Welcome to Quillio Insights
Quillio Insights is a publication for Australian and New Zealand legal practitioners thinking seriously about AI. Expect short, practical articles on legal AI, jurisdiction-specific guidance, case studies from real firms, and product updates — written by lawyers and the people who build Quillio. No hype, no theory-for-theory’s-sake, no procurement waffle.
There is no shortage of writing about AI and law. Most of it is either dystopian (“the robots are coming for your job”) or utopian (“AI will replace junior lawyers by 2027”). Neither is particularly useful when you have a Section 32 to review by Thursday.
We are starting Insights because there is a gap in the middle — practical, specific, made-for-Australia-and-New-Zealand writing about what legal AI actually does, where it falls down, and how a working lawyer can get genuine value out of it without compromising the standards their profession demands.
What you will find here
A few categories, all of them written by people who either practise law, build legal AI, or both:
- Australian law. Jurisdiction-specific notes — what changed this week in NSW conveyancing, why the Victorian Section 32 framework matters, how the Queensland Body Corporate and Community Management Act intersects with AI-assisted drafting.
- AI & law. The substance, not the slogans. How retrieval-augmented generation actually works on legal text. Where current models hallucinate and where they do not. What “Australian data sovereignty” actually means when your AI vendor is owned by a US company.
- Case studies. Real firms doing real work. What changed in their day-to-day, what they wish they had known, and what their billables look like 12 months in.
- Thoughts. Longer pieces from our team — and from invited contributors — on where the profession is going.
- Product updates. What we shipped, what we are working on, and why.
Who is writing
Every post is credited to a real person with their qualifications visible. Click any author’s name on a post to read their full bio and see everything they have written.
Some of the bylines you will see:
- Samuel Junghenn, our CEO and a Finalist for AI Leader of the Year (SME) at the Australian AI Awards 2025
- Bec Robertson, our COO, a dual-qualified lawyer in Australia and New Zealand
- Ricardo Villegas, an admitted solicitor and former Senior Lecturer of Law
- Pauline Courtney, a member of the New Zealand Bar Association Technology Committee
- David Chung, our General Counsel and founder of Creo Legal
- Richard Youssef, our Director of AI Adoption with 20+ years across enterprise tech
When a piece reflects the collective view of the team, you will see the Quillio Team byline.
What you will not find
We will not write breathless takes. We will not pretend AI is a finished product when we know it is not. We will not tell you to fire your paralegals.
We will also not write filler. If we do not have something specific and useful to say, we will not publish anything that week.
How to follow along
You can subscribe to the RSS feed, or check back at /insights — new pieces will land roughly weekly to begin with.
If you have something you would like us to cover, or a case you are willing to share, get in touch through the contact page. We read every message.
— The Quillio Team