Legal services

The ‘statutory remit’ of super-regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) is to come under scrutiny in a government review

The billable hour rewarded time over talent & sacrifice over sustainability. Good riddance, says Ian McDougall

The long-predicted death of the billable hour may finally be here—and this time, it’s armed with a scythe. In a sweeping critique of time-based billing, Ian McDougall, president of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, argues in this week's NLJ that artificial intelligence has made hourly charging ‘intellectually, commercially and ethically indefensible’

Who’s coming, who’s going, & what cases are worth watching? Dominic Regan reports from the legal frontlines

Who’s up, who’s out, and what cases are worth watching? Writing in NLJ this week, columnist Dominic Regan of City Law School offers a brisk tour of the legal frontlines, from silk announcements to looming appeals

The Law Society has welcomed the recent talks between the UK and the EU over closer trade ties, which could bring greater business cooperation and youth mobility of British lawyers working in Europe

Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)

The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools

The Solicitors Act 1974 belongs to a world of dusty volumes in oak-panelled libraries, writes Victoria Morrison-Hughes

Hallucinated case law is one of the major pitfalls of using technology in legal practice, writes Dr Charanjit Singh