Are these templates I can adopt?
No. The policy guide is a list of decisions for the firm to write in its own words. The hosting guide explains how to read a vendor’s Australian hosting claim. The how-to guides are methods, not precedents.
Guides
Guides for Australian legal AI
Guides for Australian legal AI, grouped by practice area, including how to use a tool on a task. Each page cites its sources and links to the court notes.
Research and advice
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How to use AI for legal research in Australia
A way to research Australian law with a generative tool without treating its answer as the authority. The check is still opening the case.
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How to use AI for checking citations in Australia
A citation check is a list of authorities opened by a person. It is not a second prompt that asks whether the first prompt was right.
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How to use AI for summarising cases in Australia
A case summary is a reading aid. It is not the authority, and it is not what you cite.
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How to use AI for legal translation in Australia
A machine translation is a working aid. A document you file, or a translation a witness adopts, needs a translator the court will accept.
Litigation and tribunals
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Using AI at the Bar: a guide for Australian barristers
Research and drafting tools barristers compare, read against the practice note of the court they are appearing in. Not a ranking and not a brief to accept.
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How to use AI for drafting affidavits in Australia
Affidavit evidence is the deponent’s account. Several Australian courts restrict generative tools from writing that account. Start with the court’s note, not the draft.
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How to use AI for witness statements in Australia
A witness statement is the witness’s evidence. Organising your notes is not the same thing as letting a model invent what the witness would have said.
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How to use AI for expert reports in Australia
Experts who use a generative tool need to be told the court’s rule, and the report needs a human check for citations the expert did not read.
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How to use AI for written submissions in Australia
Written submissions can be drafted with a tool only inside the court’s rule, and every citation and quote is opened by a person before anyone signs.
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How to use AI for discovery and document review in Australia
Technology-assisted review of a discovery set is a method you agree, sample and write down. Privilege calls stay with lawyers.
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How to use AI for chronologies in Australia
A chronology is only as good as the document each line points to. The tool extracts dates. A person checks them and marks what is disputed.
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How to use AI for employment and FWC applications in Australia
From 20 October 2026 the Fair Work Commission’s generative AI guidance note applies in Commission matters. Tell the Commission, check the facts, and hyperlink the cases if you are a representative.
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How to use AI for NCAT and tribunal applications in Australia
NCAT is not the Supreme Court. Procedural Direction 7 is the tribunal’s generative AI direction. Where a generative tool was used, the direction’s verification statement is part of the lodgment.
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How to use AI for ART merits review in Australia
Merits review in the Administrative Review Tribunal follows that Tribunal’s generative AI practice direction and the checklist that sits with it. It is not the Federal Court note.
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How to use AI for personal injury commission matters in Australia
Workers compensation and motor accident disputes in the Personal Injury Commission follow the Commission’s note, PIC13. A medical summary is checked against the report, not against a second model.
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How to use AI for self-represented litigants using ChatGPT in Australia
People without a lawyer use ChatGPT because it is available. Courts have started writing guidelines for them. The case still has to exist, and the court still has to be told when its rule says so.
Transactions and property
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AI tools for conveyancers in Australia
Catalogue profiles that firms compare for Australian conveyancing work, with hosting and pricing model taken from the published records. Not a ranking.
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How to use AI for contract review in Australia
How to run a playbook review of a contract with an approved tool, then have a lawyer read both the flags and the clauses the tool did not flag.
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How to use AI for due diligence in Australia
Due diligence with a tool is a sample and a red-flag list. The report is still the lawyer’s, and so is every document the tool did not flag.
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How to use AI for conveyancing contract review in Australia
A conveyancing contract is a state document plus special conditions. A tool can read the standard form. A practitioner reads the special conditions and advises the client.
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How to use AI for lease abstraction in Australia
Lease abstraction pulls dates and obligations out of a lease. The diary entry is taken from the lease, not from the spreadsheet the tool produced.
Family, wills and private client
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AI for family lawyers in Australia
What changes when the file is a family law matter: the Federal Circuit and Family Court practice direction, and tools firms compare. A name links to a profile only when one is published. Not a ranking.
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How to use AI for wills and estate planning in Australia
A will is formal. A tool can turn written instructions into a first draft. Capacity, the gifts and the execution are the solicitor’s, and a client’s own chatbot will is a warning, not a precedent.
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How to use AI for family law matters in Australia
Family law files follow the Federal Circuit and Family Court practice direction. Sensitive material stays out of public tools, and a financial summary is checked against the source documents.
Regulation and government
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How to use AI for migration applications in Australia
A migration application is legislation, a criterion and a document. An agent or lawyer checks each of them. A secondary write-up of OMARA guidance is not the Office’s own page.
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How to use AI for privacy impact assessments for AI in Australia
A privacy impact assessment for a tool maps where personal information goes, which principles apply, and what the firm will change. The OAIC and the NSW IPC both publish readings that belong in that map.
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How to use AI for tax advice work in Australia
Tax work follows the Tax Practitioners Board’s guidance on artificial intelligence and the Code of Professional Conduct. Legislation and rulings are opened. Client information stays in a tenancy you can explain.
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How to use AI for financial services compliance in Australia
ASIC Report 798 records how financial services licensees were governing artificial intelligence. An inventory and a risk register are the operational reading of that report. They are not a licence condition invented by this page.
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How to use AI for patent drafting in Australia
A patent attorney can use a tool to prepare a draft. An artificial intelligence system is not named as the inventor. The specification stays confidential until filing, and the attorney settles the claims.
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How to use AI for government legal work in Australia
Government legal work follows the Digital Transformation Agency’s policy for the responsible use of AI in government, the agency’s own transparency statement, and the FOI and records rules that already apply to the file.
Running the firm
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Law firm AI policy guide for Australia
A plain-English list of decisions an Australian firm writes into its own generative AI policy. It is not a precedent to adopt, and it is not a law society template.
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Australian data hosting for legal AI
How to read a vendor’s Australian hosting claim, using the attributes this catalogue already records. Not a ranking, and not a finding that a tool is fit for a matter.
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How to use AI for client letters and emails in Australia
A client letter is advice. An approved tool can draft the shape of it. The solicitor who sends it checks the law, the facts and the tone.
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How to use AI for transcribing client meetings in Australia
A transcript of a client meeting is a record of personal and often privileged information. Consent, the hosting terms and a human check come before anyone relies on it.
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How to use AI for time recording and billing in Australia
A tool can draft a time entry from activity the firm already holds. The solicitor checks every entry, and AI time is not billed as if a person did it in silence.
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How to use AI for legal marketing in Australia
Marketing copy is still advertising. A tool can draft it. The firm checks the claim, the personal-injury limits, and the Australian Consumer Law.
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How to use AI for client intake chatbots in Australia
An intake chatbot collects personal information and can look like a solicitor. Say that it is a tool, collect less, and have a lawyer read the intake before any advice.
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How to use AI for choosing a legal AI tool in Australia
Choosing a tool is a checklist, a contract and a pilot on the firm’s own matters. A profile on this site is a reading aid. It is not a shortlist.
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How to use AI for proofreading and editing in Australia
Proofreading that does not generate new content is treated differently, in some courts, from a tool that rewrites the substance. The line is the court’s, and a lawyer still reads the changes.
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How to use AI for board minutes and privilege in Australia
An AI note-taker in a board meeting can record legal advice and send it to a vendor. That is a privilege question before it is a productivity question.
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How to use AI for knowledge management and precedents in Australia
A precedent store is useful when the tool can only see the documents the firm is allowed to show it, and when the version a partner approved is the one people reuse.
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How to use AI for email triage in Australia
Email triage can rank what a person should read next. It should not send a reply. The ranking runs inside the firm’s tenancy, and someone supervises it.
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How to use AI for supervising junior lawyers' AI use in Australia
Supervision of a junior’s AI use is the same supervision as of their draft, with one extra question: what did the tool do, and what did the junior check.
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How to use AI for telling clients about AI use in Australia
Telling a client that a tool was used is a consent and costs conversation. The Queensland Law Society warning template is the place to start. The bill has to match what you say.
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Questions
Do the guides approve a tool?
No. They link to published profiles and to court notes. A link is not a finding that the tool is fit for a matter.
How is the index organised?
By practice area: research, litigation, transactions, private client work, regulation, and running the firm. A how-to page for a task sits with that area.