Why 90% of AI Legal Solutions Fail - And How AT&T Gets It Right
July 2, 2025
What if you could harness AI to enhance legal compliance while managing its emerging risks?
Join host Ryan Heath as he sits down with Bill Ryan, SVP and Chief Compliance Officer at AT&T, to explore the evolving intersection of AI and legal compliance. Discover how AI is transforming risk assessment, policy review, and investigation workflows, while learning practical strategies for balancing efficiency gains against sophisticated AI-enabled challenges. Whether you're adapting your legal operations to embrace AI or seeking to understand its impact on compliance, this conversation offers valuable insights on maintaining human relationships and critical thinking in an AI-augmented legal landscape.
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AI is reshaping legal compliance from reactive oversight to proactive risk management, while maintaining the critical importance of human judgment and relationships.
In this episode of The AI Sidekick: Banishing Legal AI Anxiety, host Ryan Heath speaks with Bill Ryan, Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Assistant General Counsel at AT&T, exploring how AI is transforming legal compliance while creating new challenges and opportunities in risk management.
What You'll Learn:
- How to make compliance more accessible and user-friendly through AI-powered communication simplification
- Why AI excels at summarizing and comparing data but requires human oversight for strategic decision-making
- The "Tactical vs. Strategic" framework for implementing AI across legal workflows
- How AI is simultaneously creating efficiencies and new complexities in legal risk management
- Why relationship-building skills become more crucial as AI handles routine legal tasks
- How to balance AI's capabilities with healthy skepticism when evaluating legal information
- The importance of defining personal fulfillment in legal careers amid technological transformation
- Why AI-powered legal complaints require new approaches to case evaluation and response
Bill Ryan serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Assistant General Counsel at AT&T, bringing a unique perspective shaped by his 30-year career journey, which spans from elementary school teacher to telecommunications executive. With extensive experience in video content negotiations from his time at DIRECTV and later AT&T, Bill has been instrumental in navigating the complex intersection of compliance, legal operations, and technological innovation. In this episode, he shares valuable insights on implementing AI in compliance and legal workflows, drawing from AT&T's 150-year history of transformation and customer-centric innovation. His expertise in managing risk, compliance, and legal operations while embracing technological advancement makes him an authoritative voice for legal executives seeking to understand AI's impact on corporate legal functions. Bill's practical approach to AI adoption, balanced with a keen understanding of both opportunities and risks, offers valuable guidance for organizations navigating the evolving landscape of legal technology and compliance.
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In this episode of The AI Sidekick: Banishing Legal AI Anxiety, host Ryan Heath speaks with Bill Ryan, Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Assistant General Counsel at AT&T, exploring how AI is transforming legal compliance while creating new challenges and opportunities in risk management.
What You'll Learn:
- How to make compliance more accessible and user-friendly through AI-powered communication simplification
- Why AI excels at summarizing and comparing data but requires human oversight for strategic decision-making
- The "Tactical vs. Strategic" framework for implementing AI across legal workflows
- How AI is simultaneously creating efficiencies and new complexities in legal risk management
- Why relationship-building skills become more crucial as AI handles routine legal tasks
- How to balance AI's capabilities with healthy skepticism when evaluating legal information
- The importance of defining personal fulfillment in legal careers amid technological transformation
- Why AI-powered legal complaints require new approaches to case evaluation and response
Bill Ryan serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Assistant General Counsel at AT&T, bringing a unique perspective shaped by his 30-year career journey, which spans from elementary school teacher to telecommunications executive. With extensive experience in video content negotiations from his time at DIRECTV and later AT&T, Bill has been instrumental in navigating the complex intersection of compliance, legal operations, and technological innovation. In this episode, he shares valuable insights on implementing AI in compliance and legal workflows, drawing from AT&T's 150-year history of transformation and customer-centric innovation. His expertise in managing risk, compliance, and legal operations while embracing technological advancement makes him an authoritative voice for legal executives seeking to understand AI's impact on corporate legal functions. Bill's practical approach to AI adoption, balanced with a keen understanding of both opportunities and risks, offers valuable guidance for organizations navigating the evolving landscape of legal technology and compliance.
If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, rate, and review it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube Podcasts. Instructions on how to do this are here.
To learn more about Robin AI, visit www.robinai.com/book-a-demo