UK Launches Legal Services AI Growth Lab

Overview

• The UK government announced the Legal Services Advisory AI Growth Lab on Monday, June 8, 2026, naming legal services as the first sector to join the new advisory sandbox.
• The lab will bring the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Information Commissioner’s Office and Legal Services Board together to advise innovators on cross‑regulatory issues.
• Participation in the lab will not count as regulatory approval or change existing legal duties, but it will let firms surface compliance questions with regulators in a coordinated way.
• Applications for LawTech companies, legal service providers and conveyancers will open later this summer and regulators say the process aims to speed safe commercial deployment of AI tools.
• Officials say the lab builds on the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s Call for Evidence and is intended to boost productivity and access to justice by making it easier to adopt proven AI tools in the sector.