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Legal Engineering: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Why It May Become One of the Most Important Legal Professions of the AI Era
A few years ago, the phrase “legal engineer” sounded strange to many lawyers. It still does to some. Lawyers advise. Engineers build. Lawyers interpret ambiguity. Engineers try to reduce ambiguity into systems. Lawyers are trained to reason through facts, law, incentives, risk and institutional context. Engineers are trained to decompose problems, define requirements, test outputs…
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Vibe Coding for Lawyers: How Legal and Regulatory Professionals Can Build Powerful Compliance Tools in Hours
The legal profession has always rewarded deep subject matter expertise. What is changing now is the ability to convert that expertise directly into working software, without requiring years of traditional engineering experience. That shift is being accelerated by what many now call “vibe coding“: building software through natural-language collaboration with large language models (LLMs). For…
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Leveraging AI to perform AML Gap Analysis: A Practical Guide to Reviewing AML Policies Under EU AMLD Requirements
AI tools and agentic solutions are increasingly embedded into regulatory and compliance operations. One of the most practical and immediately valuable use cases for legal and compliance professionals is AML policy gap analysis: a usually structured assessment process used to identify whether an AML policy (or, more broadly, a collection of AML policies and procedures)…
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Outsourcing AML Functions Under the EU AML Framework: A Practical Guide for Obliged Entities
Outsourcing has become a defining feature of modern compliance operating models. Banks, payment institutions, crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), investment firms, e-money institutions, insurers and other regulated entities increasingly rely on third-party providers for onboarding, screening, KYC remediation, sanctions filtering, transaction monitoring technology, adverse media checks and other compliance-related functions. The reasons are obvious: scaling compliance…
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CJEU Rules Corporate Entities Can Be Sanctioned for AML Breaches Without Prior Individual Liability Findings (Case C-291/24)
The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered an important judgment clarifying how Member States can hold financial institutions accountable for anti-money laundering violations. In Steiermärkische Bank und Sparkassen AG (Case C-291/24), decided on 29 January 2026, the Court addressed whether national courts can impose additional procedural hurdles before sanctioning legal entities for…
George Filippakis
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George Filippakis
Attorney at Law