---
title: "How to use AI for telling clients about AI use in Australia"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/guides/disclose-ai-use-to-clients-australia"
type: "how_to_guide"
site: "AI Law Framework"
practice_area: "Running the firm"
---

# 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/guides/disclose-ai-use-to-clients-australia

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## Check this before you rely on it

The template is not mandatory wording for every matter in every state. The Uniform Law statement, the Law Society of New South Wales guide and Queensland Guidance Statement No. 37 still require the solicitor to be honest about the work and careful with confidential material.

## Steps

1. **Decide whether this matter needs consent.** Ask whether the retainer, the sensitivity of the material, or a court note requires the client to agree before a tool processes their documents. Record the answer. The Uniform Law regulators’ statement and the Law Society of New South Wales guide do not let that decision be implied from silence. If you do not yet know what the tool will see, you are not ready to ask.
2. **Use the Queensland Law Society warning template.** When you tell the client, start from the QLS warning template and edit it so it names the tool, what it will be used for, and what it will not see. Queensland Guidance Statement No. 37 is the confidentiality background. Do not hide the warning in a linked policy the client is unlikely to open.
3. **Explain the effect on the bill.** If a tool did work that the costs agreement prices as solicitor time, say so and price it in a way the agreement allows. The time-recording guide is the same point from the narrative side. A disclosure that says “we may use AI” and a bill that reads as unaided human time are not the same story.

## Questions

**Is it allowed to use AI for telling clients about AI use in Australia?**

Telling the client is the solicitor’s conversation. A template can start it. The Queensland Law Society warning is the public template to adapt, not a form to file unchanged in every matter.

**What tools are used for telling clients about AI use?**

None. The documents are the warning template, the retainer and the bill. A tool should not send the warning for you.

**Is a website footer enough disclosure?**

No. If the matter needs the client to be told, tell them in the retainer or a letter they will actually read, and keep a copy on the file.

## Sources

- [QLS warning to clients template](https://www.qls.com.au/content-collections/template/qls-warning-to-clients-use-of-ai-tools-template)
- [Uniform Law regulators: Statement on AI use](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates/news/statement-use-artificial-intelligence-australian-legal-practice)
- [LSNSW: Solicitor's guide to responsible AI use](https://www.lawsociety.com.au/AI-hub/solicitors-guide-responsible-use-artificial-intelligence)
- [QLS Guidance Statement No 37](https://www.qls.com.au/practising-law-in-qld/ethics/guidance-statements/no-37-artificial-intelligence-in-legal-practice)

## Related

- [Law firm AI policy](https://ailawframework.com/guides/law-firm-ai-policy-australia.md)
- [Client letters and emails](https://ailawframework.com/guides/ai-client-letters-australia.md)
- [Time recording and billing](https://ailawframework.com/guides/ai-time-billing-australia.md)