Helping clients deploy AI with confidence and defend its use

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how our clients do business: how they identify talent, generate content, price and underwrite risk, process claims, and inform judgment calls. It is also reshaping deals: how companies acquire AI-driven businesses, how lenders and investors assess AI-related risk, and how the infrastructure powering AI gets financed, sited, and built. But every new deployment, and every new transaction, brings exposure that cuts across practice areas: employment discrimination, intellectual property and training-data claims, data privacy, contractual risk allocation, governance and compliance, and follow-on litigation. 

Tucker Ellis approaches AI as an important category of risk and opportunity within industries and practice areas we already know deeply. We advise clients across the full AI lifecycle by helping them structure and close transactions involving AI assets and infrastructure, building governance and policy frameworks before deployment, counseling them through a fast-moving and fragmented regulatory landscape, and defending them in the disputes and enforcement actions that AI is already generating. 

How We Help Clients

AI in the Workplace. We counsel employers on the rapidly developing body of law governing AI in hiring, promotion, monitoring, and other employment decisions, including new statutory and regulatory regimes, EEOC scrutiny of algorithmic bias, and best practices for deploying automated employment tools.

AI Governance, Compliance & Policy. We help organizations build the frameworks and implement the guardrails that regulators and plaintiffs will scrutinize, including AI policies, oversight and documentation requirements, risk allocation in vendor contracts, and compliance counseling.

Intellectual Property & Data Privacy. Questions of ownership, training-data liability, and data security arise in virtually every AI deployment. We advise on AI-generated output ownership, copyright exposure from training data, trade secret protection, and the data-privacy and security obligations that accompany AI use.

AI in Transactions: Mergers and Acquisitions, Finance & Commercial Real Estate. AI is transforming all aspects of deal work, from target acquisition and valuation to diligence and underwriting. We advise a wide range of clients, including manufacturers, lenders, developers, and investors, on emerging AI opportunities and risks, helping them improve data efficiency and deal flow. We also help integrate sophisticated AI tools that are appropriately scoped, deployed, and controlled.

AI in Health Care & Life Sciences. Our health care and life sciences lawyers counsel health systems, providers, and device manufacturers on the exposure created by AI in medical devices, clinical decision support, diagnostics, prior authorization, and revenue-cycle operations.

Autonomous & Emerging Systems. Technologies that learn and act without direct human control raise liability questions that existing legal frameworks are only beginning to address. Drawing on more than a decade of work with autonomous and connected vehicles, drones, and other adaptive systems, we help clients anticipate and address those questions proactively. 

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