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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

Abstract Senior practitioners within Singapore’s legal community have long admonished younger lawyers for a perceived want of perseverance, attributing their early departure from practice to individual failing rather than institutional cause. What changed in 2026 was the publication of the Law

Much ink has been spilled about copyright and AI. Almost all of it pools in two places: the works used as model training data, and the works that models generate as potentially and allegedly infringing output [ref]David Tan, “The Best

When I was invited to write this contribution, the first thing that came to mind was how the past is always relevant to the future. Being “bilingual” in computer science and law for more than 30 years, I have watched

The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same When the Law Society of Singapore first reached out to me to contribute a reflection on “Law in the Digital Age” to the Bicentennial Law Gazette issue, the first thing which

Navigating the evolving world of AI governance and regulation Introduction As a young policy officer beginning his journey in AI governance and regulation nearly a decade ago, I was then struck by three observations. One, how simple it was for practically any

Law firms must treat cyber incident risk as “a practice risk” and not an IT issue All law firms are attractive targets for cyber criminals because we hold highly sensitive information: sensitive client data, confidential information and transactional documents, litigation strategies,

Generative AI tools have become common in everyday legal practice. They are increasingly being used to summarise cases, draft documents, and organise information. The question confronting the legal profession is no longer whether lawyers will encounter AI in their work, but

Technology and process change pilots in law firms are notorious for high failure rates. Lawyers often see an impressive demo followed by disappointing adoption: the new tool launches with fanfare, only to gather dust as attorneys revert to familiar habits.

A Decision-making Framework for Legal AI Use Readers may be aware about the Reddit and Linkedin firestorm surrounding a particular legal AI company that has the same name as a TV character from the show Suits[ref]Phrased to avoid the implication that the