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MinterEllison is expanding its trial of Cicero, Automatise's private-cloud AI platform for litigation teams, following strong results from phase one.

This article explores why specialist AI tools are becoming as essential as specialist lawyers in high-stakes disputes. Just as you wouldn't ask your property lawyer to run a complex trial, generalist AI tools fall short when litigation demands precision.

Leading national law firm Maddocks today announced the firm-wide deployment of Cicero AI. The decision follows an extensive pilot program that demonstrated significant efficiency gains and enhanced evidence review capabilities across complex litigation matters.

National law firm Holding Redlich has begun a major pilot of Cicero, an AI litigation platform developed by Australian legal-tech company Automatise. The pilot follows a successful trial in selected matters earlier this year and will initially run across key practice groups, including Dispute Resolution & Litigation, Workplace Relations & Safety, and Construction, Infrastructure & Projects. The rollout spans the firm’s Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra offices.

Cicero is one of the first AI companies globally to achieve a stringent ISO/IEC 42001, an international standard that specifies requirements for managing Artificial Intelligence System within organisations.

In this article we discuss the crossroads that face AI development with an introduction of DeepSeek and geopolitics into the AI race. We talk about the strategic risks of restricting open-source AI in the U.S., which could shift innovation and market share to Chinese competition.

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has now clarified that privately hosted, secure AI solutions like Cicero may be used for summarisation, chronology generation, and factual investigation in litigation, subject to the legal practitioner’s satisfaction that the uploaded information.

Maddocks will look to streamline the workflows of its litigation and investigations teams in a new trial of leading AI legal platform Cicero.

After an extensive search across multiple AI platforms, Wotton Kearney has become the first Australian law firm to adopt Cicero, the first fully private generative AI tool developed specifically for the Australian legal industry.

Colin Biggers & Paisley is proud to announce its participation in the trial of Cicero, a secure AI-enabled technology with the potential to transform workflows in our litigation, disputes and investigations teams.

Leading national law firm Meridian Lawyers is thrilled to announce its partnership with Automatise, the company behind Cicero, the first private AI solution for legal professionals.