Overview

Artificial intelligence is transforming how businesses operate, innovate, and compete. From generative AI tools and machine learning applications to advanced automation and predictive analytics, organizations across every industry are exploring new ways to leverage AI to improve efficiency, create value, and drive growth. At the same time, AI raises complex legal questions involving intellectual property, data governance, privacy, contracting, regulatory compliance, and risk management.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka's Artificial Intelligence Practice Group helps clients navigate these challenges while positioning them to capitalize on the opportunities AI presents. The firm’s multidisciplinary team combines deep technical knowledge with practical legal counsel to help businesses confidently develop, acquire, deploy, and govern AI technologies.

Chamberlain leverages its deep technical knowledge to not only incorporate AI for itself, but to also help clients build AI into their own operations—with experienced attorneys defining the guardrails and reviewing the results.

Chamberlain’s approach centers on helping clients create and protect value, not just manage risk. Whether advising on AI-powered products, negotiating data and technology agreements, protecting AI-related intellectual property, or establishing governance frameworks, Chamberlain’s team aligns legal strategy with business objectives—working directly with executives, technology leaders, and in-house counsel.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to AI

Artificial intelligence sits at the intersection of several legal disciplines. Chamberlain’s AI Practice Group brings together attorneys from across the firm, including intellectual property, privacy and data security, corporate, labor and employment, litigation, and regulatory practices, to provide integrated counsel tailored to each client's industry and objectives.

I. Operationalizing AI in Client Workflows
Beyond advising on AI, Chamberlain helps clients put it to work inside their own businesses. The firm helps companies identify where AI can responsibly handle routine, high-volume tasks, then designs attorney-informed processes that build that capability directly into a client’s own systems and workflows. Chamberlain’s team helps clients capture the efficiency of AI on the work that lends itself to automation, with attorney-authored rules that flag the matters calling for legal judgment and experienced counsel reviewing the results. The goal is practical capability inside the business, not simply advice about it.

II. AI Governance and Business Strategy
Chamberlain helps organizations adopt AI at speed and govern it with discipline. The firm works with executive leadership, legal departments, information security professionals, and technology teams to help companies develop practical governance frameworks that enable innovation while addressing legal, operational, and business considerations.

III. Intellectual Property and AI Innovation
Chamberlain’s team assists clients in developing legally defensible strategies for data acquisition, licensing, management, and utilization while navigating evolving privacy and regulatory requirements.

IV. AI Transactions and Commercial Agreements
Many existing technology agreements were not designed with artificial intelligence in mind. The firm helps clients evaluate and negotiate contracts involving AI tools, platforms, and services, addressing issues such as data rights, output ownership, intellectual property allocation, indemnification, performance expectations, and vendor obligations. Whether acquiring AI technologies, licensing proprietary systems, or entering strategic data partnerships, Chamberlain helps clients structure agreements that support their business objectives and protect their interests.

V. AI Policies and Workforce Training
As employees adopt AI tools across an organization, clear internal rules matter. Chamberlain drafts AI acceptable-use and governance policies, advises on data handling, confidentiality, and intellectual property protection when teams use AI tools, and delivers practical training that helps a workforce adopt AI confidently and in line with the organization’s policies and applicable law.

VI. Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management
AI regulation is evolving quickly across jurisdictions. Chamberlain helps clients track emerging requirements, assess regulatory exposure, and build compliance into their AI initiatives from the start, including transparency, fairness, and accountability considerations, so that adoption moves forward on a defensible footing.

Industries We Serve

Chamberlain’s AI Practice Group advises organizations across a broad range of industries that are developing or deploying AI technologies, including:

Technology and software
Energy, oil and gas
Manufacturing, automation, and robotics
Medical devices and healthcare technology
Professional services
Financial services
Consumer products and retail

Representative Matters

Data, model training, and AI-enabled SaaS
Advised a technology client across the full lifecycle of an AI product, from inputs to deployment. Negotiated data acquisition and licensing agreements that secured the rights needed to train and fine-tune models, established the data governance and acceptable-use framework controlling how that data could be used for training and customization, and then modified and negotiated the downstream SaaS agreements for the products built on those models, addressing output ownership, training-data restrictions, performance commitments, indemnification, and allocation of AI-related risk.

AI patent drafting and prosecution
Drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications directed to artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, spanning model architectures, training methods, data pipelines, and applied AI systems. Developed claiming strategies built for the realities of AI subject matter, including Section 101 eligibility, and managed prosecution through to issuance across a large and growing portfolio.

Training lawyers to use AI in practice
Designed and delivered training that helps attorneys incorporate AI tools into their own workflows, covering practical use, confidentiality and privilege, ethical duties, and the supervision and verification practices that keep AI use defensible. Built repeatable processes that let legal teams adopt AI confidently and consistently rather than ad hoc.