Legal advice doesn’t end when it leaves your desk, but your visibility often does. As clients increasingly turn to public AI tools to summarise and interpret complex advice, lawyers face a growing, largely uncontrollable risk: the potential loss of confidentiality and privilege. This article explores how that risk is emerging in practice, why clients are reaching for AI, and what legal professionals can do now to reduce exposure, starting with making advice clearer, more usable, and easier to trust.
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Using AI in Professional Services: 2025 and Beyond
More and more, professionals are weaving generative AI (GenAI) into their workflows and are increasingly optimistic about its benefits. As AI use becomes more widespread, the focus has shifted from whether…
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Financial Services Licences Conditional on Cybersecurity Measures, decrees Federal Court
In an Australian first, the Federal Court has held that Financial Services Licensees must effectively manage cybersecurity risks to satisfy the Corporations Act.
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Targeting Whistleblowers: How the Pursuit of Individuals Will Affect the New Regulatory Regime
Controversial legal cases in Australia against whistleblowers and the associated raids on media outlets have had a detrimental effect on the country’s whistleblowing regime, according to two-thirds of participants in…
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