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TechLaw.Fest 2020 Quick Chats: Mark A. Cohen, Executive Chairman of Digital Legal Exchange, CEO and Founder of Legal Mosaic, LIFTED Catalyst-in-Residence

On 26th September 2020

In Access to Justice, Dispute Resolution, Events, Interviews, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Hackers, Legal Innovation, People

Reading time: 6 minutes

Interview by Ong Chin Ngee, Lenon Ong and Elizaveta Shesterneva | Edited by Ong Chin Ngee

TechLaw.Fest 2020 (“TLF”) will take place online from 28 September to 2 October 2020, becoming the virtual focal point for leading thinkers, leaders and pioneers in law, business and technology. In the weeks leading up to TLF, the LawTech.Asia team will be bringing you regular interviews and shout-outs covering some of TLF’s most prominent speakers and the topics they will be speaking about.

This week, LawTech.Asia received the exclusive opportunity to interview Mark A. Cohen, Executive Chairman of the Digital Legal Exchange, CEO of Legal Mosaic, and the Singapore Academy of Law’s LIFTED “Catalyst-in-Residence.” Mark will be sharing the stage with Richard Susskind for a special session of their “Uncertain Decade” series. They will be discussing “The Future of the Legal World.”

LawTech.Asia: Consultant to The Commonwealth

By Josh Lee

On 5th August 2020

In Access to Justice, Lawyers, Legal Innovation

Reading time: < 1 minutes

After a competitive bidding process, LawTech.Asia is proud to announce that we have been selected to be a Consultant for The Commonwealth’s Governance and Peace Directorate!

Over the last two months, the LawTech.Asia team has been hard at work preparing a Report for the Commonwealth in the area of legal innovation – which is now completed! While we are not able to disclose the precise topic or contents of the Report for confidentiality reasons, we are most grateful for this opportunity, and proud that it reflects the trust and confidence serious players have in the LawTech.Asia brand.

Kudos to the team for pulling this off amidst this challenging period. Here’s looking to greater heights ahead!

The LawTech.Asia Team

What should the post lock-down legal industry look like?

By Josh Lee

On 17th May 2020

In Access to Justice, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Innovation, People, Policy

Reading time: 5 minutes

Written by Josh Lee | Edited by Jennifer Lim

Much ink has been spilt about how COVID-19 has changed and disrupted the legal industry. A search on Google turns up numerous articles on how COVID-19 has done overnight what no law or policy could: forced lawyers to adopt a fully-digital mode of doing business, changing court practices (to the extent that even being called to the Bar is now a digital occasion), and forced law schools to turn to AI invigilators to deter cheating in stay-home exams. Perhaps the clearest sign of the times is to hear practicing lawyers confide that for once, they get to spend more than 7 hours of their day at home.

Clifford Chance launches Automation Academy to empower the next generation of lawyers

By Amelia Chew

On 22nd January 2020

In Automation, Interviews, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Innovation, Legal Technology in Singapore

Reading time: 5 minutes

Interview by Lenon Ong | Written by Amelia Chew | Edited by Josh Lee

In November 2019, Clifford Chance announced that it was launching the Automation Academy, a training programme designed to give trainees and lawyers a foundational understanding of how to automate legal contracts and other tasks using a no-code platform. The LawTech.Asia team sat down with Laura Collins Scott, Innovation Lead at Clifford Chance, and her team to learn about the firm’s approach towards training lawyers for the evolving legal industry.

Laura Collins Scott, Innovation Lead at Clifford Chance

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.