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UK Employment Law & Risk Agenda: A look at the year ahead...

Client Alert | 1 min read | 01.25.10

In common with every other year, there are a number of key items on the UK employment law and risk agenda in 2010. Our key issues for the year are listed below. Click here to download a PDF of our full analysis.

Employment

  1. Increase in the Default Retirement Age… or will it be abolished?
  2. Single Equality Act
  3. Equal rights for agency workers
  4. Fit notes replace sick notes
  5. Additional paternity Leave
  6. Usual suspects I - Statutory payments
  7. Usual Suspects II - Unfair Dismissal and tribunal awards
  8. Time to train initiative
  9. Independent Safeguarding Authority
  10. Union rights

Risk

  1. Occupational Road Risk
  2. Occupational Fire Risk
  3. Occupational Health

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Client Alert | 9 min read | 10.21.26

Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences: Reliability of AI-Generated Evidence in Drug Discovery and Development

The life sciences sector is uniquely vulnerable to the inherent risks of AI-generated evidence in drug development and discovery. This client alert focuses on five core challenges: hallucinations, skewed predictions from unrepresentative training data, the opacity of AI reasoning, input sensitivity that undermines reproducibility, and adversarial manipulation of training data. To address these risks, companies should use experimental validation and human oversight as the common legal and regulatory safety net. This entails among other measures auditing AI outputs, characterizing training data, and structural oversight. Companies also should prepare for evolving frameworks and guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Union (EU) that address use of AI in drug discovery and development .  ...