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Looking back on our 2023 articles and planning ahead for 2024

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In this year-end compendium of articles, we look back on our analyses and predictions for 2023, while predicting what will come in 2024. As we move into 2024, greater importance will lie in maximizing the upsides of technologies while systematically anticipating and mitigating their risks.

What we’re seeing for 2024

Forward-looking organizations establishing robust internal Artificial Intelligence safeguards
Enhancing efforts and formalizing Board engagement on cybersecurity and resiliency
Reviewing policies and disclosures in light of new legislation and regulations
Enterprising class action theories
Consumer protection challenges
Global and public companies will have to efficiently accommodate a host of cross-cutting and proliferating disclosure obligations as timescales for notifications shrink

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If you have any questions about this Legal Briefing, please feel free to contact any of the attorneys listed or the Eversheds Sutherland attorney with whom you regularly work.

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