Is this legal advice?
No. These notes are general information about using AI in legal work in Australia. They are not advice on a matter, a client or a court.
Know-how
Know-how for using AI in legal work
Verification checklists, citation checks and confidentiality precautions for Australian lawyers. General information, not legal advice.
- Check AI-assisted legal work before you rely on it
Read the output against the instructions, open the sources, and write down what you checked.
- Check every citation an AI tool gives you
Take each citation out of the draft, open the primary source, and remove anything you cannot find.
- Confidentiality before you paste into an AI tool
Name the tool and the plan, and do not paste client material into a tool whose terms you cannot explain.
- What to cover when you tell a client an AI tool was used
Say what the tool did, what it did not do, what information went into it, and who checked the output.
- A prompt that worked is not the work
Save the prompt and what you still had to fix. A prompt is not a precedent and it is not a check.
- A court AI rule does not travel with the file
Read the instrument for the forum on this file. A note for another court is not the rule.
Questions
Who can read a note I save?
Only the account that saved it. A note on this public page is different: anyone can read it. Your own notes are not published.
What should I leave out of a saved note?
Leave out a client’s name, a file number and other personal information unless you mean to store it on this account.