Your Team Is Already Using AI.
The Question Is Whether Your Firm Is Protected.
Most small law firms have staff using AI tools every day without policy, without training, and without governance. Under current SRA guidance that is no longer acceptable. We help you fix it before it becomes a problem.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published explicit guidance on AI use in law firms. It is not coming. It is here. And the firms that cannot demonstrate responsible AI governance are the ones that will find themselves under scrutiny first.
96%
UK Law Firms
Are already using AI tools daily, mostly without governance frameworks.
71%
Shadow AI Use
Of employees use unauthorized tools, passing sensitive data through consumer AI.
11%
Formal Training
Remaining firms have provided zero formal AI literacy or risk training to staff.
One data breach. One hallucinated legal detail in a client document.
One SRA audit with nothing to show. That is all it takes.
The question is not whether your firm needs AI governance.
It is whether you have it in place before something goes wrong.
This Is Not a Future Problem. It Is Happening Now.
Eight out of ten conveyancing firms used AI to support fee earners in 2025. Double the proportion that did so the year before. If that number surprises you, it probably means some of that usage is happening in your firm without formal oversight.
The problem is not that your team is using AI. The problem is that conveyancing files contain some of the most sensitive personal and financial data in legal practice. Full names. Dates of birth. Bank account details. Identity documents. Mortgage offers. And when that data enters a consumer AI tool without governance, the consequences fall on the firm and the individual solicitor. Not the tool.
Its not just staff using AI that is a concern
A policy that says "staff should not misuse AI tools" does not protect your firm from this. The agent is not a member of staff. It does not read your policy. It reads instructions embedded in documents it was told to process.
The only protection is governance. Proper selection of tools. Proper configuration. Proper oversight. And proper training on what to look for before something goes wrong.
This is not hypothetical. One solicitor self-reported to the SRA after admitting he had uploaded client correspondence to ChatGPT to improve his draft emails. He said he had not realised it constituted a data breach. The tribunal indicated it would have referred him regardless had he not come forward first.
The SRA does not accept "we did not know the tool was doing that" as a defence.
The ICO can fine up to 4% of annual worldwide turnover for negligent treatment of client data. SRA enforcement actions become public record. In a referral-heavy market, the reputational damage is often more costly than a fine itself.
Want to know where your firm currently stands?
Let's Have An Honest Conversation.
If any of this has landed, the next step is simple. A free thirty minute conversation where we look at where your firm currently stands, what a sensible governance framework looks like in practice, and whether we are the right fit to help you build it.
No pitch. No jargon. No obligation.
Just clarity on where you actually are and what the smartest next step looks like.