Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is changing the business and legal landscape at an incredibly fast pace. As technology continues to outpace law, it presents new challenges and new opportunities for a broad range of organizations. Steptoe's Artificial Intelligence (AI) group brings together a deep bench of lawyers from multiple practice areas that possess a diverse set of technical and legal skills.

Our AI group engages with organizations across sectors in counseling, regulatory response, government relations, litigation, and transactional matters. Our team advises and represents clients that develop AI technologies, as well as companies looking to understand and respond to a fast-evolving legal framework as they utilize these tools.

Steptoe lawyers act at the forefront of legal exposure for our clients in advising them on relevant legal frameworks around the globe, assisting them with commercial negotiations, or representing them in the context of legislative and executive law-making, regulatory drafting, implementation, enforcement, and inquiries, as well as in the context of litigation.

We advise and represent companies on the following issues:

• Intellectual property
• Data protection and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Commercial licensing
• Corporate acquisitions, partnerships, and structuring
• Corporate governance and ethics guidance
• Internet law, third party liability, and content moderation
• Consumer protection
• International trade, compliance, and investment
• Regulatory
• Government affairs and public policy
• Commercial litigation and class action defense
• Antitrust/Competition
• Government contracts
• Insurance and reinsurance
• Tax