Future Lawyering
(OR THE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF WORKING REMOTELY FOREVER) Table of Contents Faith Sing In this paper, we argue that a distributed law firm model has advantages that will become more important for Singapore law firms in light of prevailing theories on the ‘future of work’ and, more broadly, the ‘next normal’ world.We do this by […]
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Table of Contents Nicholas Poon Talk about overhauling the practice of law in Singapore has been around for years stretching back to 2000. In truth, the landscape has changed but not by much, until very recently. The catalyst? The COVID-19 global pandemic. Overnight, law practices have been forced, by nature, to overhaul technology systems, work […]
Table of Contents Alvin Chen The megatrends of technology, artificial intelligence and globalisation (together with an unexpected ongoing pandemic) threaten to overwhelm the global legal profession, as lawyers seek to rejuvenate and reinvigorate the future of legal work. The long-standing resistance to non-lawyer collaborations is beginning to fall in the United States, while the United […]
Table of Contents Jennifer Lim Wei Zhen & Andrew Wong The advent of alternative legal service providers (‘ALSPs’) has disrupted the traditional legal service delivery model globally and burgeoned into a multibillion-dollar industry in recent years. Whilst the emergence of ALSPs has provided legal service consumers with options that often come at reduced costs and/or greater efficiency, ALSPs have […]
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Jennifer Lim Wei Zhen & Lee Ji En The advent of new technologies has presented (i) legal technological tools which assist lawyers in dispensing legal services (e.g. Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’)-powered eDiscovery, contract review and legal research tools); and (ii) technologies which shaped the type of legal services lawyers offer or adopt (e.g. smart contracts, online […]
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DESIGN THINKING: PERSPECTIVES, POSTURES AND PROCESSES FOR THE FUTURE OF THE LEGAL INDUSTRY Table of Contents Yu Kexin Design thinking can be a useful toolkit for lawyers to be the drivers – rather than the victims – of change in the industry. It encourages innovation by focusing on the ‘value’ to be achieved, i.e. the […]
Table of Contents Clare Tan The past decade has witnessed a wave of technology transformations across various industries, including the legal industry. This paper will first explore the technological disruption occurring across the various industries, reflect the viewpoints of both the disruptor and the disrupted and analyse the legal challenges faced by both groups. It […]
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NIMBLE COLLABORATIVE ITERATIONS: A PRACTICAL AND PROGRESSIVE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING LEGAL TECHNOLOGY TOOLS YOU WILL ACTUALLY USE Table of Contents Ko Cheng De & Neil Yap As ‘LegalTech’ continues being the buzzword within the legal industry, legal technology has steadily become more widely utilised by law firms across the world. In fact, some law firms […]
Table of Contents Amelia Chew, Jennifer Lim Wei Zhen & Irene Ng (Huang Ying) The role of lawyers has traditionally been defined and described by their areas of practice: e.g. mergers & acquisitions, litigation, investigations. Technological developments have, however, put pressure on the traditional roles of lawyers, and this paper intends to analyse: (1) how […]
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DISRUPTIONS COULD OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR LAWYERS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR VALUE PROPOSITION BY LOOKING BEYOND LEGAL SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE CLIENT PROBLEMS RATHER THEN FOCUSING ON THE STANDARDS OF TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE REQUIRED OF LAWYERS, THE SPIRIT BEHIND SUCH A DUTY WAS MORE IMPORTANT BEING A LEGAL PRACTITIONER IN AN AGE OF DISRUPTION ULTIMATELY COMES DOWN TO BEING […]
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