A putative class action filed in December 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois offers a reminder that AI meeting assistant and transcription tools potentially carry significant legal exposure when organizations deploy them without appropriate governance guardrails in place. It also serves as a reminder to apply strong governance principles
Friday’s Five: How to Lean Into AI and Build a Competitive Moat
Five AI Strategies California Employers Should Be Executing Right Now
AI is not coming to your workplace. It is already there. Your employees are using it — on personal accounts, on free tools, and in ways your current policies almost certainly do not address. The California employers who are winning the next decade are not
The AI Workforce Shift Is Here: What In-House Counsel and HR Leaders Need to Know About Lawful Reductions in Force
Artificial intelligence is no longer a theoretical disruption—it is actively reshaping how work gets done. Across industries, AI and automation are eliminating entire categories of jobs, from data entry and customer service to back-office processing and content generation. As these tools mature, employers are redesigning workflows, consolidating functions, and eliminating positions altogether.
But employment laws
Companies Are Quietly Rolling Out AI Without Legal Review. Here’s the Risk No One Is Talking About
AI adoption is not happening at the top. It is happening in the shadows.
Most executives think AI adoption is a strategic decision.
It is not.
Nichole Sterling Discusses AI at American Institute of Architects Committee Meeting
Partner Nichole Sterling presented “AI Through the Lens of the General Counsel,” April 9, 2026, at the American Institute of Architects Large Firm Roundtable legal committee meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. The presentation discussed how general counsel and legal teams should approach artificial intelligence (AI) across all business areas, including legal, ethical and operational considerations.
6th Circuit will answer when the workday begins for remote employees
When does the workday begin for a remote employee?
Not when they walk through the office door. There is no office door.
So is it when they log in? When they boot up their computer? When they launch the software that actually lets them take calls?
For remote non-exempt employees, those questions aren’t academic. They’re
PLEASE, do not litigate your cases on social media
“I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it.”
Those were the
What President Trump’s AI Executive Order 14365 Means For Employers
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14365, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” (the “EO”). The order identifies “excessive state regulation” as an obstacle to the Administration’s policy of “sustain[ing] and enhanc[ing] the United States’ global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI” (the “AI
AI and Contracts: What to Fix Before It Costs You
Most contracts were not built for AI. That is the problem.
Right now, companies are layering AI into their business:
•drafting contracts with ChatGPT
When the “Expert” Is an Algorithm
When AI Provides Courtroom Expertise
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in every field, but, too often, when it comes to the legal system, it is lawyers’ and judges’ struggles with AI that make news, time after time. But while everyone is talking about “hallucinated” case citations, some are focusing on