Key results CoCounsel “more than pays for itself” Delivers time savings and cost benefits for clients Helps improve practice performance and optimises client experience Access to extensive legal resources gives reliable results Helps level the playing field between small and larger firms Executive summary Based in the Scottish Highlands, Swarbrick Law was an early adopter […]

sa.global, a specialist legal technology partner, today announced a landmark 10-year transformation partnership with TLT , one of Europe’s most innovative law firms, to implement evergreen, its unified legal industry cloud platform built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Azure. The partnership represents a significant modernisation programme that will consolidate finance, human resources and practice […]

When Kirkland & Ellis, the highest-grossing law firm in the world, announced it was investing $500 million to develop its own proprietary AI platform, the market paid attention. The firm’s chair, Jon Ballis, was direct about the reasoning: general AI tools are “raising the floor for everyone.” K&E, he said, does not get hired for […]

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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: […]