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Announcement

Debevoise Launches STAAR 2.0 to Help Clients Scale Their AI Adoption

By: Avi Gesser, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Matt Kelly, Diane Bernabei, Melyssa Eigen, Joshua A. Goland, Kelvin Hawkins, Martha Hirst, Carl Lasker, Jeremy Liss, Amer Mneimneh, Joshua Plastrik, Achutha Raman, Jannely Rodriguez, Lily Schoen, Adam Shankman, Sharon Shaji, Ned Terrace, Stephanie Thomas, Michiko Wongso, Caroline Wallace, Ella Han, Devin Ford, Margot Mooney, Stan Gershengoren, Karen Levy, Carolyn Cecil, Thomas H. Fuell, Peter M. Neddo, Julius Mueller-Auffermann, Oleksiy Pikhmanets, Jinhee Ahn, Cierra Bakhsh, John Mark Ozaeta, William Sadd, Nithya Satiyaselan, Jonathan Schuman and Nicholas T. Ziebell March 9, 2026

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…

Announcement

Debevoise Data Blog: Top 5 Privacy Posts of 2025

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Erez Liebermann, Robert Maddox, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder, Rick Sofield, Sheena Paul, Johanna Skrzypczyk, HJ Brehmer, Martha Hirst, Suchita Mandavilli Brundage, Melyssa Eigen, Ned Terrace, Michelle Shen, Diane Bernabei and Mengyi Xu December 11, 2025

As we approach the end of the year, here are the top 5 privacy posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2025. Takeaways for Large Firms from the SEC’s Reg…

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…

CCPA

CPPA Adopts Long Awaited Rulemaking Package

By: Avi Gesser, Johanna Skrzypczyk, HJ Brehmer and Melyssa Eigen July 25, 2025

The California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) Board met on July 24, 2025, to decide whether to adopt its comprehensive rulemaking package covering cybersecurity audits, automated decision-making technology, and other…

Artificial Intelligence

AI Discrimination Risk in Lending: Lessons from the Massachusetts AG’s Recent $2.5 Million Settlement

By: Avi Gesser, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Stephanie Thomas, Melyssa Eigen and Achutha Raman July 20, 2025

Using AI to make important decisions about individuals carries a risk of bias, especially for underwriting, credit, employment, and educational admission decisions. In this Debevoise Data Blog post, we discuss…

CCPA

CPPA Proposed Rulemaking Package Part 3 – Privacy Requirements

By: Avi Gesser, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Mengyi Xu, Melyssa Eigen and Katie Heath May 5, 2025

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the annual cybersecurity audit requirements in the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”)’s proposed rulemaking package (the “Draft Regulations”). In Part 2,…

CCPA

Privacy Enforcement: Shift Toward Cookie Consent?

By: Avi Gesser, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Melyssa Eigen, Ned Terrace and Michelle Shen April 24, 2025

On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) announced a decision and stipulated final order stemming from its investigation of the American Honda Motor Company’s (the “Company”…

Artificial Intelligence

Colorado Proposes Extending AI Regulation to Health and Auto Insurers

By: Eric Dinallo, Avi Gesser, Marshal Bozzo, Matt Kelly, Samuel J. Allaman, Melyssa Eigen, Ned Terrace, Stephanie Thomas and Mengyi Xu December 16, 2024

On September 21, 2023, the Colorado Division of Insurance (the “Division”) released Regulation 10-1-1, Governance and Risk Management Framework Requirements for Life Insurers’ Use of External Consumer Data and Information…

Artificial Intelligence

Top 10 (Well, 11) Cybersecurity Blog Posts for 2024

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Gareth Hughes, Erez Liebermann, Jim Pastore, Caroline Novogrod Swett, Marshal Bozzo, Matt Kelly, Robert Maddox, Johanna Skrzypczyk, HJ Brehmer, Stephanie Cipolla, Jackie Dorward, Melyssa Eigen, Joshua A. Goland, Martha Hirst, Karen Joo, Gabriel Kohan, Jarrett Lewis, Noah L. Schwartz, Ned Terrace, Stephanie Thomas, Annabella M. Waszkiewicz, Michiko Wongso and Mengyi Xu December 10, 2024

As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 10 Cybersecurity posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2024 by page views. If you are not already…

Artificial Intelligence