The latest from General Legal
Plaintiffs' firms are using a decades-old wiretapping law to target ordinary website tools. Here's what to do about it.
The DSAR problem isn't your process. It's not knowing where your data actually lives.
Law firms sell knowledge. The real question is where that knowledge lives once someone walks out the door.
Your vendor says they're GDPR compliant. That doesn't mean your data transfer to the US is legal - those are two separate question
Ask most startups for a sub-processor list, get a vendor list instead - that gap is where GDPR exposure quietly sits.
No single PET wins. A practical guide to picking the right one for your team.
MPC, FHE, TEE: three ways to compute on data without seeing it, explained plainly.
Move the model, not the data. Great for privacy, expensive for infrastructure.
Synthetic doesn't mean private. Generative models can leak real records — here's what testing catches.
The only anonymization method with a math guarantee attached. How Census, Apple, and Google use it.
Same data, five legal definitions of "anonymous." GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, LGPD, and PIPL compared.
How to set up a corporation around your AI agent so it can do business and you can keep your personal finances separate
Learn why General Legal uses a practical attorney assessment to test AI direction, contract review, and client communication.
The UN Geneva AI Dialogue created no new binding law, but it signals growing expectations around AI documentation & contracts.
On June 25, 2026, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Loan Consumer Protection Act
A glimpse of the future of AI-native law
NDAs don’t just protect secrets - they govern how your data can be used.
The EU AI Act is here: what to expect
A look inside the fast‑moving, high‑trust culture of General Legal - and what it’s like to build modern legal operations from the
The first decision that decides everything
Aligning Our Internal Infrastructure with Modern Client Expectations
On the Changing Nature of Legal Service
AI drives efficiency, but human judgment remains the essential filter for legal quality and nuance.
AI caught issues the attorney did not. The attorney still mattered more. Here's why both are essential.
When we started General Legal, we picked one fight: commercial contracts.
General Legal Is the First Law Firm With an MCP Server
Part 1 of an AI Regulatory Compliance Series.
Why we chose to build a law firm and not another legal technology vendor
General Legal (YC26) just became the first law firm in the world to be hired by an AI agent. We won't be the last...
Early clients of General Legal find our contract review service "magical". Founders and operators get sales contracts...
Everyone's talking about Claude Work for Legal. I recently tried it, and the bottom line it doesn't come close to replacing...
Today, we're open-sourcing and releasing a simple LLM-based app that flags obvious mistakes your lawyers made.
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