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AI Use for UK Lawyers: The 7 Golden Rules

How to use generative AI while staying within SRA guidance and protecting client confidentiality. Sent as soon as you sign up.

Latest issues

6 November 2026

This week in UK legal AI: your witnesses may soon have to disclaim AI

Skeleton arguments escape a declaration, but the CJC wants the responsible lawyer identified on each one, so check who signs off AI-assisted drafts.

4 November 2026

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.

30 October 2026

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.

28 October 2026

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.

23 October 2026

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.

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Guides

Longer pieces on putting AI to work in practice.

Guides

28 July 2026

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

Guides

22 June 2026

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.

Guides

25 May 2026

Stress-testing Larissa Meredith-Flister's Judicial First Impression skill

The second in the series on Larissa Meredith-Flister's helpful skills to plug in to your AI tool.

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Who writes it

UK Legal AI Brief is written by Serhan Handani, a practising solicitor in England with experience in civil litigation and law firm partnership.

It is for solicitors, barristers and in-house teams who want to use AI in their work without falling foul of their regulator or the court.

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