Since early 2023, GenAI has dominated every event, webinar, podcast, and meeting in the legal ecosystem. Now, it’s time to go beyond the tech and explore its broader implications.
We’re at a pivotal moment where GenAI is not just a tool but a game-changer. It’s reshaping strategies, competition, business models, and legal leadership. It’s making waves in operational aspects too from work (conception to delivery), pricing and sustained value to talent, capabilities, and risk.
In this series, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation will engage global legal leaders and innovators in thought provoking conversations. We’ll delve into how and why they have leveraged GenAI to transform their law firms, legal departments, consultancies, law companies, alternative legal services organisations, and education institutions. We’ll identify and explore the unforeseen, the challenges, and the opportunities they experienced along the way.
Join us online to share experience, learn, connect, and ask questions. These informal sessions are a perfect addition to your monthly lunch and learn series. Everyone is welcome!
Here are the dates in 2025 for our live, free online sessions between 9am-10am (Melbourne/Sydney time):
- Thursday February 20
- Tuesday March 18
- Wednesday April 16
- Wednesday May 7
- Thursday July 3
- Thursday July 24
- Tuesday August 5
- Tuesday September 16
If you can’t make the live session, catch the replay shortly after it ends. We’ll post the links to the recordings on this page.
Want us to discuss a specific topic? Contact us at CLI@collaw.edu.au.
Don’t forget to join our free Legal Generative AI Global Community here – it’s a lightly curated daily news feed on all things legal GenAI.
| Date | Topic | Faculty |
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20 February 2025 |
The Lawyer Mindset |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guest: Dr. Larry Richard, Founder and Principal Consultant, LawyerBrain LLC |
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18 March 2025 |
Legal leaders in the AI era - Are we there yet? |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Simon Newcomb, Partner, Clayton Utz Dan Proietto, Chief Executive Partner, Lander & Rogers Prue Tyler, Founder, Director, SHIFT Advisory Limited |
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16 April 2025 |
Will GenAI kill the billable hour... ever? Forthcoming |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Melissa Lyon, Executive Director & Experience Designer, Hive Legal and CLI Advisory Board member Gene Turner, Managing Director, LawHawk and CLI Advisory Board member Tessa van Duyn, CEO and Practice Leader, Moores and CLI Advisory Board member |
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7 May 2025 |
The Lawyerless Law Firm – Myth or Reality in 2030? Forthcoming |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Laura Vickers, Founding Director, Nest Legal Dominic Woolrych, CEO & Co-Founder, LawPath |
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3 July 2025 |
Legal Talent 2.0: Designing Tomorrow’s Workforce for the AI-Enhanced Law Firm Forthcoming |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Jan Christie, Director, Capability + Organisational Development, Gilbert + Tobin Leona Blanco, Knowledge and Information Manager APAC, Clyde and Co Kate Booth, Head of Learning and Development, MinterEllison |
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24 July 2025 |
Should tech competency be mandatory for lawyers and paraprofessionals? Forthcoming |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Jeannie Paterson, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne and Co-Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) Jayne Reardon, Partner & Deputy General Counsel, FisherBroyles LLP |
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5 August 2025 |
The next law school is... Forthcoming |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Dr. Mitchell Adams, LLB Course Director, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology Cat Moon, Professor of the Practice, Vanderbilt University Law School Michelle Mahoney, Chief Innovation Officer, King & Wood Mallesons |
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16 September 2025 |
AI-Assisted Justice: Wishful, Watershed, or Working? Forthcoming |
Facilitator: Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation Guests: Laura Elliott, Pro Bono Director, DLA Piper, and Director, A2J Tech Network Sam Flynn, Co-Founder, Josef and CLI Advisory Board member Tom O'Doherty, Head of Innovation, Justice Connect |