Daniel Mercer
Lead tutor, AI for Legal Practice
15 years in practice
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising)
- LLB, LPC
- Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E)
Daniel practised as a commercial solicitor for nine years before moving into legal technology, where he led tooling and workflow for a national firm. He now advises firms on where generative AI can be used without compromising privilege, confidentiality or the SRA Standards and Regulations. He is direct that several widely marketed legal AI products cannot be used safely on client matters as supplied, and teaches learners how to establish that for themselves.
What does Daniel Mercer teach at The Study Guild?
Daniel leads the AI for UK Solicitors programme. He teaches the live sessions, works through real anonymised matter scenarios with the cohort, and marks the risk assessment and workflow proposal that each learner produces for their own firm as the programme's final assessment.
What is Daniel Mercer's legal background?
Daniel qualified as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and practised in commercial law for nine years. He is currently non-practising. He later led legal technology for a national firm and holds the CIPP/E certification in European data protection.
What does Daniel Mercer teach about the risks of legal AI tools?
Daniel teaches that the material risks are confidentiality, legal privilege and fabricated citations, in roughly that order of seriousness. Learners are trained to interrogate a vendor's data handling arrangements, to test every output against primary sources, and to document the supervision that their professional obligations already require of them.
Programmes Mercer teaches
AI for UK Solicitors
Use generative AI on real matters without compromising privilege, confidentiality or your SRA obligations — taught by a solicitor who led legal technology for a national firm.
Not for: Non-lawyers seeking legal training — this assumes you are qualified
- Live hours
- 16h live
- Duration and weekly load
- 8 weeks · ~5h/week
- Cohort size
- max 20
£499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free