Presenters

Ines Kallweit, Principal Lawyer, KHQ Lawyers
Ines Kallweit is a Principal Lawyer and leads the Wills & Estates team at KHQ Lawyers. She is an Accredited Specialist in Wills & Estates (Law Institute of Victoria), a Notary Public, and a member of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners. Ines advises clients across all aspects of estate planning, estate administration and estate litigation. Her practice includes the preparation of wills, powers of attorney, advanced care directives, succession planning, asset structuring, and the administration of estates. She adopts a practical, solutions‑focused approach to comprehensive estate planning. Ines has extensive experience in estate litigation, acting for estates and individuals in disputes involving wills, trusts, property, guardianship matters and family provision claims. She also handles applications for grants of probate and letters of administration, guardianship and administration proceedings including VCAT appearances, charitable gifts and cy‑près applications, resealing interstate and international grants, and complex estate administrations, including court‑appointed roles. Ines has a strong interest in legal education and holds a Master of Teaching. She is a former adjunct lecturer at the College of Law and regularly presents for professional education providers. A native German speaker, she is recognised as a leading Wills & Estates practitioner and a pre‑eminent litigation lawyer.


Fiona McLay, Legal Ai Client Advisor, Thomson Reuters
Fiona has spent the past 25 years as a dispute resolution lawyer working across the legal industry in top tier, mid-tier, small firm, a NewLaw firm and in-house. She has an insider’s view as to how firms across the industry are actually using (or not using) tech. Long hours, inefficient processes and constant pressure to do more with less drove her to find ways to use tech to work more efficiently. With no budget, no IT support and (possibly because of) no innovation committee, she discovered how powerful a tech-enabled lawyer could be in litigation up against a much better resourced opponent. And with a significantly reduced risk of paper cuts. She regularly presents to lawyers on how to adopt new ways of working. She is the author of Tech Enabled Lawyer: to making the most out of the tools you have and spotting the tech you need.