Legal AI Adoption Series
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.
By measure
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measurelarge-firms-exploring-genai | 60% | 60 to 60% | 1 |
| measureadults-expect-easier-access | 70% | 70 to 70% | 1 |
| measurelaw-firms-using-genai | 26% | 26 to 26% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSB: AI in legal services, consumer expectations | 70% | adults-expect-easier-access | 2026-10-28 |
| SRA Risk Outlook: the use of AI in the legal market | 60% | large-firms-exploring-genai | 2026-10-28 |
| Legal Futures on Thomson Reuters Institute GenAI survey | 26% | law-firms-using-genai | 2026-10-28 |
The sentence each figure was read from (3)
- LSB: AI in legal services, consumer expectations, read 2026-10-28:
70% expect AI to improve ease of access to legal services
- SRA Risk Outlook: the use of AI in the legal market, read 2026-10-28:
over 60% of large law firms were at least exploring the potential of the new generative systems, as were a third of small firms
- Legal Futures on Thomson Reuters Institute GenAI survey, read 2026-10-28:
Researchers from the Thomson Reuters Institute found that the percentage of law firms using GenAI was 26%, compared to 14% a year earlier.
Read in full, publishes no figure
3 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- BSB: technology and innovation at the Bar research, read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Law Society: lawtech adoption research, read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Legal Futures on SRA risk research, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
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
25 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (8)
- SRA Risk Outlook: the use of AI in the legal market(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- LSB: AI in legal services, consumer expectations(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BSB: technology and innovation at the Bar research(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Law Society: lawtech adoption research(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Legal Futures on Thomson Reuters Institute GenAI survey(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Legal Futures on SRA risk research(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- LSB news release on AI tools(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Clio UK Legal Trends (AI)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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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.
Cite as: "cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk Legal AI Adoption Series", updated 2026-10-28, https://cansolicitorsuseai.co.uk/datasets/legal-ai-adoption-series/.
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