Adrian Cartland | Principal Solicitor
Cartland Law

Adrian Cartland, Principal Solicitor, Cartland Law

Adrian "the Taxinator" Cartland has practiced for nearly 20 years, working at a number of tax law roles in top tier firms as well as boutique tax practices, meeting his billable targets on at least a few occasions. About ten years ago he began thinking about the future of law and developed an interest in legal Artificial Intelligence, mostly in an effort to find a robot to do the work he was too lazy to do. Deciding that it was best to pursue this expensive and time consuming hobby (er, business) while not on someone else's timesheet he founded his own firm Cartland Law, and is now unemployable.
Because Adrian knows very little about other, more normal, areas of law, Cartland Law specialises in and only accepts instruction in tax, trusts and technology. Coming from a family of engineers who have constructed many things beneficial to society, Adrian has instead created a number of  tax and trust structures that are so complex no-one really knows what they do. He has also created Ailira, the Artificially Intelligent Legal Information Research Assistant and partly contributed to the doom of humanity by AI. He is the Chair of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners SA, the TTI's State Taxes Committee, was Australia's funniest lawyer in 2007 and holds the Australian record for fastest MMA knockout at 6 seconds. He used some of the material in this bio to meet his wife on Tinder, and has asked for the remainder to be added to his eulogy if he is ever (accidentally) brutally dispatched (by her).

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Day 2 @ 11:00

How to practically implement AI in your firm

Adrian has been practising tax for 20 years and building legal AI systems for over a decade. This session moves past hype and focuses on real implementation. Drawing on live systems used in his own tax practice, it shows how AI can be deployed effectively, securely, and profitably in a regulated professional services environment.

This session will cover:

1.           Why Your AI Sucks – No Setup: How to build a properly structured Retrieval Augmented Generation system that produces citation-grounded work above base models and materially reduces hallucinations.

2.           Why Your AI Sucks – No Training: Why generic seminars fail, how “shadow AI” is already in your firm, and how to design training around real workflows.

3.           The Lawyer Who Did Accounting: How AI was used to complete four years of accounts for 30 entities in weeks by building structured mapping logic and audit-ready systems.

4.           Fake Citations Should Never Occur: How to design multi-phase prompting and review workflows that eliminate fabricated authorities.

5.           Will AI Take Our Jobs? Why AI lowers production costs, expands demand, and creates a short window for super-profits for firms that implement properly.

Attendees will leave with clear, practical steps to implement AI in their own firms, increase productivity, control risk, and achieve meaningful adoption.

last published: 20/Feb/26 06:25 GMT

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