AI for Australian Law Firms
Research Australian law, examine candidate authorities and prepare working drafts within your firm's supervision process. Verify sources and review the published data-handling policies before using the platform for client work.
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The Firm-Level Question Is Governance, Not Speed
Any lawyer can make a general AI tool produce a paragraph of research in seconds. The question a managing partner has to answer is different: what happens when that paragraph cites a decision that does not exist, who reviewed it before it went to the client, and where the client's documents went when they were pasted in.
Cassandra combines specialist legal research and drafting workflows in one workspace. A supervising lawyer must check the authorities, assumptions and resulting draft. Our Privacy Policy explains saved work, provider processing and overseas disclosures so the firm can assess its information-handling requirements.
Cassandra Research is a software company and does not practise law. Outputs are research drafts; the legal judgement, the supervision and the sign-off remain with the admitted practitioner.
The Problems Professionals Face
Lawyers using separate AI tools without an agreed review or information-handling process
→ A shared research workspace with published policies and drafts for supervising-lawyer review
First-pass research consuming junior capacity that should be billable
→ Cited research drafts a supervising lawyer reviews rather than redoes
Precedents and prior advice that nobody can find when a similar matter arrives
→ The Cassandra Suite's document management with AI search across the firm's own material
No documented position on AI use for the insurer or the regulator
→ Review-first design and citation trails that support a defensible AI-use policy
Key Capabilities
Legislation & Case Law Research
Research Commonwealth and state legislation and reported Australian decisions, then verify the relevant primary sources for your matter
Contract & Document Review
Structured review of agreements and regulatory material against the applicable law
Drafting for Review
Research memos, advice frameworks and client communications formatted for supervising-lawyer sign-off
Firm Knowledge Management
Cassandra Suite document management with AI search across precedents and prior advice
Published Data Policies
Review collection, saved work, provider processing and overseas disclosures in the Privacy Policy
Multi-Tenant Firm Administration
Seats, workspaces and access managed at firm level rather than per individual
Why Consumer AI Tools Are a Firm-Level Risk
- They fabricate case citations — Australian courts have already sanctioned practitioners for filing them
- They have no concept of supervision: output goes straight from a junior's screen to a draft
- Client material pasted into a consumer tool may leave Australia and may be retained by the provider
- None of it is documentable to an insurer or regulator asking how the firm uses AI
Why Law Firms Adopt Cassandra
- Structured research for a supervising lawyer to check the source references, reasoning and application to the facts
- Review-first outputs consistent with Legal Profession Uniform Law supervision obligations
- Published privacy and data-protection information for the firm's assessment
- One platform for research, documents, email and workflow, administered at firm level
- Built by Cassandra Research, an Australian software company and registered ATO Digital Service Provider
Built for the Uniform Law Environment
Australian firms operate under the Legal Profession Uniform Law in NSW, Victoria and WA and equivalent legislation elsewhere, with duties of competence, supervision and confidentiality that consumer AI tools were never designed around. Cassandra's outputs are structured as drafts for a supervising practitioner precisely so those duties can be discharged.
Federal Court and High Court decisions are covered alongside state Supreme Court and Court of Appeal authority, so a matter that turns on state law is not answered from Commonwealth sources alone.
Professional Trust & Compliance
Frequently Asked Questions
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Tools for this work
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