Search results do not support claim that barrister Anthony Searle uses AI

In short: Publicly available search results confirm Anthony Searle is a London barrister, but they do not back up claims about his use of AI or other new tools in legal work.

The details

The Financial Times article link provided frames barrister Anthony Searle as part of a generation using new tools to reshape the business of law. However, the supporting search results available here do not contain factual information about Searle using AI or similar tools in his day to day practice.

What the results do confirm is basic background information. They list Searle as a barrister at Serjeants' Inn Chambers in London, at 85 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AE. They also show an Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) registration number, ZA209538, connected to a privacy policy that appears to be active since at least February 2026.

Other items in the results include a 2018 personal news note about his marriage to corporate lawyer Lily Tomkins at Temple Church. Separately, some search results refer to people at a US law firm with similar names and unrelated achievements, but they do not mention Searle or any use of AI in legal practice.

This means the available material works like a business card, confirming who he is and where he works, but it does not provide the kind of detail needed to support the broader claim about AI changing how he runs his legal work.

Source: Financial Times