Artificial Intelligence

Advising clients on complex AI issues across borders and practices

Clients rely on Jones Day’s cross-practice AI team to achieve strategic AI business goals while managing risk and navigating a rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape. Our lawyers advise clients on complex AI issues arising across jurisdictions, practice areas, and industries.

And our lawyers use AI tools to provide more efficient and effective legal services, where such tools have been vetted by the Firm to ensure that they meet our rigorous security and performance requirements. As the landscape for AI legal tools continues to rapidly change, we collaborate with our clients to ensure that our tool use aligns with their expectations, and to remain up-to-date on the tools best suited for their businesses, industries, and legal needs.

  • Rooted in our longstanding tradition of delivering client services as One Firm Worldwide®, Jones Day’s AI team seamlessly collaborates across borders, legal disciplines, and industries to ensure that our clients successfully and responsibly harness the transformative power of AI.
  • As AI raises novel legal and regulatory questions and presents new risks and opportunities, our lawyers possess technical expertise, legal acumen, and business-specific insights to help our clients navigate a fast-paced, continuously changing environment.
  • We help clients with their most pressing AI issues, including those arising in the context of regulatory compliance, IP, cybersecurity and data protection, litigation, M&A, transactions, and corporate governance.

Core Capabilities

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Government Regulation

We help clients navigate the evolving and complex landscape of global AI regulation, drawing from the expertise of a cross-practice, multijurisdictional team that includes former high-ranking government officials (including the White House, National Security Council, U.S. Intelligence Community, and key federal departments) and leading regulatory lawyers who have advised governmental bodies across the globe, counseled clients in legal, regulatory, and public relations crises, and handled multi-jurisdictional disputes.

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Antitrust

We advise companies on AI-driven antitrust and competition risks in an increasingly complex global regulatory landscape. Our team develops industry-specific compliance programs and defends investigations and litigation before competition authorities worldwide. Many of our antitrust lawyers are former senior officials at enforcement agencies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific, providing insight and authority before regulators. And the firm has been globally ranked by Chambers in Antitrust and Competition Law for four consecutive years.

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Cybersecurity

As AI presents novel and pressing concerns about cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy, our team stands at the forefront of technology innovation, helping clients mitigate risks to ensure that their business is responsive, compliant, and protected. Our multidisciplinary, cross-border practice brings deep experience navigating rapidly evolving privacy regulations worldwide, positioning us to address the unique cybersecurity risks and data governance challenges inherent in AI development and deployment.

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Intellectual Property

Our IP team includes over 220 professionals across 27 global locations, with over 165 holding advanced degrees in varied technical disciplines that are driving, and/or are being impacted by, the AI revolution. Our lawyers combine technical expertise with legal acumen to advise on the full range of AI-related IP matters, including patent prosecution, patent and trade secret litigation, copyright counseling, and technology transactions. The practice has been repeatedly recognized by Chambers (including 19 Years ranked in U.S. Nationwide IP).

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M&A

Recognized as an M&A "Powerhouse" for cross-border, transformative, and regulatory-intensive deals, our global M&A team handles complex transactions involving AI and other emerging technologies. With over 300 lawyers spanning five continents, we have collectively advised on over 5,000 transactions valued at $2 trillion in the last five years alone. As AI-related M&A transactions surge and AI presents new challenges for due diligence, data integrity, and IP ownership, our global M&A delivers transactional expertise across practices and geographies.

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Litigation

We help companies manage AI litigation risks, defend AI disputes, and lead AI-related investigations worldwide. Our team represents global companies in complex MDLs and class actions and holds a Chambers Tier 1 ranking in products liability. With over 100 trials in three years and a premier issues-and-appeals practice staffed by over 50 former Supreme Court clerks and federal appellate clerks from nearly every circuit, we seamlessly represent clients from trial through appeal.

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Labor & Employment

We advise employers on the responsible deployment of AI-enabled hiring, performance, and workforce management tools, helping to manage legal risks and defend disputes arising under evolving federal, state, and local employment and privacy laws. Our global labor and employment practice includes approximately 130 lawyers worldwide and is recognized by BTI as a “powerhouse” for complex employment litigation. Chambers has ranked the firm Band 1 in U.S. Labor and Employment for 12 consecutive years.

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Financial Services

We advise financial institutions, investors, and innovators on AI-related legal and regulatory issues across the financial services industry, defend AI-related disputes, and lead investigations involving the use of AI technologies. Our practice comprises more than 300 lawyers across global financial centers, collaborating as a unified, full-service team. With a deep regulatory bench and established relationships with financial services regulators worldwide, the firm is Chambers-ranked USA-wide in FinTech Legal and FinTech Legal: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.

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Health Care & Life Sciences

We advise health care and life sciences companies on AI-driven regulatory and legal issues, including pathways for AI/ML medical devices, HIPAA and data privacy compliance, and integrating AI into digital health, drug development, and clinical trials. Our integrated global team of more than 200 lawyers delivers practical, business-oriented solutions to the most pressing issues encountered by the leading health care providers, digital health organizations, health plans, and life science companies around the world.