Checklist: Legal Essentials for Privacy-Ready AI

The practical checklist every CLO needs to lead compliant AI adoption

As AI rapidly enters the enterprise, legal leaders are under pressure to ensure AI initiatives meet ever-evolving privacy, risk, and compliance requirements. But for many CLOs, the challenge is knowing where to start — and how to scale governance across siloed systems and use cases.

That’s where this checklist comes in.

Legal Essentials for Privacy-Ready AI offers a practical, step-by-step guide for CLOs and General Counsel to embed privacy-by-design, automate regulatory compliance, and protect high-risk data — before AI goes live.

The checklist provides guidance on how to:

• Align legal, risk, IT, and business stakeholders through an AI governance team
• Classify and tag sensitive content across your structured and unstructured data estate
• Ensure every AI use case includes documented DPIAs, consent, and lawful basis for processing
• Automate DSARs, policy enforcement, and jurisdiction-specific compliance
• Maintain transparency, oversight, and auditability across AI models
• Monitor for bias, drift, and compliance violations at scale
• Stay ahead of regulatory change — from GDPR to the EU AI Act

Legal shouldn’t be brought in after AI systems are built — it should be at the table from day one. This checklist helps you operationalise that mandate.

Download the checklist today and take the first step toward privacy-ready, legally defensible AI.