The significant growth and popularisation of AI tools presents challenges and opportunities for legal practitioners and legal practice in Queensland.
QLS is committed to providing practical guidance and resources on the safe and responsible use of AI in the legal profession.
To ensure we can provide guidance and leadership on these issues, in 2024 we established the AI in Legal Practice Consulting Committee. and in consultation with the QLS Innovation Committee, developed a member survey, the QLS Business of Law Survey, to establish a baseline of member’s experience with generative AI.
AI in Legal Practice Consulting Committee
The AI in Legal Practice Consulting Committee oversees a number of subject focussed advisory groups to inform guidance for the profession on the use of AI in legal practice and on legal business.
The advisory groups include:
- GenAI and Legal Practice
- GenAI, the Courts and Dispute Resolution
- Gen AI and Regulation (Legislation, risk management and governance)
- GenAI and Legal Education
- GenAI and Access to Justice
- GenAI and Policy (Regulation of the Profession)
Questions or suggestions?
QLS members are encouraged to send queries and suggestions to the AI in Legal Practice Consulting Committee at any time so that we can continue to provide resources and practical advice that our members can use in their practices.
Practice support
The Practice Advisory Service is also available for free to full members of QLS.
QLS Guidance
- Guidance Statement on Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice (Updated 24 October 2024)
- AI Companion Guide - The QLS overview guide to AI for solicitors (September 2024)
- QLS Template AI Use Policy
- Proctor article: AI: Do you have a usage policy
Court Protocols on AI
Queensland
- Queensland courts and tribunals, The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Guidelines for responsible use by non-lawyers (May 2024)
New South Wales
- Supreme Court of NSW, Practice Note SC GEN 23, Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) (Amended January 2025)
- District Court of NSW, District Court General Practice Note 2 - Generative AI Practice Note (February 2025)
- Land and Environment Court of NSW, Practice Note – use of generative AI (Amended February 2025)
Victoria
- Supreme Court of Victoria, Guidelines for Litigants, ResponsibleUse of AI in Litigation (May 2024)
- County Court, Victoria, Responsible use of artificial intelligence in litigation: guidelines for litigants (July 2024)
Other Resources & Guides
- Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland, Generative AI and privacy (September 2024)
- A Solicitor’s Guide to Responsible Use of AI by the Law Society of NSW (October 2024)
- Generative AI – the essentials by United Kingdom Law Society (Updated August 2024)
- NSW Law Society and LexisNexis AI Glossary (July 2024)
Video, podcasts and education resources
- Billing the Bot: Client cost setting in the age of AI CP, livestream recorded 19 February 2025. On-demand resources can be purchased through the QLS Shop
- Still on a learning curve – Proctor (January 2025) - ‘Podcast, ‘The Callover’ explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and the law, human rights and ethics, the challenges it presents and the opportunities it offers for the future of law.’
- Innovation Insights ‘The Paradigm Shift of AI in Legal Practice for Junior Lawyers’
- Watch Innovation Insights
- Justice in the age of artificial intelligence: The challenge and opportunity for lawyers (QLS Symposium 2024, Closing address)
- The QLS Property Law Conference 2024 and QLS Government Lawyers Conference 2024 included AI sessions.
- The Centre for Legal Innovation has a range of resources including videos, podcasts and upcoming AI events.
QLS CPD events
Keep an eye on the QLS shop for upcoming AI webinars and AI conference sessions
For more information, visit the QLS shop.