With legal technology developing at pace, Today’s Family Lawyer brings all the latest innovation together in a new regular round up of news, updates and upgrades for family law teams.
A new legal practice management platform built for small and mid-sized firms has been launched by a Newcastle solicitor.
Adjurn was created by Turkish lawyer Can Canko, who became an attorney at law in 2011 and has run his own law firm since 2012. He moved the firm to Newcastle in 2023, when he was admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales.
The platform brings matters, time recording, billing, compliance and document management into one system, which utilises a dual AI engine that draws on both Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“Every piece of software I used as a solicitor had hundreds of functions nobody in the firm ever touched, and the few you actually needed were buried three menus deep”, Canko said of his inspiration to build the platform.
“You pay for 100 buttons and use nine. I was not just using these systems, I was the one signing the invoices for them. Nobody outside the profession was ever going to fix it, so I built it myself.”
The SRA’s rules are encoded within the platform, Canko explained, which includes automatic time capture for Windows and Mac, 300 matter-specific forms for client intake, compliance registers, client account ledger, electronic signature and client portal, messaging and calling inside the platform, and matters, billing and invoicing connected end to end.
See adjurn.app for more information and pricing.
Direct-access barrister platform MyBarrister has launched a new website to connect barristers with clients.
The new subscription platform gives barristers a professional profile and direct client enquiries, with clients able to search a directory of over 170 specialists across 57 areas of law and more than 80 chambers.
Barristers pay a subscription fee to list a profile and receive client enquiries directly, whether they are starting a direct-access practice from scratch or running one alongside chambers work. Clients use the site for free, searching by specialism, location or availability, and can instruct a barrister without going through a solicitor first.
“Having managed MyBarrister day-to-day for over 12 years, I couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve built with this launch”, client relationship manager Harry Pitcher said.
“The improvements to our website and back-end systems, powered by VENTRiQ, are the biggest step forward I’ve seen in the site’s history. Our aim has always been to make the experience of finding the right barrister, or the right client, as smooth and rewarding as possible, and we now have a far greater capacity to deliver that than ever before.”
See www.mybarrister.co.uk for more details.
VENTRiQ, the legal company behind the MyBarrister site, has launched a free cyber readiness score tool to help practices see how secure they are.
The government’s 2025 Cyber Security Breaches Survey recorded a 77% rise in successful cyberattacks against UK law firms in 2024, with 55% of professional firms reporting a breach.
VENTRiQ says it frequently sees phishing emails made to look like court correspondence, ransomware targeting case management systems, and attacks that arrive through smaller, less well-defended suppliers.
The cyber readiness score gives a readiness score out of 100 with practical next steps. It takes a few minutes, and the results stay with the practice.
Visit www.ventriq.co.uk/cyber-readiness to find your score.
