{ "name": "cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk Legal AI Adoption Series", "title": "Legal AI Adoption Series", "url": "https://cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk/datasets/legal-ai-adoption-series/", "csv": "https://cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk/datasets/legal-ai-adoption-series.csv", "markdown": "https://cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk/datasets/legal-ai-adoption-series/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-28", "license": "https://cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The Legal AI Adoption Series carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 26 to 70 percent, read 28 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Legal AI Adoption Series carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 26 to 70 percent, read 28 October 2026.", "3 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 28 October 2026.", "Legal AI Adoption Series, measure large-firms-exploring-genai: median 60 percent across 1 source, read 28 October 2026.", "Legal AI Adoption Series, measure adults-expect-easier-access: median 70 percent across 1 source, read 28 October 2026.", "Legal AI Adoption Series, measure law-firms-using-genai: median 26 percent across 1 source, read 28 October 2026." ], "citation": "\"cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk Legal AI Adoption Series\", updated 2026-10-28, https://cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk/datasets/legal-ai-adoption-series/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 3, "median": 60, "min": 26, "max": 70, "p25": 26, "p75": 70, "mean": 52, "units": { "%": 3 }, "published_sources": 3, "named_sources": 8, "read_sources": 6, "not_published": 3, "published_share": 0.5 }, "by_axis": { "measure": { "large-firms-exploring-genai": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 60, "min": 60, "max": 60, "p25": 60, "p75": 60, "mean": 60 } }, "adults-expect-easier-access": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 70, "min": 70, "max": 70, "p25": 70, "p75": 70, "mean": 70 } }, "law-firms-using-genai": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 26, "min": 26, "max": 26, "p25": 26, "p75": 26, "mean": 26 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "SRA Risk Outlook: the use of AI in the legal market", "url": "https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/artificial-intelligence-legal-market", "figure": "60%", "value": 60, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "large-firms-exploring-genai" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "over 60% of large law firms were at least exploring the potential of the new generative systems, as were a third of small firms", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "3a1800c680a7583f160d8508cc50afda3f8b7d3c2c01fecb7f5078c7aede9b8a" }, { "source": "LSB: AI in legal services, consumer expectations", "url": "https://legalservicesboard.org.uk/research-2/ai-in-legal-services-consumer-expectations-and-existing-standards", "figure": "70%", "value": 70, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "adults-expect-easier-access" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "70% expect AI to improve ease of access to legal services", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "38e474a068c9b6a96dbb795b1cfc119ce005b0ae26127d23760271e834c6e4aa" }, { "source": "Legal Futures on Thomson Reuters Institute GenAI survey", "url": "https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/proportion-of-law-firms-using-genai-almost-doubles", "figure": "26%", "value": 26, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "law-firms-using-genai" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "Researchers from the Thomson Reuters Institute found that the percentage of law firms using GenAI was 26%, compared to 14% a year earlier.", "source_class": "secondary", "text_sha256": "31428411dc215a7c09d926008d859c68a199f13b499945d3b97cc8a2e3d532a2" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "BSB: technology and innovation at the Bar research", "url": "https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/resources/the-bar-standards-board-publishes-technology-and-innovation-at-the-bar-research.html", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Law Society: lawtech adoption research", "url": "https://lawsociety.org.uk/Topics/Research/lawtech-adoption-report", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Legal Futures on SRA risk research", "url": "https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-solicitors-lack-confidence-over-artificial-intelligence", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/artificial-intelligence-legal-market", "label": "SRA Risk Outlook: the use of AI in the legal market", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://legalservicesboard.org.uk/research-2/ai-in-legal-services-consumer-expectations-and-existing-standards", "label": "LSB: AI in legal services, consumer expectations", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/resources/the-bar-standards-board-publishes-technology-and-innovation-at-the-bar-research.html", "label": "BSB: technology and innovation at the Bar research", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://lawsociety.org.uk/Topics/Research/lawtech-adoption-report", "label": "Law Society: lawtech adoption research", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/proportion-of-law-firms-using-genai-almost-doubles", "label": "Legal Futures on Thomson Reuters Institute GenAI survey", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-solicitors-lack-confidence-over-artificial-intelligence", "label": "Legal Futures on SRA risk research", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://legalservicesboard.org.uk/news/ai-tools-show-real-promise-to-increase-access-to-legal-service", "label": "LSB news release on AI tools", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.clio.com/uk/blog/ai-technology-trends", "label": "Clio UK Legal Trends (AI)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 6 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 3 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 25 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): a dated series of the share of firms using or exploring generative AI by firm size, the count of AI misuse reports to the SRA per year, consumer expectations of AI legal services, and the count of reported court judgments on fictitious AI citations, each read from the body that measured it", "embed": "

26 to 70 percent

3 published figures, Legal AI Adoption Series, across 3 sources, read 28 October 2026

Source: cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk Legal AI Adoption Series
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