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AI Use for UK Lawyers: The 7 Golden Rules

How to use generative AI while staying within SRA guidance and protecting client confidentiality. Sent as soon as you sign up.

Latest issues

9 October 2026

This week in UK legal AI: your clients' AI could face strict liability

If a client builds AI into consumer products, their supply contracts may not survive a regime in which liability cannot be excluded

2 October 2026

This week in UK legal AI: ChatGPT agents now read your inbox unasked

If a fee earner connects their email to a dot, it can read client correspondence in the background. Check your ChatGPT workspace settings this week.

25 September 2026

This week in UK legal AI: the other side cannot make you check its AI

If an opponent serves 300 pages overnight and asks you to find the errors, raise it with the tribunal instead of losing a night to proofreading.

18 September 2026

This week in UK legal AI: your unrepresented opponent files skeletons

A doctoral student with no legal training produced over 100 pages and won. Low-value defence files are not costed for that.

11 September 2026

This week in UK legal AI: your AI notetaker deletes the audio

When the audio is gone, there is nothing left to test the record against in cross-examination.

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Guides

Longer pieces on putting AI to work in practice.

Guides

28 July 2026

Turning the stress-test on myself: a Client Instruction Schedule skill, published to Lawve

Publishing our own skill, and letting the marketplace's auditors loose on it first

Guides

22 June 2026

How I turn meetings into minutes, and where I draw the line

The system I use to turn meetings, calls and board sessions into file notes, the templates, and the confidentiality questions to settle first.

Guides

25 May 2026

Stress-testing Larissa Meredith-Flister's Judicial First Impression skill

The second in the series on Larissa Meredith-Flister's helpful skills to plug in to your AI tool.

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Who writes it

UK Legal AI Brief is written by Serhan Handani, a practising solicitor in England with experience in civil litigation and law firm partnership.

It is for solicitors, barristers and in-house teams who want to use AI in their work without falling foul of their regulator or the court.

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