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Are You Utilizing AI Yet? It May Change Your Relationship With Outside Counsel

"There's a lot of potential for AI to totally disrupt our business, so we better be at the forefront of using it," says Grab general counsel Chris Betts.
8 minute read

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Meta's Shifting Fines in Ireland Reflect Growing Pains for EU Data Privacy Regulation

"Data regulation in Europe is not so complicated, but it's not so easy, either," said Marc Mossé, senior counsel at the French firm August Debouzy and a former attorney at Microsoft.
6 minute read

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Criminalizing Ecocide: Violators of Environmental Laws in the EU Could Face Steep Fines and Prison Time

The executive body that sets rules for EU member countries is seeking to stiffen laws to deter environmental offenses. A separate movement calls for the addition of ecocide to the core crimes of international law heard at the International Criminal Court in the Hague—crimes that include genocide, war crimes, the crime of aggression and crimes against humanity.
6 minute read

International Edition

Escalation of China-Taiwan Tensions Could Create Mayhem for Chip-Reliant U.S. Tech Firms

"Ultimately, the full social and economic impacts of a chip shortage of that scale are incalculable, but they would likely be catastrophic," according to a Rhodium Group report.
5 minute read

International Edition

Taking Different Paths: How US, EU Approach Generative AI Privacy, Security Concerns

From regulations to investigations and enforcement actions, generative AI-powered tools have received growing attention in recent months. During "The Age of AI: A Proskauer Webinar Series-Privacy and Data Security" webinar, panelists discussed some of the different approaches taken by the EU, U.S. and U.K. to regulate this technology.
6 minute read

International Edition

Blank Rome Adds 7-Lawyer International Trade Group From McDermott in DC

The firm is building out its international trade capabilities, as the current geopolitical and economic environment continues to put tension on global government and corporate operations.
3 minute read

International Edition

China Tensions 'Center of Gravity' for Strategic Risk Planning Among Attorneys and C-Suite

A "vanilla statement" of the world being politically unstable is no longer sufficient, one attorney said, highlighting the urgency to revisit corporate risk disclosures for companies with exposure to China.
5 minute read

International Edition

Europe Targets Greenwashing, the Latest 'Hot Issue' in Environmental Law

As the European Union furthers its mission to lead in combatting climate change, the European Commission last month introduced a proposal for a Green Claims Directive on "the substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims."
4 minute read

International Edition

Increase in Enforcement of US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Makes Companies With Ties to Latin America More Vulnerable

Nearly 60% of the U.S. Department of Justice's FCPA enforcement actions and more than two-thirds of FCPA-related prosecutions of individuals during 2022 had connections to Latin America.
4 minute read

International Edition

Amid Growing U.S.-China Tensions, Not All Tech Companies Can Stomach the Rising Risk

"For larger multinationals, China is a huge market for them, so they want to engage there, and they just try to manage their risk to the extent they can," said Cortney Morgan, a partner at Husch Blackwell.
5 minute read

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