The Piddington Society

AI Rest My Case: The Future of Law in the Age of Algorithms

In this session, Supreme Court Justice Michael Lundberg will sit down with Chris Pearce, the managing partner of Blackwall Legal, to discuss recent developments in the use and regulation of generative artificial intelligence in legal practice.  With courts updating their guidance and the technology evolving incredibly quickly, we all know it is important to keep up to date with what AI models can do, how they can (and should or shouldn’t) be used ethically, and where things might be heading.

Speakers Profile: 

Justice Michael Lundberg is a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the first Aboriginal person appointed to that Court. He was appointed in 2022 after nearly three decades in legal practice.

Justice Lundberg began his legal career in 1994 at the Western Australian Crown Solicitor’s Office and later moved into private practice. He spent 18 years with King & Wood Mallesons, including serving as Partner in Charge of the Perth office and head of the dispute resolution group, and later worked as a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Jones Day.

A graduate of the University of Western Australia with degrees in commerce and law, Justice Lundberg has extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, and complex disputes, particularly in the energy and resources sector.

Alongside his commercial practice, he has undertaken pro bono work for Aboriginal clients, including representing Gene Gibson in a successful appeal that overturned a wrongful manslaughter conviction.

Chris Pearce is the Managing Partner of Blackwall Legal. His practice focuses on corporate distress, restructuring, insolvency and complex stakeholder disputes. He has nearly two decades of experience advising insolvency practitioners, financiers, directors and companies.

Before establishing Blackwall Legal in 2015, Chris spent several years working in the United Kingdom before returning to Australia.

Chris is the treasurer of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and is a director of the Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA).

In addition to his legal practice, Chris lectures in commercial and corporate practice for Piddington as part of our PLT program. He also holds a first-class honours degree in chemistry from the University of Western Australia.