Recorded on March 19th '26 / 11:30 AM to 12:20 PM PDT

HR’s New Regulatory Reality

Executive Boardroom

What Every People Leader Must Know About AI, Employment Risk, and Tech Compliance

AI adoption in HR is accelerating with legal oversight emerging through global, federal, state and local legislation, regulatory enforcement, privacy laws, and litigation. HR leaders are now on the front line of AI risk, accountability, and governance. While global frameworks like the EU AI Act continue to influence emerging AI standards, employers must operationalize AI governance across their organizations amid overlapping, and sometimes competing, legal standards through internal policies, risk management practices, and day-to-day HR decision-making in the absence of a unified framework. Against this backdrop, recent litigation challenging employment decisions involving AI tools, screening practices, and emerging AI-enabled workflows underscores how quickly routine HR processes can trigger exposure under employment discrimination, consumer protection and privacy laws. This executive boardroom provides senior HR, talent, and people analytics leaders direct access to employment, workplace privacy, data and people analytics attorneys who advise U.S. and multinational employers navigating AI risk today.

Speakers

David S. Baffa

Co-Chair of Seyfarth’s Employment Litigation & Counseling Practice Group, Partner (Labor & Employment)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Annette Tyman

Chair of Seyfarth’s People Analytics Practice Group, Partner (Labor & Employment)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Lauren Gregory Leipold

Partner (Intellectual Property)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Angelina T. Evans

Partner (Labor & Employment)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Pamela Q. Devata

Partner (Labor & Employment)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

What We’ll Explore Together HR AI Use Cases:

What Actually Creates Liability: Why AI used in hiring, screening, performance evaluation, skills inference, and workforce analytics creates heightened legal exposure under employment, labor, and data-protection laws, even without a formal EU “high-risk” label.
Regulatory Reality (Not the Theory): How AI enforcement is unfolding through regulators, enforcement action, and private litigation and what recent cases, settlements, and guidance signal for HR leaders deploying AI tools.
AI Rules That Matter Now: How laws and regulations across jurisdictions including in the EU, Colorado, California, New York City, Illinois, and others are shaping employer obligations.
Novel Legal Theories Testing the Contours of Liability in an AI-Enabled Workplace: How AI-enabled screening and decision-support tools are giving rise to novel litigation theories that test traditional assumptions about employer responsibility, vendor roles, consumer protection requirements and the applicability of existing statutory frameworks.
Practical Risk Management for HR AI: How employers are building workable AI governance models in practice, including cross-functional ownership, bias testing and validation approaches, documentation that supports defensibility in investigations and litigation, and transparency to employees and candidates that align with evolving legal expectations.
From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: How leading organizations are using responsible AI practices in HR to build trust, reduce legal exposure, and differentiate their employer brand—without slowing innovation.