AI Risk Mitigation for Law Firms: Google’s Legal AI Pitch
Google Just Entered the Legal AI Race. Here Is What Its Governance Pitch Really Covers. Google spent August walking into the legal AI market and September explaining why it thinks the entrance is about governance. A general counsel told a room full of reporters that AI cannot be the final decision maker in a courtroom. […]
8 Governance Controls to Turn on Before a Grok Bot Touches Your Portfolio Company’s Deal Data
xAI opened Grok Bot to enterprises on September 3, with a two-week free trial thrown in for good measure. If you operate portfolio companies, somebody at one of them has already started that trial, or will by the time you finish reading this. That’s not a guess, it’s just how fast-moving companies behave with a […]
Local DLP for Claude, Copilot, and Other AI Assistants
The Tool-Layer Controls Microsoft Just Told Everyone to Build Here’s a question worth asking at your next AI governance meeting: when Lito, Harvey, or CoCounsel calls out to a connected tool on your firm’s behalf, who’s really looking at what goes into that call? Not the prompt. The call itself, the parameters, the thing that […]
Keeping Client Data Safe: 3 Alarming AI Risks Law Firms Can’t Ignore
← Cocha Insights Webinar recording Keeping Client Data Safe: AI Risks for Law Firms Watch the September 3 conversation with Dan Safran, Steven R. Combs, and Rick Thompson on AI governance, permissions, and client data protection. Recorded September 3, 2026 · Published September 11, 2026 · Steven R. Combs If you registered for our September […]
AI Agent Cloud Governance: Anthropic’s Privacy Beta
What Anthropic actually announced On September 1, Anthropic put out a post titled “Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers.” Long name. Real idea underneath it, though. The company is rebuilding how it handles enterprise data for Claude, and for the first time, customers get to keep monitoring data in their own cloud account instead […]
AI Risk Mitigation for Law Firms: Closing the Trust Gap
The question ILTACON couldn’t dodge Something shifted at ILTACON 2026 this year, and it wasn’t a new product launch. Thomson Reuters pushed CoCounsel Legal upgrades, Filevine ran a full campaign around its Legal Operating Intelligence System, the floor was as busy as ever. But the conversation in the hallways was different from last year’s. […]
AI Memory Governance: 3 Gaps Harvey II Just Opened
Harvey launched its next generation platform on August 18, and the headline feature isn’t a smarter chatbot. It’s memory. Harvey II remembers how an individual lawyer drafts, which citation style they favor, the tone they use with opposing counsel versus the tone they use with a client. Then it carries that across Harvey, Word, and […]
Copilot Meeting Recording: 4 Privilege Risks for Law Firms
Microsoft’s Copilot mobile app is getting a Record feature. Point your phone at a conversation, or just let it run during a meeting, and Copilot Chat hands you back a transcript and a summary when you’re done. It’s been in Frontier preview since late July, with general availability rolling out worldwide through late August and […]
Copilot Security: 3 Flaws Law Firms Can’t Ignore
If your firm rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot and did one security review at launch, then moved on, this week’s news is the reason that approach doesn’t hold up. On August 18, Microsoft patched a Copilot vulnerability that Varonis Threat Labs calls CoSnitch, and the way it got discovered is almost stranger than the flaw itself. […]
AI Security Server: Configuring Microsoft Purview for Enhanced AI Protection
We wrote recently about Anthropic’s inference hooks, the feature that lets a Claude Enterprise organization route every prompt through its own AI security server for an allow or deny verdict before the model sees a word of it. Good control. Real control, the first genuinely inline one most firms have had access to. But here’s what […]