The Solicitors' Regulation Authority (SRA) warned solicitors against lax use of generative AI, citing risks of hallucinated case law and confidentiality breaches, after receiving 42 reports of potenti…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned on Monday that senior lawyers supervising junior staff remain accountable when false AI-generated citations are presented to courts, potentially breach…
The UK Department for Business and Trade is considering requiring employers in Great Britain to consult workers before deploying workplace monitoring technology (WMT), including AI-powered productivit…
HMRC achieved a record compliance yield of £50.2 billion in 2025-26, narrowly missing its £50.4 billion target, as it used AI and advanced data analytics to protect and recover £10 billion in tax reve…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones in lectures for incoming first-year students starting this academic year, aiming to limit AI dependency and develop "AI-resilient …
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issued two apologies to the High Court after submitting documents in an extradition appeal that cited two non-existent legal cases generated by AI. The prosecutor u…
Junior lawyers on Reddit's r/biglaw are divided on whether AI is eliminating their roles or merely acting as an advanced assistant, with some predicting the end of traditional legal pyramids and other…
City law firm Shoosmiths launched a generative AI tool built with Microsoft to assist junior lawyers in reviewing contracts. The tool, known as Project Apollo, is trained on insights from Shoosmiths l…
City law firms are 'sleepwalking into a crisis of judgment' by over-relying on AI as a definitive authority, according to a report by Positive Group. Over 60% of lawyers now use AI for drafting, resea…
Lawyers for former Lush CEO Andrew Gerrie have increased their litigation budget to £6.1m, partly because they will only allow senior lawyers—who charge the highest fees—to train an AI model for docum…
An investigation by GPTZero found that 40 of 45 citations in a KPMG report on agentic AI were fake, with half of the factual claims false or misattributed. KPMG has removed the report and is reviewing…