Everyone is talking about how AI will change legal practice.

It will.

Repetitive and legal work will get done faster.

Information will be easier to access.

A lot of the technical work that barristers and lawyers have traditionally been valued for will become easier to find.

Which raises a question.

If every barrister and lawyer has access to the same AI tools, where does advantage come from?

Because if everyone can access the same information, produce similar work and automate many of the same tasks, technical capability becomes less of a differentiator.

Yet when lawyers tell me practice is difficult, they're rarely talking about legal work

They're talking about:
The client who won't follow advice (or pay fees).
The team issue that should have been addressed two weeks earlier.
The difficult conversation nobody wants to have.
The combative person is creating more problems.
The problem gets bigger while everyone waits for it to sort itself out.

Those are the things that consume time.
Occupy senior lawyers.
Frustrate clients.
Create write-offs.
Cut into revenue.

Making practice harder.

As AI removes more of the repetitive work, and information becomes more accessible, the advantage shifts to the barristers and lawyers who can make practice simpler.

Because the barristers and lawyers who create the most value won't simply be the ones using AI well.

They'll be the ones who can have the difficult conversation.
Address the issues early.
Help clients to trust them and how they operate.
And deal with problems before they become expensive.

That's one of the reasons I'm running the "Practice Doesn't Have To Be This Hard" workshop this Wednesday.

Not because barristers and lawyers need more technical knowledge or better AI prompts.

Because many of the things that make practice difficult aren't legal or AI-related.
And they are entirely predictable.

Most barristers and lawyers already know what needs to be done.

The challenge is doing something about it before the cost starts building.

If you've looked at a client, colleague, or situation recently and thought:
"This shouldn't be this difficult."

This workshop is for you.

Learn more and register HERE (10 June 2026)