Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Professional Skills
AI-enabled Legal Project Management
- What is legal project management (LPM)?
- Overview of useful AI tools for LPM
- Do and Don’ts when using AI
Presented by Peter Dombkins, Director, Contracts & Legal Transformation, PWC
Chair
Paul Lewis, Senior Legal Counsel, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers: Accredited Specialist in Family Law and Dispute Resolution
Presenters
Paul Lewis, Senior Legal Counsel, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Paul Lewis is a Senior Legal Counsel at Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers where he leads the Family & Relationships Law team and acts as a Mediator in family law and other disputes. Paul also sits as a part-time General Member of NCAT in the Consumer and Commercial Division. Paul is an accredited mediator through the NSW Law Society’s LMA Scheme and is an Accredited Specialist in Family Law and in Dispute Resolution through the Law Society. He currently serves on the ADR Committee of the Law Society and in the past has sat on the Family Law Committee, regulatory committees, and the Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee.
Peter Dombkins, Director, PWC
Peter is an award-winning expert in legal transformation, legal technology and legal project management, and has led complex legal transformation programs for some of Australia's largest companies and law firms. Peter is also a leading national voice on legal professional competencies and education, particularly in legal operations and legal project management. Peter has 16 years' international experience in organisational transformation and capability development, with over a decade in the legal sector - including as a practicing lawyer specialising in major projects. Peter is the first Legal Project Manager to be peer-accredited by the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), and is a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) with the UK Association for Project Management. Peter is also a nationally accredited AIPM project management assessor, and is Australia's first Adjunct Associate Professor in Legal Transformation, at the University of NSW Faculty of Law. Peter is Vice President of the Australian Society for Computers and Law, and is the Managing Editor of that society's journal.
