On 13 July 2016, Robert Angyal SC made a presentation to the NSW Bar Association as part of a seminar on ‘Technology in ADR: Computers as Mediators’. His presentation, ‘Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water … What are the implications for barristers?’, examined strategies for dealing with competition from computerised online dispute resolution systems (ODR), and recommended that lawyers compete by differentiating the services they could offer from those provided by ODR.