Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Chair
Dirk Feinauer, Director, Feinauer Commercial Lawyers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Professional Skills
Drafting Contracts and Doing Other Things with the Help of AI
- Examine how tools like GPT-based systems are transforming drafting, research and client communication. You know that Ai can assist to make your legal work faster and easier, but what can you actually do and how can you do it?
- Develop an understanding of how lawyers can leverage AI without losing professional judgment
- Examine the skills lawyers will need to thrive in an AI-driven environment
- Beyond drafting, AI can support predictive litigation analytics and synthetic governance models where AI agents can assist boards
- Examine what other legal frameworks emerging tech might assist
Presented by SJ Price, Partner, Stirling Rose AI Advisory Practice; together with 20 years legal practice
Presenters
Dirk Feinauer, Director, Feinauer Commercial LawyersDirk Feinauer is the Director of Feinauer Commercial Lawyers, a law corporation based in Perth, and is one of the most experienced German-speaking lawyers practising in Australia. He graduated from the Australian National University, Canberra, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1991. Dirk is admitted to practise in the Federal Court and High Court of Australia, as well as the Supreme Courts of Western Australia and New South Wales. With extensive experience in complex corporate and commercial matters, Dirk regularly appears in the Superior and Federal Courts, including in cross-border disputes. He frequently presents on a range of legal topics both in Australia and internationally, and has authored numerous articles and publications.
SJ Price, Partner, Stirling Rose
SJ is a Partner at Stirling & Rose and is a global machine learning and digitisation expert and leads the AI Advisory Practice at Stirling & Rose. She has over 20 years’ experience in international resources companies, including leading global multidisciplinary innovation teams and has led the legal work for multi-billion dollar energy projects. SJ founded and was the inaugural chair of the AU Legal Technology and Innovation Community for the Association for Corporate Counsel. SJ has over 20 years’ experience in international resources companies, including leading the legal work for a US$34B mega-project and as legal manager for operations in Asia. She has served on leadership teams for multi-billion-dollar projects and M&A deals.
