This is our annual data-driven analysis of the UK conveyancing market, built on 15 months of HM Land Registry data. It covers the market context, competitive landscape, client expectations, compliance obligations, regional breakdown, and the outlook for FY26/27. Report overview The State of the UK Conveyancing Market 2026 is the fourth edition of Access Legal’s […]

Summary Every time a lawyer hits send, hidden metadata in legal documents can travel with that file, carrying tracked changes, internal comments, and author details the sender never meant to share. Legal metadata cleaning removes hidden data from documents before a firm shares them, protecting privileged information and client confidence. Because this exposure is invisible […]

Legora today announced the expansion of its Legal AI Scholars Programme to the United Kingdom, collaborating with leading UK law schools to integrate professional-grade legal AI across their programmes. Applications range from embedding Legora across professional legal training to the work students are doing in the schools’ pro bono legal clinics, where they use Legora […]

Join our upcoming webinar, The intelligent law firm, where we explore how legal teams can overcome the daily pressures of modern practice and create a more efficient, connected way of working. Wednesday 30 September 2026 3pm BST Register here Today’s law firms need to balance productivity, efficiency, and client service while making sure teams have […]

In legal services, where confidentiality and integrity are core to professional duty, poor data practices can undermine a firm’s standing overnight. Despite this risk, many law firms still operate with data spread across email, shared drives, and practice tools that were never designed to work together. Over time, these workarounds become accepted practice, even though […]

The legal landscape is rapidly changing, with AI leading the transformation. As new tools emerge, they have the potential to revolutionise how law firms operate. However, with a wide array of options available, it can be challenging to determine where to begin when assessing AI technology for your firm. While there’s plenty of general advice […]

When most law firms think about Artificial Intelligence, they immediately think about productivity.  The conversation typically centres on AI’s ability to draft documents, summarise information, assist with legal research, improve client communications and reduce administrative workloads.  These are all important use cases, and for many firms they provide an excellent starting point.  However, some of […]

The iManage Knowledge Work Benchmark Report 2026 reveals where investment is flowing, how AI adoption really looks inside organizations, and why governance and knowledge work maturity now separate leaders from laggards. The iManage Knowledge Work Benchmark Report 2026 headlines iManage Knowledge Work Benchmark Report 2026 Executive Summary Where Investment Is Heading Modernizing the document lifecycle […]

Two decades of cybersecurity were organized around keeping attackers out. That is no longer the measure of success. Regulators are writing recovery obligations into law, insurers are pricing recovery posture into premiums, and boards have stopped asking if the organisation is secure and started asking how long it would be down. What that shift exposed […]

LSSA member LawNeeds has launched an AI-powered mobile app to help migrants navigate UK immigration support, combining multilingual guidance with access to regulated immigration professionals. In this Q&A, Founder and CEO Steve Okolo discusses the inspiration behind the platform, lessons from its beta trials and how lmembership has supported the company’s development. LSSA CEO Kevin […]

AI is everywhere in the legal industry. However, many professionals don’t know what AI is actually useful for in real legal work. This guide breaks down how AI impacts legal workflows—and how leading firms use it to: Reduce the time spent preparing work Summarise and organise large volumes of information Draft first-pass language faster Create structure from […]

Litera, the Legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, announced its plugin availability within ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing Foundation Firm AI Search into ChatGPT so eligible Foundation Cloud users can query their firm’s experience data in natural language. Foundation is the growth intelligence backbone for more than 300 law firms, […]

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, announced a new integration with ChatGPT Enterprise. The iManage plug-in gives knowledge workers a direct way to securely access and work with governed iManage content from within ChatGPT Enterprise, while existing permissions, ethical walls, and audit trails remain in place. With the plugin, iManage gives customers access […]