Learn: compliance guides for AI in Australian practices.

Plain-English guides to the obligations that shape AI adoption in Australian professional practices. Written to be taken into a partners' meeting: measured, cited to primary sources, and honest about what is settled and what is not. Each guide is general information rather than advice.

Compliance guides

AI in legal practice: the regulators’ guidance

A plain-English series on the joint regulators’ statement and the NSW Law Society’s solicitor’s guide (updated January 2026): what each obligation requires, with links to the primary sources.

The Law Society’s AI guidance: explained for practices.

What the NSW Law Society’s January 2026 solicitor’s guide and the December 2024 joint regulators’ statement expect on confidentiality, court duties,…

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AI and client confidentiality: what rule 9 requires.

The regulators say confidential client information cannot safely be entered into public AI chatbots. What rule 9 requires, how commercial tools…

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Hallucinated citations and the duty to the court.

Australian practitioners have faced costs orders and regulatory action over AI-fabricated authorities. What rules 4 and 19 require, the cases so far,…

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Supervising AI in a law firm: rule 37 in practice.

Principals are responsible for how their practice uses AI under s 34 and rule 37. What the regulators expect firms to show, why junior staff cannot…

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AI and legal costs: billing the work actually done.

Bills must reflect work actually done, and AI use should not raise costs to clients. How the Uniform Law costs provisions apply to AI-assisted work,…

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The firm AI policy: what the regulators expect in it.

The regulators expect clear, risk-based AI policies, available to clients on request. The sections the guidance says a policy must cover, why generic…

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Choosing legal AI tools: the questions the guide says to ask.

The Law Society guide sets out the questions to ask before adopting any AI tool: contract terms, data access, training sources, least privilege,…

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Common questions

Are these guides legal advice?
No. They are general information with citations to primary sources, written to help you ask the right questions. Take professional advice on your specific position.
How current are they?
Each guide shows its published and modified dates in its metadata, and regulatory positions are re-checked on the same quarterly cycle as our comparison pages.

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