UK Legal AI Visibility Study 2026 · 2026 edition

Bird & Bird AI visibility in UK legal services

Bird & Bird was named in 3.4% of the analysed AI answers in this UK legal services study, placing it number 20 in the sampled leaderboard. Where it appeared, 94.7% of those answers presented it as an active recommendation rather than a passing mention. Its average position in the answers that ranked options was 2.91. Visibility was strongest on chatgpt (4.5% of that engine's analysed answers) and weakest on claude (2.6%). The figures come from 169 qualifying observations across 38 distinct buyer questions, a strong confidence sample.

Sector rank
#20
of the top 25 sampled brands
Sampled AI visibility
3.4%
of analysed answers
Recommendation rate
94.7%
of its appearances
Average position
2.91
where answers ranked options
Qualifying observations
169
Strong confidence
Questions covered
38
15.2% of study questions
Assistants measured
4
Snapshot date
2026-09-01

Engines

Visibility by AI assistant

  • chatgpt4.5% of that assistant's analysed answers · 53 observations
  • perplexity3.9% of that assistant's analysed answers · 49 observations
  • gemini2.8% of that assistant's analysed answers · 35 observations
  • claude2.6% of that assistant's analysed answers · 32 observations

Topics

Most frequently observed topics

  • commercial discovery
  • alternative
  • problem led

Ranked by how often the brand was observed against each topic, not by topic-level visibility share.


Geography

Markets where the brand appeared

  • Banking and finance
  • Commercial contracts
  • Commercial property
  • Data protection and privacy
  • Energy and renewables
  • Financial services
  • Hospitality and leisure
  • Intellectual property
  • Manufacturing
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Professional services
  • Regulatory and compliance
  • Retail and ecommerce
  • Technology and SaaS
  • Technology and SaaS law

Competitive context

Brands named in the same answers


Source patterns

Site types behind these answers

Aggregated across the answers in which Bird & Bird appeared. Only domains observed at least three times are shown, and no individual pages are published.

  • chambers.com7.5% · unknown
  • legal500.com7.2% · unknown
  • twobirds.com4.6% · brand
  • lawsociety.org.uk3.4% · unknown
  • trustpilot.com2.7% · review
  • fieldfisher.com2.3% · unknown
  • blakemorgan.co.uk2.2% · unknown
  • harperjames.co.uk2.2% · unknown
  • taylorwessing.com2.2% · unknown
  • bestlawyers.com1.9% · affiliate
  • pinsentmasons.com1.5% · unknown
  • osborneclarke.com1.5% · unknown

Methodology

How to read this profile

Sampled AI visibility is the share of the analysed AI answers in this study in which a brand was named. Recommendation rate is the share of those appearances where the answer actively recommended the brand rather than mentioning it in passing. Per-engine visibility is measured against the answers analysed on that engine only. Confidence reflects sample size: Directional up to 20 qualifying observations, Moderate from 21 to 100, Strong above 100.

This is a point-in-time research snapshot, not a live ranking.

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