The firm won the Innovative Lawyers in Dispute Resolution category for the Ben Roberts Smith v Nine defamation case.

Strategic and innovative application of Australian defamation laws and the use of truth defence was a stand-out in the submission, in what is known as one of the world’s largest and most complex defamation cases.

The firm was also a winner of the Innovation in Knowledge & Data category for their development of MinterEllison Advice Generator – an AI-powered content creator, that develops a first draft of advices based on short prompts.  

Commenting on the award wins Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner Virginia Briggs said:

"Winning the Dispute Resolution category further celebrates the remarkable work done by Peter Bartlett and his team on what has been coined 'the trial of the century' and Peter's extraordinary experience in defamation law.

Winning for MinterEllison AI continues to celebrate our sustainable commitment in innovation, upskilling our people on, and improving our digital literacy.

MinterEllison was also shortlisted across a further four category including:

• Innovative Lawyers in science and technology for the commercialisation of Genomical, a clinical genomics platform improving health outcomes for patients.  We designed an innovative commercialisation structure, which meets the differing requirements of all Alliance members and the Victorian government as funder.
• Innovation in Digital Tools for MinterEllison Lightstream.  A great fusion team of Project Solutions and Tech Consulting to build a tool, that came to life off the back of Ben Fox's secondment to Anglo American, that uses advanced analytics to review contract data to spot risks or patterns for our clients before they became problems.
• Innovation in People and Skills for our industry-first, internal crypto currency Mintcoin© rewarding our Digital Academy and innovation training.
• Most Innovative Law Firm in Asia Pacific.

The Financial Times & RSGI Innovative Lawyers Awards celebrate the best in innovation from law firms and in house legal team in the Asia Pacific region.