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The Horizon

Monthly legal horizon scans

You read twelve newsletters and still feel behind. The Horizon is one scan: the regulatory moves, legal updates, and jurisdiction changes that landed this month — filtered to what changed, who's impacted, and what needs to move. Stop scanning. Start advising.

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What The Horizon covers

One scan, three questions

Every entry is filtered to the signals that generalise across in-house legal teams — and to the action each one triggers. Published monthly, archived here so you can look back at how the horizon shifted.

Regulators & legal updates
New and amended AI, data, and contracting rules — surfaced when they change, not when they make headlines.
Jurisdiction changes
Where the EU, US states, and UK are diverging, and which posture sets the baseline for a multi-jurisdiction team.
What needs to move
The deadline, the clause, the policy. Each change mapped to the action it triggers and the window to act.
The archive

Every scan, in order

LATEST — MAY 2026
The legal horizon — May 2026
The EU AI Act Omnibus deferred Annex III to December 2027 but pulled synthetic-content transparency forward to December 2026. The SEC moved to rescind its 2024 climate-disclosure rules. The CMA opened a strategic-market-status investigation into Microsoft's business software. California secured a $12.75m CCPA settlement against GM. The 20th EU Russia sanctions package landed in May tranches. The Pay Transparency Directive deadline arrives 7 June with most member states unready.
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A monthly scan of the regulatory moves, legal updates, and jurisdiction changes that matter for enterprise legal teams — filtered to what changed, who's impacted, and what needs to move.

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