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

Design Thinking for the Legal Profession

Law by design: what the legal profession can learn from design thinking Table of Contents Introduction In 2013, a group of designers, lawyers and technologists at Stanford University came together with the aim of developing innovative solutions to advance access……

The “New Age” of the Legal Profession

The “New Age” of the Legal Profession Table of Contents Why Quantitative Skills Matter for Lawyers Innumerable are the lawyers who explain that they picked law over a technical field because they have a ‘math block’ The Honourable Judge Richard……

Should Lawyers Be Coders?

Should Lawyers be Coders? Table of Contents Introduction Scratch, Python and C++, three of the world’s most well known coding languages, may not be familiar to many lawyers. In recent years, the coding phenomenon has taken the world by storm……

Future-Proofing for Lawyers 101

FUTURE-PROOFING FOR LAWYERS 101 Table of Contents A NUMBER OF POWERFUL FORCES ARE CONVERGING ON LEGAL PROFESSIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE OF LAW HOLD FOR LAWYERS AND LAW PRACTICES? The Future of Law The future of law……