Written by Amelia Chew | Edited by Stella Chen
How is technology transforming the legal industry and the practice of law today?
What does this mean for a young lawyer starting out in practice?
More fundamentally, why does it matter?
These are the questions that confronted the panellists at How Technology Is Changing Your Future Careers, co-organised by alt+Law, Asia Law Network and the Centre for Future-Ready Graduates at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law and held on 26 October 2016. Moderated by Co-Founder and CEO of Asia Law Network, Cherilyn Tan, the event saw a diverse panel comprising:
Lee Ee Yang, Managing Director of Covenant Chambers LLC;
Nuraziah Aziz, Legal Associate at Via Law Corporation;
Patrick Dahm, Partner (Foreign Lawyer) at RHTLaw Taylor Wessing;
Andrew Barnes, Financial Controller of the Lantern Legal Group (Skyping in from Australia); and
Alex Toh, General Committee Member of Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (SCCA) currently pursuing a Masters in Law, Science and Technology at Stanford Law School (Skyping in from the United States).
Here, we condense the 1.5-hour session into 5 key takeaways.
