Jargon Buster: why your AI thinks you're brilliant

Sycophancy: when the chatbot tells you what you want to hear. Great for the ego, bad for case analysis.

This week in UK legal AI: an AI cite check won't discharge your duty

A tool which checks your draft against the sources you give it cannot tell you those sources are right or still good law. That check is still yours.

Jargon Buster: are you being AI washed?

When "AI-powered" means a search box and a press release. What to ask vendors, and what not to say in your own marketing.

This week in UK legal AI: you can't bill the time AI saved you

Billing the hour a task would have taken without AI runs against new Law Society guidance. Check time recording before the next bill goes out.

Jargon Buster: is that workslop on your desk?

Last time, the meat proxy. This time, what they leave behind: AI work that looks finished but isn't.

This week in UK legal AI: unchecked AI drafts now risk wasted costs

From September 2027 your continuing competence record may need to show how you check AI output against primary sources.

Jargon Buster: are you a meat proxy?

A new series on AI jargon for lawyers. First up: the person who pastes your question into a chatbot and sends the answer straight back.

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

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.

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.

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: witness AI prep can be unlawful coaching

The Court of Appeal says a witness's AI transcript can go before the jury, so if your witnesses use AI, that record is now disclosable.

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

This week in UK legal AI: pick AI for legal skill, not speed

A City firm tested five tools with 46 lawyers and 7,000 data points. Its method is one you can borrow before your next AI purchase.

This week in UK legal AI: no new AI rules for your drafting

The Civil Justice Council says your existing duties already cover AI, so the checking is still on you, not a new rulebook.

This week in UK legal AI: AI slop is arriving from the other side

Litigants are filing fluent, wholly fictional submissions. The cost of sorting real authorities from invented ones now lands on the represented side.

This week in UK legal AI: your AI's model could change without you

If a model is withdrawn, repriced or restricted, the work built on it is exposed. A few questions to your vendor now lower that risk.

This week in UK legal AI: £400 of AI beat a solicitor and counsel

A regulated firm ran the whole claim with AI and instructed counsel only for the hearing. The economics of low-value disputes have shifted.

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.