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Garen Marshall is a partner in McGuireWoods’ Government Investigations and White Collar Litigation Department and leads the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Practice Area. A former Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and Navy special operations veteran, he represents corporations, executives, and boards in government and internal investigations, regulatory enforcement matters, and complex civil litigation, with a practice that extends to AI governance, AI-related enforcement and litigation risk, and corporate compliance issues involving artificial intelligence.

U.S. companies using AI models developed by companies based in the People’s Republic of China, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI or MiniMax, should be aware of potential congressional scrutiny in this Congress and the next. Two House committees are conducting a joint investigation into the national security, cybersecurity and economic security implications of U.S. companies’ adoption

The explosion of generative AI in the workplace has created a new and largely unaddressed category of litigation risk. In May 2025, a federal court in the Southern District of New York ordered OpenAI to preserve and segregate all ChatGPT output log data that would otherwise be destroyed under its default 30-day deletion policy, marking

Across the healthcare industry, providers are increasingly relying on AI-assisted billing tools to automate medical coding, prior authorization workflows, and the submission of claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal payors. The efficiency gains can be substantial, as can the heightened False Claims Act (FCA) exposure these systems can create. As AI continues to develop

On June 4, 2026, Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan released a discussion draft of the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act. The proposal has generated significant attention, but many organizations may be overestimating its practical significance for day-to-day operations. The bill is directed primarily at developers of “frontier” AI models, so its requirements will not

On March 20, 2026, the White House unveiled its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, providing a blueprint on legislative recommendations and urging Congress to act. It recommends that Congress create a unified federal standard to reduce the regulatory friction of competing state AI regimes, promote AI innovation, and develop an AI-ready workforce, while ensuring the protection of children, consumers, and intellectual property rights. 

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On Feb. 10, 2026, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued a bench ruling holding that a defendant’s use of generative AI to analyze legal exposure is not protected under attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. See When AI Isn’t Privileged: SDNY Rules Generative AI Documents Not Protected

On Feb. 10, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that a defendant’s use of generative AI to analyze legal exposure is not protected under attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. The decision has important implications as clients and nonlawyers increasingly use generative AI tools to assess legal