Artificial intelligence is an extraordinary tool. It can process vast amounts of information simultaneously, identify patterns across thousands of cases that might take a human practitioner years to notice, and make connections between areas of law that a busy solicitor, juggling a full caseload, might never have the bandwidth to reach. It does not get tired. It does not have an off day. It does not miss the citation because it was thinking about something else on the train.

Training Tomorrow's Lawyers in the Age of AI My daughter does not value work produced with AI assistance. She is at the start of her career, ambitious, and wants to earn her expertise the hard way. I was surprised by this. If anything, I had expected the opposite: that the youngest entrants to the profession would be the most enthusiastic adopters. But talking to people across the sector, it seems that AI is being embraced most readily by those mid-career, practitioners with

Every good lawyer I have ever worked with falls, broadly, into one of four types. There is the people person: warm, empathetic, brilliant with clients, the solicitor who remembers every family member's name and makes nervous clients feel at ease, but who is not always on top of the latest case law or the most recent Home Office policy update. There is the technical lawyer: a walking encyclopaedia of statutes and precedents who can cite the relevant tribunal decision from memo

The UK’s legal migration landscape is undergoing its most profound transformation in decades. On 20 November 2025, the Home Secretary unveiled the Command Paper, A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: A statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement (CP 1448), outlining a massive overhaul of how migrants achieve Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), or "settlement". The reforms are considered the "biggest shake-up of the legal migration system in nearly half a century".