DLA Piper

DLA Piper is a global law firm whose Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics practice sits alongside a data protection group advising on GDPR, CCPA and cross-border transfer questions. Typical engagement triggers are EU AI Act obligations landing on a provider or deployer of AI systems, New York City Local Law 144 enforcement against employers using automated hiring tools, or a privacy matter that has acquired an AI dimension. The practice publishes frequent client alerts on both regimes and maintains a mobile app for consulting the EU AI Act text; a January 2026 client alert unpacked a December 2025 New York State Comptroller review that found the city agency's Local Law 144 oversight ineffective, and what that means for employers. It also offers AI legal red-teaming, in which AI systems are probed for discrimination, consumer-protection, product-liability and other legal exposures. Danny Tobey, a partner admitted in New York and Texas, chairs the Americas practice and co-chairs it globally. Chambers ranks the firm Band 1 in its USA nationwide AI table and lists it among its global AI market leaders. Work is scoped as legal matters through offices and affiliated member firms spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific; fees are not published. DLA Piper is not an accredited certification body and does not issue ISO 42001 certificates, and on Local Law 144 it advises employers commissioning and responding to independent bias audits rather than serving as the auditor of record.