The Tech Reckoning: What's Actually Happening in NSW Law Firms

The Tech Reckoning: What's Actually Happening in NSW Law Firms

A Panel Discussion

Everyone's talking about legal AI. This panel gets specific about what's actually happening inside NSW law firms, beyond the LinkedIn hype.

Moderated by Laura Pouri-Robertson, the discussion brings together three practitioners applying technology from very different vantage points: a firm principal experimenting hands-on with AI tools day to day, a former legal-tech CEO who's seen adoption from the vendor side, and the co-founder of an Australian legal-tech company building AI specifically trained on legal reasoning.

Together they unpack the gap between the survey stats (most lawyers say they've tried AI) and the reality of how deep that engagement actually goes. They cover:

• Where AI adds real value in legal work, and where the hype outpaces the substance
• Practical, in-firm applications, from research and drafting to running local, firm-trained models
• The risks: hallucinated cases, adverse findings, and what happens when self-represented litigants turn to AI
• What's genuinely changing for lawyers and barristers, and what isn't going anywhere

A candid, practitioner-led conversation for anyone trying to work out what's signal and what's noise in legal tech.