For law firms
Practical AI training for your fee earners, with a record your COLP can rely on.
Sessions by practice group, on the tools your people already use, built on how they use them. For firms of 20 to 300 fee earners.
Chris Jeyes designs and delivers every session. He is a practising barrister of 20 years' call and was, for four years, a partner in a solicitors' firm.
What a session covers
What your people practise.
Participants work through examples from their own practice area: preparing a chronology, checking a draft against the documents it relies on, reviewing a contract clause, deciding what may go into which tool. They learn to spot unsupported statements and to judge when the output needs more work before it can be relied on.
We agree the exercises and the tools with you beforehand, so the training fits the systems the firm has licensed and the ones people use anyway. Every exercise uses fictional matters, so nobody brings client files.
Each session ends with a short written note: who attended, what was covered, and what the firm should do next.
Who attends
Different groups need different sessions.
A partner, an associate, a paralegal and a finance manager use AI for different work and carry different responsibilities for it. Each group gets its own session, and every session is mapped to the SRA Statement of Solicitor Competence.
| Session | Who | Length | What it covers | SRA Competence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Awareness | All staff and business services | Two hours | What AI is; the warning notice; confidentiality; what not to do; the firm's golden rules | A |
| 2. Practice | Fee earners, by practice group | Half day, hands-on, up to 18 | Research, drafting, review and chronologies on fictional matters in your practice area; verification discipline | A, B |
| 3. Systems | Knowledge, IT, risk and data protection | Half day | Tool governance, data residency and retention, vendor due diligence, DPIA, the approved-tool list | B, D |
| 4. Leadership | Partners, board, COLP and COFA | Half day, two sittings | Risk appetite, supervision, client care wording, PII disclosure, the firm's defensible position | A, C |
Fee earners leave able to hand a task to a tool, describe what it did, judge the result, spot the problems and check the work properly before it is relied on.
The competence letters follow the SRA Statement of Solicitor Competence: A Ethics, professionalism and judgment; B Technical legal practice; C Working with other people; D Managing themselves and their own work. The mapping is ours; this training is not SRA-accredited.
Who delivers it
Experience on both sides of the profession.
Chris has trained around 750 lawyers, including multi-stage training and compliance programmes for large legal businesses, run over several sessions with policy work alongside. The policies were adopted, and individuals came back afterwards for one-to-one training.
For four years he was a partner in a solicitors' firm, supervising a conveyancing team across several offices, handling the professional indemnity renewal and the information security policy, and building the case-delivery automation the team then ran on. About Chris →
Where to start
A session, the diagnostic, or a programme.
Most firms begin with a single session for one practice group and go on from there. Fees are ex VAT.
A single session
£2,500 or £3,500
A two-hour session for up to 30 people, or a half-day workshop for one practice group of up to 20. Recorded, with handouts and a prompt library.
About sessions →The diagnostic
£5,000
Four weeks of partner interviews and a short usage questionnaire. You receive a map of where data goes, a risk assessment, prioritised uses and a plan you can act on with us or without us. Credited in full against a programme.
Ask about the diagnostic →A firm-wide programme
Quoted against scope
Five programmes by firm size, from a practice-group programme for a smaller firm to managed adoption across the whole firm. The fee depends on practice groups and offices, not headcount.
The programmes →How a firm-wide programme runs
Four stages, each with something in writing.
A programme for the whole firm runs over about four months. The timings below are typical; your proposal gives the dates.
Weeks 1 to 2
Survey
Anonymous and segmented by role and practice area.
You receive: A findings report to the board.
Weeks 2 to 3
Discovery
Half-day workshops with practice groups, business services and risk.
You receive: A learning needs analysis and practice register.
Weeks 4 to 8
Cohorts
Partners, practice groups, other fee earners, business services. Hands-on, on fictional matters in your practice areas.
You receive: Materials, a prompt and skill library, an attendance record.
Weeks 6 to 18
Champions
In the recommended package: twelve to fifteen people, chosen from the first cohorts, trained to carry it on.
You receive: A recommendations report to the COLP in every package; a 90-day review in the recommended package.
Programmes by firm size
What each programme involves.
Each programme is quoted against scope, with a fixed fee in the proposal. Each one says what it leaves out, so you can see what the next adds.
Up to about 50 fee earners
Practice-group programme
For a smaller firm that wants its practice groups trained on their own kind of work, with a note to the COLP at the end.
- The four-week diagnostic: partner interviews and a short usage questionnaire
- A leadership briefing for the partners
- Two practice-group workshops
- A close-out note to the COLP
No firm-wide staff survey, no cohort design, no champions.
Up to about 50 fee earners
90-day adoption programme
For a smaller firm that wants support while new habits form, not just a session.
- Kick-off session and two practice-group workshops
- Fortnightly clinics for 90 days
- A prompt and skill library configured to your practice areas
- A day-90 assessment of what has changed
No firm-wide staff survey, no champions.
50 to 300 fee earners
Foundation
The essentials of a firm-wide programme for a firm that wants to start smaller.
- Short-form staff survey
- Two discovery workshops
- One partner session and four clustered practice sessions
- One session for other fee earners
- A close-out note to the COLP
No champions.
50 to 300 fee earners
Capability programme
The firm-wide programme. Every fee earner attends a session and is assessed.
- Staff survey and a findings report to the board
- Four discovery workshops, a learning needs analysis and a practice register
- Partner sessions, practice-group half days, and sessions for other fee earners and business services
- Twelve AI Champions trained for a full day, with three clinics over 90 days
- Golden rules one-pager, drafted with your COLP
- Written recommendations to the COLP and a 90-day review
No drafted policy and no support beyond the 90-day review; both are in Managed adoption.
50 to 300 fee earners
Managed adoption
Everything in the capability programme, plus the governance layer and six months of support.
- Drafted AI usage policy and verification protocol
- Six months of champion clinics
- Reviews at day 90 and day 180
- Three months of standing AI counsel
Nothing from the programmes above; this is the fullest version.
What it asks of the firm
Preparation, time and follow-up.
Before a session: a short call with the head of the practice group, and access to the tools your people use so the exercises are built on them.
On the day: two hours for a session or half a day for a workshop, on site or online. Participants need a laptop and their normal logins. Nothing else is prepared in advance.
Afterwards: a written note to the COLP, the recording and materials for internal use, and, where the programme includes them, champions who carry the work on with clinics over the following months.
A common question
How this differs from the training that came with your software.
Vendor training teaches the product, and some of it covers confidentiality and governance well. Ours is independent of any product, covers the tools your people use unofficially as well as the ones the firm has licensed, and is built around the professional duty as the SRA and the BSB state it, with the features second. The same distinction applies to training a knowledge or IT consultancy resells.
Our sessions start from the duty and cover the tools your people actually use. Vendors now advertise that their tool checks the citation; the regulator's position is that you do, whatever the tool.
The regulatory background
What the SRA has said.
The SRA's warning notice of 17 August 2026 says that solicitors remain accountable for AI-assisted work, that the people they manage must be competent to carry out their role, and that any authority put before a court must be genuine and verifiable. Its compliance tips, updated on 9 February 2026, expect the COLP to take responsibility for regulatory compliance when new technology is introduced.
The sources are quoted and linked on the regulators page.
What the surveys show
94%
of lawyers surveyed now use AI for legal work, and 34% use it every day.
LexisNexis UK, Scaling up: The AI-dependent lawyer, published September 2026, 543 legal professionals
83%
worry about lawyers relying on inaccurate or fabricated information, up from 57% at the start of 2024.
Same survey
59%
of legal professionals in a May 2026 survey said they had used unapproved AI tools, including free ChatGPT, for client work. 68% of the leaders surveyed said they had full visibility.
Censuswide for Access Legal, published May 2026, 200 UK legal professionals and 100 UK legal leaders
Discuss training for your firm.
Tell us the size of the firm, the practice groups involved and the tools in use. We reply within one working day, usually to arrange a free 20-minute call, and follow it with a written proposal and a fixed fee.