Oliver Fairhurst Gives His Perspective On Responding To A Crisis (Podcast)

A Client Care Letter is a document a law firm provides to a client at the start of a case. It clearly explains what the firm will do, how much it might cost, who the client can contact, and what to do if something goes wrong.

As AI moved from novelty to necessity in most industries, Clio led the technological shift in the legal space, defining a new era of innovation and collaboration.

Each month we interview thought leaders in intellectual property, talking about how they were introduced to this area of law, their careers, ...

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Legal AI tools have moved from novelty to necessity. Firms have signed contracts, run pilots, and rolled out generative AI assistants with significant budget behind them. Yet when leadership asks the inevitable question, “what’s the return?”, the answers get murky fast.

In recent weeks, I have had cause to reflect on the peculiar demands on us as solicitors of delivering difficult or unwelcome advice to clients of all stripes.

Why should you consolidate your legal tech stack and what benefits will it bring? Stephanie Hamon, Head of Legal Operations Consulting, has once again teamed up with Crafty Counsel...

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Jo explains how the law can be used to ensure that you are fairly represented in the media and tells the story in a way that is accurate.

Many solicitors dislike experts' meetings.

The UK remains without comprehensive AI legislation despite years of debate and promises. Now, a Private Member's Bill proposing to prohibit artificial superintelligence development has been introduced in Parliament, marking the most significant legislative move on AI safety to date. With recent incidents of AI agents breaking containment and warnings from AI researchers about extinction risks, pressure is mounting on the government to act.

The European Commission has unveiled a European Innovation Act designed to strengthen the EU's innovation ecosystem by addressing two critical challenges: limited access to finance for IP-rich businesses and fragmented regulatory frameworks across Member States. The proposal introduces measures including a common IP valuation framework, streamlined R&D procurement procedures, and harmonized regulatory sandboxes to help startups and scaleups commercialize their innovations more effectively.

The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces one of the most significant packages of employment law reform in decades, with measures taking effect at different points over the coming years.

Hong Kong is introducing sweeping reforms to its unsecured lending market, targeting predatory practices that have long exposed vulnerable borrowers and innocent third parties to aggressive debt collection. The new measures, set to roll out in two phases starting August 2026, will impose debt servicing ratio caps on low-income earners, ban the use of loan referees, and mandate credit reporting through a centralised platform.

A High Court ruling examines a contentious dispute between a video game developer and publisher over milestone-based funding and "step in" rights for the first-person shooter Six Days in Fallujah. With over $50 million in development costs at stake and allegations of conspiracy to acquire proprietary source code, the court declined to grant either party interim control of the game's development, leaving both sides without the "keys to the kingdom" pending a full trial.

As 2026 begins, Ireland's immigration system is entering a period of significant recalibration, with new remuneration thresholds for employment permits, tougher family reunification rules...

A Hong Kong director was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay HK$93,000 in outstanding wages after her companies failed to pay employees on time. The case demonstrates that corporate officers can face serious criminal liability, including fines up to HK$350,000 and three years' imprisonment, when employment law breaches occur with their consent, connivance, or neglect.

The UK government's new consultation simplification plan aims to streamline stakeholder engagement, but could it create more problems than it solves? This analysis examines the potential risks of reducing formal consultation processes across tax, employment, and immigration policy, drawing parallels to historical policy failures and questioning whether speed without scrutiny truly represents progress.

The European Commission has imposed a €200 million fine on Temu for failing to properly assess the risk of illegal products on its platform, marking a major enforcement action under the Digital Services Act.

From October 2026, the UK's illegal working regime is undergoing a major transformation that will significantly impact creative industries. The new rules expand who must carry out right to work checks and introduce extended liability through supply chains, affecting businesses that rely on freelancers, contractors, and project-based work structures.