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The AI Answer for Boutique Law Firms Is Already in Plain Sight, But Are Firms Looking in the Right Place?

Key takeaways - Boutique law firms have many of the same confidentiality, supervision and governance responsibilities as much larger firms, but withou

By Claire Mullaney

The Crime and Policing Act 2026: What the New Offences Mean in Practice

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 began coming into force on 29 June 2026. It is, by any measure, one of the most wide-ranging pieces of criminal justic

By Claire Mullaney

When a Suspended Sentence Is No Longer Lenient: The Deportation Rules That Changed in March

Until March this year, a foreign national who received a suspended sentence faced a very different set of immigration consequences to one who received

By Claire Mullaney

The Employment Rights Act 2025: What UK Employers Need to Do Before October

The Employment Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025. Prime Minister Keir Starmer described it as the biggest upgrade to workers’

By Ruby Kelly

Rethinking the £1 Million Milestone: Is Turnover the Wrong Target?

There is a number that haunts the ambitions of almost every small law firm owner: £1 million in turnover. It sits on business plans like a finishing l

By Claire Mullaney, Founder

AI-Drafted Grievances, Uncapped Claims and a Tribunal System Under Strain

The employment tribunal system in England and Wales is under significant and documented strain. There were 531,000 open tribunal claims at the end of

By Ruby Kelly

How to Get Your Law Firm Seen by ChatGPT and LLMs

I ran 1,450 prompt tests across 335 UK law firms to see what ChatGPT and other large language models actually say when someone asks about legal servic

By Claire Mullaney, Founder LegalVIS.ai

When Your Private Life Becomes Evidence

For years, disputes over homes and inheritance were often treated as private family matters, resolved between relatives or settled through legal struc

By Ruby Kelly

Why Podcasting May Be the Most Underrated AI Visibility Strategy for Lawyers

The most discoverable lawyers are not necessarily the most experienced. They are the ones willing to talk, and if the idea of sitting in front of a mi

By Ruby Kelly

HS2: A Monument to Political Failure?

Six prime ministers. More than fifteen years. An original 2009 estimate of around thirty-seven billion pounds that has since been projected as high as

By Robert Charles Alexander