The Legalpreneurs Sandbox

This powerful closing plenary fireside chat with Terri Mottershead , Director, Digital Enablement, Ashurst Advance and Sue Keay , Director, UNSW AI Institute , Secretary and Board Member Women in Robotics and Chair of the Board of Directors, Robotics Australia Group discussed how women are making unique contributions to AI leadership while charting a path forward. The session delved into Sue's wor...

This forward-looking episode featured women who have successfully led workforce transformation initiatives, showcasing approaches to skilling, reskilling, upskilling, recruiting, and retaining AI talent.  Ann-Maree David , Executive Director, College of Law Queensland , Fiona Anson , Director of Enterprise Learning Strategy, University of Technology Sydney , Jan Christie , Director, Capability + O...

In this episode, women leaders in AI ethics, governance, and compliance Gabrielle Lyons, Deputy General Counsel, Gilbert + Tobin ,  Annie Haggar , Partner, Head of Cybersecurity, Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright , Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood , Research Fellow, Centre for Data Science, Queensland University of Technology and Ilona Meyer , General Counsel & Company Secretary, Nuix shared frameworks fo...

This implementation-focused episode moved beyond cultural readiness to explore the tactical execution of AI projects. The panel of women implementation and operations leaders Katrina Gowans , Legal Ops professional, Co-Chair CLOC Australia and CLI Advisory Board member ,  Helen Henderson , Director and Founder, Board Impact , Deborah Hook , Director, Legal Operations, University of Sydney , Robyna...

In this episode, female technology leaders Kelly Addison , Director, Women in Technology , Kate Clark , CEO, eDiscovery Collab , Anna Golovsky , Executive Manager, Legal & Company Secretariat, IAG and Jaysee Sunapho , Data Architect, Magentus broke down complex AI purchasing and integration decisions through case studies highlighting both successes and instructive failures.  This episode emphasise...

This foundation-setting episode focussed specifically on overcoming psychological and organisational resistance to AI, female leaders Kim Trajer , Chief Operating Officer at McCullough Robertson and CLI Advisory Board member , Orla Glynn , Data & AI Specialist, Liza Greenwood , Head of Innovation Services, Allens and Professor Selena Bartlett , Faculty of Health (Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity),...

In this episode, Cat Moon , Professor of the Practice and Founding Co-Director of VAILL, the Vanderbilt AI + Law Lab , Vanderbilt University Law School opened the Women + AI APAC Summit 2025 with a powerful invitation to step into our collective potential to shape the future of AI through intentional action, meaningful connection, and bold leadership. Grounded in the core mission of Women+AI—Actio...

In many respects, generative AI has impacted few roles as directly as legal operations. These professionals sit at the epicentre of tech experimentation, deployment, adoption, evaluation and change. As the tech has evolved, so too has their role to right now, being part tech interpreter, teacher, multidisciplinary relationship builder, enterprise-wide and legal function collaborator, and connector...

Prompt engineering has captured our interest, been at the core of our frustration and continues to find its way into our new way of working in the post ChatGPT era. But like the tech it is so integrally tied to, generative AI, knowing you need to be good at prompting is not the same as being good at it – it requires context, application, refinement and education at a pace, scale and continuous eng...

On 7 May 2025, in the fourth podcast in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Conversations Series   Terri Mottershead , Executive Director of the  Centre for Legal Innovation  was joined by three amazing guests to discuss  The Lawyerless Law Firm – Myth or Reality in 2030? Miriam Rihani , Head of Transformation and Legal Operations (OGC),  PwC Australia Laura Vickers , Founding Director,  Nest Legal Dominic Woolr...

There's little more fundamental to every business than revenue. In law firms, for a while now, that's been measured by the billable hour. In most law firms today, we still wrap up hours billed in the same parcel as expertise, performance, and value. That's a BIG problem and it's getting bigger as AI and particularly generative AI is completing tasks faster, better, and cheaper  AND starting to adv...

Every aspect of legal practice is transforming before our eyes with AI as the catalyst and the enabler.  It's a challenging time for law firm leaders - it's definitely not a role for the faint hearted. On 18 March 2025, in the second podcast in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Conversations Series   Terri Mottershead , Executive Director of the  Centre for Legal Innovation  was joined by three law firm leader...

Generative AI has created a critical role for educators. Everyone is learning something new, and educators know how to make that meaningful and stick. Whether the tech is forcing us to challenge traditional mindsets, understand a new context for our work, experiment with new ways to work, or embrace different ways to collaborate with different people so we find the right solutions to new issues, e...

This podcast was recorded on 20 February 2025, as the inaugural session in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Conversations Series . In this session,  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director of the  Centre for Legal Innovation  discussed The Lawyer Mindset with global superstar former lawyer, psychologist and legal industry consultant  Dr. Larry Richard,  Founder and Principal Consultant at  LawyerBrain LLC . To...

This podcast was recorded on 5 February 2025, as the inaugural session in  CLI 's  Lex ExploreAI Series . In this session  host  Courtney Blackman , Head of Partnerships and Program Director of the LawTech Hub & AI Clinical Placements at  Lander & Rogers  joined  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director of the  Centre for Legal Innovation to discuss: The state of legal AI The work being done in AI a...

We're back for our sixth year and what a year it has been for legaltech, AI and innovation! If 2023 was the year to figure out what generative AI was all about, then 2024 was most definitely the year for pilots, experimentation, and strategies for data and AI. Well, that was how it went for some, but not everyone… In this, our annual year in review, we discussed what happened and where the dust se...

In this session, we spoke with  Mark Williams , a Founding Co-Director of the  Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL) and a Professor of the Practice of Law at the AIGP. Mark has come to AI via journalism, law, sometime in the political world and knowledge management. In many respects, his work now draws on that rich professional and personal life experience. Today, Mark is deeply immersed in working with...

This podcast was recorded on 22 July 2024 as the fifth session in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Around the World Series . In this session  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director at the  Centre for Legal Innovation facilitated a discussion with three amazing panellists from Africa and the Middle East: Peter Hall , Chief Operating Officer,  Cognia Law Leah Molatseli , Founder, Contract Alchemists Katie Whang...

In this session, we spoke with  Colin Lachance , the  Innovator in Residence at the Ontario Bar Association  (OBA) and the Principal of law firm coaching and consulting business , PGYA Consulting . Colin has spent most of his career in the legal industry. He's worked in publishing, consulting, and legaltech development just to name a few. In all that he has done, and it's a lot, there's been a con...

This podcast was recorded on 18 June 2024 as the fourth session in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Around the World Series . In this session  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director at the  Centre for Legal Innovation facilitated a discussion with four amazing panellists from Europe and the UK: Giulio Coraggio , Partner – Location Head of Italian Intellectual Property and Technology Department,  DLA Piper Uwa...

This podcast was recorded on 29 May 2024 as the third session in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Around the World Series . In this session  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director at the  Centre for Legal Innovation facilitated a discussion with three amazing panellists from the USA: Wendy Butler Curtis , Chief Innovation Officer and Chair eDiscovery & Information Governance Group, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcli...

This podcast was recorded on 15 April 2024 as the second session in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Around the World Series . In this session  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director at the  Centre for Legal Innovation  facilitated a discussion with three amazing panellists from India, Hong Kong and Singapore: Komal Gupta , Chief Innovation Officer,  Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas  (India) Sebastian Ko , General C...

This podcast was recorded on 12 March 2024 as the inaugural session in  CLI 's  Legal GenAI Around the World Series . In this session  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director at the  Centre for Legal Innovation facilitated a discussion with three amazing panellists from Australia + New Zealand: Matt Farrington , Senior Legal Counsel, Vice Chancellor's Office,  Victoria University of Wellington Cary...

This session has become an annual event for us and, this was a BIG year to review the world of legaltech, AI and innovation. So much has happened since ChatGPT exploded onto the market in November 2022. Its impact has been pervasive, even in an industry like legal which would not, in the past, have been described as agile. So, what changed in 2023?  What stuck, what didn't, and why? We welcomed ba...

In this session, we spoke with  Beth Patterson , the Founder and Director of legal industry-focused tech consultancy, ESPconnect and an Adjunct Professor (Industry) at UTS Faculty of Law. Beth's career has the distinctive hallmark of being groundbreaking. The depth and breadth of her experience in tech and legaltech, in tech companies and law firms, as a consultant and educator, means she has a hi...