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AI Governance

Switching AI Model Vendors: What Your Company Needs to Keep

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Replacing your AI model vendor? What you can export, what stays behind, and what to negotiate before you give notice.

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AI Governance

Where AI Stops and a Lawyer Starts: The Business Decisions AI Can't Make for You

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AI can draft a document. It can't advocate for you, allocate your risk, or take responsibility for the outcome. Here's the line between the two.

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Contracts

The Clauses in Your Contract That Contradict Each Other

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An AI draft can read cleanly and still contradict itself. Six ways contract clauses conflict, what tends to go missing, and what you can check yourself.

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Corporate Formation

Your First 90 Days With Outside General Counsel

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What an ongoing engagement actually involves once it starts: the document inventory, how work gets sequenced, what the business itself has to supply — and what to confirm in the engagement agreement.

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Contracts

Your Contract Renews Next Month. Do You Know on What Terms?

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Auto-renewal, price-increase rights, notice windows and termination for convenience: the renewal language in your own customer agreement, explained.

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Corporate Formation

How Startup Legal Fees Work: Hourly vs. Flat Fee, Retainers, and Why Scope Matters More Than the Rate

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Founders rarely balk at the hourly rate. They balk at not knowing the hours. How hourly and flat-fee billing work, what a retainer is, why an estimate is not a cap, what drives bills up, and whether a consultation is your next step.

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AI Governance

Texas’s AI Law: What Actually Applies to Private Companies

Accord & Shield Legal, PLLC ·

The disclosure section everyone reads addresses governmental agencies. Four other prohibitions in Chapter 552 reach any person, alongside a 60-day cure process, tiered civil penalties, and express preemption of local AI rules.

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AI Governance

Your Website Has an AI Chatbot. What Do You Have to Disclose?

Accord & Shield Legal, PLLC ·

California’s bot statute is narrower than its reputation and Texas reaches fewer businesses than expected. What an AI chatbot on your site actually has to disclose — and the three things that create far more exposure than the disclosure itself.

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AI Governance

You’ve Answered Forty Security Questionnaires. Do Your Answers Still Agree?

Accord & Shield Legal, PLLC ·

You have answered dozens of security questionnaires and signed as many DPAs. Over time those commitments stop agreeing with each other and with the product.

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AI Governance

You Added an AI Vendor to Your SaaS. Your Customer Contracts May Already Require Notice.

Accord & Shield Legal, PLLC ·

Adding an AI vendor to a SaaS product usually makes it a subprocessor under data processing agreements you already signed, which commonly carry advance-notice and objection terms. What that triggers, and how to sequence it before you ship.

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Contracts

Reseller and Channel Partner Agreements for SaaS Companies: What the Contract Needs to Cover

Accord & Shield Legal, PLLC ·

A reseller or channel partner agreement authorizes another company to sell or bundle your SaaS product to its own customers — as your product, under your brand — in exchange for a commission or margin. Revenue split, territory, brand use, volume commitments, and wind-down all need to be in the contract before either side signs.

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Contracts

Marketplace Agreement for SaaS Platforms: Do You Need Separate Buyer and Supplier Terms?

Accord & Shield Legal, PLLC ·

A marketplace needs separate buyer and supplier terms. Settle fees, payouts, chargebacks, liability allocation, content and data rights, and suspension in the contract — before the first transaction, not after the first dispute.

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