The Legal AI Accelerator Summit

In this session, you’ll learn:

How decades of automation in legal practice have accelerated into today’s age of AI and agents

Why this shift is both a challenge and an invitation to re-examine the essential human skills that set great lawyers apart

The renaissance of legal practice that AI is introducing

Speaker: Ed Walters, VP of Legal Innovation, Clio VP

Ed Walters is Vice President, Legal Innovation & Strategy at Clio, responsible for coordinating Clio’s legal innovation collaborations with global law firms and corporate legal departments. He oversees the strategic sharing of Clio’s vision with the world while serving as a key advocate for subscribers within the R&D team, ensuring active listening to Clio Work and Vincent users helps shape future product development. With 29 years of experience in the legal industry, Ed is a recognised leader in legal technology. He is known for building the largest legal database in history, comprising over 1 billion structured documents across 110 countries, and is the inventor of nine U.S. legal tech patents. Before joining Clio, Ed served as the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, Inc., and later as Chief Strategy Officer at vLex. He maintains active leadership in the legal community as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School and an Adjunct Law Professor at Georgetown Law.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

Get citation-backed research results you can review and defend

Write prompts that return precise, jurisdiction-relevant answers

Spot when AI research needs a closer look before you rely on it

Speaker: SJ Price, Stirling & Rose, Partner

SJ Price is an award winning technology lawyer. She leads the AI practice at Stirling & Rose which is a law firm and policy think tank that focuses on new technology. SJ has built AI models, experimented with AI in collaboration with IBM and OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT). She teaches Technology and the Law at Murdoch University Law School and sit on numerous AI boards and committees.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

Why free and personal AI tools are not safe for client information, and what the business terms actually say

The controls you already have, and the new risks as AI tools start to act on your behalf

How to state your firm's rule for AI and put it in a written policy

Speaker: Mark Ferraretto, Principal at Mark Ferraretto Legal Practice | Founder Digital Law Lab

Mark Ferraretto graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Adelaide in 1989, majoring in Computer Science. Mark spent 25 years as an IT professional and consultant, working in wide variety of industries including education, banking and finance and aviation in both Australia and Hong Kong.

Looking for a new challenge, Mark enrolled to study law in 2011 and graduated from Adelaide University Law School in 2016.

Prior to graduation, Mark was employed by an Adelaide corporate and commercial law firm where he provided commercial advice to technology clients. Mark also utilised his IT skills in-house, writing document automation and matter life-cycle management systems, and introducing and managing the firm’s first use of AI-based electronic discovery systems.

In 2019 Mark joined Flinders University as an Lecturer in Law. Mark established Flinders University’s legal technology curriculum, which included teaching students coding skills and writing legal software applications. Mark returned to private practice in 2021 before returning to Flinders University in 2023 as a Senior Lecturer in Law. Mark now practices privately but also maintains a strong relationship with Flinders University.

In 2022 Mark established the Digital Law Lab, an organisation that provides legal technology training and development to the legal profession and also builds on Mark’s experience in writing simple legal software applications with an access to justice focus.

Mark has held a Private Pilot’s licence since 1990 and a Recreational Pilot’s Certificate since 2022. Mark currently owns an Aeropup Light Sport Aircraft and has also held interests in general aviation aircraft. Mark was also Director of Recreational Australia Limited from 2022 to 2024. Mark is currently a Committee member of Adelaide Soaring Club Inc and also a Friend of the South Australian Aviation Museum.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

Generate first drafts built from the facts of your matter

Write prompts for jurisdiction- and practice-specific outputs

Apply a review standard before using AI-assisted drafts

Speaker: Matthew Eddy, Chief Executive Officer, Everingham Legal

As a practicing lawyer, Matthew’s career spans government, private practice, enterprise transformation, and global legal technology. He began at the NSW Attorney General’s Department, before practising in Sydney and Melbourne at one of Australia’s largest professional services law firms. He later joined Gartner, where he worked alongside C-level executives at ASX 100 organisations on large-scale digital transformation, operating model redesign, and technology investment strategy. Most recently, he led the U.S. go-to-market strategy as the Chief Commercial Officer for a high-growth Australian legal technology company, working directly with legal teams navigating AI adoption.

Today, Matthew works with law firms and in-house legal teams who want to build teams that are more efficient and structurally prepared for an AI-enabled future. His work focuses on technology investment decisions, AI risk and governance frameworks, process maturity, LLM configuration, analytics, and operating models that deliver a sustainable competitive advantage.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

Apply your legal professional responsibilities to AI-generated outputs.

Recognise how courts have responded to AI misuse and supervision failure, and translate this to professional practice skills when using AI

Apply a validated framework for verifying outputs that supports professional responsibility obligations.

Speaker: Chantal McNaught, Founder and Principal Advisor, 43° Below

Chantal is the Founder and Principal Advisor at 43° Below, advising law firm leaders across Australasia on navigating AI adoption, operational consistency, and professional responsibility. With 14 years in the law and legaltech sectors, she is an admitted lawyer (Supreme Court of New South Wales), a committee member of the Law Association of New Zealand’s Law and Technology Committee, and a PhD candidate researching the ethical and commercial implications of AI on legal practice. Chantal delivers practical frameworks that help lawyers integrate AI with discernment, judgement, robust supervision, and regulatory confidence. Chantal is also Clio Certified.