Innovation versus compliance: managing AI risk in legal practice

AI is spreading through firms faster than governance can catch up, and the sharpest version of that problem is Shadow AI: fee earners using unapproved tools with no oversight. Productive, until confidential or privileged material ends up somewhere it shouldn't.

The panel covers how AI is actually being used across legal organisations, then the data protection implications and the measures that help, including acceptable use policies, staff training and oversight. It closes on where regulation is heading and what firms should be doing now.

There are practical examples from across the sector and time for questions. It maps to SRA Competency A1, and it's aimed squarely at COLPs, risk and compliance managers, governance and legal ops, and partners with governance responsibility.