The document discusses the integration of legal technology in the legal sector, highlighting the importance for lawyers and law firms to adapt, innovate, and leverage technology to enhance efficiency and service delivery. It outlines a roadmap for legal tech adoption, including skills training, resource sharing, and access to online tools to lower costs and improve outcomes. The document emphasizes the future of legal practice characterized by advanced technologies such as AI and online dispute resolution, encouraging legal professionals to embrace these changes.

1. Prepared for Temasek Polytechnic MLOCT by
Benjamin Ang www.visual-lawschool.com
Legal Technology
Vision - and you

2. Icons made by Freepik from Flaticon
under Creative Commons BY 3.0 license
Meet Fiona
She’s on maternity leave
She wants to start a business
matching freelancers to clients
Investors want to invest in her
business
Does she need a lawyer?

3. Contract Template
➔She downloads a
Shareholders Agreement
template from Rocket
Lawyer
➔A legally trained friend
helps her to check that
the template applies in
Singapore
➔The investors sign

4. Icons made by Freepik from Flaticon
under Creative Commons BY 3.0 license
Meet the Freelancers
They want to sign up with Fiona
Does Fiona need a lawyer?

5. Freelancers Template
➔She downloads a
Freelancer’s Agreement
template from Law
Canvas (Singapore)
➔The freelancers sign

6. Lawyers, law firms, and
paralegals are
standing at the
crossroads
Fight
Tech
Ignore
Tech
Use Tech
to Succeed

7. Legal Technology enables
providers to provide value
better to anyone who needs
the law

8. But many lawyers are
either TOO BUSY or
COMPLACENT
or both - so how?

9. Legal Technology
Vision is the road map
1. For the legal sector
2. For legal tech providers
3. And to reassure that
assistance will be
provided to all who are
willing to change

10. Assistance includes
● Skills training
● Identifying what you need
● Feedback sessions
● Opportunities to meet experts

11. Identify the baseline
Improve the
technology
Adapt and
innovate
Invent
4 Prong
Approach

12. Who is the
Baseline for?
Law firms or legal dept with
one or two fee-earners,
but less than 100

13. The Baseline
● Office productivity (e.g. Microsoft Office)
● Time logging & billing (e.g. Elite, LEAP Office)
● Practice Management (e.g. Conflict check, LEAP Office)
● Online profile (e.g. LinkedIn, firm website)
● Communications (e.g. Skype, email)
● Cybersecurity (e.g. Antivirus, VPN, firewalls)
● Legal Research (e.g. LawNet)

14. Office productivity
● Microsoft Word for Lawyers
https://youtu.be/ZCm8q5TnEvQ?t=9m50s
● Microsoft Excel for Lawyers
https://youtu.be/Emj30cFVBuc?t=54s
● Microsoft Access for Lawyers

15. Time logging and billing
LEAP https://youtu.be/oUzQab6I6uI
Clio https://youtu.be/Q3HlQ59W0qo?t=1m16s
Elite

16. Practice Management
LEAP https://youtu.be/q5EZaDut-fQ
Clio https://youtu.be/UTcTvKMOa6c

17. Online profile
LinkedIn https://youtu.be/McGGXdk0UU4
Firm website
http://www.tsmplaw.com/
http://www.rajahtannasia.com/
https://www.xavierlegal.com/

18. Communications
● Skype https://youtu.be/f3dgUf_d5Zw

19. Cybersecurity
● Law Firms are the targets of cyber breaches because of
the valuable client data e.g. Mossack Fonseca was
breached and the Panama Papers were leaked
https://youtu.be/7nlfcYm0o2I

20. Legal Research
● LawNet https://youtu.be/TTTk9MB-shc

21. How to lower costs?
1.Provide it online
2.Law firms combine resources
3.Use government grants e.g.
PIC, SPRING Singapore

22. How to lower costs?
1. Provide it online
2. Law firms combine resources
3. Use government grants e.g.
PIC, SPRING Singapore

23. How to get the best
results?
1. Increase IT literacy
2. Learn specific legal
technology solutions
3. Change your processes
4. Regulations/PD will change

24. Level 2: Improvements
Document
assembly
HotDocs, Clio
https://youtu.be/mj_pv6Z
RndE
Shared
workspaces
Microsoft SharePoint
https://youtu.be/X7mSQfE
pin8
Document review
https://youtu.be/qhPOOB
UypqM

25. Level 2: Improvements
Contract
database
Law Geex
https://youtu.be/PnBzRx4
L_94
Improving access
to legal services
Asia Law Network
https://www.techinasia.co
m/singapore-asia-law-
network-startup
Smarter searches
Intellex
https://www.intelllex.com/
welcome

26. The AGC is already on it
● Civil lawyers work electronically
● Legislation drafters use drafting software to produce
drafts in very short times
● Prosecutors scan investigation papers

27. Level 3 (3 - 5 years)
Innovative Services
from
Adapting new tech

28. Data Analytics,
Machine Learning,
Natural Language
Processing

29. Data Analytics is here
AI Legal Analysis
and Research
Watson ROSS
https://youtu.be/sbwEO
8-Vox0
https://youtu.be/ZF0J_Q
0AK0E
Outcome
Assessment
Lexis Advance MedMal
Navigator - predicts
outcomes
https://youtu.be/19sCjW_s
Onw
Online Dispute
Resolution
Rechtwijzer 2.0 / HM
Online Court

30. The Judiciary is already on it
● Use E-Filing and E-Discovery for hearings
● Research is done on LawNet
● Online dispute resolution is increasing e.g. matrimonial
in Netherlands, possibly motor vehicle
● Precedents are available to non-lawyers
● Predictive technology will make Discovery faster
● Video technology will make virtual hearings possible

31. Level 4: Inventing
New Legal Tech

32. SAL‘s Future Law
Innovation
Programme (FLIP)

33. What next
Legal Tech Adoption - SAL provides a list of tech
LawNet Improvements
Legal Tech Acceleration - helping Legal Tech startups
Online Dispute Resolution - also using predictive tech
Regulation - by Ministry of Law and Law Society
Legal Data Portability Standards

34. 70%
Subsidy in 1st year costs for online knowledge databases under the Law
Society of Singapore SmartLaw Assist Scheme

35. 10
Law firms already recognized with SmartLaw logo for using technology

36. $2.8 million
Tech Start for Law programme by the Ministry of Law, LawSoc and Spring
Singapore.

37. Tech Savvy Lawyers
are increasing
Will you be ready for them?