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On June 2, the Trump administration issued an Executive Order (EO) on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity—just weeks after abruptly pulling a prior version at the eleventh hour, with tech leaders already assembled at the White House for a signing ceremony. In the wake of reports on the new capabilities of frontier models to identify and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities at scale, the EO sets out the administration’s framework for voluntary government pre-release review of “covered fron

For much of the last year, the Trump Administration has signaled its opposition to state AI regulation that, in its view, could stifle innovation and impede the country’s ability to win the AI race. In its most recent salvo, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, April 24, intervened in a lawsuit brought by xAI challenging Colorado’s SB24-205 (the Colorado AI Act). The DOJ alleges that the Colorado AI Act violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution, both by compelling AI d

On March 20, 2026, the White House released a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, briefly recommending a set of legislative priorities for Congress across seven subject areas to “win[] the AI race.” The framework represents the clearest statement to date of the Administration’s ambitions for congressional action and offers a sense of where legislative engagement will likely focus over the coming year, including on preemption, child safety, and scaling infrastructure. But it is

Jenner & Block is proud to co-host The Future of AI Governance with Alpha, taking today in Washington, DC. Co-Managing Partner Ishan Bhabha will offer opening remarks with Partners Caroline Cease, Aaron Cooper, Charles D. Riely, H. Kurt von Moltke, Will Weaver presenting. Additional speakers include: 

Jenner & Block Partners Will Weaver and Caroline Cease and Associate Emma Kromm authored an analysis examining notable state attorney general activity in 2025.

Yesterday the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO), “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” that directs the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies to take action to preempt State AI laws.

Jenner & Block's nationally ranked, bipartisan Congressional Investigations practice, in partnership with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), released the 2025 edition of When Congress Comes Calling, the definitive guide for parties to congressional investigations. This is the first update to the handbook since 2017.

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States are playing a critical role in the development of AI policy in the United States, as serious legislative efforts at the federal level remain stalled. The Trump Administration and Republican Congress have signaled they plan to take a business-friendly, light-touch approach to AI regulation that prioritizes American innovation and emphasizes competition with China, and there is little prospect of Congress moving a substantive AI bill in the current political climate. Instead, states are mov

In a recent article for Law.com, Partners Lucy Blake and Caroline Cease, and Associate André Nwadikwa discuss the evolving ESG landscape and the key insights that global companies should evaluate when considering ESG in their business decisions.

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On Wednesday, January 29, we will be hosting a webinar discussing important developments around Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk and compliance. Please register below, and share this invitation with any relevant counsel or business leaders in your organization.

Law360 has named Partners Emily Loeb and Caroline Cease and Associate Ben Hand’s article on AI regulation among the top guest articles of 2023. The article analyzes the patchwork of state regulation concerning AI that has emerged across the US.

With the 118thCongress well underway, certain investigative priorities have come to the fore.  One such priority for Democrats and Republicans alike has been on issues relating to China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their connections to the United States. That focus on China has led to myriad investigations targeting both government agencies and various areas of the private sector. In addition, a particular bipartisan focus has been on institutions of higher education, namely college

President Biden has signed a long-awaited executive order that builds upon the Biden Administration’s previously released, non-binding Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, and seeks to catalyze both agency action and congressional legislation on artificial intelligence in the coming months.  The Federal AI Executive Order covers a myriad of concerns that have been raised relating to AI – from cybersecurity to anti-discrimination to competition.

On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (the “Federal AI Executive Order”), a long-awaited executive order that builds upon the Biden Administration’s previously released, non-binding Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (“AI Bill of Rights”), and seeks to catalyze both agency action and congressional legislation on artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the coming months. The Federal AI Executive Order is a lengthy docume

On May 18, the Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision in Gonzalez v. Google LLC,[1]the first case in which the Supreme Court has considered the contours of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230, known as the “twenty-six words that created the internet.”[2]The Court declined to address Section 230’s applicability to YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, leaving the current Section 230 protections of algorithmically generated recommendations—as decided by lower cou

With the public release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 and Google’s Bard in March 2023, governments across the world have a renewed focus on regulating the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”). Within the United States, a patchwork of state regulation concerning AI has emerged—a trend that is likely to continue in 2023 given the reality that there is unlikely to be meaningful federal AI legislation in the 118th Congress.

Jenner & Block elevated 10 lawyers to the partnership this year, promoting associates and special counsel from the firm’s Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC offices.

On June 7, the US Supreme Court announced that it refused to take up a petition from a New York county seeking to reverse a Second Circuit opinion holding that the Cayuga Nation’s sovereign immunity from suit blocks the county from foreclosing on Nation-owned properties based on a tax dispute.