Everingham Legal’s

AI & Innovation Workshop

Why AI Feels Hard for Legal Teams

AI is moving fast. For legal teams, the challenge isn’t speed. It’s responsibility.

Legal leaders are being asked to weigh opportunity, risk, ethics, and accountability, often based on fragmented information, vendor-led narratives, or inconsistent internal views.

Without a shared understanding, AI decisions become:

  • Emotionally charged

  • Politically sensitive

  • Difficult to explain to boards, regulators, or the business

The AI & Innovation Workshop helps legal teams cut through hype, understand real-world AI implications, and align on how (and whether) AI should be used in their legal function.

How the AI & Innovation Workshop Works‍

  • Each workshop is customised for the Legal Team. Key pillars of the workshop include:

    1. AI Landscape for Legal
      – What AI actually means in a legal context today
      – Where it is already embedded (often invisibly)

    2. Risk, Control & Accountability
      – Data, confidentiality, and reliability
      – Human-in-the-loop considerations
      – Professional and organisational responsibility

    3. Decision Framing & Alignment
      – What matters now vs later
      – What is acceptable vs off-limits
      – Establishing a shared internal stance

  • Flexible Formats and Clear Outcomes

    1-Hour Workshop — Orientation & Confidence Reset

    • Designed for leadership teams needing a shared baseline

    • Clarifies language, risks, and misconceptions

    • Ideal for early-stage or cautious teams

    Half-Day Workshop — Alignment & Decision Framing

    • Enables deeper discussion and alignment

    • Surfaces internal assumptions and constraints

    • Produces a clear, defensible decision posture

    Full-Day Workshop — Organisational Stance & Narrative

    • For teams facing active AI pressure or scrutiny

    • Aligns leadership, operations, and risk perspectives

    • Establishes a position that can be communicated externally

    • General Counsel and Deputy GCs

    • Heads of Legal Operations

    • Senior legal leaders responsible for risk and governance

    • In-house legal teams of all sizes

    Team size bands:

    • Small legal teams (1–10 lawyers)

    • Mid-sized legal teams (11–50 lawyers)

    • Large legal teams (50+ lawyers)

  • Participants leave with:

    • A clear understanding of the AI landscape as it applies to legal

    • Agreed principles for acceptable AI use within the legal function

    • A shared language for discussing AI with the business

    • Greater confidence in how to respond to AI-related pressure

  • We approach AI through the lens of:

    • legal judgment

    • systems thinking

    • operational reality

    Technology should amplify judgment (not replace it).

    Our workshops focus on:

    • understanding where AI genuinely adds value

    • identifying where it introduces unacceptable risk

    • helping legal leaders articulate a clear, defensible position

Why Lawyers Need Innovation & Coaching

Without structured learning, most tools go underused, innovation stalls, and lawyers revert to manual ways of working. Very few lawyers receive formal training on AI, Data & Analytics, Lean Six Sigma, Customer Experience, Change Management, or Technology Project Management.

These skills used to be secondary to the practice of law, but in an era when technology is both a competitive differentiator and a business risk, these skills become essential for lawyers to remain relevant.

Common Symptoms:

  • Resistance or hesitance around change and innovation

  • Expensive software sits idle due to low confidence or unclear use cases.

  • Lawyers spend hours on tasks that could be automated.

  • Training is one-size-fits-all and quickly forgotten.

  • The culture rewards perfection, not experimentation. I.e., the balance of risk mitigation and innovation doesn’t fit your business objectives.

  • Why Training Matters

    Technology and innovation are survival skills. Legal teams that invest in capability building outperform those that rely solely on giving their lawyers “hands-on” experience. Key benefits include:

    • Increase adoption of existing tools.

    • Improved compliance reduces data/privacy risks.

    • Enthusiasm and confidence in new and existing technologies.

    • Strengthen collaboration between legal, IT, and the business.

    • Retain talent by developing modern, future-focused skills.

  • The Workshops

    Workshops are a practical way to upskill your legal team in the tools, methods, and mindsets of modern legal practice. Each workshop blends hands-on exercises, case studies, and guided tool walkthroughs designed to make digital capabilities stick.

    Typical formats include:

    • Half-day, full-day, or two-day formats (in-person or virtual).

    • Facilitated by legal operations and technology experts.

    • Interactive learning.

    • Ongoing coaching support between workshops.

  • Why Everingham Legal

    We bring deep expertise in legal operations and digital transformation. Our workshops are:

    • Designed for GCs, lawyers and legal teams, by legal operators.

    • Led by experienced facilitators who make learning enjoyable, relevant, and lasting.

    • We provide you with benchmarks to track improvements in adoption, efficiency, and team engagement.

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CPD Recognition

Participation in this workshop counts towards CPD requirements for Australian-based lawyers. We design sessions to be substantive, practical, and aligned with professional learning obligations.

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