Program for the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession 2026 Annual Summit - Truth, Trust & Technology: Implications of AI for Law
Truth, Trust & Technology: Implications of AI for Law 2026 Summit One-Day summit program
Date & time:
Wednesday 4 March - 9:00am - 5pm
Venue:
The Mint, Level 1/10 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000
CPD Points:
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WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2026
Time
PRESENTERS
SESSION OVERVIEW
8:30 – 8:45am 8:45 – 9:00am
Arrival tea/coffee and registration
Professor Michael Legg, Director of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession The Honourable Judith Gibson, former Judge of the New South Wales District Court Panellists include: Professor Michael Legg, Director of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
Welcome and Acknowledgement
9:00 – 9:30am Keynote Address
Opening Keynote
Knowledge Area:
9:30 – 10:30am Panel & Q&A
Session One: GenAI in Litigation- the State of Play
Dr Felicity Bell, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
Knowledge Area:
Vicki McNamara, Senior Research Associate of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
10:30 – 11:00am
MORNING TEA BREAK
Professor Alex Steel, School of Law, Society & Criminology, UNSW
11:00 – 11:45am Panel
Session Two: AI and learning to be a lawyer: Data and debate: the student perspective Knowledge Area:
11:45 – 12:30pm Speaker
Noel Lim , CEO & Co-founder of Anika Legal and 2025 Victorian of the Year
Session Three: Scaling and Sustaining A2J with technology
Knowledge Area:
12:30 – 1:30pm
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 2:15pm Panel & Q&A
TBC
Session Four: The Law Firm Cyber Security Defence Playbook: Preventing and Responding to the Modern Threat
Knowledge Area:
2:15 – 3:00pm Speaker
Stephen Bray, Commissioner for Uniform Legal Services Regulation at the Legal Services Council
Session Five: AI, Legal Ethics & the Digital Frontier
Knowledge Area:
3:00 – 3:30pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 – 5:00pm Provocation, Panel & Q&A
Panellists include:
Session Six: AI and Business Ramifications for the Legal Sector
Professor George Shinkle , School of Management and Governance, Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW Business School
Legal organisations are often accused of being short on strategy – maximising profits in the short term but failing to adapt their thinking to effectively plan for the mid- to long term. In this session, strategy expert Professor George Shinkle delivers the challenge to senior legal leaders: how are you responding to GenAI? What is your strategy? And how does it stand up to scrutiny? The session will cover economics, investment, billing, recruitment and training.
Ben Langford, General Counsel of Woolworths Group
Chair of the Panel Professor Michael Legg, Director of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
Knowledge Area:
**Program subject to change
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