What 200 lawyers across the globe reveal about the patterns, gaps, and opportunities defining the next era of legal productivity.

In this episode of Studio A, Will Ayers sits down with Aderant President and CEO Chris Cartrett for an in-depth discussion of the evolving landscape of legal technology.

Dye & Durham has announced that Stewart Title Indemnity Insurance is now fully available within its Unity legal platform, giving conveyancers a simpler, faster way to order and manage both property searches and title insurance from the same system.

Manual contract review often forces legal teams to reinvent the wheel, wasting time on routine redlining instead of high-level strategy. By using an intelligence layer to connect your past deals directly to your current draft, you can automate standard-checking and access your team’s collective memory in real time.

LEAP Estates has released its 2026 Private Client Industry Report, providing detailed insight into wills and estate planning trends across England and Wales. The report draws on aggregated, anonymised data from the LEAP, LEAP Estates and Willsuite platforms, offering a large-scale, data-led view of private client legal activity during the 2025 reporting year.

There’s a lot of dramatic commentary about AI “coming for” creative teams. In legal marketing, where everyone is already stretched, it’s easy to see why that narrative sticks. But I don’t think AI is the real threat. Mediocrity is.

For most law firms, CRM is a necessary operational expense - a digital Rolodex for clients and prospects. But the UK’s top firms have realised a powerful shift: CRM isn’t a database; it’s a growth engine.

Most conveyancing journeys begin the same way. Someone has a question, they want a price, and they want it quickly. But this is where many firms lose momentum. A slow reply or unclear fees can send a potential client looking elsewhere before you even know they reached out.

Standardising workflows can unlock efficiency and consistency in mid-sized law firms, but only if it is done in a way that preserves professional judgement, innovation and client focus. This article explores how managing partners can streamline workflow process design while protecting the creativity that differentiates their firm.

In 2026, generalized AI has become "table stakes." While every organization now has access to the same foundational models, the true competitive advantage belongs to the teams that can leverage their own institutional memory.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today released findings from its iManage Knowledge Work 2026 Benchmark Report, a global study of 3,185 business and technology decision-makers across 26 countries, showing that professional services firms with mature, well-governed knowledge foundations significantly outperform their peers on AI adoption, business performance, and client trust.

Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, today announced it has acquired Noetica, Inc. Founded in 2022, the New York–based AI-native start-up transforms transaction-deal data into structured market intelligence for deal professionals.

Law firms have spent years building proprietary knowledge libraries: approved precedents, practice notes, model clauses, checklists, and internal policies. The promise of AI is that it can make this knowledge instantly accessible. The reality is more complicated — but three approaches are turning that promise into something practical.