You can download a FREE copy of the 2024 Roundtable Report here.

From March to July 2024, CLI held its second Legal Generative AI Roundtable series in person.

We brought together 122 thought leaders and doers from five cities across Australia and New Zealand.

Each Roundtable had representatives from all sectors of the legal ecosystem: lawyers, allied legal professionals, tech developers, legal consultants, legal educators, and management.

For this second Roundtable series we narrowed the focus and got into the nitty gritty of how generative AI (GenAI) was impacting legal practice – the reality, the hype, positives, negatives and unknowns.

This Report captures the cumulative key takeaways from the 2024 Roundtable series. We’ve also made available the questions we asked in Appendix A and the key takeaways from each individual session (by city) in Appendices B-F.

To everyone who attended and contributed to the 2024 Roundtable series, thank you so VERY much!

CLI would also like to acknowledge and thank Alison Laird, Principal, Laird Innovations and CLI Advisory Board member for her amazing work in bringing this Report to fruition.

We are also grateful to all our fabulous 2024 Roundtable sessions notetakers for their invaluable contribution:

• Auckland: Erin Cairney, then Knowledge & Information Manager, MinterEllisonRuddWatts and now Director of AI Trust and Integrity, Onit
• Brisbane: Bronwyn Eynon-Lewis, Co-Founder, Lacuna Professional Solutions
• Melbourne: Melissa Lyon, Executive Director & Experience Designer, Hive Legal Pty Ltd and CLI Advisory Board member
• Sydney: Fiona McLay, Principal Consultant, McLay Legal Consulting
• Perth: Katherine Thomas, Head of Growth & Strategy, CIE Legal

Don’t forget, if we can assist in any way with you GenAI questions or help with connections, please connect with us at CLI@collaw.edu.au.

Please join the global community working in this space. You’ll find a summary of what we are doing and how you can engage in CLI’s Legal Generative AI Initiative.

Please also jump into our FREE AI for Legal Series: a multi-episode video and podcast series on the fundamentals of AI for law students, lawyers, and allied legal professionals.