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The person behind Libris
Libris begins with a conviction that Yule Guttenbeil has spent years arguing for from conference stages and classrooms across the country: that artificial intelligence belongs in legal practice — but only when it is adopted ethically, safely, and with a clear line of accountability running through every piece of work it touches.
Yule Guttenbeil is a commercial lawyer with 20 years' experience and the principal of Attune Legal, an AI ethicist, and a pioneer of ethical AI adoption in the legal profession. Much of his work happens away from the keyboard: speaking at conferences and teaching lawyers, in person, how to bring AI into their workflows without sacrificing the very real benefits it offers — and without surrendering the professional obligations that make a legal practice trustworthy in the first place. The message he returns to again and again is that these two goals are not in tension. You do not have to choose between the productivity of AI and the integrity of your practice. You have to build the second into the first.
That work has been recognised at the highest level. Yule was named Consultant of the Year (SME) at the 2024 Australian AI Awards for his contribution to ethical AI adoption in the profession — an acknowledgement not of a single product, but of a sustained effort to raise the standard of how the legal industry thinks about this technology.
From advocacy to architecture
Yule is not only an ethicist; he is a technologist. Long before Libris, he was building the software that legal practitioners actually use — including mode.law and the Lex Nova Guild. Libris back office is the culmination of both halves of that career: the deep, practical understanding of how legal software is built, and the hard-won principles of how AI should be governed when it is doing legal work.
Those principles are not abstract. Yule has made formal submissions to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on AI decision-shaping, the role of the human in the loop, and how these affect privacy. Among his recommendations were two ideas that now sit at the heart of Libris: the provenance of skills — knowing precisely what instructions an AI was operating under when it performed a task — and the auditing of work done by artificial intelligence. Libris back office was built with both of these capabilities in by design, not bolted on afterward.
“You do not have to choose between the productivity of AI and the integrity of your practice. You have to build the second into the first.”
Designed for the compliance of the future
When we say Libris is designed for the compliance of the future, this is what we mean.
The reality of legal work is changing. Increasingly, the work that humans do will be performed, in part, by artificial intelligence. That shift brings enormous benefit — but it also raises a question the profession cannot avoid: when something goes wrong, how do you determine where the issue arose?
Answering that question requires two things. You need to be able to audit the work the AI actually did. And you need to know what skills the AI was operating on — the specific instructions it held at the moment that work was carried out. Without both, “the AI did it” becomes an answer no regulator, court, or client will accept.
Libris back office is built so that you will always have both. Every task AI performs is auditable, and the provenance of the instructions behind it is recorded. It is the difference between adopting AI and being accountable for AI — and it is the standard Yule has spent his career arguing the profession should hold itself to.
Libris is simply that argument, built.
See the argument in practice.
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