Webinar recording
Ethical use for enhanced efficiency
This webinar is for LawY in LEAP Australia users who are looking to strengthen their proficiency using verified legal AI.
Recorded: October 16th, 2025
Peter is the Principal of PFJS Lawyers and has acted for clients in family law, criminal and commercial matters over 17 years in legal practice.
He holds postgraduate qualifications in Law, Science/Medicine and Education and is also a casual academic at La robe Law School, teaching Legal Practice and Conduct (Legal Ethics) since 2021.
Rhylee Hanrahan is a Property Law Specialist at LEAP and prior to that was a solicitor of seven years with experience almost exclusively in property and commercial law.
Working in private practice for large regional firms who were LEAP users themselves, she has been exposed to the use of LawY firsthand.
Shelley Burger is the CEO of LawY. She practiced corporate law for over 12 years before moving in-house in 2019. She joined LEAP group in 2021, progressing from General Counsel to Chief Legal Officer before joining LawY.
Her background includes serving on Executive Leadership Teams as Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary across various technology companies in the public and private sectors.
We’ve recently optimised our Deep Research feature to generate results within 15–30 minutes.
Deep Research is now faster, more comprehensive, and built to deliver richer insights with every request.
Prompts are the instructions you provide to an AI to perform a certain action. We also refer to the prompts more simply as the legal questions you want to ask LawY.
Effective prompting starts by carefully considering the legal question you're addressing. First, clearly identify the issues involved, and second, determine the applicable legal principles. Use LawY to find the relevant principles, cases, primary sources, and concepts. The key is being specific and clear.
That’s why we encourage you to experiment—ask questions, explore the limits, and adapt. If a response isn’t quite right, revise the prompt and try again. This approach not only improves results but also builds AI literacy.
"Set out the top 3 cases that are authority for Larke v Nugus in Australia. One must be from the last 2 years."
If a prompt is unclear, missing context, or too general, the AI has to guess what you want. This often leads to irrelevant, shallow, or off-target results.
Ready to accelerate your legal research? Our blog dives into the latest LawY features and shows you exactly how to integrate them into your practice. With game-changing improvements, you’ll spend less time digging through case law and more time on what truly matters — your clients and your case strategy.