This isn't something I'm used to – being featured in the Financial Times...

The brilliant Suzi Ring contacted me about how I use AI in my clinical negligence and inquest practice. Most of the conversation around AI in law focuses on legal research, drafting, that sort of thing. I actually don't use it for that. The law in my cases isn't usually where the difficulty lies. What's complex is the medicine and the arguments about it: understanding guidelines or surgical techniques, the available literature on complications or outcomes, or the different approaches to managing a condition.

That's where AI (most recently Claude with its PubMed 'connector') has changed my practice. I use it to get to grips with the medical issues so that when I'm sitting across from an expert or senior clinician, I'm asking the right questions. It hasn't necessarily saved me time, but it's made my work better informed. In cases where families are trying to understand how someone they love has died, that matters.

Thanks to Suzi Ring for a fascinating conversation!