AI-Drafted Contracts: Enforceability, Professional Responsibility, and Risk Controls

Ms. Faircloth is a partner and core member in Ropes & Gray’s data, privacy, and cybersecurity practice. She represents clients handling complex data, privacy, and cybersecurity matters across a wide range of industries and sectors. Recently, Ms. Faircloth has been advising clients across industries on issues of data protection, opportunistic cyber-attacks, and contact tracing technologies in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. She has assisted clients in privacy and cybersecurity related class action litigation and enforcement actions by the FTC, state Attorneys General, the SEC, and other government agencies. Ms. Faircloth uses her experience managing incident response and handling complex investigations to help clients get to the root of inquiries and communicate complex cyber and data privacy issues to government regulators and boards of directors. She advises clients on difficult data privacy, cybersecurity, and information law questions involving data breaches, ransomware, online brand protection, social media, e-commerce, and Internet governance. Ms. Faircloth regularly counsels clients on compliance with federal, state, and foreign privacy and security requirements related to the collection, handling, and protection of data.

Ms. Karlberg is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property transactions group. She focuses her practice on complex intellectual property, technology and data privacy issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions, business divisions, spinoffs, carve-out transactions, divestitures, joint ventures, and commercial and licensing agreements. Ms. Karlberg has extensive experience structuring, drafting and negotiating a wide range of strategic partnerships, including cross-border transactions, joint ventures, partnering arrangements, strategic alliances and other collaborations. An important part of her practice involves counseling emerging growth clients on IP and technology issues arising from entity formation, corporate partnerships and integrations, and the development and commercialization of key technology and products. Ms. Karlberg works with clients at all stages of the business cycle and in a range of industries, including software, fintech, health care, digital health, media, educational technology and security. She also represents private equity investors and private equity-backed acquirers in structuring and negotiating acquisitions and investments.