What we do
Smokeball was founded by Australian technology leaders with nearly 25 years of experience in delivering impactful legal technology products. Our Head Office is in Sydney, with staff also based in Melbourne. In 2013 we expanded into the USA, with an office in Chicago.
You may recognise the name Smokeball from a time when we were associated with automated legal forms. Today Smokeball has come a long way, taking years of content expertise and industry knowledge to create innovative, focused conveyancing software.
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Careers at Smokeball
You may recognise the name Smokeball from a time when we were associated with automated legal forms. Today Smokeball has come a long way, taking years of content expertise and industry knowledge to create innovative, focused conveyancing software.
View our Executive Team
Careers at Smokeball
Smokeball's Company Core Values
Our partnerships
- InfoTrack – our integrated searching partner.
- AIC National – Sponsor of the AIC National Conference 2019.
- AIC NSW – Business Partner and sponsor of the AIC NSW State Conference 2018.
- AIC SA – Business Partner
- AIC VIC – Business Partner and sponsor of the AIC VIC State Conference 2018.
- Law Institute of Victoria - Sponsor of the LIV Property Law Intensive.
- Law Society of New South Wales - Sponsor of the Property Law Intensive 2018 and the Property Update: One day with Tony Cahill.
- Queensland Law Society - Sponsor of the QLS Symposium 2018.
What's in a name?
If it’s familiar but you can’t quite place it, the name is derived from the famous case of Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256.
The defendants, who were proprietors of a medical preparation called “The Carbolic Smokeball,” issued an advertisement in which they offered to pay £100 to any person who succumbed to influenza after having used one of their smokeballs in a specified manner and for a specified period. They added that they had deposited a sum of £1,000 with their bankers “to show their sincerity.” The plaintiff, on the faith of the advertisement, bought and used the ball as prescribed, but caught influenza. She successfully sued for the £100.
The defendants, who were proprietors of a medical preparation called “The Carbolic Smokeball,” issued an advertisement in which they offered to pay £100 to any person who succumbed to influenza after having used one of their smokeballs in a specified manner and for a specified period. They added that they had deposited a sum of £1,000 with their bankers “to show their sincerity.” The plaintiff, on the faith of the advertisement, bought and used the ball as prescribed, but caught influenza. She successfully sued for the £100.
