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Staying current with legal changes in the public sector

• 60% of public sector lawyers say keeping up with legal change is their top challenge (����ɫ����, 2025)

• Subscribe to updates from trusted legal sources like Lexis+ public sector news, , and the

• Join webinars and briefings to get fast, applied context

• Use smart tools like and to reduce manual effort

• Focus on what matters: the changes that affect your powers, duties and risk exposure

How to stay up to date with legal changes: A guide for public sector lawyers

Keeping up with the pace of legal change is the top challenge facing public sector legal teams in 2025, according to the latest ����ɫ���� research. 60% of public sector lawyers say it’s their number one concern, and it’s easy to see why. Legislative activity is accelerating, expectations are rising, and support structures aren’t always keeping pace.

Whether you’re advising on procurement, planning, social care or governance, here’s how to stay sharp and stay ahead.

Subscribe to smart, tailored legal alerts

The simplest step is also one of the most effective. Set up legal alerts from trusted sources so the updates come to you. Look for options that let you filter by topic or jurisdiction.

Useful sources include:

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Track policy and reform early

Understanding upcoming legal change starts with seeing policy signals early. The highlights the mounting legislative pressures across public services. For legal teams, monitoring consultations, draft bills and government plans is key to staying proactive.

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Join relevant CPD and webinars

Legal CPD doesn’t have to mean full-day seminars. Public sector lawyers benefit from short, focused webinars and briefings that explain new case law or legislation in context. Many are free and on-demand.

Good places to start:

Use digestible legal commentary

Knowing the law is only half the battle. Understanding how it's being interpreted in court is equally critical. Seek out analysis and plain-English summaries from trusted legal writers and public law blogs.

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Tap into your network

With 57% of public sector lawyers citing recruitment and retention as a major challenge, peer networks are more important than ever. Cross-authority working groups and informal WhatsApp or email networks can help you surface changes, ask questions and sense-check approaches.

Ideas:

• Join a regional public law consortium or solicitor group

• Attend virtual roundtables through the

• Use internal social tools (like MS Teams or Yammer) to swap insights

Build internal knowledge-sharing habits

Encourage a culture where people share what they learn. That could be a 5-minute slot in team meetings, a shared "legal change tracker", or rotating ownership of monthly updates.

This kind of peer-to-peer learning keeps everyone informed, not just the person who went to the webinar or read the report.

Use automation to reduce manual effort

When you’re tight on time and headcount, automation can help. Use tools to pull together updates, set alerts, and consolidate reading. An AI summariser can even scan long documents and pull out key points.

Try:

• to create a tailored legal news feed

• for targeted legal topics

• Lexis+ AI to summarise consultation papers or case judgments

FAQ: Staying Up to Date with Legal Changes

Q: What’s the best way to track legal changes without being overwhelmed?
A: Focus on curated alerts, trusted commentary, and peer recommendations. Use a shortlist of sources like ����ɫ����, and to filter what matters.

Q: How can small teams stay current when time is limited?
A: Use automation tools like or , rotate update responsibility internally, and rely on webinars or recorded CPD for fast catch-up.

Q: What makes public sector legal change especially hard to track?
A: You’re dealing with changes across multiple domains — from data protection to social care — and policy shifts often hit before law catches up. That means legal teams need to monitor what’s coming as well as what’s passed.