Ken Tombs reflects on the Law Society’s foresight report on the future of agentic AI and compares it against practitioner and ...

Description Join us for an afternoon of practical insight and expert discussion exploring today’s fast-moving cyber risk landscape and what organisations must do to stay ahead. This event brought ...

The SCL Mediation Scheme (SCLM) is designed to facilitate the consensual resolution of technology disputes in England and Wales. Developed by SCL members Paul Berwin and Damian Croker, the scheme ...

Ken Tombs reflects on the Law Society’s foresight report on the future of agentic AI and compares it against practitioner and international perspectives (as at June 2026) 1. Introduction The Law ...

SCL has previously reported on examples of lawyers in the USA using AI to generate case references for court proceedings, and then discovering that the AI had “hallucinated” the cases, which didn’t ...

Camilo Artiga-Purcell, General Counsel at Kiteworks, identifies some of the ever-increasing risks and potential consequences of rushing to use AI in legal practice Picture a partner at a leading UK ...

The SCL AI Group are delighted to announce the launch of their Artificial Intelligence Contractual Clauses document. The development and use of AI will increase significantly over the next few years.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly prominent role within legal, starting as early as the 90’s, when legal databases started incorporating natural language processing to optimise ...

Mark Ryan and Tom Sweet of SES Secure trace the evolution of software escrow and the impact of AI on its use As many readers will know, software escrow is a risk mitigation tool that safeguards the ...

While the announcement by the American Arbitration Association®-International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (AAA-ICDR) in September 2025 of the deployment of an AI Arbitrator to determine ...

The Ada Lovelace Institute has issued a new report called Examining the Black Box: Tools for Assessing Algorithmic Systems. It clarifies the terms around algorithmic audits and impact assessments, and ...

Readers will be aware that social media networks are rife with conspiracy theories and misinformation about the origins of the COVID-19 virus and treatments for the disease. Misinformation is not a ...