Artificial intelligence has moved out of the research lab and into contracts, hiring pipelines, courtrooms, factory floors, and creative studios, and the legal system is being asked to answer questions its rules were never drafted to reach. This overview maps the terrain a business and its counsel must cross before deploying an AI system: who owns what a machine produces, how copyright and patent law treat the absence of a human author, where biometric and data-privacy statutes such as Illinois's BIPA draw their bright lines, how decades-old anti-discrimination doctrine reaches algorithmic bias, and how to allocate risk in the license agreement. It also examines the products-liability puzzle of autonomous systems, the extraterritorial reach of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, and the professional-responsibility rules that sanctioned lawyers who trusted a chatbot's citations. Throughout, primary authority is paired with plain-English explanation and worked examples, and the analysis links to the deeper UpLaw resources that treat each issue in full.