LexisNexis: Legal Aid Deserts 2026

Almost a quarter of people across England and Wales live in legal aid deserts. Access to legal aid remains deeply uneven across England and Wales. Our updated LexisNexis Legal Aid Deserts report 2026 identifies the local authorities where legal need appears highest relative to legal aid provider capacity across five key areas: housing, family, crime, immigration and […]

LexisNexis: How to find UK legal precedents

You can find legal precedents relating to UK case law by searching on Lexis+ Legal Research and Practical Guidance. Simply follow these steps: 1) Log in to Lexis+ and enter the precedent or case you’re looking to find into the search bar Make use of the Advanced Search function to narrow down your search. 2) Filter by Precedents  Here […]

Scaling up: The AI-dependent lawyer – LexisNexis

Lawyers are using AI more often and across more types of work. But greater use has not eased concerns about accuracy, judgement or overreliance. AI is now part of everyday legal work. Lawyers are using it for research, drafting, document review and summarisation. The challenge is no longer whether lawyers will use AI, but whether […]

LexisNexis: How to find All England Law reports

You can find All England Law Reports by searching on Lexis+ Legal Research and Practical Guidance. Simply follow these steps: 1) Log in to Lexis+ and click My Sources   2) Click on All England Law Reports   3) Search for a specific report or filter by year of publication   4) Select the Volume you’re looking for Here […]

LexisNexis: 21 AI stats all private practice lawyers need to know

AI is disrupting business as usual for legal professionals. It’s challenging traditional workflows, changing client expectations, and providing new business opportunities for firms. Our research of the legal market has identified the following trends: AI presents an obvious challenge for training junior lawyers AI can help new lawyers to search, summarise, draft, and reason. But […]

LexisNexis: Legal has earned influence. Now it needs greater impact.

In-house legal has more influence than ever. So why do almost half of legal teams still describe themselves as “overstretched”, “cautious”, “siloed” or “hard to access”? That’s the contradiction at the heart of Incredible innovations: rethinking business with legal at the table, our latest research into the changing role of in-house legal. The research shows that […]

LexisNexis: The legal architecture behind scalable partnerships

Partnerships are often treated as a shortcut to innovation. They offer access to technology, data, customers, infrastructure or market reach without the time and cost of building everything internally. That is why they are attractive in the C-suite. The commercial logic is usually easy to understand. One organisation has the distribution, another has the platform, […]

LexisNexis: Finance legal work under pressure: From review to stress-test

Finance legal work rarely arrives in the right order. A finance document set lands late. A lender call moves forward. The partner needs a position before the briefing. A waiver, amendment, covenant or security point has to be checked against the documents. The commercial position shifts after drafting has begun. The answer then needs one […]

LexisNexis: AI has changed legal work. It hasn’t changed who is responsible for it.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping legal work at a remarkable pace. Tasks that once relied entirely on manual research, drafting and review are increasingly supported by AI, prompting organisations to rethink established workflows, introduce new ways of working and reconsider the skills their people need. Much of the conversation around legal AI naturally focuses on what […]

LexisNexis insight: How AI-assisted litigants in person are reshaping legal workloads

AI is changing the nature of cases involving self representation. The rise of general-purpose AI can mean barristers may need to spend more time checking what they receive for accuracy and relevance This can make legal information easier to produce, but it can also increase the volume of material that barristers must assess. Arguments may […]