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Legal Technology and its potential to improve client collaboration

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On 15th July 2019

In Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Innovation

Reading time: 5 minutes

Guest Post By Marc May | Edited by Josh Lee

“Legal technology” (or “legal tech“) a term that is incredibly broad and encompasses any technology or software that is able to improve the provision of legal services. Many a time, the mention of legal tech brings to the minds of lawyers technology that bring internal process improvements, such as improved legal research, contract review or drafting. 

However, aside from the promise that legal technology can free up time for lawyers so that they are able to build better client relationships, there are also innovative ways legal technology can help lawyers directly to become more collaborative with clients. Here are two ways legal technology could do so:

  1. Collaborative drafting; and
  2. Automation-as-a-service.

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LawTech.Asia’s Response to Public Consultation on Model AI Governance Framework

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On 7th July 2019

In Artificial Intelligence, Law Firms, Legal Innovation, Policy, Regulations

Reading time: 2 minutes

On 23 January 2019, the Personal Data Protection Commission (i.e. the Info-comm Media Development Authority) (the “PDPC”) published its Model Artificial Intelligence Governance Framework (“Model Framework”). The PDPC also launched a public consultation to receive feedback on the Model Framework.

As an organisation committed to thought leadership in law and technology (with AI regulation a key area of focus), LawTech.Asia produced a response to the public consultation on 24 June 2019.

LawTech.Asia’s response comprised the following two sections:

  1. A framework tailored for the implementation of the Model Framework to the legal technology sectors. Tapping on LawTech.Asia’s familiarity with the legal and legal technology sectors, LawTech.Asia produced a customised framework tailored specifically for the implementation of the Model Framework to the legal technology industry. We hope that this customised framework may shed some light in allowing legal technology firms deploying AI to have greater guidance in aligning their practices with some of the implementation guidelines set out in the Model Framework.
  2. Comments and feedback on each specific section covered by the Model Framework. These sections are, namely: the overall principles set out in the Model Framework, internal governance measures, determination of the AI decision-making model, operations management, and customer relations management. Tying our comments together is the thread that the Model Framework could go further in elaborating on some of the guidelines that it had set out, as well as to set out more specifically the ends that the Model Framework is targeted at achieving.

Our response may be downloaded for reference here:

Response to Public Consultation for Proposed Model FrameworkDownload

In closing, we emphasise that the views set out within our response are wholly independent. They do not represent the views of any other organisation save for LawTech.Asia.

LawTech.Asia is also grateful to our partner and friend, Ms Shazade Jameson from the World Data Project, for her guidance and assistance in the preparation of our response.

The LawTech.Asia Team

Disruptive Legal Technologies – Is Ethics Catching Up?

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On 25th June 2019

In Access to Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Innovation, Regulations

Reading time: 6 minutes

Written by Alvin Chen and Stella Chen (Law Society of Singapore)

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in the August 2018 issue of the Singapore Law Gazette, the official publication of the Law Society of Singapore. Reproduced with permission.

In December 2017, DeepMind, a leading AI company, sent ripples through the AI world when it announced that it had developed a computer program (known as “AlphaGoZero” or “AlphaZero”) which learned the rules of three games – chess, Shogi and Go – from scratch and defeated a world-champion computer program in each game within 24 hours of self-learning.1 What was remarkable about DeepMind’s achievement was the program’s “tabula rasa” or clean slate approach which did not refer to any games played by human players or other “domain knowledge”.2 Yet, DeepMind’s program was able to develop an unconventional and some say, uncanny,3 methodology in surpassing current computer understanding of how to play the three games.

Referring to an earlier version of DeepMind’s program (“AlphaGo”) which defeated the (human) world champion in Go in 2016, the legal futurist Richard Susskind considers such innovative technologies to be “disruptive”. In his international bestseller Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (“Tomorrow’s Lawyers“), Susskind defined “disruptive” as something that would “fundamentally challenge and change conventional habits”.4

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E-Discovery: Artificial Intelligence & Predictive Coding – Discovering the Way Forward

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On 7th June 2019

In Artificial Intelligence, Automation, E-Discovery, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Innovation

Reading time: 5 minutes

Written by Emily Tan | Edited by Jennifer Lim Wei Zhen, Josh Lee, Maryam Salehijam (Resolve Disputes Online)

Introduction

Cases turn on their facts. Lawyers depend on both the law and the specific circumstances of their client’s case to make a convincing argument for their client. This makes the discovery process, where the available information is sifted through to identify relevant evidence, a crucial step in any case.  

However, discovery is by its nature a slow and laborious process. Countless hours are spent digging through documents, emails and other such sources, searching for the key factors which may make or break a case. This “time-drain” has been exacerbated by the digitalisation of work, which has exponentially increased the volume of documents that lawyers have to analyse. In addition, it is typically the junior lawyers who are delegated to do the discovery task — which explains the television stereotype of young lawyers poring over cartons and cartons of documents late into the night. 

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LawTech.Asia is recruiting!

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On 25th May 2019

In Uncategorized

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Since we started LawTech.Asia in 2016, we have witnessed the growth of technology and innovation across Asia, wrestled with tough questions about the regulation of emerging technologies and the future of the legal industry, and most importantly, contributed to discourse about issues that matter.

We have published original articles on Legal Technology in Singapore and reported on industry developments. We have interviewed startup founders, professors, legal movers and shakers, and more. We have covered events such as TechLaw.Fest 2018 as a Media Partner and co-organised others such as the inaugural APAC Legal Hackers Summit. We have been recognised in Asia Law Portal’s 30 People to Watch in the Business of Law in Asia in 2019 and recognised in the the State of Legal Innovation Report.

It’s been an exciting journey and we wouldn’t have had it any other way.

And now, we would like to invite you to join us in building thought leadership and driving the discourse around law and technology. We are conducting our Summer 2019 recruitment drive for new members. Member responsibilities include:

  • Writing & Editorial: Generate and curate content for online publication; interview experts for their insights on the latest developments; provide timely and insightful coverage of industry events.
  • Building organisational capabilities: Contribute to one of our functional teams – whether this is managing collaborations with external partners, designing and executing social media marketing campaigns, organising topical seminars, developing our internal workflows, whatever it takes to bring the organisation to the next level!

We are looking for individuals who are:

All LawTech.Asia members contribute on a voluntary basis and there is no remuneration involved. If you fit the bill and are excited about the work that we do, submit your application below and we will reach out to set up a chat. The deadline for submission of applications is 30 June. We will be considering applications on a rolling basis.

Questions? Drop us an email at hello@lawtech.asia and we will get back to you at the earliest opportunity.

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