You know you need to invest in AI. Now you know who to turn to.
I'm your firm's External AI Partner. The expertise leading firms now have at partner level, part-time, independent and on your side.
The profession has already decided.
Many mid-tier and top-tier firms in Australia and abroad now have partners in roles like these. Search any of them and you'll see the pattern.
AI is no longer a side project. It's a permanent seat at the leadership table. The trend is clear and every firm can make the most of it. It just needs someone responsible for it.
Your software helps. But it doesn't finish the job.
So somebody has to.
- 01Contract review starts from a blank page every time.
- 02The right precedent exists. Nobody can find it.
- 03Advice letters re-explain the same position to each client.
- 04Due diligence summaries are built by hand from the data room.
- 05Time is recorded at the end of the week, from memory.
There's never enough time for everything that needs doing.
Every principal I speak with has the same problem. The work that doesn't bill is eating the time you need for the work that does.
Often the capacity you're missing already exists inside your firm. AI can unlock that capacity. But only if someone is responsible for pointing it at the right places.
Three ways to manage AI integration in your firm
You'll get a different answer from each. Worth knowing why.
Keep it in-house
Either a staff member keeps up with fast-moving tech on top of their actual job. Or you hire a Chief AI Officer like the larger firms.
Ask the vendor
They know their product well and they'll set it up.
But their advice tends to end where their product does.
Bring in an External AI Partner
Senior expertise, part-time, working in your firm's interests.
Nothing to sell you but the advice.
Start with a project. Or bring me on as your partner.
Project
For a defined problem or a first step.
I arrive with the workflows I commonly see in firms like yours. You confirm, correct and add. Then I cost each one and examine the process before any technology enters it. Whether you continue with me or not, your mapped plan is yours to keep.
Workflows go live inside the software you already use, with a named person signing off anything client-facing. Your team is trained and everything is documented. The price is set from the map.
External AI Partner
For firms that want AI led properly, not just set up.
Every partnership starts with the Map, built into your first quarter. I never advise blind.
From there, I'm your firm's AI lead. I sit in on decisions, vet tools before anyone signs up and keep your AI policy current.
Your firm changes and the tools change faster. I stay across both, so anything worth having reaches you without you going to look for it.
Three-month initial term, then rolling quarters. Invoiced monthly or paid quarterly upfront. 30 days' notice before a quarter ends.
Talk about a partnershipBoth cover AI strategy, implementation and governance. Neither includes legal advice, including under the partnership. Where something needs it, I'll tell you.
Your team is already using AI. Train them properly.
Two hours in-house, built around how your firm works. Practical skills, clear about the risks.
Think of me as the AI partner you'd hire if the numbers worked.
I'm a practising solicitor and I run my own firm. I know how information moves through a practice, where the time goes and who's responsible for what. I've also spent over 10 years advising small and medium businesses on structure, documentation and positioning.
Since 2021, I've advised companies and service businesses working with blockchain technology. That matters because I've already helped businesses through one tech cycle that arrived faster than anyone could govern it, was heavily over-promised and had regulation years behind adoption. I know what that curve does from the inside.
I've been using AI tools in my own practice since 2022. I've built my own AI-assisted workflows and my own AI agent, Lex, which I rely on across three businesses. The workflows and agent work inside the professional obligations I'm bound by.
You deal with me from the first call onwards. No handovers.
Different to everyone else.
| With me | The usual alternatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | I do the mapping myself and stay accountable. | Often handed to a junior team. |
| Starting point | I arrive knowing how a law firm runs. | Learns your business on your time. |
| Whose side | Yours. No commissions, no product to sell. | Often tied to a vendor. |
| If AI isn't the answer | I say so and may recommend a different approach instead. | The build tends to go ahead anyway. |
| How you're quoted | Fixed price scoped from the number of workflows and what the map finds. | Estimated from a conversation, then variable. |
| Cost of AI leadership | A fraction of a senior hire. | Full salary, plus the search. |
| Commitment | Your choice: by project or ongoing. | Often locked into one model. |
| Specialists | Only where a mapped workflow needs it. I bring in people I trust. | Whoever is on the bench. |
| Legal advice | Not included. I'll tell you when you need it. | Not included either. |
| Round-the-clock support | Business hours. I don't run a 24/7 help desk. | Managed IT providers do this well. |
Not ready for a call? Start with the Five Point AI Check.
The AI decisions every law firm has to make, with eighteen questions to check your firm against. Written for boutique firms, not corporate compliance departments.
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Find out what an External AI Partner would do in your firm's first quarter. I only take on work I'm confident about. If it isn't a fit, I'll say so.
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