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LawTech.Asia – Internship Portal

On 3rd May 2019

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As part of our plans to help the development of talent in Singapore’s legal tech scene, LawTech.Asia is proud and honoured to announce the opening pilot of our very own Internship Portal.

The Internship Portal puts together internship opportunities available in firms and companies in the legal tech space. As a natural extension of our core product, the Portal provides a convenient entry point for students, lawyers and those interested in legal technology to quickly find avenues to develop their interests quickly and easily.

If you have been interested to explore legal technology for some time but are not sure which companies are offering internship positions, then this Portal is for you!

We will continue to develop the Portal together with our partner firms and stakeholders. In this regard, we’d like to sincerely thank Asia Law Network, the Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP), INTELLLEX , Legalese , Lex Quanta, and Rajah & Tann Technologies for partnering us in making this Portal possible.

The Internship Portal can be found here. If you are interested to find out how to have your legal tech company listed in the Portal, feel free to reach out to us through our Contact Us page.

Legal Tech 101: Journeying into Singapore’s legal technology space

By Josh Lee

On 14th April 2019

In Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Hackers, Legal Innovation

Reading time: 7 minutes

Written by Tristan Koh | Edited by Ian Lee, Josh Lee, Utsav Rakshit

Student readers of LawTech.Asia would be familiar with interviews and opinion pieces available on this site on Singapore’s legal technology (“legal tech”) industry. Nevertheless, interested students may be curious to explore further avenues into this buzzing, high-tech industry.

Written from the perspective of a university student, this article covers several basic ways of journeying into legal tech in Singapore. While this article aims to be comprehensive, the examples raised herein are certainly non-exhaustive. The ideas shared here may also be useful for working professionals.

In our view, there are four broad ways of entering the legal tech industry: (a) developing skills, (b) enrolling in a relevant degree(s), (c) participating in legal tech activities and events, or (d) through writing.

LawTech.Asia Quick Chats – Associate Professor Goh Yihan, Dean, SMU School of Law

By Josh Lee

On 10th April 2019

In Artificial Intelligence, Interviews, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Innovation, People

Reading time: 5 minutes

Interview by Josh Lee & Wan Ding Yao | Edited by Amelia Chew

In June 2018, the Singapore Management University (“SMU”) School of Law won a major grant of $4.5 million from the National Research Foundation (“NRF”) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (“IMDA”) following a competitive application process among several Institutes of Higher Learning in Singapore. With the grant, the SMU School of Law set up a new Centre for AI and Data Governance (“CAIDG”). CAIDG aims to drive thought leadership on AI and data governance in Singapore, and serve as a centre for knowledge exchange with experts worldwide.

LawTech.Asia received an exclusive opportunity to interview Associate Professor Goh Yihan, Dean of the SMU School of Law and Director of CAIDG. Here, Prof Goh shares his view on how and when technological disruption will make a major impact on the local legal industry, and how the SMU School of Law is preparing its students to face that disruption.

LawTech.Asia in the State of Legal Innovation Report 2019

By Josh Lee

On 8th April 2019

In Legal Hackers, Legal Innovation, Legal Research, Policy

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LawTech.Asia is proud to have a place in the inaugural Asia-Pacific State of Legal Innovation Report 2019! We have been described as a “leading law and technology review that aims to be a thought leader in legal technology in Asia”.

The Report, which was released at the Stanford University’s FutureLaw 2019 Conference on 4 April 2019, is a product of the academic partnership between the Singapore Management University and the Singapore Academy of Law’s Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP). The Report aims to be an authoritative industry reference on legal innovation in the Asia Pacific, and comprehensively surveys the state of legal innovation in such jurisdictions as Australia, China, Korea, Malaysia, Russia, and Singapore.

Besides being mentioned alongside heavyweights and notable names in the legal technology industry, we are proud that our Josh Lee also served as the Report’s lead designer.

We would like to thank and congratulate the Singapore Management University, the Singapore Academy of Law and the Future Law Innovation Programme, as well as all who contributed to the Report for a job well done!

Get your copy of the Report at this link today!

Hacking Through the Gordian Knot – The LIT Hackathon 2019

By Josh Lee

On 15th March 2019

In Access to Justice, Automation, Lawyers, Legal Innovation, Legal Research

Reading time: 9 minutes

Written by Josh Lee | Edited by Jennifer Lim Wei Zhen, Wan Ding Yao

Introduction

It is a classic Gordian Knot. A legal industry that is highly risk-averse, and heavily reliant on precedents and traditional ways of work. Lawyers who are too occupied with work to generate innovative ideas, let alone implement them. Technology that is believed to be too inaccessible and alien to a profession that is beginning to struggle with disruption. All these, with the backdrop of rising costs, inefficiencies (and long hours), and barriers to access to justice.

The legal industry’s solution to this? The hackathon.