Digital Workforce Management and Co-Intelligence
As artificial intelligence (AI) and superintelligence (SI) transform how businesses operate, organizations face a critical challenge: how to capture AI's value while managing its legal, regulatory, operational, and reputational risks?
Our multidisciplinary, Chambers-ranked AI team of over 20 lawyers, across our 10 global offices, advises AI developers and adopters across industries and leading technology enterprises. We guide clients through building, adopting and governing these emerging technologies to engineer co-intelligent workplace solutions that drive accountability and manage risk. We routinely advise boards and company leadership on fiduciary oversight, designing defensible AI/SI compliance frameworks and conducting gap assessments. And we routinely handle cybersecurity, data privacy, and enforcement matters across the globe.
We stand out because we combine the insight from senior government experience, the pragmatism of in-house experience, and technological acumen. We provide integrated, forward-looking counsel throughout the AI lifecycle: from building, commercialization, contracting, and governance to compliance, investigations, litigation, and cybersecurity risk management. Our clients need to move fast and we can help them see around corners to navigate rapidly evolving AI requirements in the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia, and beyond.
Our Services
Governance & Oversight
We help organizations establish the structures, accountability, and organizational capabilities needed to govern AI effectively.
- AI governance programs and frameworks
- Agentic risk scoring and risk tolerance
- AI leadership councils and governance committees
- AI policies, standards, and procedures
- AI literacy and workforce training
Risk & Compliance
We help clients identify, evaluate, and manage AI risk while responding to a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.
- AI risk and impact assessments
- Regulatory compliance, including the EU AI Act and US state AI laws
- AI auditing and assurance, including NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 alignment
- Third-party AI risk management and AI vendor contracting
Agentic AI & the Digital Workforce
We help organizations translate governance principles into operational controls as they deploy AI agents and other digital workers alongside their people.
- Governance of agentic AI and digital workers
- Human oversight and accountability for AI agents
- Bias testing and monitoring
- Acceptable use and Consequence Management
Crisis Management and Dispute Resolution Across AI Deployment
- Rapid response to AI system failure
- Advice on deploying and managing privilege and work product principles across AI systems
- AI incident response
- AI investigations, including internal and government inquiries
- Litigation around AI programming and accountability
- Intelligent use of AI tools to resolve disputes
Data, Privacy & Security
AI governance increasingly depends on strong controls around the data and systems that power AI. We advise clients on:
- AI data governance
- Privacy compliance for AI systems
- AI cybersecurity
- Cross-border data governance and transfers
Whether developing a novel AI governance framework or advancing an existing program, Steptoe helps clients turn emerging risks and regulatory expectations into practical governance that enables AI innovation with confidence.
Our team is recognized by Chambers USA for its work in AI advisory and governance services.
