

legal tech mornings v4 ☕️
🔥 LEGAL TECH MORNINGS v4🔥
Our next guest is Mark Donovan, the Auckland-based barrister and a legal-tech tinkerer. Mark has spent 20 years in the trenches of employment and civil litigation, bringing hard-won courtroom realism to every tech conversation. He co-founded Employr, the DIY platform for instantly compliant NZ employment docs Employr - employment agreement builder, and runs the fast-growing Lawyer + Robots community where 300+ lawyers and legal-tech stakeholders trade AI workflows that actually ship work product. He has spoken at LawFest, NZ's premier legal tech conference, and is a former member of The Law Association’s Tech & Law committee, and is known for pulling zero punches on hype.
🚀 Get Ready For
The future tech stack of law firms: What does the future of practicing law look like?
Security & Confidentiality: Practical ways to stop client data leaking into AI services.
When tools miss the mark: Real tales of chat-bots that hallucinates statutes or lose formatting and red flags to spot early.
What actually shows promise: The AI and automation tools Mark uses today.
Prompt recipes that work: From summarising case law to identifying points of appeal, Mark shares his go-tos.
🔊 The Vibe
Lawyers, paralegals & techies only.
Zero slide decks. 100 % candid chat, instant polls, and open-floor challenges.
Bring receipts & curve-ball questions. Mark loves a spicy cross-examination.
🎟️ RSVP
Grab your coffee, and join the smackdown on the tools reshaping legal work from Auckland to the US.
See you there!