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Empowering your legal and legal operations teams to navigate an evolving digital future

Our award-winning innovation team specialises in making the complex simple.

We uncover the real barriers and blockers that lie behind your legal and business challenges and work with you to identify the right improvement opportunities, get the buy-in you need, and deliver solutions with lasting impact.  

What we do

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Our tailored AI advice, action plans and solutions help your legal teams to get up to speed with the opportunities, challenges and risks of an AI-enabled future. 

We deliver insights on the latest legal industry trends, emerging technologies and best practice operating models to optimise your legal function and help you plan ahead. 

We capture and assess your current work processes, identify improvement opportunities and develop automation ideas and solutions to enhance your legal operations. 

We use our deep digital and in-house legal expertise to provide strategic guidance to help legal departments maximise value and opportunities from their organisation’s existing technologies and licenses, like the Microsoft ecosystem and the Power Platform. 

Our market-leading Legal Transformation Belts product equips your team with globally recognised skills needed to navigate a digital future.

A multi-year firm-wide transformation program designed to drive the digital literacy and LegalTech adoption of our people and optimise the delivery of legal services for our clients. 

Our ready-to-use digital solutions designed to solve complex legal and business challenges of today and tomorrow. 

Industry Recognition
  • Most Innovative Law Firm in Asia-Pacific
    Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards 2026
  • Innovation in Digital Legal Services
    Financial Times Most Innovative Lawyers Awards 2026
  • Band 2
    Chambers and Partners 2025 NewLaw Guide
  • Trailblazer of the Year Finalist
    ILTA 2024
  • Most Innovative Law Firm (Knowledge & Data)
    FT Asia Pacific Most Innovative Lawyers Awards 2025
  • Most Innovative Company (Professional Services)
    AFR Most Innovative Companies Awards 2022
  • Best Internal Innovation
    AFR Most Innovative Companies Awards 2022
  • Most Innovative Law Firm in Asia Pacific
    FT Asia Pacific Most Innovative Lawyers Awards 2022
  • Law Firm of the Year
    Australasian Law Awards 2022

Our work lately

Non-disclosure agreement automation

Co-developed a web-based app for automated, self-service non-disclosure agreements, reducing turnaround times and saving 220+ hours annually.

Legal e-learning program design

Designed, created and delivered a bespoke legal e-learning training program for a large multinational client, covering 31 different topics.  

Streamlining legal job request management

Created a web-based portal to submit, review and triage internal legal requests, improving efficiency, productivity and end-to-end task management.

ASX release approval process improvement 

Designed a new, streamlined user-friendly and automated process for ASX releases to be drafted, reviewed and approved. 

 

Digital contract negotiation playbook

Developed a user-friendly digital database and app for lawyers to view, search and update positions when negotiating enterprise contracts.

Legal leadership team strategy workshop

Designed and facilitated a two-day leadership team workshop to develop a shared vision for a future-ready legal department and strategic roadmap.

Bespoke sustainability assessment tool 

Developed a user-friendly app for a telecommunications company to streamline their internal sustainability assessment process for new products. 

LegalTech collaboration: Jigsaw Timelines

Partnered with LegalTech vendor, Jigsaw, to develop a first-to-market user-friendly timeline visualisation tool. This product was shortlisted for ILTA’s 2024 “Trailblazer of the Year” Award.  

Testimonials
  • The team consistently demonstrates exceptional capability when it comes to innovation, particularly evidenced through their expertise in embracing and implementing new approaches.
    Chambers and Partners 2025 NewLaw Guide
  • The KWM (Mallesons) team brings an understanding of the business need as well as the technical landscape. The team is set apart by its willingness to engage with our staff, not just with words but with action
    Chambers and Partners 2025 NewLaw Guide
  • KWM's innovation team show strong stakeholder engagement, transparent communication and excellent follow-through especially in terms of delivering on promises.
    Chambers and Partners 2025 NewLaw Guide
  • The KWM team gave us clear direction and guidance on what information they needed from us and what the outcome would be under the final agreed refined scope of work. KWM helped to frame our thinking.
    Chambers and Partners 2025 NewLaw Guide
  • The KWM team were very practical in their approach, working with our IT department to ensure that any solution would be able to coexist in our IT environment, and would be user friendly.
    Chambers and Partners 2025 NewLaw Guide

Harnessing Generative AI for our people

We are committed to harnessing the power of emerging technologies like Generative AI to benefit our clients, our firm and our people. Our approach brings together strong governance, market-leading technology and high-quality skill building.