-House Counsel: 2026 Compliance ChecklistThe EU AI Act's high-risk deadlines moved to 2027, but transparency rules already took effect August 2, 2026. Here's the in-house counsel compliance checklist.Read article- Agent ConnectorsPublished Jul 31, 2026New: Agent Connectors for Every Legal Workflow, Controlled by YouAgent Connectors links Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Drive, SharePoint, and more to GC AI, so you can ask about an email thread and act on it with your approval.Read article
- AIGP CertificationPublished Jul 27, 2026AIGP Certification: Is It Worth It for Lawyers?The AIGP tests whether you know AI governance rules. It costs $649 to $799 in 2026. Reps are what teach you to actually use AI on legal work.Read article
- 7 AI Legal CasesPublished Jul 3, 20267 AI Legal Cases That Should Shape Your AI PolicySeven verified AI legal cases, from the Mata v. Avianca sanction to the Heppner privilege ruling, and what each one means for in-house counsel.Read article
The End of the Billable HourPublished Jun 10, 2026The End of the Billable Hour: Former GC of Haleon, Pearson, and Coca-Cola on The Future of the FieldFormer Coca-Cola GC on why Big Law's own clients will spell the end of the billable hour, and how AI is shifting legal leaders' responsibility to their organizations.Read article- AI Regulation, Governance, and Legal AccountabilityUpdated Jun 5, 2026AI Regulation, Governance, and Legal Accountability: Insights from Regulators and Legal Leaders at the GC AI SummitAI regulation is reshaping accountability and governance. Insights from government officials and regulators on what defensible AI programs require today.Read article
- If Legal Is a BottleneckPublished May 28, 2026If Legal Is a Bottleneck, Something Upstream Is Broken: Rachel Harris, GC & AI Privacy OfficerSuzy GC Rachel Harris on why legal bottlenecks are always upstream problems, the markdown file that replaced a translation layer, and how to avoid compliance theater.Read article
- Risk Is Never Where You Expect ItPublished May 24, 2026Risk Is Never Where You Expect It: Sarah Binder and Sophie McNaught on Judgment and Staying AheadBeing right is not enough. Sarah Binder and Sophie McNaught on risk, duty of care, and why the best legal leaders are embedded, rather than adjacent.Read article
- AI Virtual Forum PanelPublished Dec 10, 2025AI Virtual Forum Panel: Move fast, move carefully, or it depends?Takeaways from a product-counseling panel on AI regulation: why most GCs are in move-fast mode, DIY regulatory research, two-way doors, and red-teaming.Read article
- The AI & Legal Update #18Published Jun 20, 2025The AI & Legal Update #18 - 🥊 Mickey Mouse on the Prowl and Pending AI Regulation BanIssue #18: Disney and Universal suing Midjourney, the proposed federal ban on state AI rules, EU fines on Apple and Meta, and draft evidence rule 707.Read article
- The AI & Legal Update #16Published Feb 21, 2025The AI & Legal Update #16 - ⭐️ DeepSeek, American AI, Stargate, and the Right Side of HistoryIssue #16: DeepSeek's IP and privacy questions, the $500B Stargate build-out, Vance telling EU regulators to back off, and the Texas AI governance bill.Read article
- The AI & Legal Update #15Published Jan 17, 2025The AI & Legal Update #15 - ⚡️ Illegal AI Activities & Happy BabiesIssue #15: Oregon and California AG guidance applying existing law to AI, Texas AG probes of Character.AI, and a Stanford expert caught citing fake cases.Read article
- The AI & Legal Update #11Published Aug 29, 2024The AI & Legal Update #11 - 👋 SB-1047 Incoming!Issue #11: what changed in California's SB-1047, San Francisco's deepfake porn lawsuit, SAG-AFTRA's voice-replica deal, and Berkeley's new AI and law LLM.Read article
- The AI & Legal Update #9Published Jul 19, 2024The AI & Legal Update #9 - 💡 VPs, SBs, FleeceIssue #9: what the end of Chevron means for AI rules, the VC fight over SB-1047, Patagonia's privacy suit, and the EU AI Act's official publication.Read article
- TechGC AI Conference RecapPublished Oct 10, 2023TechGC October 2023 AI Conference RecapThree takeaways from the TechGC AI Conference: why you cannot just ban AI internally, the parallels to early open source, and why existing law stretches.Read article
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