LinkedIn Legal Marketing circles in the UK have been awash this week with ‘influencer’ humble brags. This follows the publication of the latest legal influencer ratings. One where the methodology is, apparently, ranking score = number of likes + 4 x comments received on LinkedIn in the past 3 months. However, is that not really…
Top of the Posts at The Time Blawg. What are the top 15 blog posts? This blog is 15 years old, as of yesterday (1 January 2026)! On 1 January 2011 this blog materialised. The Past Back in 2011 it was common to call a law blog a blawg. I called it The Time Blawg…
The GenAI v Verification debate took place in November, after I blogged about the GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice. That blog post, following a heated debate on LinkedIn with those comments added to the post, ended up being 15,612 words long. Most people won’t now read it. Our attention spans are too short in…
My post on The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice stirred up a lot of debate. I thought I would ask GenAI to summarise the arguments for me (after all that is its main use case). Using Copilot I obtained this summary: The article argues that while generative AI (GenAI) promises efficiency in legal practice,…
The GenAI verification burden in legal practice has been highlighted by Joshua Yuvaraj in a recent paper on ‘The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice‘ [PDF]. The Abstract reads: It is often claimed that machine learning-based generative AI products will drastically streamline and reduce the cost of legal practice. This…
Will Godot turn up before Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in Scotland? Paul Rogerson, Editor in Chief of The Law Society [of England & Wales] Gazette, thinks this is highly likely. He sets out his thoughts in the leader column of this week’s Digital edition under the heading ‘Bordering on farce‘. It was, of course, Paul…
“A serious abdication of its duty to the profession” is how Margaret Taylor describes the Law Society of Scotland’s approach to Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in a recent article for The Lawyer. The Law Society of Scotland announced earlier this month that they are doing nothing further on ABS in Scotland for another two years….
A deep freeze of ABS in Scotland, for at least two more years, was announced yesterday by the Law Society of Scotland. I, unfortunately, saw this coming a couple of weeks ago when, at a webinar on implementation of the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025, it was indicated by the Law Society that:…
ABS in Scotland being kicked into the long grass was a possibility raised yesterday. This was at an online event organised by the Law Society of Scotland: ‘Policy perspectives: Regulation of legal services reform’. Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 They looked at the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 as we enter…
I was at Legal Geek Growth in London on 5 June 2025. Legal Geek Growth is the summer alternative, for SME law firms, to the much larger main Legal Geek event (more now aimed at Big Law) in London in the Autumn. I’ve done some reviews of the main Autumn event in the past: Legal…
Majority ownership reform has been ignored by the Law Society of Scotland in their latest press release. On 20 May, the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament. That day, the Law Society of Scotland issued a press release hailing their decade of campaigning to achieve this. They highlighted the…
The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament yesterday, 20 May 2025. This was following a raft of amendments being tabled at stage 3. The Law Society of Scotland issued the following statement yesterday: A decade of campaigning by the Law Society of Scotland has resulted in new legislation that…
