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Your AI Outsourcing Contract Is Obsolete. What CEOs and Heads of Legal Need to Fix Before August 2026
AI has broken the outsourcing contract playbook. IP, liability, exit rights, audit clauses and pricing models all need rethinking before the EU AI Act enforcement deadline on 2 August 2026.
WHAT WILL LAWYERS DO IN 2036? AI, Agentic Systems, and the Future of Legal Practice
By 2036, AI will handle the production. Lawyers will handle the judgment. Here is what changes, and what to do about it now.
What Is the Future of the Legal Profession? Flexible Talent, AI in the Courts, and Why the Profession Needs to Redesign Itself
Dana Denis-Smith on AI hallucinations in UK courts, why law firms still get women wrong, and how to redesign a profession that has stopped working. Host - Rory O’Keeffe.
What CEOs Really Think About Legal Risk - And How to Communicate It
Most lawyers think CEOs want to know everything that could go wrong. They do not. What CEOs and CFOs actually need from legal counsel is two things: the probability that a risk will actually materialise, and whether the legal position will hamstring future business decisions. In this episode of Beyond The Fine Print, Rory O'Keeffe speaks with Nick Jain, a former CEO and growth operator, about how executives triage legal risk in practice, what makes legal advice land as strategy rather than noise, and how in-house and fractional general counsel can earn and keep a seat at the leadership table.