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Debevoise Launches STAAR 2.0 to Help Clients Scale Their AI Adoption

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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced the launch of STAAR 2.0, an enhanced version of its award-winning[1] client-facing AI platform designed to help in-house legal and compliance teams evaluate, govern, and deploy artificial intelligence quickly and responsibly. STAAR 2.0 is built with Legora’s Portal architecture, which converts the knowledge gained from five years of advising over 100 clients on complex AI-related regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters into a practical, searchable workspace.

Using STAAR 2.0, in-house teams can quickly and effectively draft guidance, update policies, prepare trainings, and assess the risk of specific AI use cases without having to create these materials from scratch. STAAR 2.0 provides a cost-effective tool that enables clients and their in-house lawyers to advance their AI initiatives with grounded, legally sound outputs. Blackstone, Capital One, Evercore, GSK, and New York Life are participating in the early adopter beta phase, which runs through August 31, 2026.

“STAAR reflects our view that the efficiencies created by AI should be shared directly with our clients,” said Avi Gesser, Co-Chair of the firm’s Data Strategy & Security Group and head of the Debevoise AI Practice. “STAAR 2.0 is the result of thousands of hours of legal work on AI issues and allows clients to query that body of experience using AI, to see whether Debevoise has addressed a given issue before, and if so, how.”

STAAR 2.0 creates a network effect by giving clients access to aggregated guidance and best practices developed for other subscribers. By drawing on guidance developed for other clients and STAAR subscribers, users gain visibility into how peers are addressing similar AI challenges, can benchmark their approaches against emerging market standards, and apply the firm’s prior work to new issues with greater speed and efficiency. In short, STAAR 2.0 effectively positions in-house legal teams to become stronger and more sophisticated enablers of AI adoption while continuing to exercise sound risk management.

STAAR, the firm’s Suite of Tools for Assessing AI Risk, is an award winning platform intended to help clients deploy AI efficiently and responsibly.

[1] Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award, North America, 2025

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The Debevoise STAAR (Suite of Tools for Assessing AI Risk) is a monthly subscription service that provides Debevoise clients with an online suite of tools to help them fast-track their AI adoption. Please contact us at STAARinfo@debevoise.com for more information.

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Avi Gesser is Co-Chair of the Debevoise Data Strategy & Security Group. His practice focuses on advising major companies on a wide range of cybersecurity, privacy and artificial intelligence matters. He can be reached at agesser@debevoise.com.

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Charu A. Chandrasekhar is a litigation partner based in the New York office and a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Defense and Data Strategy & Security Groups. Her practice focuses on securities enforcement and government investigations defense and artificial intelligence and cybersecurity regulatory counseling and defense. Charu can be reached at cchandra@debevoise.com.

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Matthew Kelly is a litigation counsel based in the firm’s New York office and a member of the Data Strategy & Security Group. His practice focuses on advising the firm’s growing number of clients on matters related to AI governance, compliance and risk management, and on data privacy. He can be reached at makelly@debevoise.com

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Diane C. Bernabei is an associate in the Litigation Department. She can be reached at dcbernabei@debevoise.com.

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Melyssa Eigen is an associate in the Litigation Department. She can be reached at meigen@debevoise.com.

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Josh Goland is an associate in the Litigation Department.

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Kelvin Hawkins is a law clerk in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at kchawkin@debevoise.com.

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Martha Hirst is an associate in Debevoise's Litigation Department based in the London office. She is a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group, and the Data Strategy & Security practice. She can be reached at mhirst@debevoise.com.

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Carl Lasker is an associate in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at calasker@debevoise.com.

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Jeremy Liss is an associate in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at jiliss@debevoise.com.

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Amer Mneimneh is an associate in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at amneimneh@debevoise.com.

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Joshua Plastrik is an associate in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at jhplastrik@debevoise.com.

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Achutha Raman is a law clerk in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at anraman@debevoise.com.

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Jannely Rodriguez is an associate in the Litigation Department. She can be reached at jgrodriguez@debevoise.com.

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Lily Schoen is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Data Strategy & Security Group. She can be reached at laschoen@debevoise.com.

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Adam Shankman is an associate in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at adshankm@debevoise.com.

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Sharon Shaji is a law clerk in the Litigation Department. Sharon can be reached at sshaji@debevoise.com.

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Ned Terrace is an associate in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at jkterrac@debevoise.com.

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Stephanie D. Thomas is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Data Strategy & Security Group and the White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group. She can be reached at sdthomas@debevoise.com.

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Michiko Wongso is an associate in the firm’s Data Strategy & Security Group. She can be reached at mwongso@debevoise.com

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Caroline Wallace is an associate in the Debevoise Litigation Department.

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Ella is a law clerk in the Litigation Department. She can be reached at ehan@debevoise.com.

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Devin A. Ford is a Sr. Business Development Specialist at Debevoise. She can be reached at daford@debevoise.com.

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Margot Mooney is a Practice Manager at Debevoise. She can be reached at mgmooney@debevoise.com.

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Stan Gershengoren is a Director, Practice & Business Systems at Debevoise. He can be reached at sgershen@debevoise.com.

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Karen Levy is the Chief Information Officer at Debevoise and serves on the firm's AI Governance Committee.

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Carolyn Cecil is a Senior DSS Practice Case Manager and an Executive Director of the STAAR platform.

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Thomas H. Fuell is a Sr. Discovery Attorney in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at thfuell@debevoise.com.

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Peter M. Neddo is a Senior Discovery Attorney in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at pmneddo@debevoise.com.

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Julius Mueller-Auffermann is a Sr. Discovery Attorney in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at jmueller@debevoise.com.

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Oleksiy Pikhmanets is a Senior Data Strategy & Security Practice Attorney in the Litigation Department. He can be reached at opikhman@debevoise.com.

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Jinhee Ahn is a Practice Systems UX/UI Analyst at Debevoise. She can be reached at jahn@debevoise.com.

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Cierra Bakhsh is a Practice & AI Systems Analyst at Debevoise. She can be reached at cbakhsh@debevoise.com.

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John Mark Ozaeta is Practice & AI Systems Analyst at Debevoise. He can be reached at jozaeta@debevoise.com.

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William Sadd is the Head of Practice and AI Systems at Debevoise. He can be reached at wjsadd@debevoise.com.

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Nithya Satiyaselan is a Practice & AI Systems Analyst at Debevoise. She can be reached at nasatiya@debevoise.com.

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Jonathan Schuman is a Head of AI Business Systems at Debevoise. He can be reached at jschuman@debevoise.com.

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Nicholas T. Ziebell is a manager of Practice & AI Systems at Debevoise. He can be reached at nziebell@debevoise.com.

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