🎙️ “The future of law is a profession-wide problem.”

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge, sat down with Alison Laird, Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation, to unpack one of the biggest questions facing the legal industry:

👉 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸?

Alison shared insights from CLI’s upcoming 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 — an independent industry-wide initiative designed to better understand how legal teams, law firms, students, and the broader profession are navigating rapid change.

One challenge stood out clearly:

The expectations on modern lawyers are evolving faster than the profession itself.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ In-house legal teams are continuing to bring more work internally

↳ Law firms are under pressure to rethink how they deliver value

↳ Employers increasingly want “tech-enabled” lawyers from day one

↳ The gap between education and industry expectations is becoming more visible

↳ Solving the future skills challenge requires collaboration across the entire profession

CLI is currently inviting participation in its independent 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆, bringing together perspectives from across the profession.

The more perspectives involved, the more valuable the insights become.

📌 Learn more about the Future of Law Report and participate here:
https://surveys.matternz.com/s3/col0004-cli-innovationsurvey-2026

To explore more from the Centre for Legal Innovation:
https://cli.collaw.com/

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🎙️ “𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with Adam Norman Jenkins, co-founder of ISaidUSaid.com, fresh off winning the 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, to discuss how AI and sentiment analytics are being used to tackle one of the most emotionally confronting areas of law.And this wasn’t another “AI will write your brief” conversation.

This was about:

→ 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

→ 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮

→ 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱

→ 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Family lawyers are facing enormous emotional and psychological strain

↳ Reviewing years of messages, emails, videos, and recordings manually is mathematically impossible

↳ AI sentiment analytics can identify patterns of financial abuse, coercion, escalation, and conflict across huge data sets

↳ Faster identification of high-risk matters could improve intervention outcomes and client safety

↳ Data-driven evidence may help reduce emotional escalation and improve clarity in family law matters

One insight that stood out:

“Data has no character.”

Adam spoke candidly about the emotional weight of building technology in this space, the impact on family lawyers, and the bigger vision behind ISaidUSaid:Not just improving efficiency.But helping fix a system under enormous pressure.

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🎙️ “The legal industry isn’t sleepy anymore.”

At RelFest 26 Sydney by Relativity, Jonathan Seifman sat down with Chris Brown, Chief Product Officer at Relativity, to explore how legal tech is evolving through AI, collaboration, and continuous innovation.

Coming from outside the legal industry originally as a computer engineer, Chris shared why legal tech became one of the most exciting industries he’d ever worked in.

Legal is no longer just adopting technology.

It’s actively shaping it.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal data intelligence is becoming central to investigations, litigation, and regulatory workflows
↳ AI adoption in eDiscovery and legal workflows started much earlier than many people realise
↳ The best product innovation happens through deep customer feedback loops
↳ Australian legal professionals are viewed globally as highly practical and innovation-driven
↳ Modern legal AI requires collaboration between lawyers, engineers, and product teams

One insight that stood out:

“You want to engineer feedback loops into your development process.”

As Chris put it:

“It’s not too pretentious here. People just get to work.”

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