LexisNexis’s May senior counsel session, hosted in collaboration with Cripps LLP and Flex Legal, explored emerging trends in competition law and their practical implications. The session focused on three areas attracting increasing regulatory attention: competition law in labour markets, competition risks arising from minority stakes, and the developing relationship between competition law and agentic AI. […]

For regulated firms, this creates a growing challenge: how do you stop fraudsters who can convincingly imitate legitimate customers, manipulate identity data, and bypass traditional verification checks? At SmartSearch, we see first-hand how financial crime is shifting toward AI-driven deception, synthetic identities, and increasingly complex fraud networks. Our 2026 Compliance Report highlights the operational pressures […]

A new report shows how UK legal buyers are adjusting their expectations for how their law firms’ legal work is delivered, including through AI integration. Key insights: UK law firms face a more selective growth market in 2026 — Client demand remains steady, but external legal spend expectations have cooled, with growth concentrated in areas such […]

Most law firms aren’t avoiding the move to compliance cloud because they disagree with the case for it. They’re stalling because the case for moving doesn’t answer the questions that actually keep risk officers up at night: Who does the work? How long will it take? What breaks in the meantime? The journey is the problem. Bim […]

Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals, today announced a major expansion of its European presence. New offices will open in Madrid, Milan, and Paris during Q3 2026, alongside a dedicated engineering hub in London. Hiring across all four locations has begun. Europe is the market that first validated Legora’s platform at scale. Long […]

Draftwise, the leading contract intelligence platform for legal drafting, review, and negotiation, announced a strategic technology partnership with Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance. The integration enables legal teams to leverage Draftwise’s AI-powered contract intelligence directly from Egnyte’s secure document infrastructure, eliminating friction between document storage and contract review. With the […]

Our 2026 Compliance Report reveals a stark new reality: 87% of businesses would immediately cut ties after a single compliance failure. The report also covers: 95% of firms admit struggling with at least one major compliance challenge. 54% of checks are still manual, even as deepfake fraud surges. 72% of leaders expect compliance complexity to skyrocket in the next 12 […]

Having a playbook and keeping it accurate are two different challenges. In practice, what you agree to doesn’t always make it back into the playbook, and the gap between your playbook and your executed documents widens deal by deal, quarter by quarter, until your portfolio no longer reflects the risk posture you think you have. […]

In April, we published the SmartSearch Compliance Report 2026. We surveyed 1,000 people working in legal, accountancy, property, financial services, and insurance to understand how businesses are really coping with compliance. CEO, Phil Cotter, Chief Customer Officer, Collette Smith, and Sales Director, Joe Morris, hosted a webinar discussing what the data found and what it means for your business.   The session covered: […]

16 June 2026 | 3:30pm BST Most legal AI projects don’t fail because of the model – they fail because of the document foundation underneath it. In this 30-minute fireside chat, legal technology experts from NetDocuments unpack why your documents, metadata, and governance are what make AI dependable at scale. This session covers how to […]

Rising fraud levels mean higher expectations for client due diligence Fraud continues to pose a significant threat to businesses and individuals across the UK, with identity fraud remaining the most prevalent form of financial crime. According to Cifas’ 2026 Fraudscape Report, more than 444,000 cases were filed to the National Fraud Database during 2025. This […]

Legal AI platforms process your most sensitive data: client files, deal terms, negotiation strategy, and work product. Before onboarding a new platform or tool, your firm needs answers to a specific set of security questions. Most vendor evaluations don’t ask them. This guide covers what to ask and why it matters. Start With Ownership, Not […]

The key conditions that determine whether AI-led transformation is successful. Across many law firms, AI is already being used in substantive, client-facing work. But turning that usage into consistent, firm-wide impact remains a challenge. What separates firms that are seeing early success from those where adoption stalls is not the quality of the tools, but […]