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The success of upfront property information will depend on more than simply making the information available.

AI systems ingest, transform, infer and generate. Treating them as equivalent to document storage or workflow tools is a category error.

Mid-sized law firms are facing a set of decisions about structure, technology and growth that will define where they sit in the market for the next decade.

The latest civil justice figures look deceptively upbeat, with faster claims. But these numbers mask a deeper truth: people are still waiting more than a year for justice.

AI means firms may see falling organic traffic and wonder if SEO is still working. The more interesting question is whether traffic is still the right measure of success.

I have spent much of my working life thinking about something most people would probably prefer not to think about at all: legal forms.

Both reforms respond to real and well-evidenced gaps in the current framework. The SRA’s changes after consultation feedback shows it’s listening. But structural change on paper is only half the job.

While technology has made much of the conveyancing process faster, there remains a practical limit to how many matters anyone can manage while still keeping standards intact.

Consolidation and the boutique boom are not contradictory. They are the same market stretching apart at both ends – and it changes what your firm is worth, and to whom.

When I qualified, a conveyancer had perhaps 10 or 12 plates to keep spinning. Today’s conveyancers have 20 or 30, and almost none of the room for error I had starting out.