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Competition/antitrust Lawyer
I'm a competition/antitrust and consumer law lawyer based in Sydney. When I'm not working, I'm tinkering with code — sometimes to solve a real workflow problem I've seen in practice, sometimes just to see what I can build. I'm not a software engineer by training. I picked up programming because I kept seeing things that felt like they could be done better, and I wanted to build the solutions myself rather than wait for someone else to. I'm interested in how AI can genuinely transform legal work — not just speed up what we already do, but change how we approach it. I'm still early in that journey, but I'm learning quickly and building as I go.
The UCT Analyser is an AI-powered tool that reviews contracts for potentially unfair contract terms under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2, Competition and Consumer Act 2010). It reads a contract, identifies clauses that may fall foul of the unfair contract terms regime in Part 2-3 of the ACL, and flags them by risk level — drawing on the statutory test in section 24 (significant imbalance, not reasonably necessary, detriment), the grey list examples in section 25, and patterns from ACCC enforcement actions and Federal Court decisions. For each flagged term, it explains the legal basis for the concern, considers the business rationale, and suggests how the clause could be amended to reduce risk. It also assesses the contract as a whole for cumulative unfairness — whether the combined effect of individually borderline terms creates a significant overall imbalance.
The firms that will stand out aren't the ones adopting off-the-shelf legal tech — they're the ones building their own. When you understand your workflows from the inside, you can build tools that solve the actual problem, not a generalised version of it. Adopting widely available tools means competing with the same capabilities as everyone else. Building from within means your technology becomes a genuine edge.
We haven't scratched the surface of what AI and legal tech can do for legal practice. Most of what exists today automates the obvious — document review, contract generation, research. The real transformation will come when we start using these tools to rethink how legal work is structured, not just how it's executed.