The AI rules that will bind City lawyers are not being written in Parliament

The article questions if the profession is "regulating itself by default" when it comes to AI, pointing to efforts by the CLLS to stand up a specialist AI committee, which it describes as a "standards body in everything but name".

Chaired by Minesh Tanna, who is global AI lead at Simmons & Simmons, the committee has a remit its chair Colin Passmore described as joining policy discussions on AI regulation and coordinating the response of London’s leading firms. It runs twenty other specialist committees on the same model, and they have been shaping the detail of commercial law for decades.

Relatedly, the published line-up for the CLLS's 15 September Guildhall conference has put the SRA’s chief executive, Sarah Rapson, on the programme alongside those firms and general counsel from HSBC, Lloyds and Canary Wharf Group. Vendors were billed too, among them Harvey’s legal innovation partner. The people who will decide what acceptable AI use looks like in UK legal services were assembled in one building, and none of them needed a bill to convene.