When the NSW Supreme Court rescinded a $6.2 million Bronte property sale in May 2026 and ordered a $310,000 deposit refunded over undisclosed planning information, it served as a timely reminder across the industry. While the specific detail belongs to that case, the underlying issue belongs to every practitioner: incomplete information at the point of exchange, and the costly consequences that follow.
A seasoned legal technology executive who has shaped property and conveyancing markets across two continents, Dennis Barnhart brings his expertise and a clear-eyed view of where the industry is headed to InfoTrack’s Canadian business.
Every year, the final weeks of June expose the same fault lines in property law firms: matters that sat dormant for months suddenly require immediate exchange, trust account reconciliations compete for the same senior practitioners managing last-minute contract executions, and cyber criminals time their fraud attempts to coincide with the chaos.
Most conversations about AI in legal technology focus on the front-end experience. We discuss what the chat window looks like, how natural the language feels, and whether the experience is intuitive enough to drive adoption. While these are reasonable questions, they miss the deeper context.
The 2026–27 Federal Budget, handed down on the evening of Tuesday the 12th of May 2026, carries more than cost-of-living headlines. Beneath the five rounds of personal income tax cuts and fuel excise relief sits a set of structural reforms that will reshape how Australians invest in property, how discretionary trusts are taxed, and how the negative gearing rules interact with new versus established housing. For lawyers, conveyancers, real estate professionals, and accountants, the downstream effects of these changes will arrive quickly, and they will arrive in volume.
Most technology decisions in a law firm begin with a product demonstration and end with a contract. What happens in between, the day-to-day responsiveness, the willingness to pick up the phone, the sense that a partner is genuinely invested in the firm’s success, is rarely part of the evaluation process. For Anna Kenny, Operations Manager at VRT Lawyers, it is the only thing that truly matters.
Thirteen years in this industry teaches you something important: the firms that thrive through regulatory and technological change are rarely the ones that react fastest. They are the ones that invested early, deliberately, and with a clear point of view about where their clients were heading. That principle shapes everything we build at InfoTrack, and it is the lens through which I want to share what we have been working on, and more importantly, why.
