Artificial Intelligence

Businesses across the globe and in all industry sectors, are being rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data-driven technologies. While recognizing the transformative power of these technologies, there are potentially significant reputational, regulatory, security, and legal risks to be managed.

What Sets Us Apart

BCLP provides sophisticated and innovative advice that your business needs in order to embrace AI technological transformation. We will help you address these emerging and constantly evolving challenges offering a pragmatic and comprehensive approach.

Drawing from a multi-disciplinary global team we advise clients on the ‘best in class’ commercial AI solutions to give our clients a competitive edge. We assess the legal risks and regulatory implications of these complex, cutting-edge technologies so that your business stays ahead of the technological curve.

We track the fast-moving global regulatory landscape with our horizon scanning tools to keep internal teams and clients ahead of the AI regulatory curve. Companies that develop AI tools or procure AI tools to integrate into their products, services and processes need to anticipate, understand and comply with the various legal frameworks and standards around the world and the intricacies that come with them.

BCLP’s AI experts can help your organization address the full scope of complex IP, licensing, privacy, security, and other legal issues as they emerge in this rapidly changing landscape.

As the regulatory framework for AI tools evolves at pace globally, we are in constant dialogue with our clients to understand how we can best assist them. BCLP is investing in AI that augments, rather than replaces our lawyers. We are finding strategic ways to employ AI to maximize benefit for our clients.

How Companies Can Get Ahead

Companies that develop AI tools or procure AI tools to integrate into their products, services and processes need to anticipate, understand and comply with the various legal frameworks and standards around the world and the intricacies that come with them.

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act is representative of the new AI legislation that businesses need to plan for. It requires that providers and deployers of AI systems have a sufficient level of AI literacy among staff dealing with the operation and use of AI systems. We will help you navigate those specific challenges, and guide you on the implementation that came into force February 2025.

Latest insights & events

EMEA- Data Privacy, Digital and AI Round Up 2024/2025

With the blizzard of global data protection developments continuing unabated in 2024 with no doubt more to come in 2025, it is a good moment to look back at what 2024 held for businesses as well as to consider what 2025 may hold in the EMEA region.

AI Literacy Brochure Jan 2025

How can BCLP support you in meeting AI literacy obligations?

Explore our US state-by-state updates on AI legislation

Select the map to go through to our AI insight with the state-by-state updates

We have a proven track record of helping our clients navigate the ever-evolving challenges of sourcing, developing, and commercializing artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. For more than a decade, our cross-sector, multi-disciplinary teams have delivered deep experience, advising clients on cutting-edge AI/ML issues in a wide variety of transactions. From digital transformation projects to the sourcing and adoption of AI/ML platforms, we have assisted our clients with complex AI/ML issues in vendor and sourcing transactions, adoption and implementation projects, M&A and private equity transactions, financings and public offerings, joint ventures and technology developments, and large-scale I/ML commercialization initiatives.

For our team, every client is increasingly an “AI client”, as adoption and dependency on AI/ML technologies continues to grow. However, we understand that this is not a one-size-fits-all environment and successfully leveraging AI/ML starts with understanding your business. Our mission is to partner with you to harness the rapidly evolving advantages of AI/ML by delivering collaborate, practical, cost-effective approaches, tailored to achieving your business objectives.

Our tech transactions team is underpinned by a multi-disciplinary team of technology, data privacy/security, and intellectual property lawyers. We bring extensive AI/ML sector knowledge enabling us to understand the rapidly-changing regulatory and business environment in which AI/ML operates. Leveraging this team approach enables us to support you in navigating the significant change and disruption that can come with the adoption of AI/ML technologies.

Operating as one global firm, we collaborate seamlessly as cross-border teams to support your business objectives. Our team is renowned for our ability to collaborate effectively with client teams across the world and work proactively to negotiate and close deals. Our hands-on approach provides us valuable insights into the critical elements driving the success of your AI/ML project and enables us to deliver agile, tailored solutions that achieve our clients' long-term business objectives, even against the backdrop of dynamic, rapidly-evolving market demands - where timelines, priorities and objectives change quickly.

Recognising the key importance of energy procurement to support data centres in the digital economy as jurisdictions look to incentivize AI investment and the digital infrastructure underpinning successful implementation of AI solutions, BCLP’s Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Team has the vision and experience to anticipate evolving trends and provide the strategic insights and sophisticated advice for investors, developers, operators, and users participating in the data center and digital infrastructure realm.

AI and the Construction Industry

Emerging Themes in Financial Regulation

Digital Speaks Series

'Digital Speaks Series', BCLP’s Knowledge Platform

Explore key topics affecting the digital world, including AI, Cloud, data privacy and security, digital assets/blockchain, the digital disruption in sports and entertainment, ESG, regulation of 5G/6G and many more.

Upcoming Events

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Past Events

Human Resources in the Age of AI: Tools, Risks, and Legal Strategies for Success
Amy de La Lama, Goli Mahdavi, Patrick DePoy, Julia Pair, February 26, 2025
The Crucial Role of Obtaining Valid Consent in the Era of AI Model Development
Goli Mahdavi, December 5, 2024
The Crucial Role of Obtaining Valid Consent in AI (Privacy + Security Forum: Fall Academy)
Goli Mahdavi, October 24, 2024
New EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Impact on U.S. Organizations, Strategies to Ensure Compliance (Strafford Webinar)
Goli Mahdavi and Geraldine Scali, September 10, 2024
Law in an Era of Global Challenges: Climate Risk and AI Regulation (California Lawyers Association)
Goli Mahdavi, September 5, 2024
The Crucial Role of Obtaining Valid Consent in the Era of AI Model Development (IAPP Web Conference)
Goli Mahdavi, July 24, 2024
ChatGPT and Creating AI Corporate Policies: Mitigating Risks and Balancing Legal, Policy, and Ethical Considerations
Goli Mahdavi presented, December 20, 2023
AI & Ethics: New Developments, Regulatory Considerations & Ethical Obligations
Goli Mahdavi presented, November 16, 2023
APEC 2023: “The Future Starts in California”
Rachel Matteo Boehm presented on November 14, 2023, on legal issues related to art and AI including various infringement, licensing and ownership issues as they pertain to emerging media and First Amendment rights
ChatGPT and creating AI corporate policies: mitigating risks and balancing legal, policy, and ethical considerations
Goli Mahdavi presented, September 14th 2023
Strafford webinar
BCLP's Privacy Speaks event
Geraldine Scali, Kate Brimsted, Amy de La Lama and Goli Mahdavi presented on AI, September 21st 2023
Artificial Intelligence: A Blueprint for Legal-tech Conversations
Association of Corporate Counsel AI Event
Goli Mahdavi and Anne Friedman on July 12, 2023
Watch the webinar on ChatGPT and the future of AI in legislation
Amy de La Lama and Erik Kahn at a roundtable of US in-house counsel on June 27, 2023 where they considered the future of ChatGPT and AI
ChatGPT and Generative AI: Should Your Company Have a Policy?
BCLP In-House Counsel Seminar at Omni Montelucia Resort
Cory Smith presented on June 15, 2023.
The challenges for in-house counsel in adopting artificial intelligence
ACC Israel in June 2023
Contact Marcus Pearl for a copy of the slides
IP Issues in ChatGPT and Generative AI
State Bar of Arizona CLE Seminar at State Bar Phoenix Offices
Cory Smith presented on May 15, 2023
IP Issues in ChatGPT and Generative AI
BCLP Technology & IP Disputes Practice Group CLE Webinar
Cory Smith presented on April 20, 2023
IP Issues in ChatGPT and AI: Should Your Company Have a Policy?
Association of Corporate Counsel Arizona Chapter CLE Seminar at Phoenix Country Club
Cory Smith presented on March 21, 2023

BCLP has been recognized for its innovation in the AI legal tech sector, launching a GenAI lease reporting tool with proptech innovator Orbital Witness (FLARE, our Fast Lease Assisted Reporting tool) to support more efficient document review and data extraction. BCLP’s solution embodies our shared vision of AI purpose-built for real estate, with wide-ranging functionality to improve real estate document review, including automatically generating first drafts of lease reports, quickly visualising complicated lease hierarchies and the ability to “ask anything” of any real estate document.

Our innovative partnering strategy approach to develop FLARE allows us to use the Orbital Copilot AI engine to produces a bespoke BCLP report, honed to build upon the years of knowledge management development around lease reporting at BCLP