Mental health awareness in law is growing, but awareness alone does not improve performance. Discover why wellbeing, leadership and psychological safety directly influence decision-making, risk management and long-term success in law firms.
(Judicial review – police use of facial recognition technology in London – Shaun Thompson and another v The Metropolitan Police Commissioner (2026) EWHC 915 (Admin)) The Recognition Software The Metropolitan Police Service (“MPS”) adopted live facial recognition technology (“LFR”) in September 2024. Under its policy, the technology is used across London to prevent and detect […]
The Cyber Essentials 2026 updates introduce stricter rules on MFA, patch management and cloud services. Learn what businesses must do to remain compliant.
Micromanagement in the legal sector is not always obvious, but small repeated actions can affect confidence, wellbeing and team culture. This article explores why it happens, the impact it can have, and how managers can build trust instead.
Co-managed IT services help organisations support stretched internal teams by adding specialist expertise and capacity. This flexible model improves efficiency, strengthens security, and enables teams to focus on strategic priorities without losing control.
Deepfakes are no longer theoretical for the legal sector. They pose real risks to evidence, fraud prevention, data protection and professional responsibility, requiring firms to rethink verification, governance and trust in an AI-driven environment.
AI is making the billable hour obsolete, replacing time with outcomes as the measure of value. But value-based pricing only works with clear scope, structure and metrics. Firms and clients that adapt operationally can reduce inefficiency, remove admin burden and align incentives around results.
As AI and workflow automation transform professional documentation, dictation remains a powerful tool for capturing expertise. Rather than competing, automation and dictation increasingly work together to improve efficiency, accuracy, and the overall quality of documentation.
A Chronicle Law webinar explores the legal and compliance considerations for law firms recording calls and meetings and communicating with clients via WhatsApp, including UK GDPR requirements, consent, and best practice for managing messaging communications.
AI is reshaping dictation and transcription as organisations move from on-premises systems to secure cloud platforms. By delivering faster turnaround, higher accuracy, and reduced infrastructure burden, cloud-based AI enables smarter, more efficient document workflows.
Continuous company monitoring is a growing compliance challenge for professional firms. This article explores how structured change detection and ECCTA verification awareness support consistent, auditable oversight across client portfolios.
This article explores how the NHS is adopting AI-powered ambient scribes to reduce clinical administration, while examining the data protection, UK GDPR, and patient transparency challenges associated with voice data, anonymisation, and vendor use of sensitive health information.
CompanyChange Alerts provides a structured way to monitor Companies House changes over time, helping professionals stay informed of key company updates without relying on manual checks or ad-hoc searches.
AI readiness isn’t just about what organisations could do, but whether they’re truly prepared. This article sets out a practical scoring framework to assess AI readiness across strategy, data, processes, people and risk – helping finance leaders turn ambition into action.
Subject access requests are rising, often creating significant time and cost burdens. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 allows only a “reasonable and proportionate search” for personal data, but recent cases, including Ashley v HMRC (2025), show that the effort involved in reviewing and redacting data can also be considered disproportionate. Organisations may therefore argue that both the search and the review/redaction process are unreasonable when compliance would be excessively burdensome.
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