Ai & Automation for UK LAw Firms

Your firm has AI. It still doesn’t know anything about your matters.

Actionstep Partner Award Microsoft Solutions Partner

Microsoft Copilot can draft an email. It cannot tell you which matters are approaching a deadline with no owner, or where your unbilled time is sitting. We connect AI to your practice management system, get your fee earners genuinely using it, and give you the reporting to prove it is safe and worth the money. We work with UK law firms and nothing else.

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Don’t just deploy AI. Make it count.

Most firms don’t have an AI problem. They have an adoption and evidence problem.

The tools are bought. A few enthusiasts use them well. Everyone else tried Copilot twice, found it knew nothing about the matter in front of them, and went back to doing it by hand. Meanwhile, the COLP has no way of showing how AI is being used, and the managing partner has no way of telling whether the licences are earning their keep. Firms tell us this is where AI stalls — not at the technology, but at the point where it has to meet real matter data, real habits and real supervision. Fixing that is the whole of what we do.

Discover Why AI Helps

Find Out Where AI Actually Helps

2–4 weeks of structured discovery to identify and prioritise AI use cases by impact, effort, data quality and risk, including where process or training beats technology.

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AI Connected To Your Matter Data

Copilot and Claude connected to your practice systems, giving you AI-powered answers on matters, clients, WIP and key dates. Actionstep integration is already built.

Reporting What to Automate Next

Get Your People Genuinely Using It

Two one-month cohorts with daily guided tasks in Teams, ending with an individual report identifying what was done and what to automate next. Habits, not a training day.

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Automate the Work Around the Matter

Automate the Work Around the Matter

Automate approvals, notifications, onboarding, billing, deadlines and AML using the right tools, from Microsoft quick wins to multi-step agents with human oversight.


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You Own Governed AI Environment

AI under your governance, built and run on Azure AI Foundry. UK-resident, integrated with Microsoft 365 and your legal tools, and documented for DPO and risk. Available as a full build, advisory support, or managed service.

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Proof That It's Compliant and Paying Off

Copilot Enablement establishes your baseline, implements controls and switches on reporting. Copilot Management maintains governance, with monthly reporting on adoption, licence use and spend. Evidence for your COLP and managing partner.

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Mapped, costed and ready to act on.

We have already mapped forty-six AI use cases across legal practice

Not a list of possibilities. Specific, scoped pieces of work, each one costed and sequenced, across the practice areas a High Street or mid-market firm actually runs.

Core practice areas

Conveyancing, private client and probate, family, litigation, commercial, personal injury, employment, and the work every fee earner does.

Rising costs with a weakening roadmap

New-build volume: conveyancing, immigration, housing, legal aid, Court of Protection, debt recovery, intellectual property.

Firm-wide capabilities

Risk and compliance, always-on monitoring, intake and onboarding, legal operations, knowledge management.

See the use cases for your practice area

No firm takes all of them. A specialist practice usually delivers ten to fifteen; a full-service firm thirty-five to forty over a phased programme. A further nine are better served by a product we will help you shortlist, and eleven are usually already sitting in your practice management system as configuration rather than a build. We will tell you which is which.

AI Needs the Right Foundations

AI is Only as Good as
What Sits Underneath It

AI in a law firm depends on things most AI consultancies never touch. It needs your Microsoft 365 tenant configured properly, your identity and access controls doing their job, your data in a state worth querying, and your case management system open enough to answer a question. When those sit with different suppliers, every AI project starts with a month of working out whose problem it is.

 

We implement legal practice and case management, and we run Microsoft 365, cloud, security and IT beneath it. One partner, no gaps, which in practice means we can say yes to “can it see our matter data?” without a three-way call first.

Workflow Analysis & Process Mapping

Legal
Technology

The case management system your matters live in, implemented and supported by us.

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Microsoft
365

The tenant, licences and Copilot configuration AI depends on.
Cloud Technology

Cloud Infrastructure

Where it all runs, and where UK data residency is decided.

Managed Day-to-Day Support

Managed IT Services

The day-to-day support that keeps adoption from stalling.


Security & Compliance

Security & Compliance

The access controls and audit trail your COLP is accountable for.

Data & AI

Data
& AI

This page. The layer that only works when the five above are in order.

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AI built around legal accountability

Built for a regulated profession

The SRA’s position is settled: firms may use AI, must supervise how it is used, and remain responsible for the work product, however it was produced. The court has confirmed that the solicitor, not the tool, is the one who verifies. Everything we build assumes that.

Your data, your tenant

Matter and client data stays inside your Microsoft 365 security boundary, and access is role-aware, so each user sees only what they are already permitted to see.

Human in the loop

Every output is a first draft for solicitor review. Automations carry approval checkpoints at each decision that carries consequence, and sign-off on high-liability work cannot be waived.

We will tell you what not to buy

We do not build legal research AI, eDiscovery platforms, or our own model. We buy

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AI built around legal accountability

Recognised for the platform your matters run on

Nexian Actionstep Partner of the Year Award 2026

Actionstep Global Partner of the Year 2026. We are the UK’s leading Actionstep implementation partner, which is why the AI connection to Actionstep is already built rather than scoped from scratch, and why we can tell you when a native Actionstep capability already covers what you were about to pay us to build.

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What's included

Workflow Development

Workflow Development

Our service analysts and consultants provide guidance to your staff on how to use the core functions of the Actionstep system.

Document Coding

Document Coding

Ensuring the workflows that have been developed by Nexian or others operate effectively.

Tech Skills Assessment

Tech Skills Assessment

Our legal cashier experts can support your team in any tasks undertaken within the Actionstep system.

Legal Process Analysis

Legal Process Analysis

Our service analysts help resolve issues with the core functions of your Actionstep system.

Report Development

Report Development

Our analysts can help you resolve any problems with your suite of Actionstep reports.

Precedent Maintenance

Precedent Maintenance

Our analysts and advisors can provide advice on the capabilities of the Actionstep system and the tools that integrate into it.

Let's talk

Start with a conversation,
not a project

Twenty minutes is enough for us to walk this through against your practice mix and tell you the two or three things worth doing first. If your Microsoft 365 setup needs attention before any of it will work, we will say that too.