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Contract Law

Twelve Clauses That Quietly Shift Risk in SaaS Agreements

Uncapped indemnities, silent auto-renewals, unilateral change rights: the provisions that rarely make the negotiation summary but decide who pays when something goes wrong.

James Kwan·14 August 2026·13 min read

Compliance & Regulation

The EU AI Act and Legal Practice: A Compliance Roadmap

Which obligations bite, when, and for whom — plus a staged programme legal teams can run without pausing every AI project in the business.

Elena Vasquez·30 July 2026·14 min read

Data Privacy

GDPR and Generative AI: Choosing a Lawful Basis

Legitimate interest, consent or contract? A structured way to reason about lawful basis for training, fine-tuning and inference, with the balancing test written out.

Elena Vasquez·16 July 2026·12 min read

M&A & Due Diligence

How to Run an AI-Assisted Due Diligence Review in Six Weeks

A week-by-week operating model for mid-market M&A: data room triage, clause extraction, exception handling, and the red flag report the deal team will actually read.

James Kwan·2 July 2026·15 min read

AI & Legal Tech

Benchmarking Legal AI: The Metrics That Matter Beyond Accuracy

Precision and recall are table stakes. Calibration, citation fidelity and reviewer time saved tell you whether a tool is safe to deploy.

Marcus Reyes·24 June 2026·7 min read

AI & Legal Tech

Human-in-the-Loop Review: Designing Workflows Lawyers Actually Trust

Trust is an interface problem as much as a model problem. Five design decisions that determine whether reviewers accept or quietly ignore AI output.

Sophie Devereux·11 June 2026·6 min read

AI & Legal Tech

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Case Law: A Practical Primer

Why grounding matters more than model size when the answer has to carry a citation, and how chunking strategy changes what a research tool can find.

Marcus Reyes·29 May 2026·8 min read

Contract Law

Limitation of Liability: Drafting Caps That Survive Negotiation

Super-caps, carve-outs and the aggregate-versus-per-claim distinction that decides whether your cap means anything at all.

James Kwan·15 May 2026·7 min read

Contract Law

Auto-Renewal Traps and How to Audit Your Contract Portfolio

Evergreen terms are the most common source of unplanned spend in a contract estate. Here is a repeatable audit that takes days, not quarters.

James Kwan·2 May 2026·6 min read

Contract Law

Force Majeure After 2020: What Changed in Commercial Drafting

Enumerated lists, notice mechanics and mitigation duties have all tightened. A review of how the clause is being written now.

Thomas Nakamura·18 April 2026·7 min read

Compliance & Regulation

SOX Section 404 for Legal Teams: Where Contracts Meet Controls

Contract approval, delegation of authority and side letters are control points. Treating them as such makes the audit far less painful.

Elena Vasquez·4 April 2026·6 min read

Compliance & Regulation

Building a Regulatory Change Management Programme

Horizon scanning is only step one. The value is in the routing, impact assessment and evidence trail that follow it.

Elena Vasquez·21 March 2026·7 min read

Data Privacy

CCPA to CPRA: What In-House Counsel Still Get Wrong

Sensitive personal information, contractor obligations and the difference between a service provider and a third party.

Elena Vasquez·7 March 2026·6 min read

Data Privacy

International Data Transfers: SCCs, Adequacy and Practical Steps

A transfer impact assessment that a regulator would recognise, without a six-month project to produce it.

Elena Vasquez·21 February 2026·8 min read

Data Privacy

Data Minimisation as a Design Principle for Legal Tech

The cheapest way to reduce breach exposure is not to hold the data. What that means when you are building document tooling.

Marcus Reyes·7 February 2026·6 min read

Legal Operations

Measuring Legal Ops: Ten Metrics Worth Reporting to the Board

Cycle time, first-pass yield and self-service rate say more about a legal function than matter counts ever will.

Aurélie Laurent·24 January 2026·7 min read

Legal Operations

The Contract Lifecycle Maturity Model

Five levels from filing cabinet to closed loop, with the specific capability that unlocks each transition.

Aurélie Laurent·10 January 2026·8 min read

Legal Operations

Intake Triage: Cutting Response Time Without Adding Headcount

Most legal queues are slow because of routing, not capacity. A triage design that fixes the actual bottleneck.

Aurélie Laurent·13 December 2025·6 min read

M&A & Due Diligence

Change-of-Control Clauses: The Deal Breaker Hidden in the Data Room

Consent requirements, termination rights and assignment restrictions can reprice a transaction late. Find them first.

James Kwan·29 November 2025·6 min read

M&A & Due Diligence

Red Flag Reports That Deal Teams Actually Read

Materiality thresholds, one-line findings and a clear owner per issue. A structure that survives contact with a deal committee.

Thomas Nakamura·15 November 2025·6 min read

Intellectual Property

Who Owns AI-Generated Work Product? A Cross-Jurisdictional Snapshot

Authorship, originality and the contractual fixes available while the case law settles in the UK, EU and US.

Thomas Nakamura·1 November 2025·8 min read

Intellectual Property

Trade Secrets in the Age of Vector Databases

Embeddings are derived data, but they are still derived from something confidential. What reasonable steps look like now.

Marcus Reyes·18 October 2025·7 min read

Corporate Law

Entity Housekeeping: Why Corporate Records Fail Diligence

Unsigned resolutions, stale registers and missing consents surface at the worst possible moment. A maintenance routine that prevents it.

Thomas Nakamura·4 October 2025·6 min read

Corporate Law

Directors’ Duties and Technology Risk Oversight

Boards are being asked what they knew about AI deployment and when. A practical view of the oversight record that answers it.

Aurélie Laurent·20 September 2025·7 min read