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Illustration of a client showing AI chatbot legal advice on a phone to a solicitor, reflecting how AI is changing clients walking into law firms

Legal Technology14 August 2026 · 9 min read

"ChatGPT says I'm right": how AI is changing the clients walking into law firms

Clients are arriving at first appointments with detailed AI-generated legal positions. Lawyers are increasingly being asked to review, verify and sometimes und…

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Illustration of in-house legal teams racing ahead of law firms on AI adoption, showing the legal AI adoption gap

Legal Technology14 August 2026 · 5 min read

Are law firm clients moving faster on AI than their lawyers?

New research suggests in-house legal teams are adopting AI faster than the firms advising them, and some clients are already rethinking who they instruct.

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Gen Z lawyer and senior law firm partner side by side, illustrating law firm recruitment and retention of Gen Z lawyers

Practice Management14 August 2026 · 7 min read

Are law firms ready for Gen Z lawyers?

Gen Z lawyers are already inside the profession as trainees, paralegals and associates. The practice management question is whether traditional ways of supervi…

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Supplier Insight14 August 2026 · 3 min read

Is your law firm too reliant on CMC referrals?

Buying claims management leads is not the problem. Reaching the point where you cannot switch them off is, according to BSD Legal Marketing.

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Illustration of an oak tree with law firm offices in its branches, representing a buy-and-build law firm acquisition and succession planning group

Practice Management14 August 2026 · 3 min read

Buy-and-build legal group seals second law firm acquisition in a month

Oak Legal Group has bought Hertfordshire practice Perrin Myddelton weeks after its Oxford deal, pitching itself at firms wrestling with law firm succession pla…

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Law firm dashboard showing matter profitability, utilisation and lock-up metrics — legal business intelligence for law firms

Legal Technology14 August 2026 · 4 min read

Why law firm dashboards are quietly replacing the monthly management pack

Clarity Business Intelligence on how legal business intelligence and live data dashboards give law firms a grip on matter profitability, utilisation and cash —…

Clarity Business Intelligence

Laptop showing an online divorce service case management system beside an SRA regulation certificate and separated wedding rings

Legal Technology14 August 2026 · 2 min read

Online divorce service applies for regulation as a law firm

Amicable, built to guide couples through separation without lawyers on both sides, is seeking authorisation from the SRA — conceding that some cases genuinely…

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Two Bedford Row law firm offices in Holborn separated by a broken line, illustrating abandoned law firm merger talks

Practice Management14 August 2026 · 2 min read

Merger talks between two Bedford Row firms end without a deal

Russell-Cooke and Teacher Stern, neighbours on the same central London street, have confirmed they will not combine — a reminder of how often law firm merger c…

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Cohabiting couple either side of a torn house-shaped document with scales of justice, illustrating cohabitation rights and the common law marriage myth in the UK

Compliance & Risk12 August 2026 · 2 min read

Family lawyers reject 'forced marriage' framing of cohabitation reform

Resolution has pushed back hard on claims that giving cohabiting couples legal protection amounts to marriage by stealth, or that it would flood the family cou…

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