Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network

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Recent Episodes

1. LawTech Talks: When AI does the grunt work, how do we teach legal judgement?

   Nov 2, 2026

   Shelley Burger, CEO of LawY, returns to the LawTech Talks podcast to discuss how AI-driven efficiency threatens the traditional training pathway for junior lawyers. She draws on her own experience as a graduate at Gilbert + Tobin during the global financial crisis, arguing that foundational tasks build judgment and that AI use must be deliberately designed to preserve it. The conversation covers practical steps for firms, including pairing seniors and juniors, using AI for scaffolding, and making senior lawyers' decision-making explicit.

2. Taking over a legacy law firm

   Oct 29, 2026

   Sally Callander, principal and owner of DLH Solicitors in Mudgee, reflects on her first year leading the established regional firm after merging it with her own practice, Sally Callander Law. The conversation covers the challenges of integrating long-serving staff, modernising processes such as adopting AI for family law disclosure, and managing client and community expectations during the transition. She also discusses the value of legacy estate files in regional practice and her plans to expand into central west NSW and Sydney.

3. LawTech Talks: Why in-house legal's AI conversation is missing the point

   Oct 26, 2026

   Shaun Plant, co-founder and chief legal evangelist at LawVu, joins host Jerome Doraisamy for a LawTech Talks episode produced in partnership with LawVu. They discuss why in-house legal teams' AI conversations focus on speed and time savings rather than on foundations such as fragmented processes, disconnected systems, and knowledge held by individual lawyers. Plant argues that a legal operating system connecting platforms and context is needed to move from efficiency to effectiveness and to turn individual expertise into reusable organisational knowledge.

4. The art of decision making

   Oct 23, 2026

   Danielle Snell, managing partner of Elit Lawyers by McGirr & Snell, joins host Jerome Doraisamy to discuss decision making for junior lawyers, including how to tell when enough information has been gathered and when further research only delays an inevitable call. The conversation covers distinguishing real urgency from inherited pressure, why big decisions are often hard because of their consequences rather than their analysis, and how supervision and experience build professional judgement. They also explore how AI can test and challenge legal thinking without replacing the reasoning skills lawyers need to develop.

5. LawTech Talks: A Sydney-based firm's experience with iManage's new platform

   Oct 22, 2026

   Jerome Doraisamy hosts a special LawTech Talks episode, produced with iManage, in which Swaab, a Sydney law firm, reflects on early access to iManage's next-gen platform and its generative AI feature, Ask iManage. Nathan Davies (head of IT) and Isabella Machin (associate) describe their first impressions, the firm's phased AI rollout and sensitive-data testing, and how junior and senior lawyers use the tools. The discussion also covers client benefits, lawyers' concerns about hallucinations and confidentiality, and IT risks such as where AI processing takes place. Madeleine Porter of iManage joins to explain the platform and its grounding of answers in firm documents.

6. The rise of product counsel

   Oct 20, 2026

   Katrina Sharman, executive counsel at Piper Alderman and former product counsel at Coinbase, joins host Jerome Doraisamy to explain what product counsel are, why the role emerged in Silicon Valley, and why it is spreading. The conversation covers lessons from her Coinbase tenure, how AI is changing legal practice and risk management, and the growth of fractional GC and embedded counsel models. They also discuss balancing speed to market and compliance in heavily regulated fintech and digital asset markets in Australia.

7. Trust nothing, verify everything, and keep humans in the loop

   Oct 19, 2026

   Host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with InfoTrack Chief Executive Officer John Ahern, a former network engineer, about the rise in cyber incidents affecting Australian law firms. The conversation covers the readiness of smaller and larger firms, how AML/CTF tranche 2 regulation expands the data firms hold and their attack surface, and the need for multifactor authentication. They also discuss keeping humans in the loop for verifying information, using secure messaging and phone verification for bank account details, and the zero-trust approach firms can adopt.

8. When social media becomes the courtroom: How internet sleuths could jeopardise fair trials

   Oct 16, 2026

   Avinash Singh, principal lawyer at Astor Legal and an accredited criminal law specialist, discusses how true-crime podcasts and online speculation can prejudice ongoing criminal cases and jury pools in Australia. He covers the Gilfillan matter, where a podcast ranked first in search results and a temporary stay was issued, along with jury directions, sub judice contempt, and the limits of suppression and non-publication orders. The conversation also addresses the imbalance in pre-trial reporting and possible reforms, such as American-style juror questioning and non-disclosure of accused persons' names.

9. A barrister and pilot on creative thinking as a legal skill

   Oct 14, 2026

   Professor Ron Bartsch AM, chairman of Avlaw and former head of safety and regulatory compliance at Qantas Airways, discusses how creative thinking can be developed as a learnable set of habits. He draws on his experience as a young pilot who survived a near-fatal flying incident, his work as a barrister and aviation lawyer, and the ideas in his book Dream Today What You Can Achieve Tomorrow. The conversation also covers the similarities between piloting and legal thinking, the rigidity of legal practice, and the idea that treating law as a means to live can produce a happier life.

10. Is AI helping or hindering applicants' chances in the Fair Work Commission?

    Oct 9, 2026

    Melbourne Law School professor Alysia Blackham discusses her forthcoming research on how AI tools are affecting applicants bringing claims to the Fair Work Commission. She describes findings on AI-generated submissions, including frequent hallucinations, sycophantic outputs that encourage meritless claims, and added workload for the Commission and employers. The conversation also covers the Commission's new AI guidelines, access to justice concerns, and the role of lawyers and employers in responding.