{"id":875612,"date":"2026-09-01T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875612\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:46:15","slug":"mcdonalds-class-action-justice-michael-lee-orders-ai-use-to-cut-legal-costs-in-100-million-underpayment-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875612\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s class action: Justice Michael Lee orders AI use to cut legal costs in $100 million underpayment case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An outspoken Federal Court judge is using a $100 million class action against McDonald\u2019s as a testing ground for artificial intelligence as he urges lawyers to get imaginative on how to cut down massive case costs.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Michael Lee issued novel orders late last week forcing the fast food giant and the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association to explore with technology experts how they could use AI to prepare for mediation and a 10-week trial over alleged underpayments listed for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An outspoken Federal Court judge is using a $100 million class action against McDonald\u2019s as a testing ground&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-875612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}