Supporting Innovation
Updated 6 March 2026
All the latest Innovate updates on our events, research and other resources. Here you'll also find useful resources such as guidance and resources from other regulators.
If you want to get in touch with our Innovation Policy team, you can contact us directly.
Innovation and technology that supports those that deliver legal services to do so more efficiently, effectively and accessibly.
This could include innovations and technologies which help legal professionals to streamline and manage their work, as well as support consumer access and experience.
AI is changing the legal sector as we know it. Knowledge is power as firms navigate new innovations in technology. In this session, SRA Lead Data Scientist, Dr Thomas Wood delves into what AI is.
In this session, SRA Policy Manager, Olivier Roth shares our upcoming practical tools designed to help firms navigate opportunities and risks in AI. Hear about the work we have underway to provide your firm with clarity and support on regulatory expectations that enable innovation in a safe, ethical, and compliant way.
We discuss cyber trends, including artificial intelligence (AI), impacting law firms and what you can do to protect your business.
Innovation and technology are reshaping the legal sector, with solicitors and law firms increasingly using lawtech, including, AI in their day-to-day work.
Watch our latest free innovation event, get the insights and valuable advice about navigating the evolving technology landscape. Hear about the latest developments, how to overcome challenges and take full advantage of the opportunities presented.
Innovate 2025
Event highlights
- Tech and AI impact: how they are changing business practices and emerging trends.
- Maximising existing technology: practical tips and insights on how to understand the tech landscape, and to choose products that meet your needs.
- AI in law firm settings: understanding practically how AI can benefit you and your business.
- First-hand experience: practical insights into how firms are using technology, and opportunities and obstacles they envision for the future.
- Upskilling workforce: preparing for future technological advancements.
- AI governance: practical advice on how to ensure adequate supervision and governance of AI in your business.
- Regulatory changes: what firms should anticipate.
Birmingham
Keynote: Research into using technology and innovation
- Aisling O'Connell, Head of Innovation Policy, SRA
Choosing and using AI and technology in a law firm
- Aileen Armstrong, Executive Director, Strategy, Innovation and External Affairs (Chair)
- Harry Borovick, General Counsel, Luminance
- Alan Ma, Legal Tech Committee, Birmingham Law Society
- Paul Saunders, Manager Director, LegalEye
- Patrick Skinner, General Counsel, Atticus
AI and technology: the evolving legal and regulatory environment
- Aileen Armstrong, Executive Director, Strategy, Innovation and External Affairs
- Dan Long, Technical Co-founder, Garfield AI
- Aisling O'Connell, Health of Innovation Policy, SRA
- Clare Streets, Innovation and Digital Lead, SuperTech
Leeds
Keynote: Research into using technology and innovation
- Chris Handford, Director of Regulatory Policy, SRA
Choosing and using AI and technology in a law firm
- Liz Rosser, Executive Director Operations and Resources, SRA (Chair)
- Wallace Briggs, Associate, Walker Morris
- Susan Ford, Head of Knowledge, DAC Beachcroft
- Paul Saunders, Managing Director, LegalEye
- Chloe Thompson, Consultant, Whitecap Consulting
AI and tech: The evolving legal and regulatory environment
- Liz Rosser, Executive Director Operations and Resources, SRA (Chair)
- Gary Gallen, CEO and Founder , rrader
- Eimear McCann, Commercial Director and Solicitor, TrailView
- Olivier Roth, Policy Manager, SRA
- Phillip Young, Partner, Garfield AI
Previous Innovate events
We commissioned Thinks Insight and Strategy to conduct independent research into how small firms and sole practitioners use technology, their views on innovation and the support that they would most value.
We wanted to better understand the needs of sole practitioners and small firms when it comes to using technology and innovating. As well as identifying our role as a regulator in supporting them to innovate in the interest of consumers.
Our Risk Outlook report looks at how AI is impacting the legal services sector.
It outlines current and potential future developments, and what firms may need to think about in each area to help them assess if and how they might be affected. We highlight the opportunities and risks for firms presented by AI.
Lawtech Insight, produced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, pulls together the latest news and opinions on technology and innovation in the legal sector and beyond.
The latest issue
Lawtech Insight September 2025
Can generative AI (genAI) do it all? How do you make the most of it and where does it make the biggest impact? Lawyer-turned-legal engineer Catherine Bamford is on hand in the latest issue of Lawtech Insight to answer these questions.
She talks through the workflow of a legal matter and where genAI can make a real difference – and when it's best avoided. Also in this latest issue is the latest round-up of lawtech news, covering reports on AI adoption within professional services, the Ministry of Justice's ambitious plans to embed AI across the justice system and more.
Following a grant from the Regulators Pioneer Fund (RPF3) we are exploring how online dispute resolution can help tackle the unmet legal need of individuals, consumers and small/ medium-sized enterprises. The project began in November 2023 and will complete in May 2025.
We have curated go-to trusted resources from government, other regulators, thought leaders, and more.
Legal sector
- The Law Society Guide: Generative AI – the essentials
- AI Judicial Guidance (PDF 8 pages, 198KB)
Regulators
- From the ICO blog, Generative AI: eight questions that developers and users need to ask
Government
Other
- Write-up from Reform policy roundtable - Legal services 2050: the role of AI in a world-leading legal sector (PDF 5 pages, 6.9MB)
- EU Commission guideline on using GenAI, 2023
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