In November 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT, it felt like there was a global sharp intake of breadth. Tech we had seen before came to us tested and risk adverse but, this tech engaged us all in a first ever global beta test!
At CLI we knew early on that we had an important role to play as a neutral, education led stakeholder.
We ran this first Roundtable series from March to July 2023. We engaged with 179 people from 14 sectors in the legal ecosystem through 17 virtual Roundtables: lawyers in private practice and business leaders in solo, small, mid-tier and large law firms; corporate inhouse and government inhouse counsel; legal consultants; legaltech developers + legal technologists; legal educators (Australian law school leaders, practical legal education heads of courses and clinicians); emerging legal leaders; innovation and transformation professionals; legal operations professionals; community legal centres; pro bono and low bono law firms; and legal profession regulators.
This first Roundtable series was and remains one of the most comprehensive small group, early benchmarking initiatives about this tech in the APAC legal ecosystem.
This Report captures the cumulative key takeaways from the 2023 Roundtable series. We’ve also made available the questions we asked in Appendix A and the key takeaways from each session (by sector) in Appendices B-O.
After this Roundtable series, we launched CLI’s Legal Generative AI Initiative. Here are some ways you can engage with us on this topic today for FREE:
- Legal Generative AI Global Community: a learning community for everyone in the legal ecosystem to access relevant, lightly curated daily content and immediately connect with people everywhere.
- Legal GenAI Clinic – Experiments and Use Cases: a bi-monthly online meet up to share experience, learn, and connect on legal GenAI in action.
Please also watch/listen to 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.
To everyone who attended and contributed to the 2023 Roundtable series, thank you SO much!
CLI would also like to acknowledge and thank Alison Laird, Principal, Laird Innovations and CLI Advisory Board member for her fabulous work on this Report.
CLI would also like to acknowledge the contribution of and thank each of the ten the facilitators of the 2023 Roundtables sessions:
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∙ Bianca Bowron-Cuthill, Country Manager & GM Australia, Smokeball Australia ∙ Ann-Maree David, Executive Director, College of Law Queensland ∙ Luke Geary, Partner, Mills Oakley ∙ Katrina Gowans, Director Legal Operations APAC, IFM Investors and CLI Advisory Board Member ∙ Alison Laird, Director, Laird Innovations Pty Ltd and CLI Advisory Board Member |
∙ Melissa Lyon, Executive Director & Experience Designer, Hive Legal and CLI Advisory Board Member ∙ Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law ∙ Jennie Pakula, Director & Principal Lawyer, The Lawyer’s Friend ∙ Schellie-Jayne (SJ) Price, Partner, Stirling & Rose and CLI Advisory Board Member ∙ Caryn Sandler, Partner + Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer, Gilbert + Tobin and Co-Chair, CLI Advisory Board |
Don’t forget, if we can assist in any way with your GenAI questions or help with connections, please connect with us at CLI@collaw.edu.au.
You can download a FREE copy of the 2023 Roundtable Report here.
You’ll find the key takeaways from our second Roundtable Series in 2024 for FREE here.