15 Australian Legal AI

While international legal AI platforms dominate the global market, Australia has fostered a thriving ecosystem of homegrown legal technology startups specifically designed for the Australian legal landscape. These companies understand the unique challenges of Australian law, jurisdictional differences, and the specific needs of local legal practitioners. This Chapter is dedicated to highlighting these Australian start-ups.

Habeas

Habeas is an advanced AI-powered legal research and intelligence platform designed for Australian lawyers. The platform is trained on over 300,000 public Australian legal documents. It utilises semantic search to ensure highly relevant search results, down to the paragraph level.

Founded by Will McCartney, Habeas employs advanced artificial intelligence to understand legal concepts at a semantic level, rather than relying on traditional keyword matching. This means the platform can recognise when cases are relevant, not because they share the exact words as a query, but because they engage with the same legal principles.

Key features include:

• Natural language legal research that understands plain-language questions and delivers instant, cited answers grounded in relevant precedent
• AI-generated case summaries that can be produced in seconds, providing clear, structured summaries designed for legal professionals
• Advanced semantic analysis techniques that decipher ambiguities in legal language and predict different interpretations that a human lawyer might make
• Rigorous verification protocols where every assertion is backed by specific citations to paragraphs within judgments or legislation
• Customised AI research assistants tailored to an individual’s practice area, precedent preferences, and research style.

Demo

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Demo

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Graceview

Graceview provides real-time insights on regulatory compliance through AI, machine learning and data analytics. The legal tech solution combines generative AI with human oversight from senior lawyers to deliver continuous, real-time insights on compliance issues.

Founded in Melbourne in 2023 by Simon Quirk, Jules Ioannidis and Dan Hunter, the platform offers bespoke coverage, monitoring even the most obscure obligations relevant to a business through a combination of generative AI and human oversight from lawyers.

Key capabilities include:

• Consolidating regulatory changes from thousands of sources across any language and jurisdiction into a single, lightning-fast interface
• Checking regulations every 30 minutes, which a lawyer then verifies to confirm updates
• Generating expertly crafted reports with one click and providing instant clarification of regulations and internal policies
• Creating registers of obligations that are automatically updated when regulations change