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AI Governance and
Compliance Services

Ensuring Ethical, Secure, and Compliant AI Adoption For Your Organisation

AI governance doesn’t have to slow innovation. Data Driven Legal equips your organisation with the frameworks, training, and legal expertise to adopt AI confidently and compliantly.

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Why AI Governance Is Important For Your Organisation

AI can transform your organisation to drive efficiency, improve decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. But with opportunity comes responsibility. As AI becomes deeply integrated into your products, services, and internal processes, at the same time, your customers, partners, and regulators expect clarity, transparency, and accountability.

AI governance helps your organisation:

  • Build and maintain trust: Customers, especially in B2B partnerships, want to understand how your AI works and how their data is being used.
  • Accelerate business deals: Having impact assessments, updated T&Cs, AI FAQs, and clear privacy policies in place speeds up contract negotiations and makes compliance discussions smoother.
  • Mitigate risks: Proactively manage data protection, ethical considerations, and operational risks to avoid legal, financial, or reputational damage.
  • Stay ahead of regulations: Keep abreast of evolving AI regulations and industry standards, reducing the risk of future non-compliance.
  • Enable confident adoption: Implement AI solutions faster and more effectively with the assurance that they’re compliant and responsibly governed.

From Risk to Readiness: What You Get with Our AI Governance Service

Our AI governance service is delivered by lawyers with specialist expertise in AI compliance, designed to help you deploy AI technologies across your company with confidence.

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Policies & Procedures

We draft and review internal and external policies that align with key AI principles: transparency, explainability, and accountability. Each policy is tailored to your specific AI use cases, organisational risk profile, and audience needs.

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Training & Awareness

Our training empowers your team with the knowledge and skills necessary for responsible AI adoption, helping you to ensure AI literacy obligations. We offer tailored training designed to equip your workforce with an understanding of AI principles, ethical considerations, and compliance requirements.

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Contract Review

The AI lifecycle may mean you need to work with third parties for the design, training, auditing or provision of AI systems and services. Our contract review helps strengthen your position and ensure that risks from these AI technology contracts are carefully assessed. Our approach is to focus on the key commercial terms, accountability and risk mitigation.

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AI Impact Assessment

Our AI impact assessments provide a comprehensive analysis of the risks of using or developing an AI system. We assess potential risks and evaluate safeguards, while taking into account the compliance requirements of the EU AI Act, the OECD’s AI principles, the technical standards set out in the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and the measures highlighted by the relevant ISO standards.

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Regulatory Compliance Assurance

We monitor evolving global AI regulations and guidance, providing timely updates and strategic advice. This ensures your organisation stays compliant, anticipates risks before product launches, and allows you to answer customer compliance questions with confidence.

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AI Governance Framework

We integrate AI governance into your existing compliance processes, such as GDPR frameworks and privacy impact assessments. This streamlined approach reduces duplication, saves resources, and strengthens your readiness for AI-specific audits and stakeholder scrutiny.

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Common Challenges Organisations Face with AI Compliance

AI offers immense potential, but its rapid adoption often outpaces an organisation’s ability to govern and manage it effectively. This creates risks (legal, ethical, operational, and reputational) that can be difficult to control without a clear compliance framework.

Some of the most common challenges include:

Untracked AI usage

Employees often experiment with freely available AI tools without formal oversight, exposing the organisation to data leaks, privacy violations, or contractual breaches.

Rapid pace of AI development

 AI evolves extremely quickly, making it difficult to keep governance processes and risk assessments up to date.

Adhering to international regulations

Emerging AI laws and standards vary widely across jurisdictions, requiring constant monitoring and policy updates to stay ahead.

Data privacy and security risks

Ensuring sensitive data is properly handled and stored becomes more complex when AI systems process or generate content using internal datasets.

Ethical and bias concerns

AI systems can unintentionally reinforce bias or create outcomes that raise ethical or reputational concerns.

Undefined roles and responsibilities

Without defined roles for AI governance, gaps can form between compliance, IT, and operational teams, leading to inconsistent enforcement.

Accuracy of AI output

When not checked and verified, AI tools can produce inaccurate or misleading outputs.

Complex management of AI systems

Integrating AI into existing systems while maintaining compliance and security controls can be technically and operationally challenging.

By addressing these challenges head-on with risk assessment protocols, training, and oversight processes, organisations can unlock the benefits of ethical AI adoption while minimising the risks.

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The AI Governance Process

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1. Discovery & Risk Assessment

Identify where AI is being used in your organisation and assess related legal, ethical, and operational risks.

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2. Setting up Governance Processes

Establish oversight structures, such as an AI governance committee, and define assessment checkpoints throughout the AI lifecycle.

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3. Custom Policy Development

Create tailored policies and procedures aligned with your AI use cases, compliance needs, and organisational risk profile.

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4. Training & Rollout

Equip teams with the knowledge and skills needed to implement and follow governance processes effectively.

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5. Ongoing Compliance Monitoring

Continuously track AI usage, update risk assessments, and ensure adherence to evolving regulations.

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6. Audit & Reporting Support

Provide structured reporting and documentation to demonstrate compliance to regulators, stakeholders, or internal auditors.

What our clients say about us

“Crisis24 has been using Data Driven Legal to support our privacy compliance for a few years. Having Kate and the team available is like having an extension of our in-house legal team with expert knowledge in their subject areas. They really understand our business and provide practical, commercially driven legal advice, which is often requested by us at short notice.”

Crisis24, A global risk management services provider

“I have had the great pleasure of working with Kate at Data Driven Legal since 2022, primarily on an audit of our GDPR compliance, ensuring our data policies, cookie policies and contractual frameworks were robust and up to date. Kate was a delight to work with—organised, responsive and able to communicate complex data privacy concepts in a clear and concise way. She worked seamlessly with my team, transforming what can be a daunting area into something far more manageable and easier to understand. I highly recommend her services.”

Joshua Kaye, Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, AE Networks, Broadcaster, media and entertainment brand

“I contacted Data Driven Legal for advice and help with improving our charity’s GDPR processes and policies. They gave us excellent guidance, providing training sessions for the organisation as a whole, and a session tailored for our Data Champions and myself, the Data Protection Officer. Data Driven Legal are now supporting our Data Cleanse & Retention Project. Our CEO is extremely impressed with their approach.”

“I would not hesitate to recommend Data Driven Legal for all data protection and GDPR compliance matters.”

Miriam Norgate, Data Protection Officer, Malaria No More

    Why Choose Data Driven Legal for Your AI Governance?

    Partnering with Data Driven Legal provides your organisation with cost-effective, expert-led AI governance that ensures compliance across multiple jurisdictions, without the overhead of building an internal team. The benefits of outsourcing your AI governance include:

    Qualified Lawyers

    As qualified lawyers and specialists in GDPR & UK Data Protection, we can provide a legal service and level of expertise that a data protection consultancy can’t.

    Regulatory Insight

    We stay ahead of evolving laws and new regulations, like the Data Use & Access Act 2025, so you don’t have to.

    Proven Best Practice

    Our strategies and frameworks are created and delivered by Data Protection Officers and compliance professionals with experience supporting multinational organisations.

    Proven AI Governance Frameworks

    Our AI governance frameworks allow you to adopt AI tools with confidence, knowing that customer and client data is protected.

    Confidential Legal Support

    Our services are delivered under legal privilege, ensuring confidentiality and protection.

    Flexible Compliance Across Jurisdictions

    Our services are designed to be legislation-agnostic, adaptable across jurisdictions, and always aligned with GDPR principles.

    International Experience

    We offer international experience, helping you to implement compliance strategies which will work across multiple jurisdictions.

    Cross-Industry Insight

    We deliver pragmatic and industry-leading governance solutions, based on insight and expertise in working across different industries.

    Process and Project Management

    Our experience working with international organisations means we are confident in working with senior stakeholders, progressing projects, and ensuring compliance gets going.

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    FAQs

    Why is AI governance important for my organisation?

    AI governance is crucial for your organisation, due to the serious legal, financial, operational and reputational risks that the absence of proper AI compliance can have. Meanwhile, the benefits of adopting a robust and compliant AI governance are:

    • Regulatory compliance with evolving AI and data protection laws
    • Stronger contracts are agreed quickly by meeting customer and partner expectations
    • Reduced legal and operational risk through proactive oversight
    • Faster adoption of AI with clear policies and processes
    • Increased trust from customers, employees, and stakeholders
    • Enhanced reputation for ethical and responsible AI use
    • Competitive advantage over organisations without governance
    What is an AI governance framework?

    An AI governance framework is a structured set of policies, processes, and oversight mechanisms that guide how your organisation adopts, manages, and monitors artificial intelligence in compliance with data security and AI laws and ethical standards. In practice, an AI governance framework typically includes:

    • Policies and principles to define transparency, accountability, and data protection.
    • Internal AI oversight responsibilities
    • Risk assessments
    • Rules on AI governance to ensure AI systems work as intended
    • Staff training to raise awareness
    • Ongoing monitoring and audits
    Does my organisation need an AI governance process?

    Yes, your organisation needs an AI governance process, if you:

    • Use AI in products, services, or internal operations
    • Process personal or sensitive data with AI
    • Work with corporate or public sector customers who expect transparency and compliance
    • Are a multinational or a business that is subject to different regulatory laws (e.g., EU AI Act, GDPR, UK Data Protection, U.S. standards)
    How can AI governance help mitigate legal and regulatory risks?

    AI governance provides the structures and safeguards needed to ensure your organisation complies with evolving data and AI regulations worldwide. By setting clear policies, monitoring AI use, and embedding risk assessments, you reduce the chance of breaches, fines, or legal disputes.