Cross-Examined

Episode Summary: What if the biggest money laundering risks in your practice looked exactly like your most routine transactions? This episode explores money laundering typologies and why criminal activity often hides in plain sight within legitimate legal work. Learn how recognising patterns – not just stand-alone red flags – can help mitigate risks for your practice. Guest: Neil Jeans, Partner, R...

Episode Summary: The Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, may be the most important organisation Australian lawyers have never heard of. Its global standards underpin Australia’s AML/CTF Tranche 2 reforms, shaping how legal practices onboard clients, assess risk and help prevent financial crime. This episode explains why the regime exists, how Australia fell behind its global counterparts and the...

Episode Summary: Cybersecurity failures rarely start with sophisticated hacks. They start with exploiting everyday habits and loopholes that are easy to overlook. In this episode, we unpack cybersecurity for lawyers with one clear message: prevention is better, and much cheaper to implement, than the cure. Guest: • Chris Schwinghamer, Chief Information Officer, Victorian Legal Services Board and C...

Episode Title: Cyber incident fallout: What happens when the proverbial bits hit the fan? Episode Summary: When a cyber breach strikes, the technical problems are only the beginning. In this episode, we examine cyber incident fallout and what really happens inside a law firm once an attack is discovered. From regulatory obligations to client conversations and reputational risk, this discussion unp...

Episode Summary: Many law firms make a heavy investment in cybersecurity tech, and yet attackers can simply walk straight through their front door. This episode exposes how ethical (and criminal) hackers think and act, revealing why human trust and everyday routines are often a real vulnerability attackers’ exploit. This episode pulls back the curtain on penetration testing, and the white hat hack...

Episode Summary: Victorian lawyers are now being held to a minimum cybersecurity standard, and failure can lead to professional misconduct findings. This episode examines cybersecurity professional misconduct risks, what regulators expect in practice and how new privacy and ransomware laws raise the stakes for every firm, big or small. Guest: • Simone Herbert-Lowe, founder, Law & Cyber • Profe...

Episode Summary: Most cyber breaches are not technology failures. They are psychological successes. In this episode, cybersecurity psychology takes centre stage as Dr James Carlopio explains how scammers exploit human instinct, habit and urgency, and what lawyers can do to build safer cyber cultures. Guest: Dr James Carlopio, psychologist and co-founder, Cultural Cyber Security PhD in organisation...

The verdict is in - at its core, cybersecurity is a psychological problem. And in a profession built on confidentiality, privilege and trust, the stakes couldn't be higher. In the next series of Cross-Examined, we will look at cybersecurity for lawyers. We talk to people who break in, the people who clean up afterward, and the specialists working at the intersection of cyber risk and professional...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how junior lawyers develop core legal skills and how they are supervised and mentored. In this episode, Allens’ Lisa Kozaris and Caitlin Dagher share how AI in legal supervision has minimised the grunt work, created space for higher value thinking and changed the dynamics of the mentorship between senior and junior lawyers. Tune in to hear some real-life exampl...

This episode examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal practice and the broader justice system. University of Melbourne Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson explores both the promise and the pitfalls – highlighting how AI can boost efficiency gains while raising critical questions about governance, transparency and the need for sustained human oversight. Drawing on real-word failures, sh...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping courts and legal systems across Asia‑Pacific. In this episode of Cross‑Examined, we speak with Eric Chin, Asia Pacific Director of New Law at PwC, about how AI and generative AI are being adopted by courts from Singapore and China to Australia and beyond. Eric shares best practice example of using AI for legal research, judgment support, small claims as...

Are “robo-judges” fuelled by artificial intelligence set to decide cases in Victorian courts? Absolutely not, according to The Honourable Richard Niall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, but AI technology does present significant opportunities for the judicial system. In this conversation, we delve into how Victorian courts are already using artificial intelligence, including several...

The law never stops evolving. Now, Victorian lawyers have a new way to stay informed. Cross-examined is a new podcast from the Law Institute of Victoria . Tune in to hear experts on hot topics in the law and the changes shaping the legal profession. Regular episodes will cover everything from AI and cyber threats to ethical dilemmas , workplace taboos and practice management insights. To make sure...