Tim Kenney sat down with Luke Abagi, Head of Product at Mary Technology, for a deep conversation on litigation AI, “𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀” and why trust is becoming one of the most important layers in legal AI.

The name “Mary” actually comes from one of the founder’s relatives:

a ruthlessly efficient barrister known for cutting through complexity.

And that became the mission.

Build technology that helps legal teams navigate overwhelming volumes of information faster — without removing legal judgment.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Litigation teams spend enormous time navigating “fact chaos” across massive document sets

↳ AI in litigation isn’t just about efficiency — it’s about surfacing critical insights faster

↳ Verification, citations, and review layers are becoming essential in legal AI workflows

↳ The biggest risk in AI may be “cognitive surrender” — blindly trusting confident outputs

↳ The future of legal AI may depend less on automation… and more on trust

One insight that stood out:

“𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.”

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #Litigation #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #LegalAI #MaryTechnology #eDiscovery

🎙️ “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/

#PeopleInLegal #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #LegalTech #LawFirms #InHouseCounsel #LegalEducation #AIinLaw #CentreForLegalInnovation

🎙️ “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.

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #FamilyLaw #DomesticViolence #LegalInnovation #LegalAI #FutureOfLaw #SentimentAnalytics

🎙️ “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.”

#PeopleInLegal #RelFest26 #Relativity #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #eDiscovery #FutureOfLaw #LegalIndustry

Tim Kenney had the great conversation with Ted Theodoropoulos, CEO of Infodash, legal tech thought leader, and host of the 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁, for a deep conversation on AI, enterprise search, knowledge management, and the future of legal innovation.

And one message came through clearly: The firms that win in the AI era won’t just buy better tools. They’ll build better infrastructure, better integrations, and better legal engineering capability.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal engineers are becoming critical to law firm transformation
↳ AI makes knowledge management and data hygiene more important than ever
↳ “Garbage in, garbage out” still applies in legal AI
↳ Off-the-shelf AI tools alone won’t create long-term differentiation
↳ Law firms need technology foundations that can scale securely and intelligently

One insight that stood out:

“Technology is now entering the chat.”

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalEngineering #KnowledgeManagement #EnterpriseSearch #FutureOfLaw #InfoDash #LegalInnovation

🎙️ 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, our host Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with David Lisitsa, Director of NewLaw.com — the advisory many firms turn to when they need someone on their side of the table.

In an age of noise:

every vendor pitching,

every AI tool a saviour,

every consultant with a deck… Newlaw cuts through it.

Firms come to Newlaw with a problem — or hand them the keys and ask Newlaw to find the problems and solve them.

Either way, the brief is the same:

Help the firm stay competitive with the modern client.

Newlaw is effectively a fully outsourced legal operations, project management and design function.

The scope runs end-to-end:

▪️ Stack selection — choosing the platforms that will actually support the firm, not the loudest vendor in the room

▪️ Implementation & training — getting tools into the hands of fee-earners and making them stick

▪️ Marketing — positioning, digital presence, growth

▪️ Intake & client onboarding — frictionless, compliant, fast

▪️ AML & risk — built into the workflow, not bolted on

▪️ Precedent automation — turning expert lawyers’ work into leverage

▪️ Reporting & data — so firm leaders actually know what’s happening

▪️ Workflow design — the operational layer that makes everything else work

▪️ AI implementation — deep expertise, real deployments

Platform-agnostic by design — firms come to Newlaw regardless of which stack they’re on or moving to:

🔹 Practice management: Clio, Actionstep, Smokeball - Legal Software, LEAP Legal Software, Yao, LOGICFIRM SL, Thomson Reuters

🔹 Document management: NetDocuments, iManage, Bundledocs

🔹 CRM & business platforms: HubSpot, Zoho, Hivelight

🔹 AI & emerging tools: Parachute, Harvey, Legora and others — including local, on-premise deployments for firms where client confidentiality is non-negotiable

David's view:

“𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦.”

Firms shouldn’t be sold a stack.

They should buy an outcome — then bring in the experts to land it.

💥 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄?

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalOperations #WorkflowAutomation #LawFirms #FutureOfLaw #LegalInnovation #ChangeManagement

🎙️ 𝗔𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with Kaleb Holden, Director of APAC at NetDocuments, to unpack what’s really keeping legal professionals up at night in the age of AI.

And surprisingly?

It’s not just the technology itself.

It’s:

→ information overload

→ governance

→ security

→ and figuring out which AI direction actually matters

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Law firms are overwhelmed by the sheer number of AI options entering the market
↳ Good AI requires structure, governance, and context — not just access to data
↳ Automating document workflows remains a huge opportunity for firms
↳ Security and data ownership are becoming even more critical in legal AI adoption
↳ The firms embracing AI strategically will gain long-term operational advantages

One insight that stood out:

“Bring AI to your content — not content to your AI.”

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #NetDocuments #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #DocumentManagement #LawFirms #LegalAI

🎙️ AI isn’t slowing down. Neither is legal tech.

At 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝘆𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 by Relativity, Jonathan Seifman sat down with Georgia Foster, Managing Director and VP Sales, to discuss how AI is reshaping legal workflows, client expectations, and the future of the industry.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal teams are under increasing pressure to move faster and do more with less

↳ AI adoption is no longer a future discussion — it’s happening now

↳ Trust, accuracy, and security remain critical in legal AI workflows

↳ The firms embracing innovation strategically will create long-term advantage

↳ Technology alone isn’t enough — change management and people matter just as much

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal teams are under increasing pressure to move faster and do more with less
↳ AI adoption is no longer a future discussion — it’s happening now
↳ Trust, accuracy, and security remain critical in legal AI workflows
↳ The firms embracing innovation strategically will create long-term advantage
↳ Technology alone isn’t enough — change management and people matter just as much

#PeopleInLegal #RelFest26 #Relativity #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #eDiscovery #LegalIndustry