Welcome to our latest In-House Counsel newsletter, packed with insightful content, engaging webinars, and thought leadership pieces designed to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.
Our feature article delves into the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence on various industries, offering essential legal guidance on intellectual property, data protection, privacy, and internal AI governance. We also provide sector-specific insights into AI’s role in energy and private equity.
We explore the government’s ambitious agenda to kick start the economy and achieve net zero targets, analysing the potential impacts and options available. Nick Green’s series on navigating investment scenarios, including student accommodation, UK housing, and market shocks, offers valuable insights.
Join our upcoming webinars, including “Untangle Your Tinsel,” which addresses data privacy during the festive season, and “CyberSecure 360,” focusing on cybersecurity in the Retail and Hospitality sectors. Our Trowers Tuesday employment webinar series will cover Labour’s Employment Rights Bill and its significant workplace reforms expected by 2026. Additionally, our new quarterly webinar series, “Risky Business,” discusses risk management strategies to protect and grow your business.
We hope you find this newsletter informative and engaging.
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Artificial Intelligence in business - legal insights and practical strategies for the future
AI is having a profound impact across many industries and our latest report provides essential legal guidance for businesses navigating this rapidly changing landscape.
Every week, Artificial Intelligence providers are announcing new partnerships, investment and integrations with business core technology that effect our own strategy and ultimately the day-to-day workings of our staff, and it is interesting to see the impact of this rapid growth of AI on operations and obligations of businesses across different sectors.
This report covers key areas such as intellectual property, data protection, privacy, and internal AI governance, as well as sector-specific insights into AI's role in energy and private equity.
AI in the UAE: Navigating regulation and opportunities
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a step-change in the state of the art of computing. AI, at its core, is a machine-based system which enables computers and machines to simulate human-like intelligence through various elements of autonomy. The comparison to human intelligence derives from the fact that AI algorithms replicate the decision-making processes of the human brain, in the sense that they can learn from accessible data, produce outputs such as classifications, predictions, decisions and content all of which will become increasingly more accurate over time.
In this article, Sapna Desai looks at Implementation of AI in the UAE, Current Regulatory Framework in the UAE and much more.
Fraud and Cyber Insight - October 2024
We include our fourth edition of our Fraud and Cyber Insight – a quarterly update from our fraud and cyber experts on key developments across the tech, cyber and fraud sphere and practical considerations for businesses to become more fraud and cyber resilient.
In this edition, we include articles that look at the new Labour government's agenda, recordings of our CyberSecure360 webinar series and our latest report, 'Artificial intelligence in business - legal insights and practical strategies for the future'.
There is a long list of things that are high on the agenda, all underpinned by their pledge to kickstart the economy and net zero targets that will influence everything they do.
We take a closer look at the potential impact of what they have planned, discuss some of the options they could explore and analyse what these changes could mean for you.
Navigating market shocks: light at the end of the tunnel for office investments?
In a series of articles, Nick Green looks at navigating different situations, including student accommodation, UK housing, and market shocks.
CBDCs and stablecoins: Innovations in digital currency
On the heels of President-elect Donald Trump's victory and his vow to transform the U.S. into the 'crypto capital of the world,' digital asset markets surged, sending Bitcoin to an all-time high above $75,000. While Trump's pro-crypto stance has reignited interest in decentralised finance, attention is also turning toward stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
In this article, we outline the key features, benefits, and considerations surrounding these innovations in digital currency.
Procurement law reform: Keep your eyes on the prize!
The new law has been delayed until 24 February 2025, ostensibly due to the Labour Government's desire to introduce a new National Procurement Policy Statement, perhaps to the relief of procurement professionals everywhere (and those working on the central digital platform).
Delays in a procurement programme are never desirable. Nevertheless, the ensuing pause provides a good opportunity for buyers and bidders to review their "to do" lists ahead of the new February 2025 go-live date.
Webinars
Untangle your tinsel – data privacy and the festive season webinar
We are thrilled to invite you to our upcoming webinar, where we’ll unwrap the complexities of data privacy during the festive period, so you don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.
With expert insights from our Data Privacy team, we will guide you through the intricacies of data privacy during Christmas, covering topics such as managing DSARs involving staff texts and WhatsApp messages, and understanding if sending Christmas cards amounts to marketing under PECR.
In today’s digital landscape, cybersecurity is more critical than ever. We are excited to introduce CyberSecure 360, our comprehensive cyber risk management service.
Participate in our live webinar and war room simulation to learn how to prepare for and respond to cyber incidents. This webinar will discuss some of the key cyber risks for the Retail and Hospitality sectors and what companies need to be aware of to manage cyber risk.
Register and watch our webinars for other sectors such as Technology, Housing, and Manufacturing and Logistics, click the buttons below.
Trowers Tuesday – New Employment Law
Labour has published its Employment Rights Bill as promised within the first 100 days of government, but the reforms will take time to implement, with most changes expected by 2026.
In a new series on Trowers Tuesday, we're looking at the Government's radical plans to change the workplace, introducing the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation, from day one rights and fire and re-hire, to zero hours and trade unions.
You can register for our upcoming webinar as well watch our previous webinars on demand.
Risk is everywhere in every business, and it takes many forms. Some risks you will see coming, but some are harder to anticipate, meaning that navigating those risks and ensuring business resilience can be tricky, especially in an everchanging landscape.
To begin this new quarterly webinar series, Charlotte Clayson was joined by Simon Edwards to look at the concept and structure of risk management in your organisation, your appetite to risk and key risk areas. They also discussed how to mitigate these risks to protect and grow your business.
