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Practical guides on AI, legal workflows and time capture, from the team behind OrdoLux.
Featured guides
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Training Support Staff and PAs to Use AI Safely
A framework for bringing secretaries and PAs into the firm’s AI plans, including guardrails, training and supervision.
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WhatsApp Time Capture for Law Firms: Messages, Voice Notes and Documents — onto the File
How a WhatsApp-first workflow can capture messages, transcribe voice notes, file documents into SharePoint and generate time entries automatically — without breaking supervision or audit trails.
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Conflicts and KYC Checks with AI: Faster Searches, Human Decisions
How AI can support conflicts and KYC checks by aggregating data and flagging matches, while keeping final decisions with compliance.
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AI for Legal Business Development: Smarter Pitches and Tenders
Practical ways to use AI to draft, tailor and proofread tenders and pitch documents without promising things the firm cannot deliver.
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Trial Bundles and Document Lists: Where AI Can (and Can’t) Help
Using AI to help with bundling, pagination and document lists for hearings, while keeping ultimate control with the litigation team.
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AI on Complaints and Negligence Files: Speed Up Review, Not Blame
How AI can help firms triage and analyse complaints and professional negligence files while staying aligned with duties to clients and insurers.
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Using AI for Attendance Notes and Conferences (Without Losing Nuance)
Ways to use AI to draft and refine attendance notes while keeping human judgment, tone and privilege front and centre.
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Microsoft 365 and Legal AI: Integration Patterns That Make Sense for Firms
How to combine Outlook, SharePoint and AI tools so that casework, documents and time capture live in one joined-up workflow.
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Driving Legal AI Adoption in a Small Firm: Four Moves That Actually Work
Change-management tactics that help partners and fee earners adopt AI tools without endless committees or buzzword fatigue.
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AI Time Capture for Email and Documents: What ‘Good’ Actually Looks Like
Key design principles for AI-driven time capture that fee earners trust, focusing on email, documents and background work.
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Building a Matter Chronology with AI: One Source of Truth, Not Ten Spreadsheets
A practical approach to using AI to maintain a live chronology for complex matters, fed from emails, notes and documents.
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AI Email Thread Summaries: Turning Inbox Chaos into Case Strategy
How UK litigators and advisers can use AI to summarise long email threads into clear next steps, without missing the important nuance.
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AI Policies for Law Firms That People Actually Read
How to draft an AI policy for a law firm that supports adoption, manages risk and is short enough that people will actually read and follow it.
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Evaluating Legal AI Tools: A Practical Testing Framework
A simple evaluation framework for legal teams to test AI tools using realistic matters, golden answers and clear acceptance criteria.
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Using AI in Due Diligence Without Missing Red Flags
How to apply AI to contract and document review in due diligence while keeping lawyers firmly in control of risk, sampling and reporting.
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AI in Disclosure and eDiscovery: Practical Uses and Red Lines
Where AI can safely speed up disclosure and eDiscovery work, where human review is still essential, and how to explain your approach to opponents and the court.
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Confidentiality and Privilege When Using AI in Your Firm
How to preserve confidentiality and privilege when using AI systems in UK law firms, from vendor due diligence to safe day-to-day habits.
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Hallucinations in Legal AI: How to Spot and Control Them
Why large language models hallucinate in legal contexts, how to detect problems before they reach clients or the court, and practical guardrails you can put in place.
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Do Law Firms Actually Need?
A plain-English guide to retrieval-augmented generation versus fine-tuning, and when each approach makes sense for legal research, knowledge and document review.
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Prompt Engineering for Solicitors: Getting Reliable Results from AI
How solicitors can structure prompts, constraints and checks to get reliable, repeatable outputs from AI tools without turning into prompt hobbyists.
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How to Run an AI Risk Assessment in Your Firm
A practical method to score AI risks in your firm: inventory use cases, score impact and likelihood, select controls and record sign-offs.
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The EU AI Act and UK Law Firms: A Practical 2025 Playbook
What the EU AI Act means in practice for UK law firms that use AI tools inside and outside the EU, and how to prepare sensible policies, inventories and contracts.
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The Near-Term Future of Legal Tech: What Firms Should Prepare For
Five durable trends firms can act on now — no crystal ball required.
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Client Communication in the Age of AI: Faster Without Losing the Human
Use AI to speed up updates and clarity while keeping the empathy and judgment clients pay for.
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Ethics & Professional Duties When Using AI (for Solicitors)
Competence, confidentiality, supervision and duty to the court — translated into everyday practice when AI is in the loop.
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AI-Powered Contract Review: Where Firms Actually Win
A step-by-step approach to triage, clause extraction and variance checks that saves time without losing control.
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Data Privacy & Confidentiality When Using AI in UK Law Firms
A practical, UK-centric approach to lawful, confidential AI use under UK GDPR and professional duties.
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AI in Judgments: Where the Line Sits (and What Solicitors Should Expect)
Courts are exploring AI cautiously. Here’s how that affects submissions, bundles and expectations in 2026.
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Five Common Misconceptions About AI in Legal Practice
From ‘AI writes the advice’ to ‘confidentiality is impossible’, let’s separate hype from reality for UK firms.
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Legal AI for UK Solicitors: Guides & Workflows
A practical hub for UK solicitors exploring legal AI – from research and disclosure to time capture and billing.
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Time Capture & Billing for Law Firms: Guides & Workflows
A hub for UK law firms looking to improve time capture, billing accuracy and fee-earner productivity.
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AI in Legal Research: Precision Without the ‘Phantom Cases’
Practical guardrails UK solicitors can use to prevent hallucinated citations and keep research robust, efficient and court-ready.