UK and Ireland law firms are in a strong position. Clients are satisfied, revenue is growing, and AI has moved from a talking point to a daily reality. But performance and sustainability aren’t the same thing.

The FCA takeover of AML supervision is a wake-up call for the legal sector: compliance can no longer be treated as a tick-box exercise—it must be embedded, proactive, and risk-based.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked-about developments in the legal sector, promising to transform everything from client service to case management. Yet while headlines focus on the technology itself, the real differentiator for law firms will be the data they possess to power it.

Legal aid lawyers play a vital role in ensuring access to justice across the UK. Often working under intense pressure and with limited resources, they support individuals navigating legal challenges that can shape the course of their lives.

Legal professionals hesitate to move from desktop software to the cloud because they fear losing the workflows they rely on every day.

Client experience is no longer a soft metric. For mid-sized law firms facing margin pressure, rising client expectations and constrained capacity, the ability to improve client experience has become one of the clearest indicators of sustainable profitability.

You can now leverage Harvey’s legal intelligence to generate PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, and edit suites of Word documents without leaving the app.

Creativity in legal marketing is often treated as surface-level. Something applied at the end to make materials look more polished or visually appealing. That framing misses the point.

Law firms are not short on data. They’re short on connected, actionable intelligence – and the operational infrastructure to put it to work.

AI is reshaping how large law firms research, analyse and apply the law. As these systems become embedded in daily practice, accountability, transparency and professional oversight are emerging as the defining issues that will shape the future of legal research.

The man, a former member of the armed forces, was unmarried and childless. Research quickly established that he had a surviving sister, making her the sole beneficiary under intestacy law in England and Wales. On the surface, everything pointed towards her receiving the full estate.

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) is a UK law aimed at tackling economic crime by improving transparency around corporate entities, particularly by giving Companies House more power to verify information and investigate potential issues.

Legal professionals have relied on right-click compare as a core part of their document review practice for years. And for years, that workflow lived on the desktop.