Health-E Law Podcast, Episode 24 | ViVE 2026: AI and the Future of Healthcare
As a stakeholder considering the implementation of an MCP connector, it may be difficult to glean from product documentation or marketing materials alone how the tool is functioning, and what must be done to manage its...more
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week. Federal Activities: On May 31,...more
If you’re trying to choose the right Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) software in 2026, you’re not alone. Legal teams everywhere are managing more work, higher expectations, regulatory complexity, and increasing pressure...more
OpenLaws founder and CEO John Phamvan joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk to examine how OpenLaws is building comprehensive, reliable, and continuously updated access to statutes, regulations, and other...more
Before reading the first three installments of Pillsbury’s MCP connector series, you may have thought MCP-connected agentic architecture was too complicated to understand. But now that you have wrapped your mind around what...more
Agentic commerce arrives in a field that has spent the better part of 40 years catching up to digital markets, and is now catching up to AI. Antitrust law is built almost entirely on judicial interpretation rather than...more
The House Financial Services Committee recently advanced legislation to modernize the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), reflecting a continued shift toward more prescriptive data governance obligations for financial...more
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently hosted its “HealthTech Ecosystem Live! First Wave” Launch, during which the agency announced the first apps that it is recommending to Medicare through the...more
The lesson from the PocketOS database deletion is not that agentic AI is dangerous. It’s about governance and controls. You have probably seen some version of the headline by now: “AI Agent Deletes Company’s Entire...more
Federal rulemaking implementing Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act remains stalled by litigation over the legality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2024 "open banking" final rulemaking and the...more
By the time lawyers get to questions on identity, authority, assent, and loss allocation in agentic commerce, they are already inside the transaction. Those questions matter, and they are where this series on agentic commerce...more
Legal operations has a positioning problem that no software can fix. In 2026, legal ops teams are expected to own vendor risk, enforce billing guidelines, and shape contract policy. Work that sits squarely at the...more
Most legal operations teams don't have a strategy problem. They have a data problem, and it's costing them more than they realize....more
On April 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule that would require faster prior authorization (“PA”) decisions, expand electronic PA to drugs, and increase transparency...more
Hot on the heels of the UK government's Smart Data Strategy – to which banking and financial services are central - the FCA has published its long-awaited Roadmap aimed at turning open finance's potential to be the ‘next...more
On April 10, 2026 (and officially published in the Federal Register on April 14, 2026), CMS published a proposed rule that would expand electronic prior authorization requirements, modernize HIPAA transaction standards, and...more
Recent reports regarding the cancellation of Disney’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI offer a timely case study for understanding the unique features, advantages, and complexities associated with strategic minority equity...more
What was once considered a niche technical function, collecting and reviewing electronic evidence, is now moving to the center of how legal work gets done. Data volumes are growing exponentially, file types are multiplying,...more
Welcome to Health-e Law, Sheppard’s podcast exploring the fascinating health tech topics and trends of the day. In this episode, Sheppard partner and host Michael Orlando welcomes associate Michael Sutton to discuss their...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s recent report on countering illicit finance involving digital assets urges a technology-neutral, risk-based AML/CFT approach for digital assets, highlighting rapid innovation (AI, digital...more
In today’s legal technology landscape, firms face a critical decision when building their technology stacks: choose “walled garden” solutions (integrated systems from a single vendor) or opt for best-in-class software from...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
U.S. Crypto Companies Announce Initiatives Aimed at Institutional Adoption - According to reports, the Solana Foundation recently announced the launch of the Solana Developer Platform (SDP). The SDP reportedly bundles...more
In March 2026, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction in Amazon.com Services LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., finding that an AI shopping agent may have violated federal hacking law — even though the user had expressly...more
Collaboration in the technology sector is essential and widespread: from data asharing for AI development to platform and API access and co-developing new products. However, heightened regulatory scrutiny by competition...more