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.

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.

This week in UK legal AI: your client is asking ChatGPT to grade you

This week in UK legal AI: you cannot supervise what you cannot see

If your firm cannot show how a document was produced, "the system chose" is not an answer the regulator accepts.

This week in UK legal AI: judges are reporting solicitors to the SRA

Fail to have proper regard to AI and you are at risk of disciplinary action, whether or not you knew what the tool had done.

This week in UK legal AI: the deepfake on your video ID call

This week in UK legal AI: clients can in-house 22% of your fees

PwC puts £6bn of UK legal work in the automatable column, so which practice areas you defend is now a partnership-level decision.

This week in UK legal AI: Microsoft banned the AI it sells to your firm

Anthropic's 30-day data retention triggered the ban. Check whether your firm's AI contracts allow the same.

This week in UK legal AI: the AI warned them to check, they didn't

The judge called the failure to verify AI output 'inexcusable'. Review your AI supervision now.

This week in UK legal AI: 59% of lawyers are using AI their firms don't know about

A new survey finds most UK fee earners use unapproved AI on client work. Meanwhile, OpenAI enters the legal market and another firm is referred to the SRA

Correction: Stress-testing Larissa Meredith-Flister's Opposing Counsel Review skill

A corrected post regarding Meredith-Flister's skills

This week in UK legal AI: Freshfields goes all-in with Anthropic

Freshfields is co-building legal AI workflows with Anthropic, not just licensing the software. Meanwhile, the Chancellor of the High Court says AI use can destroy legal privilege.

This week in UK legal AI: the ICO must now write the AI rulebook

New regulations require the ICO to produce an AI code of practice under the Data Protection Act. Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters is building "fiduciary-grade" legal AI and a solicitor releases a free AI adversary tool.

This week in UK legal AI: Anthropic and Microsoft both come for your Word doc

Claude for Word and Copilot both launched legal-specific features this week. The fight for where lawyers actually work has begun. Plus, Freshfields puts 5,000 staff on Gemini.

This week in UK legal AI: does your AI tool conduct litigation?

The Court of Appeal has overturned Mazur, but whether AI can "conduct litigation" remains unresolved. Plus, only 7% of clients are told their lawyer uses AI.