Acknowledgements
This book was created in part with the support of a Distinguished Fellowship from the Centre for Legal Innovation (CLI). The centre continues to push the boundaries of innovation in legal practice. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the Centre’s important work in advancing the legal profession’s understanding and application of emerging technologies.
I wish to express my deepest gratitude to Terri Mottershead, the then Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation, for her visionary leadership and unwavering support. Her insights and guidance throughout the fellowship have been invaluable in shaping both this work and its contribution to the legal profession’s engagement with artificial intelligence.
I would also like to thank the team at Swinburne University, Susannah Bell and Jane O’Donnell, for their enduring support through this project and other OER initiatives. Their expert support made this text possible.
Diligence Statement: The book was created with assistance from Open AI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Grammarly. We affirm that all AI-generated and co-created content has undergone vetting, editing, and curation by a human author. The final document accurately reflects our understanding, expertise, and intended meaning. While AI tools were instrumental in the writing process, we maintain full responsibility for the content, its accuracy, and its presentation. This disclosure is made in the spirit of transparency and to acknowledge the evolving role of AI in content creation and other intellectual work.[1] The cover art was created with the assistance of ChatGPT and DALL·E 3, the prompt for which was
‘/imagine 16-bit pixel-art illustration, classic SNES vibe. Scene: the airy interior of a contemporary law-firm office. Sun-washed pastel palette of soft slate-blue, warm peach, muted teal and sandy beige (matching the attached tower + train-station references). Composition • Wide shot with a strong diagonal beam of morning light, creating depth and gentle dithering in the shadows. • Bookshelves of code-coloured law books, potted plant accents, glass partitions. • A small team of suited lawyers rendered as simple, low-detail sprites (no facial features needed) collaborating around clean desks. • Discreet tech: slim flat-panel monitors and tablets on the desks; a single screen shows faint, translucent word-fragment “ghost” suggestions floating just above it to hint at generative-AI assistance. • NO cliché law symbols (no gavels, scales, pillars) and NO neon cyberpunk tropes or circuit overlays. Keep the technology believable and slightly retro-modern, not futuristic. Styling • Resolution suitable for a book cover background (e.g. 3500 × 5500 px, portrait). • Leave the upper third mostly uncluttered (subtle gradient sky through a window or bare wall) so title text can be layered later. • Crisp pixel clusters, limited colour ramp (≈32 colours), gentle atmospheric perspective. • No text inside the artwork. /end’
- This diligence statement is adapted from Dakan and Feller's Framework for AI Fluency, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International Licence. ↵
