ALBAWABA - Gregory Baker, an academic at Macquarie University in Australia, won a case against the university without any human lawyers – relying instead on a fully AI legal team.
Baker had been on a casual employment contract but requested the University to move him toward a more permanent part-time employee role, a request which the university rejected.
In response, Baker filed a suit with the Australian Fair Work Commission against the university; in the lawsuit, Baker represented himself without lawyers and won the case – later he revealed that his “legal team” was made up entirely of AI agents.
After winning the case, Baker gave an interview to the Australian Financial Review in which he said that it was an AI agent who pointed out to him that he should switch from a casual employment role to the more permanent one in the first place.
Baker had been teaching computer science at the university from 2023 to 2025, and being a computer science lecturer, some pointed out that it was not so much the AI that won the case, but was Baker’s masterful use of it.
Baker said he used multiple paid AI agents such as ChatGPT Pro, and this was the “legal team” that helped him assemble his case and successfully argue it in court – using the AI legal to follow up references and anticipate his employer’s counterarguments.
Baker’s success has analysts asking and interested parties asking: can AI replace lawyers? And if not can it replace 90 percent of the work that lawyers do?
