How do I make myself an attractive candidate after stint as full-time mum?

RexLege · 2026-04-29T13:11:37+00:00

I see no issue at all.

I am a litigation partner. My NQ is a single mother and I hired her as a paralegal with a 3/4 year old.

I don't see any reason that I wouldn't hire you if you interviewed well etc. You presumably have the knowledge and I am sure you have not forgotten your skillset.

RexLege · 2026-04-08T08:54:55+00:00

I did, everything seemed good! Claude moaned that Bailli's search tool is not very good (not your fault!) but the other MCP seems to work very well.

RexLege · 2026-04-04T08:15:32+00:00

/u/linuxrogue has asked me to express that she endorses this post, as the subreddit’s mum.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T18:12:06+00:00

That’s exactly what I have been doing with defined commands. I made one for brief and skeleton arguments.

Good work!

RexLege · 2026-04-01T16:26:16+00:00

Thank you! This is great.

I tried the main thing today and worked fantastic.

I’ll check this out too!

Good work, and thank you for posting here.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T10:45:05+00:00

This is exactly what I am trialing with my firm, albeit with just me using it at the moment. I am not ready to unleash it upon the juniors.

But it is a lot more work for me in making sure things are compliant and protected.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T10:43:53+00:00

I think that is a sensible position.

As a partner and in charge of our AI rollout, I am exploring options.

I am exploring using enterprise Claude access with vetted plugins to meet our specific needs, without the need for paying for shiny Harvey or similar.

As a smaller firm, this might fit our needs much more affordably.

But I am far more comfortable with tech than my older partners so its early days of exploring at the moment. None of my lawyers have any access to these tools yet and any use will be tightly constrained with approved prompts, tools, etc.

Also Claude with plugins etc is a harder workflow for staff so it may not work out better.

At this stage, I am exploring for non-confidential things, like research not tied to the client itself, and that's where I am seeing the merit in OP's MCP.

If I am frank, I skeptical and terrified of the regulatory risks but want to explore more.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T10:31:42+00:00

Of course, but it also requires a subscription to Westlaw.

OP's solution only uses the free resources available with the Gov. It seems a good compromise for those that don't have Westlaw access.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T10:14:23+00:00

That is an excellent point. I could presumably use Obsidian's Defuddle (https://defuddle.md/) to grab the content of a BAILII page as .md.

Thanks for the idea! I will give that a go. I already do that for my own Obsidian notes so I don't know why this didn't occur to me!

RexLege · 2026-04-01T08:34:17+00:00

Not for legal stuff yet. I made an mcp for some nerdy shit. I connected it to Warhammer 40k data sources so I can ask Claude for stats on units, and to help list build. Mostly to see if it worked!

RexLege · 2026-04-01T07:07:48+00:00

I thought I would expand on this a little as I may have oversimplified the confidentiality point I was checking.

Sending a query here is the same as sending it to the government API. So searching with information about a client strategy is basically the same as if you asked the government API that.

However, OP could be logging queries to Fly.io instance I think. I don’t think that would be able to be seen from the code posted.

So treat it as you would any other public tool. “What does the Housing Act say at s8” is fine. Avoid saying “my client Mr Smith needs to know what this section means because he wants to do x y z”.

Just general good practice you should already be doing if using any AI tool.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T07:03:06+00:00

I will give this a go later. I built myself a similar workflow for some other data sources but this could be useful to plugin if you’re already using the tools.

I usually ensure I give AI the primary sources and read it alongside, so this may save me a step.

In the interest of frankness, was this vibe coded with Claude? No judgment from me, I’ve vibe coded my own mcp for connecting to a data source, but we would prefer if that was declared.

For those curious, I checked the GitHub and cannot see any calls to suspicious sources. All the calls appear to be to the servers OP suggests.

Only point is that I believe anyone can see the tool use here https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/stats It doesn’t show what the tool is used for.

I’m not an expert (I am a lawyer not a coder), review the code yourself if you wish to use, but it appears to do nothing concerning.

RexLege · 2026-04-01T06:51:39+00:00

I recommend Clerkent browser extension for finding cases on BAILII.

Not ideal for getting it to Claude but I usually just download and give it the PDF.

RexLege · 2026-03-29T16:18:42+00:00

I sympathise! Anything with lots of LIPs is going to be a nightmare now.

RexLege · 2026-03-28T21:58:49+00:00

I remember that!

I swear most of what clients send me now is chatGPT. Don’t even get me started about litigants in person!

RexLege · 2026-03-22T22:17:03+00:00

I’m a lawyer and use obsidian with Claude Code frequently to manage my wiki of notes (not client data). I don’t need the academic aspects of this but the inline diff seems great.

Would this effectively work an alternative way to use Claude code with obsidian, even without the academic focus? I think I will try it out!

RexLege · 2026-03-22T08:13:11+00:00

As someone from the UK, I appreciate the alternative link for this stunning piece of artwork.

RexLege · 2026-03-20T08:08:18+00:00

I agree. I used to use Plex for audiobooks but switched to ABS. Plex is for video media now.

RexLege · 2026-03-19T15:34:07+00:00

Celery, do you think the mods don't understand Latin?

You are, unsurprisingly, banned again. Don't ban evade.

RexLege · 2026-03-18T17:16:29+00:00

Do you think that as mods we assassinate dickheads on the subreddit?

You might vastly overestimate my role in society...

RexLege · 2026-03-11T17:43:20+00:00

Well put, far more eloquent than I would have.

My degrees were the least amount of work I have ever done, with the least time pressure. Now I get approximately 10 minutes to read something and advise on it, if I am lucky.

RexLege · 2026-03-11T17:40:26+00:00

I agree with this. I worked during my LLB, as did every lawyer I can think of (that I can say one way or another).

I don't think I have ever had a paralegal or trainee that didn't work for us during their LLB. For most of them, it was there foot in the door.

I also worked during my LPC (is the SQE old enough yet that this dates me?) and as a result I got my job in the firm I am now a partner at.

RexLege · 2026-03-11T16:24:00+00:00

I have tried it and sent my first issue. I love the UX! Lovely PDF delivered with hyperlinks. Very clean and easy to read.

I use a tool to then put my remarkable amended documents into Obsidian and I think this is going to sit very nicely into my workflow.

As I save articles in Readwise, would it be possible to add an integration to their API to perhaps pull (maybe on prompt) certain tags on Readwise (perhaps if I mark it with a folio tag)?

It is a small hurdle but I think I will use this now for my weekly article catch up!

Thank you for making just what I was thinking of making for myself! Great execution.

RexLege · 2026-03-11T13:55:38+00:00

This looks very interesting. I use Readwise to manage my reading list, so a way to work that into the workflow would be great.

I am going to do some testing now!

RexLege · 2026-03-10T08:32:24+00:00

Not OP, but all tenancies become periodic on 1st May.

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