Publications
The Fiduciary Vacuum: AI Adoption, Trust Law Erosion, and the Governance Gap in Family Enterprise Succession
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into fiduciary decision-making and the systematic erosion of fiduciary protections through interstate trust law competition.
Their intersection produces what this article terms the “fiduciary vacuum”—a structural accountability gap in which AI-powered decision-making operates with diminishing human oversight inside trust frameworks that simultaneously eliminate meaningful consequences for fiduciary failure. For family enterprise advisory teams, this convergence can no longer be ignored.
How Wu-Tang Clan's Secret Album Just Revolutionized Art Law
Not just another intellectual property case. For the first time, a U.S. court has recognized that a creative work, when it’s worth depends on secrecy rather than mass distribution, can be protected as a trade secret. The implications for the art world are staggering. A precedent-setting decision by a New York federal court ruled that Wu-Tang Clan's single-copy album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, could qualify as a trade secret under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). Traditional Copyright Law isn’t enough for today’s art market.
Generative AI: Revolutionizing Professional Services For Wealthy Families
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into professions like law, accounting, and investment management has been evolving over several decades, with significant acceleration in recent years. Here's a brief overview of AI's impact on legal matters.