Future Lawyering Research Portal
The Future Lawyering Research Portal serves as a one-stop facility and first port-of-call for all research papers and articles relating to issues concerning the future of the legal profession. Members of the Law Society of Singapore can benefit from accessing insights on topical issues affecting the legal sector, amongst other resources. These include research papers and commentaries previously published in the Singapore Law Gazette
Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (Third Edition, 2023) By Richard Susskind If you are reading the third edition of Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future for the first time, you may well wonder: Haven’t some of “tomorrow’s lawyers” already arrived today, given that the first edition of the book was published in […]
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ChatGPT – Game Changer for Knowledge Management By now most would have heard of how OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been taking the world by storm since its launch in late November 2022. Why is ChatGPT prompting so much discussion? Its interface is user-friendly, even for the Luddite. One merely needs to type in any question in […]
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Artificial Intelligence: Learned Friend or Foe? Filing a brief in court referencing case authorities, finding out that the cases were actually made up (because no one – not opposing counsel, nor even the judge – could find them), and then blaming ChatGPT for it – that sums up the predicament that a lawyer in the […]
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CLAWs and Effect In 2011, Marc Andreessen said “software is eating the world”. And with that in mind, a computer scientist and a lawyer decided to do just that. Legalese.com was born, and five years later, Singapore Management University’s Centre for Computational Law. But what is Computational Law (aka CLAW)? CLAW is the ambitious idea to […]
Emerging Practice Areas and Technology in Legal Services Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Cloud Computing and Data Protection are known as the ABCDs of the emerging technologies in the financial sector, generally referred to as “FinTech”. As a fledgling FinTech lawyer, this author recognises that technology is also redefining the legal field. In this ever-changing business […]
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LRD COLLOQUIUM 19 MAY 2020 NOTES OF PROCEEDINGS This publication summarises the proceedings of the Colloquium as interpreted by the Legal Research and Development department of The Law Society of Singapore. Table of Contents About the Colloquium The Colloquium on ‘The Role of Lawyers in the Age of Disruption: Emerging Regulatory Challenges’ was held as […]
Table of Contents Nisha Francine Rajoo The emergence of alternative legal service providers in recent years has resulted in a spectrum of responses from the legal profession, ranging from general receptiveness and the subsequent liberalisation of the legal services sector, to the largely protectionist and conservative. While alternative legal service providers are viewed as welcome […]
Table of Contents Elizaveta Shesterneva Chatbots have already been deployed by law firms and Legal Technology (‘LegalTech’) start-ups to perform some law-related activities as a way to provide better assistance to clients. The widespread use of chatbots may further deepen existing issues relating to the scope of legal functions chatbots undertake, the unauthorised practice of […]
Table of Contents This article examines salient aspects of a recent UK decision on the use of a novel automated facial recognition technology by the police and considers how they may shape or reshape discussions on the ethics of artificial intelligence. Introduction In the 2004 Hollywood science fiction movie, I, Robot, set in 2035 A.D., […]
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The Future of Lawyering
The Future of Lawyering When I was a lad, we knew what the future would bring. It was going to involve piloting our flying cars to the office, holidays on Mars and taking our dinners in the form of nutri pills, because everyone would be too busy to do something as stone aged as cutting […]
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