https://adliora.com/insights Plain-language writing on adopting AI safely and within the rules, for UK law firms. en-GB https://adliora.com/insights/legal-services-regulation-review https://adliora.com/insights/legal-services-regulation-review Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The government will review legal services regulation in full, AI included, and a report from the same week asks it to bring chatbot legal advice within reach of redress. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-native-immigration-practice https://adliora.com/insights/ai-native-immigration-practice Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A US AI-native immigration business plans to open in London, likely under the Immigration Advice Authority rather than the SRA, with a pitch aimed at your sponsor clients. https://adliora.com/insights/human-lawyers-and-client-trust https://adliora.com/insights/human-lawyers-and-client-trust Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Master of the Rolls says clients will keep human lawyers because they need advice they trust, and that lawyers should use AI for their clients rather than fear it. https://adliora.com/insights/cjc-ai-court-documents https://adliora.com/insights/cjc-ai-court-documents Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Civil Justice Council's final report puts a declaration on witnesses of fact and experts, and leaves solicitors' own drafting to the duties they already owe. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-generated-correspondence https://adliora.com/insights/ai-generated-correspondence Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In-house lawyers say AI-drafted complaints, grievances and data requests keep growing. Clients without a legal team will send theirs to you. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-entry-level-legal-work https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-entry-level-legal-work Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The government's new jobs plan says AI is reshaping entry-level work, and asks firms to rethink how they train and supervise their juniors. https://adliora.com/insights/law-society-ai-practice-note https://adliora.com/insights/law-society-ai-practice-note Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Law Society's new practice note reaches your client care letter, the way you bill AI-assisted work and the way your juniors learn. https://adliora.com/insights/clients-using-ai-chatbots https://adliora.com/insights/clients-using-ai-chatbots Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Four in ten adults would consider asking a chatbot before a solicitor, and JUSTICE found some clients already using one to check the work of their own solicitor. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-judges-small-claims https://adliora.com/insights/ai-judges-small-claims Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Master of the Rolls expects small disputes to move to machines on economic grounds, and parties to settle at the figure a machine predicts. https://adliora.com/insights/copilot-for-legal-switched-on https://adliora.com/insights/copilot-for-legal-switched-on Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Microsoft’s legal skills for Copilot are on by default in Word for every licensed user. What a firm on Microsoft 365 decides before anyone relies on them. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-governance-owner https://adliora.com/insights/ai-governance-owner Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Almost one in five legal teams cannot name anyone who owns AI governance, a LexisNexis survey finds. How a small firm names an owner and makes the role work. https://adliora.com/insights/ico-ai-developers-and-ai-agents https://adliora.com/insights/ico-ai-developers-and-ai-agents Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ten AI developers have promised the ICO changes, and the regulator wants evidence on AI agents by 20 November. What both mean for the tools you run on client data. https://adliora.com/insights/statement-of-solicitor-competence-ai https://adliora.com/insights/statement-of-solicitor-competence-ai Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The SRA wants the competence statement to name AI in research, drafting and a new supervision section. What the draft asks of your firm before it applies. https://adliora.com/insights/agentic-ai-in-the-justice-system https://adliora.com/insights/agentic-ai-in-the-justice-system Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Law Society expects AI agents to reach small claims, debt and probate first. What that means for the claims you face and the tools your firm runs. https://adliora.com/insights/compliance-officer-split-and-your-ai https://adliora.com/insights/compliance-officer-split-and-your-ai Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The compliance officer split is on hold while the SRA consults. What the pause changes for whoever signs off AI in your firm, and what it leaves alone. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-assisted-complaints https://adliora.com/insights/ai-assisted-complaints Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Legal Ombudsman found signs of AI in half the complaint files it reviewed. How to answer a long, legalistic letter a chatbot wrote for your client. https://adliora.com/insights/online-procedure-rules-ai-standards https://adliora.com/insights/online-procedure-rules-ai-standards Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The first digital service under the rules opened for possession claims on 29 September, and the committee behind it is drafting AI standards next. https://adliora.com/insights/recording-court-proceedings https://adliora.com/insights/recording-court-proceedings Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A Crown Court judge let six barristers record a trial and transcribe it, on terms about storage, deletion and model training. What that means for your firm. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-adoption-and-your-pricing https://adliora.com/insights/ai-adoption-and-your-pricing Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Only one firm in twenty now uses no AI, NatWest finds, yet profit per partner rose two per cent. Why the fee has not caught up and what to change. https://adliora.com/insights/shadow-ai-in-your-firm https://adliora.com/insights/shadow-ai-in-your-firm Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Nearly a third of UK workers using AI do so without their employer knowing, Deloitte finds. What that means for a firm holding client files. https://adliora.com/insights/lawtechuk-advisory-board https://adliora.com/insights/lawtechuk-advisory-board Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Ministry of Justice is picking who advises on lawtech to 2029, and SME legal services is on the list it wants. Applications close 5 October. https://adliora.com/insights/whistleblowing-and-your-ai-use https://adliora.com/insights/whistleblowing-and-your-ai-use Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A junior who reports your firm to the SRA now has the protection of employment law. The internal route is the one you still control. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-skeleton-arguments https://adliora.com/insights/ai-skeleton-arguments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A litigant in person filed a 300-page skeleton produced with ChatGPT and asked the other side to find the errors. The EAT has said where that work belongs. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-in-the-courts https://adliora.com/insights/ai-in-the-courts Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The justice minister has named transcription, listing and case summarisation as the court tools being built. Your files feel that before the headlines do. https://adliora.com/insights/law-firm-ai-budgets https://adliora.com/insights/law-firm-ai-budgets Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Four in five SME firms have committed funds to AI, and the same Crowe survey finds them chasing profit and cash over turnover. What to measure. https://adliora.com/insights/litigant-in-person-using-ai https://adliora.com/insights/litigant-in-person-using-ai Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A student with no legal training used AI to build a hundred-page bundle and beat counsel at Oxford County Court. The preparation gap has narrowed. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-bill-and-your-firm https://adliora.com/insights/ai-bill-and-your-firm Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A committee of both Houses wants an AI Bill. Its finding on where responsibility sits describes the position your firm is already in. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-support-for-jurors https://adliora.com/insights/ai-support-for-jurors Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A judge has asked peers to put an NHS self-help assistant in front of jurors. A page open to a juror mid-trial sits one question away from an offence. https://adliora.com/insights/cyber-resilience-act-and-your-suppliers https://adliora.com/insights/cyber-resilience-act-and-your-suppliers Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Software makers selling into Europe must report exploited faults within 24 hours. Your suppliers keep a clock in September they were not keeping in August. https://adliora.com/insights/rogue-ai-agents-and-your-supplier https://adliora.com/insights/rogue-ai-agents-and-your-supplier Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Hawley letter to OpenAI asks who is liable when AI goes rogue. Four questions to put to any supplier selling your firm an agentic tool. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-transcription-in-family-cases https://adliora.com/insights/ai-transcription-in-family-cases Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 JUSTICE warns that AI transcription in social work is affecting the documents that reach the family court, and the original audio is gone in thirty days. https://adliora.com/insights/digital-identity-and-client-verification https://adliora.com/insights/digital-identity-and-client-verification Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The government dropped digital ID in July and the NAO has set out why. Nobody is coming to verify your clients for you, and the fakes keep improving. https://adliora.com/insights/gpt-6-astra-for-law-firms https://adliora.com/insights/gpt-6-astra-for-law-firms Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's new flagship is built to operate your software rather than answer questions. The decision it puts to a small firm is about access, not drafting. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-dependence-and-junior-lawyers https://adliora.com/insights/ai-dependence-and-junior-lawyers Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A LexisNexis survey of 543 UK legal professionals finds one in ten dependent on AI, and three quarters fearing juniors will never build judgement. https://adliora.com/insights/struck-off-over-ai-citations https://adliora.com/insights/struck-off-over-ai-citations Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The SDT struck off a lawyer who put AI-generated authorities before it, then used AI again to correct them. The first ruling of its kind, and it turned on the second attempt. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-declarations-witness-statements https://adliora.com/insights/ai-declarations-witness-statements Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Irish High Court rule took effect on 1 September and reaches cases already running. What it asks, and the habit worth borrowing before any English rule requires it. https://adliora.com/insights/ico-ai-guidance-timetable https://adliora.com/insights/ico-ai-guidance-timetable Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The regulator has published what it is drafting and when it expects to finish. Two of the entries carry dates inside the next six months. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-allegations-against-experts https://adliora.com/insights/ai-allegations-against-experts Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Home Office put it to a country expert that a machine wrote his report. Three Upper Tribunal judges found no proper foundation for the suggestion. https://adliora.com/insights/california-ai-rules-for-lawyers https://adliora.com/insights/california-ai-rules-for-lawyers Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Senate Bill 574 would put four duties on a Californian attorney using AI. Three already sit in the rules you practise under, and the fourth is where the two part. https://adliora.com/insights/analysing-case-data-lawfully https://adliora.com/insights/analysing-case-data-lawfully Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Court of Appeal upheld a firm's analysis of 372 claim files naming people who were not its clients. The same test meets any tool reading your caseload. https://adliora.com/insights/legal-ai-in-your-cloud-platform https://adliora.com/insights/legal-ai-in-your-cloud-platform Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google put contract review and legal research inside the cloud tenancy you already pay for. Who in your firm decides what gets switched on. https://adliora.com/insights/when-your-legal-ai-vendor-builds-its-own-model https://adliora.com/insights/when-your-legal-ai-vendor-builds-its-own-model Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Thomson Reuters has trained a model of its own on Westlaw and Practical Law content. What to settle with a supplier that owns the model behind your tool. https://adliora.com/insights/continuing-competence-and-ai https://adliora.com/insights/continuing-competence-and-ai Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The SRA's fourth annual assessment finds almost half of training records silent on how the learning need arose. What to record about the tools you have adopted. https://adliora.com/insights/ncsc-agentic-ai-advice https://adliora.com/insights/ncsc-agentic-ai-advice Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The National Cyber Security Centre published interim advice on autonomous tools on 20 August 2026. Its controls turn into the questions you put to a supplier. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-consumption-pricing https://adliora.com/insights/ai-consumption-pricing Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The subscription that let a fee earner use a tool freely is giving way to billing by use. What to ask your supplier before the renewal quote arrives. https://adliora.com/insights/document-filing-and-ai-answers https://adliora.com/insights/document-filing-and-ai-answers Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A benchmark ran the same AI agent over the same files with and without structured context. What it says about your filing, and where to start. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-memory-and-ethical-walls https://adliora.com/insights/ai-memory-and-ethical-walls Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A legal AI platform relaunched with memory at its centre. The conflicts question it raises reaches every firm using an assistant that learns. https://adliora.com/insights/sra-warning-notice-ai https://adliora.com/insights/sra-warning-notice-ai Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The regulator has moved from explaining the rules to warning the profession, after 42 reports of possible AI misuse in a year and investigations now open. https://adliora.com/insights/supplier-outage-client-checks https://adliora.com/insights/supplier-outage-client-checks Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 LexisNexis pulled three Nexis products after trouble at a company most of its customers had never heard of. The gap it left is the one your firm should plan for. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-native-law-firms https://adliora.com/insights/ai-native-law-firms Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fifty-eight regulated practices now describe themselves as built around AI, and a technology divorce service has applied to the SRA for family work and conveyancing. https://adliora.com/insights/what-an-ai-review-finds https://adliora.com/insights/what-an-ai-review-finds Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A twelve-partner firm built on paper, the three things a review turns up and the arithmetic behind the business case, with every assumption open to challenge. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-agent-handoffs https://adliora.com/insights/ai-agent-handoffs Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two suppliers have agreed a way to pass half-finished work between them. The consent point lands on your fee earner, so the rule has to reach them first. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-watermarks-in-your-drafts https://adliora.com/insights/ai-watermarks-in-your-drafts Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Claude now marks the text it writes and edits, and the mark survives a copy and paste. What it exposes is your process rather than the technology. https://adliora.com/insights/deepfake-identity-checks https://adliora.com/insights/deepfake-identity-checks Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Deepfakes and AI impersonation are now named in the SRA's risk assessment. Remote onboarding and video checks in conveyancing deserve a second look before a fraudster gives them one. https://adliora.com/insights/eu-ai-act-for-business https://adliora.com/insights/eu-ai-act-for-business Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Act became applicable on 2 August and the omnibus fixed the rest of the timetable. What binds a business now, and the client work it creates. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-growth-lab-what-it-admits https://adliora.com/insights/ai-growth-lab-what-it-admits Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Read as an admission, the AI Growth Lab is the more useful document. Four regulators concede in it what their rules do not yet settle. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-your-sustainability-claims https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-your-sustainability-claims Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Environmental reporting at most firms counts travel and paper while AI runs all day. Naming the omission is the easy part, fixing it takes a supplier question and an owner. https://adliora.com/insights/claude-for-legal-head https://adliora.com/insights/claude-for-legal-head Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic has put a named head in charge of Claude for Legal. Your firm's due diligence questions finally have an address, so send them. https://adliora.com/insights/measuring-ai-adoption https://adliora.com/insights/measuring-ai-adoption Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Switch-on numbers flatter every rollout. Whether the work itself changed is a different question, and a ninety-day count answers it. https://adliora.com/insights/legal-ai-consolidation https://adliora.com/insights/legal-ai-consolidation Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Five acquisitions by one supplier in a single year. When a tool your firm relies on changes hands, the contract you signed decides how much that matters. https://adliora.com/insights/witnesses-using-ai https://adliora.com/insights/witnesses-using-ai Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A witness who rehearses their evidence with a chatbot puts that evidence at risk, says the Court of Appeal. A paragraph in your client care letter deals with it. https://adliora.com/insights/legal-ai-spending https://adliora.com/insights/legal-ai-spending Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 LexisNexis's owner has published its half-year figures, and the market's AI money is flowing into subscriptions firms already hold. Check what your renewal quietly added. https://adliora.com/insights/specialist-legal-ai-or-general-assistant https://adliora.com/insights/specialist-legal-ai-or-general-assistant Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Microsoft's own legal team took on a specialist legal AI platform while keeping the general assistant it already ran. The reasoning applies to far smaller firms. https://adliora.com/insights/cps-hallucinated-cases https://adliora.com/insights/cps-hallucinated-cases Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two invented authorities reached the High Court in a CPS matter before anyone noticed. Tobosaru is the verification lesson every firm hopes to learn secondhand. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-professional-indemnity https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-professional-indemnity Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Your professional indemnity insurer now asks how your firm governs AI. What underwriters want to see at renewal, and the cover risk of leaving AI unmanaged. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-models-from-abroad https://adliora.com/insights/ai-models-from-abroad Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Before a new AI model handles client data, a law firm owes the same duty of confidentiality. What to check on jurisdiction, using Kimi K3 as the example. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-growth-lab-law-firms https://adliora.com/insights/ai-growth-lab-law-firms Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The government has opened a supervised sandbox where firms test AI tools with the regulators watching. What it offers a smaller firm, and what it does not. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-providers-enter-legal https://adliora.com/insights/ai-providers-enter-legal Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The AI model makers now sell into legal work directly and firms are signing partnerships. What a smaller firm should weigh before it ties itself to one platform. https://adliora.com/insights/gpt-5-6-goes-public https://adliora.com/insights/gpt-5-6-goes-public Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 to everyone after weeks of government limits. The capability jump is real. Your firm's duty to check and protect is not. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-automated-decision-making https://adliora.com/insights/ai-automated-decision-making Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 moved automated decision-making from prohibition to permission with safeguards. What that change lets your firm build, and what it demands in return. https://adliora.com/insights/ico-ai-data-protection https://adliora.com/insights/ico-ai-data-protection Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The ICO's guidance on AI and data protection maps every UK GDPR principle onto AI systems. Here is what a law firm should take from it. https://adliora.com/insights/judiciary-ai-guidance https://adliora.com/insights/judiciary-ai-guidance Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The judiciary's AI guidance tells judges how to approach these tools. Read closely, it also tells a law firm how the bench will read AI-assisted work. https://adliora.com/insights/multi-model-legal-ai https://adliora.com/insights/multi-model-legal-ai Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The larger legal AI platforms now run on several models at once and route work between them. That shifts your due diligence from which model to how the platform handles your data. https://adliora.com/insights/when-not-using-ai-is-negligent https://adliora.com/insights/when-not-using-ai-is-negligent Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce says a professional can be liable for using AI badly, and for failing to use it where a competent practitioner would have. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-write-access https://adliora.com/insights/ai-write-access Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI assistants can now send email, book meetings and file documents in your systems. What a firm should check before granting write access. https://adliora.com/insights/eu-ai-act-august-2026 https://adliora.com/insights/eu-ai-act-august-2026 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 From 2 August 2026 the EU begins enforcing its rules on general AI models. Here is where the AI Act reaches a UK law firm, and what to do. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-your-fees https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-your-fees Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Deloitte research finds most in-house counsel expect AI to cut their legal bills and change how firms price. What it means for your firm. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-assistant-works-while-you-sleep https://adliora.com/insights/ai-assistant-works-while-you-sleep Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI assistants now run in the background and from a phone. For a law firm that raises real questions about confidentiality, supervision and control. https://adliora.com/insights/mazur-ai-and-conducting-litigation https://adliora.com/insights/mazur-ai-and-conducting-litigation Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A Court of Appeal ruling on supervision leaves open whether an AI tool that makes case decisions amounts to conducting litigation. https://adliora.com/insights/verify-before-you-file https://adliora.com/insights/verify-before-you-file Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The number of AI hallucination cases keeps climbing. A simple verification habit is now part of your duty to the court. https://adliora.com/insights/sra-supervision-2026 https://adliora.com/insights/sra-supervision-2026 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The SRA has substantially expanded its supervision guidance. A named authorised person must stay accountable for AI-assisted work. https://adliora.com/insights/cork-v-smith-ai https://adliora.com/insights/cork-v-smith-ai Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A ruling found a firm had misled the court through AI hallucinations, and set out plainly where accountability sits. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-continuity-lessons https://adliora.com/insights/ai-continuity-lessons Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A capable AI tool vanished for nineteen days under export controls. For a firm that had built it into daily work, that is a continuity problem. https://adliora.com/insights/fable-5-mythos-5-return https://adliora.com/insights/fable-5-mythos-5-return Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic's most capable models were suspended for about nineteen days under US export controls, then restored. Here is what happened and why it matters. https://adliora.com/insights/sonnet-5-for-law-firms https://adliora.com/insights/sonnet-5-for-law-firms Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, close to its top model in capability at a lower price. Here is what that shift means for a law firm. https://adliora.com/insights/sra-and-ai https://adliora.com/insights/sra-and-ai Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI does not sit outside your professional duties. It sits squarely inside them. Here is what the SRA framework asks of a firm that puts these tools to work. https://adliora.com/insights/client-confidentiality-ai https://adliora.com/insights/client-confidentiality-ai Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Every prompt that carries client information is a disclosure. The duty does not soften because the recipient is a machine. https://adliora.com/insights/choosing-legal-ai-tools https://adliora.com/insights/choosing-legal-ai-tools Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The market is loud and the demonstrations are polished. A short, disciplined process tells substance from hype before you sign. https://adliora.com/insights/stopping-ai-mistakes https://adliora.com/insights/stopping-ai-mistakes Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 General models do not know the law. They predict text, and sometimes they predict a case that never existed. Here is how to keep that out of your work. https://adliora.com/insights/uk-gdpr-and-ai https://adliora.com/insights/uk-gdpr-and-ai Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Putting client data through an AI tool is processing like any other. The UK GDPR applies in full, and a few questions keep you on the right side of it. https://adliora.com/insights/cost-of-legal-ai https://adliora.com/insights/cost-of-legal-ai Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The licence is the smallest number. The honest question for a small firm is whether the hours saved repay the time and money the change really takes. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-use-policy https://adliora.com/insights/ai-use-policy Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A short, plain policy is the difference between staff guessing and staff knowing. Here is what a workable AI policy for a small firm contains. https://adliora.com/insights/drafting-with-ai https://adliora.com/insights/drafting-with-ai Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI drafts quickly and confidently. The skill is knowing which drafts to trust and which to treat as a starting point only. https://adliora.com/insights/legal-research-ai https://adliora.com/insights/legal-research-ai Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A general chatbot is the wrong tool for legal research. A tool built on real law is a different proposition, used with care. https://adliora.com/insights/training-your-team https://adliora.com/insights/training-your-team Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A tool is only as safe as the people using it. Short, practical training is what turns a policy on paper into habit. https://adliora.com/insights/pii-and-ai https://adliora.com/insights/pii-and-ai Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Your insurer has a view on how you use AI, even if they have not said so yet. It is worth getting ahead of the question. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-across-borders https://adliora.com/insights/ai-across-borders Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Many AI tools process data outside the United Kingdom. When client data crosses a border, the UK GDPR has something to say about it. https://adliora.com/insights/client-care-and-ai https://adliora.com/insights/client-care-and-ai Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Clients are entitled to know how their matter is handled. Where AI plays a part, a little candour protects the relationship and the retainer. https://adliora.com/insights/document-review-ai https://adliora.com/insights/document-review-ai Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Reviewing a large set of documents is where AI can save the most time, and where a careless approach can do the most damage. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-in-conveyancing https://adliora.com/insights/ai-in-conveyancing Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Conveyancing runs on volume and tight margins, which is exactly why AI is tempting, and why the duties around it need care. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-in-family-law https://adliora.com/insights/ai-in-family-law Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Family work is among the most sensitive a firm handles. AI can help with the load, but the data deserves particular care. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-note-takers https://adliora.com/insights/ai-note-takers Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI meeting assistants are everywhere, and they quietly record and send client conversations to a third party. That is the trap. https://adliora.com/insights/cyber-security-ai https://adliora.com/insights/cyber-security-ai Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Every new tool is a new door into the firm. AI tools are no different, and a few basics keep them from becoming a way in. https://adliora.com/insights/marketing-with-ai https://adliora.com/insights/marketing-with-ai Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI can write your marketing in minutes. The duty not to mislead means you still have to stand behind every word. https://adliora.com/insights/records-and-retention-ai https://adliora.com/insights/records-and-retention-ai Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 If an AI tool holds copies of client data, your retention and deletion duties follow the data into the tool. https://adliora.com/insights/supervising-ai-use https://adliora.com/insights/supervising-ai-use Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The duty to supervise does not pause because a junior used a tool. If anything, AI makes good supervision matter more. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-contracts-to-read https://adliora.com/insights/ai-contracts-to-read Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The demonstration sells the tool. The contract decides whether it is safe for a law firm to use. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-access-to-justice https://adliora.com/insights/ai-and-access-to-justice Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Used well, AI can let a small firm serve clients it could not afford to serve before. That is a quieter benefit worth naming. https://adliora.com/insights/ai-roadmap-next-year https://adliora.com/insights/ai-roadmap-next-year Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Adopting AI well is a sequence, not a single decision. A simple roadmap keeps the firm moving without overreaching.