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Debevoise Data Blog: Top 5 Cybersecurity Blog Posts of 2025

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Daniel M. Gitner, Erez Liebermann, Jim Pastore, Benjamin R. Pedersen, Jeff Robins, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder, Matt Kelly, HJ Brehmer, John Jacob, Gabriel Kohan, Amer Mneimneh, Andreas Constantine Pavlou, Lily Schoen, Cameron Sharp, Stephanie Thomas and Cindy Tu December 10, 2025

As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 5 Cybersecurity posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2025. 1. Protecting Privilege in Incident Response: Litigation Lessons…

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Debevoise’s STAAR AI Platform Wins Financial Times Innovation Award

By: Avi Gesser, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Karen Levy, Matt Kelly, Diane Bernabei, Carl Lasker, Achutha Raman, Adam Shankman, Oleksiy Pikhmanets, Carolyn Cecil, William Sadd and Stan Gershengoren December 9, 2025

We are very proud to announce that on December 8, 2025, Debevoise won the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America Award for Innovation in New Legal Products. The Award was given to…

Artificial Intelligence

Debevoise Data Blog: Top 14 AI Posts of 2025

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Andrew J. Ceresney, Courtney M. Dankworth, Avi Gesser, Robert B. Kaplan, Gordon Moodie, Jim Pastore, Julie M. Riewe, Jeff Robins, Kristin Snyder, Matt Kelly, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Karen Levy, Diane Bernabei, Michael Bloom, HJ Brehmer, Suchita Mandavilli Brundage, Melyssa Eigen, Joshua A. Goland, Martha Hirst, Gabriel Kohan, Carl Lasker, Jeremy Liss, Andreas Constantine Pavlou, Joshua Plastrik, Achutha Raman, Adam Shankman, Stephanie Thomas, Nathaniel Waldman, Annabella M. Waszkiewicz, Stan Gershengoren, William Sadd, Nicholas T. Ziebell, Patty (Virtual AI Specialist) and Sergio (Virtual AI Specialist) December 8, 2025

Why Agentic AI Often Fails and the Enduring Value of Human Judgment (11/4/2025) We’ve been doing a lot of work recently on agentic AI workflows. In this post, we share…

Artificial Intelligence

What Exactly is an “AI System” or an “AI Solution?” Debevoise’s Practical Definitions for Common AI Terms

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Matt Kelly, Diane Bernabei, Carl Lasker, Achutha Raman, Adam Shankman and Nicholas T. Ziebell November 23, 2025

When we help clients draft their AI policies, we aim to ensure that employees understand the terms that we use. For example, we often define “AI” simply as generative AI,…

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Biggest Enterprise Challenge in 2026: Contractual Use Limitations on Data

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Adam Shankman and Patty (Virtual AI Specialist) November 17, 2025

We recognize it’s a little early to make the call for the biggest AI challenge for 2026, but we’re pretty confident that NDAs and other contractual use limitations are about…

Artificial Intelligence

Why Agentic AI Often Fails and the Enduring Value of Human Judgment

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Karen Levy, Matt Kelly, Jeremy Liss, Diane Bernabei and Patty (Virtual AI Specialist) November 4, 2025

We’ve been doing a lot of work recently on agentic AI workflows, so it’s time to share some of our thinking on how to assess their risks and benefits. The…

Artificial Intelligence

Agentic AI in Retail Investing: Navigating Regulatory and Operational Risk

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Robert B. Kaplan, Julie M. Riewe, Jeff Robins, Kristin Snyder and Achutha Raman October 29, 2025

The Rise of AI-Driven Investing in Retail Finance Generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) innovations are rapidly transforming the formulation, analysis, and delivery of investment advice. Many broker-dealers and investment advisers are…

Announcement

Debevoise Named a Finalist for the FT Innovative Lawyers North America Awards for STAAR

By: Avi Gesser October 13, 2025

We are very proud to announce that Debevoise has been shortlisted for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America Awards in the “Innovation in New Legal Products” category. The firm…

Artificial Intelligence

High-Value Content for LLMs and Why We Added a CAPTCHA to the Debevoise Data Blog

By: Avi Gesser, Oleksiy Pikhmanets, Alex Gorbatenko and Patty (Virtual AI Specialist) October 11, 2025

If you’ve visited the Debevoise Data Blog recently, you will have noticed that before you can read a post, you now have to click through a CAPTCHA. We debated whether…

Artificial Intelligence

Employee Communications Can Drive AI Adoption Success

By: Avi Gesser, Scott Lindlaw, Sarah Ashton and Kelly Langmesser October 8, 2025

As AI finds its way into nearly every facet of life, companies are striving to increase AI adoption among their employees to enhance efficiency and optimize results. Yet heightened use…