AI Law

Operating inside legal uncertainty — not waiting for clarity.

What this discipline is · 01

The discipline.

Practice areas under AI Law include model selection and procurement counseling, AI authorship and IP strategy, AI agency and contracting, AI company governance and Caremark-style oversight, training-data licensing, deepfake and digital-replica work, and policy/regulatory engagement. Reference material: docs/design-system/AI-Law-in-the-US-source-material-for-discipline-framing-April-2026.md.

AI Law is the discipline of counseling the people building, deploying, and depending on systems that the law has not yet figured out how to think about. A founder building an autonomous agent that signs contracts. A studio licensing a voice model trained on a deceased artist. An investor whose portfolio company's product is a fine-tuned model whose weights may or may not be its property. A creator who used a frontier model to draft a screenplay and now learns the screenplay may not be copyrightable. The law is moving — Thaler, Bartz, the Copyright Office reports, California's SB 53, the EU AI Act, the patchwork of state laws — and most of it is moving while clients are already operating.

We do not pretend to have settled answers. We work alongside clients to make defensible decisions inside unsettled questions: which model to choose and on what terms, how to document human authorship to preserve copyright, how to allocate liability when an AI agent acts, how to structure a company whose value lives in weights and prompts. We publish in this space and we expect to influence how the law develops.

Practice areas · 02

Practice areas commonly used here.

A practice is a discrete unit of work — a filing, a closing, a transaction. The discipline is the broader lens. Each practice area below is informed by this discipline; many also draw on others through the matrix below.

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Practice areas under this discipline are being written.

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Cross-discipline · 04

Where this connects.

How this discipline draws on the others. Engagements rarely sit in one row of the matrix; counsel composed across rows is the point.

Operating inside legal uncertainty — not waiting for clarity.

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