https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html Ten minutes on running a law firm with AI, from Bracton, the legal AI case management system for firms in England and Wales. Every Thursday Saqib Khan, a former law firm owner and county court judge, takes one problem every firm owner recognises, sets out what a well run firm does about it, and says plainly where Bracton fits. en-gb Bracton Ltd 6d3f1b2a-4c8e-5f7a-9b1d-2e4c6a8f0b3d no Saqib Khan Ten minutes on running a law firm with AI, from Bracton Ten minutes on running a law firm with AI, from Bracton, the legal AI case management system for firms in England and Wales. Every Thursday Saqib Khan, a former law firm owner and county court judge, takes one problem every firm owner recognises, sets out what a well run firm does about it, and says plainly where Bracton fits. episodic false Saqib Khan hello@bractonlegal.co.uk https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast/cover-2026-10-26.jpg https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html#episode-6 ai-case-management-006 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0100 A purchase quoted at a fixed fee for a freehold house turns up an extension built in breach of a covenant, and fourteen hours go on a fee priced for six without a word to the buyer. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sat as a fee-paid county court judge for four, works through an illustrative figure for what fixed fee work past its scope costs a firm in a year, the three places where scope fails, what the SRA Code of Conduct and the Transparency Rules expect a firm to say about price, and the two documents a judge reads first when a fee dispute reaches court. Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single fee earner's last ten fixed fee matters this week, and a plain account of where Bracton fits, with the overnight read that raises a fixed fee gone past its scope, finds the chargeable work that never reached a time entry and drafts the update to the client for a fee earner to price and sign off. The fixed fee that ran past its scope Saqib Khan 6 full 478 false https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html#episode-5 ai-case-management-005 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0100 The third email in seven weeks arrives from the executor of an estate that has waited fourteen weeks on a pension provider. The file is in order, every chase is noted, and the executor has seen none of it. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sat as a fee-paid county court judge for four, works through an illustrative figure for how many files in a firm have gone quiet at any one time, why clients complain about the silence rather than the delay, how unhappy clients change the way they write before they say so, and what a judge reads first when the correspondence reaches court. Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single fee earner's oldest matters this week, and a plain account of where Bracton fits, with the overnight read that finds the files where nothing has gone out to the client, reads the inbound correspondence for the markers and drafts the holding update for a fee earner to sign off. The client who went quiet and then complained Saqib Khan 5 full 493 false https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html#episode-4 ai-case-management-004 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0100 A letter arrives eighteen months after completion. The seller's mortgage is still on the register, the undertaking to redeem it sits in an email on a closed file, and the conveyancer who gave it has left. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sat as a fee-paid county court judge for four, works through an illustrative figure for how many undertakings sit live on a firm's files, why closing a file does nothing to them, and what the court reads first when asked to enforce one. Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single conveyancer's completions this week, and a plain account of where Bracton fits, with the overnight read that picks out language that binds and flags an undertaking still open for a fee earner to deal with and sign off. The undertaking still open on a closed file Saqib Khan 4 full 494 false https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html#episode-3 ai-case-management-003 Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0100 An unless order arrives on a Monday morning, and the file behind it has not moved in seven weeks. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sat as a fee-paid county court judge for four, works through an illustrative figure for how many files in a firm drift at any one time, why entries on a file pass for progress, and what the court looks at when a party asks for relief after a missed step. Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single desk this week, and a plain account of where Bracton fits, with the overnight read that flags a matter with no substantive activity for a month and drafts the chaser for a fee earner to sign off. The file nobody has opened for a month Saqib Khan 3 full 486 false https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html#episode-2 ai-case-management-002 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0100 A client rings to ask whether her claim has been issued, the solicitor running it is on leave, and the limitation date sits in pencil in a notebook in a desk drawer. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sat as a fee-paid county court judge for four, works through an illustrative figure for how often a desk stands empty, why good fee earners keep their dates in their own systems, and what the court looks at when the explanation for a missed deadline is that someone was away. Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single desk this week, and a plain account of where Bracton fits, with the overnight read that finds dates in the file which never reached the diary and puts each one to a fee earner to confirm or reject. The date that lived in one person's head Saqib Khan 2 full 475 false https://bractonlegal.co.uk/podcast.html#episode-1 ai-case-management-001 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0100 Every fee earner in your firm did something chargeable this morning that nobody will ever bill. A four minute call, an email answered on the train, a quick look at a file for a colleague. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sat as a fee-paid county court judge for four, works through an illustrative figure for what twenty unrecorded minutes a day costs a firm of ten, the three reasons it happens, and what the court made of a file whose time was never written down when the work was done. Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single fee earner's files this week, and a plain account of where Bracton fits, with the overnight read that drafts the missing time entry for a person to accept or reject. The time your firm never billed Saqib Khan 1 full 427 false