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I. The Question Beneath the Question I spent a day at TechLaw.Fest 2026 wandering the exhibition halls. The booths were impressive. Autonomous platforms drafted pleadings while I watched. Predictive engines forecast judicial outcomes with confidence intervals and neat little graphs. Digital

Editor’s note: this is the first of a bimonthly column, in which our author will explore what it means to practice well. Perhaps you’re a young, or young-at-heart, practitioner, and you’ve been in practice for a while. But you’ve got problems.[ref]I

The Advisory Committee (“AC”), a committee of the Professional Conduct Council, provides guidance to legal practitioners on their ethical obligations. Legal practitioners may submit a written enquiry to the AC through the Secretariat at [email protected]. The protocol for submitting a

It grows harder each day to begin a presentation or article on technology, especially AI, without sounding like AI. That rapid ubiquity of AI, and indeed, of technology, makes it difficult to see how human clients, lawyers and judges can

Singapore–Japan Relations and the Legal Profession From Professional Exchange to Strategic Partnership (A reflection for SJ60) 1. Introduction In Japanese culture, turning 60 marks the beginning of a new cycle of life, a tradition known as kanreki (還暦). It is fitting, then, that as

Singapore continues to be one of the world’s leading legal and financial centres, making it a highly appealing destination for international law firms looking to expand into APAC. Its strengths are well established: it is politically stable, business-friendly, English-speaking, has

Singapore and the United Kingdom (“UK”) have both positioned themselves as pro-innovation hubs for artificial intelligence (“AI”) without horizontal AI-specific statutes. Singapore’s approach to agentic AI centres on building governance tools to support responsible deployment, including guidance, testing resources and

Law firm management relies on professional judgement, institutional knowledge and information from across the firm. As firms grow more complex, management decisions can be hampered by incomplete, delayed or fragmented information. The challenge is not the absence of policies, processes or

Keeping up with legal developments is a discipline that rarely survives a working morning. This article recounts building a fix (an AI agent that reads the day’s legal news and delivers a short briefing before the inbox is opened) and

Editor’s note: We are delighted to publish this piece in anticipation of this year’s TechLaw.Fest. This piece was first published on LawTech.Asia on 27 January 2026, based on an interview conducted by LawTech.Asia with Justice Kwek Mean Luck. We thank