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This conference will examine next steps for the use of technological innovation in UK legal services. It will focus on the way forward for adoption of artificial intelligence and digital tools across firms and chambers, alongside implications for sector growth, regulatory frameworks, and access to justice.
The discussion will bring key stakeholders and policymakers together to examine implementation priorities set out in the Government’s Professional and Business Services Sector Plan, alongside the additional investment in LawtechUK. Delegates will discuss conditions required for accelerating uptake across legal services, including approaches to enabling wider deployment, addressing unmet legal need, and support for start-ups and scaling firms through access to finance and development of regional clusters.
The agenda will also look at wider recent legislative and regulatory developments, including the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s AI Growth Lab and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and their implications for approaches to deployment of AI and digital tools across legal services, including questions around accountability, data governance and consumer protection.
Attendees will consider latest thinking on options for supporting AI-enabled client services in ways that maintain appropriate safeguards. Discussion will also examine practical approaches to addressing barriers to adoption across different parts of the sector, alongside requirements for wider deployment, including workforce capability, training, risk management and access to specialist expertise.
Further sessions will consider the role of regulation in supporting responsible innovation in legal services, including approaches being taken by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Legal Services Board and Bar Standards Board, in areas such as guidance, oversight and the use of testing environments.
Overview of areas for discussion
- policy and next steps:
- implementation of the Professional and Business Services Sector Plan - positioning lawtech within wider sector growth and innovation priorities
- government investment in LawtechUK - support for adoption of technology by firms and chambers - implications for access to justice
- legal and regulatory framework:
- DSIT AI Growth Lab consultation - development of sandbox environments to support AI deployment while maintaining appropriate safeguards
- Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 - implications for data governance, automated decision-making and client-facing AI services
- regulatory oversight and approvals:
- Solicitors Regulation Authority and Legal Services Board initiatives - regulatory approaches to innovation, guidance and oversight of new tech-enabled models
- Bar Standards Board guidance - oversight, testing environments, liability and standards for technology use across the Bar
- technology adoption and market development:
- development of the UK lawtech ecosystem - addressing unmet legal need and improving access to justice
- regional clusters - access to finance, procurement routes and adoption in smaller firms and chambers
- workforce capability and skills:
- integration of AI into legal practice - implications for training, qualifications and workforce planning
- preparing solicitors and barristers - reskilling, ethical practice and management of technology-related risks
- consumer and market engagement:
- accessibility and trust - supporting confidence in AI-enabled services and improving user experience and accessibility
- data privacy - addressing client concerns and supporting uptake of AI-enabled legal services
