Use of AI and professional negligence has been sought to be clarified by the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) in their Statement on Liability for AI Harms. See the report by LegalIT insider which states: The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) – an industry-led initiative created by LawtechUK – has this week published a Legal Statement on…
‘GenAI ain’t magic’ is the presentation I did at Legal Geek Growth on 11 June 2026. I did a practice run to the International Practice Group (IPG) at their Spring Conference in Luxembourg on 9 May 2026. The synopsis for the talk was: A look at the reality, rather than the hype, surrounding GenAI. Covering…
The GenAI v Verification debate took place in November, after I blogged about the GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice. That blog post, following a heated debate on LinkedIn with those comments added to the post, ended up being 15,612 words long. Most people won’t now read it. Our attention spans are too short in…
My post on The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice stirred up a lot of debate. I thought I would ask GenAI to summarise the arguments for me (after all that is its main use case). Using Copilot I obtained this summary: The article argues that while generative AI (GenAI) promises efficiency in legal practice,…
The GenAI verification burden in legal practice has been highlighted by Joshua Yuvaraj in a recent paper on ‘The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice‘ [PDF]. The Abstract reads: It is often claimed that machine learning-based generative AI products will drastically streamline and reduce the cost of legal practice. This…
I was at Legal Geek Growth in London on 5 June 2025. Legal Geek Growth is the summer alternative, for SME law firms, to the much larger main Legal Geek event (more now aimed at Big Law) in London in the Autumn. I’ve done some reviews of the main Autumn event in the past: Legal…
I almost thought that the Reshaping Legal Services conference, held in London on 6 March 2025, was going to be the first legal conference for some time with no mention of AI. But then it was mentioned. Only once though, and not in the context of legal services. Sophie Wales, Director of Regulatory Policy, Institute…
The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) was held at Ribby Hall Village, Kirkham (near Preston) on 3 July 2024. I know that is now some seven months ago but the day job got in the way before I could, only recently, find the time to finish converting my notes from the conference into this blog…
Blank Page Law. Did it exist 30 years ago? Does it exist today? Richard W Smith posted, the other day on LinkedIn, a link to a post by Seth Godwin that, as Richard put it, is “about how professions have changed over a 30 year period in less than 100 words.” Seth Godwin’s post reads:…
What is the connection between moving house, automation, lawyers and GenAI? Well, I recently spent time helping move my mother-in-law out of a house she has been in for 30 years as she downsizes and relocates. As anyone who has moved house knows, it is a major operation. Even more involved when you can’t take…
Elwood is the latest AI for Law start-up to launch on the burgeoning Legal Technology market. Elwood is the brainchild of serial Law Tech entrepreneur Sidney James. I sat down with Sidney to discuss his latest venture and find out what was “real” about Elwood compared to other AI for Law offerings on the market….
Are lawyers or machines responsible for errors (otherwise known as hallucinations) in GenAI legal research output? This was a point drawn out in some of the many comments and the, at times, heated debate that flowed from my blog post from last week: ChatGPT + Lawyers v Horizon + The Post Office In that post…
