Briefing Frontiers 2026

The Briefing Frontiers research is flagship annual benchmarking of how top UK law firms’ investment and transformation plans, strategic priorities and choices are evolving — according to their own strategic leaders across key functions and responsibilities. Insight includes approaches to innovation, barriers to progress on business change, the drivers for cloud platforms, complexities of data strategy, and movement to maximise value from adoption of generative artificial intelligence.

• How are firms managing to prioritise the growing number of potential projects for innovation?
• Will they now move all their core business management systems to the cloud, and what’s at stake strategically?
• Are firms any closer to a connected data strategy that can mine the value from what they hold and realistically deliver on a wide range of performance goals?
• Where are firms already harnessing generative artificial intelligence, either internally or at the face of client service?

User-friendly, dynamic graphs — with insight into trends split by total firm headcount, among other factors — come with Briefing editorial team analysis and detailed supporting interviews with C-level business management leaders at a wide range of firms. In 2026 these include Edwin Coe, Carey Olsen, Weightmans, Forsters, Wedlake Bell, Stewarts, Stevens & Bolton and Clyde & Co.

In addition, there are perspectives on the year’s top findings from each of our Briefing Frontiers 2026 research partners: Aderant, Clio, LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions and sa.global.

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