ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits: What Your Compliance Strategy Needs in 2026
Federal ADA website accessibility lawsuits hit 3,117 filings in 2025, a 27% increase over the prior year. E-commerce businesses account for roughly 70% of those targets. If your online store lacks proper accessibility features, plaintiffs’ attorneys already have a playbook for suing you. Below, we break down what changed in…
Non-Compete Agreements in Technology: What Companies Need to Know in 2026
The FTC’s attempt to ban non-compete agreements nationwide collapsed in 2024 when a federal court struck down the rule as exceeding the agency’s authority. Since then, non-compete agreement technology companies 2026 enforceability has become a state-by-state puzzle that every founder, CTO, and general counsel must solve individually. Some states void…
Agentic AI Liability in Contracts: What Businesses Must Cover in 2026
Businesses across every industry are racing to deploy AI agents that negotiate vendor terms, process invoices, screen job applicants, and manage customer interactions without human involvement. The appeal is obvious: faster execution, lower overhead, and round-the-clock operations. But when one of those AI agents misprices a purchase order by six…
COPPA Compliance in 2026: What Your Children’s Privacy Policy Must Include
The FTC’s updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule went into effect on April 22, 2025, and the COPPA compliance 2026 requirements demand more from website and app operators than any prior version of the rule. The amendments add biometric data to the definition of personal information, require written security programs…
What Makes an EULA Enforceable? Legal Requirements Every Business Needs in 2026
Your software is live, users are signing up, and somewhere in the onboarding flow sits a license agreement you drafted two years ago. Then a dispute arises. A user redistributes your code, scrapes your database, or files a class action claiming your liability cap is void. You pull up your…
Open Source License Compliance for SaaS: Risks Your Terms Must Address
Most SaaS founders assume their code is clean because their engineers wrote it in-house. But open source license compliance tells a different story. The 2026 OSSRA report found that 68% of audited commercial codebases contained license conflicts, the highest figure ever recorded. For SaaS companies specifically, this creates legal exposure…
SaaS SLA Agreements: Uptime Guarantees and Penalty Clauses That Protect Your Business
A SaaS SLA agreement is only as strong as its enforcement mechanism. Service Level Agreements define the performance standards a provider promises to deliver, but without properly drafted uptime commitments and penalty clauses, those promises carry no legal weight. Businesses that rely on cloud software for critical operations need SLAs…
SaaS Vendor Lock-In: Exit Clauses and Data Portability Requirements
Switching SaaS providers should be a business decision, not a hostage situation. Yet thousands of companies discover too late that their vendor agreements contain no meaningful exit rights, no data return timelines, and no format requirements for exported information. When your contract lacks a clear SaaS exit clause data portability…