News and Events
ALITA is proud to support Chilli IQ's 6th Lawtech Asia Summit in Singapore next week and to have our co-chair Brian W Tang chair and speak at it!
Are you ready for a new era in the legal world? FutureLaw 2025, Europe’s largest legal innovation conference, will take place on May 29-30, 2025, at the Port of Tallinn. Expect to join around 500 participants and over 50 speakers from all over the world to discuss and explore the latest developments in legal innovation, artificial intelligence, automation, and data protection.
ALITA, in collaboration with LexisNexis, is proud to present Legal Minds, Digital Tools: Partnering with AI for Better Outcomes — an in-person forum exploring the real-world impact and challenges of adopting AI in legal practice.
ALITA is proudly to support The ALB Regulatory Summit, an event series dedicated to providing a forum for regional and global regulatory bodies and policymakers across industries with an emphasis on the financial services industry across the Asia-Pacific region.
Join us on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at HKU Law for an exclusive seminar to learn more about Hong Kong’s lawtech startup ecosystem from two local founders who are introducing LegalAI specifically for the Hong Kong legal profession.
March 11, 2025 (Tuesday), 1pm-2pm on 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Our co-chair, Brian, is excited to be speaking at #ELTACON2024 in #Paris this year!
Join his speaking session: Future-Ready Legal Education: How Do You Train the Next Generation of Lawyers?
With the AI technological advancement at an all time high, what could this mean for our global environment? Join us to discuss the future of AI and laws for sustainability at PASTI’s 1st webinar💡
Our very own ALITA co-chair, Brian Tang, will be sharing the stage with Gillian Kang, Singapore-based legal sherpa and adventure biker, David Daoud, HSBC Legal’s Head of Transformation & Change, and Tom Saunders from RSGI. The panel will dive into the impact of AI on operational efficiencies, strategic decision-making, and the broader implications for legal professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ms. Adeline Chin YF, COO of Chambers Lab and Co-Chair of ALITA (Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association) in Malaysia, will be sharing her insights on ‘Development of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Sustainable.’ With her extensive experience in legal innovation and technology, Adeline brings valuable perspectives on the integration of ESG principles in driving sustainable business practices.
Korea has seen many leading legaltechs emerging, having to address Korean Bar Association challenges, and now being part of the Korean government’s pro-innovation stance promoting artificial intelligence (A.I.). Hosted by ALITA’s co-chair Brian Tang, this inaugural Korea roundtable continues the ALITA’s approach in Singapore, Hong Kong and India that brings together Korean legaltech innovators, legal practitioners and universities to discuss the latest advancements in legaltech and A.I., regulatory developments, and collaborate on strategies to drive legal innovation in Korea and beyond.
GenAI is impacting the delivery of legal services – but in what ways? Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA) brings together industry leaders and technology providers from across Asia-Pacific to foster dialogue, knowledge sharing, and collaboration around the opportunities and challenges presented by GenAI, followed by networking.
Since its first launch in 2014, the LexisNexis® Legal and Compliance Forum has focused on the complex area of corporate legal compliance management and shared insights into cutting-edge trends in global legal practice. This upcoming event, supported by ALITA, will be held in Shenzhen on September 4, 2024.
We are excited to announce the finalists for the ALITA Awards 2024, celebrating the most innovative minds and transformative projects in the legal industry across Asia. From firms pioneering AI-driven legal solutions to individuals championing legal innovation, this year’s finalists have set new benchmarks in legal innovation. Discover the top contenders in each category and join us in recognising their outstanding contributions as we gear up for the grand awards ceremony at Techlaw.Fest slated for September 11 & 12, 2024!
Thank you for your nomination to the 2024 ALITA Awards! Our nomination period has officially closed on July 27, 2024 and all nominations are currently being deliberated by our esteemed panel of judges. We will be announcing the finalists on Friday, 16 August 2024, so do keep an eye on our LinkedIn and website for the announcement and more information.
In conjunction with Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA), Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab at University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (LITE Lab@HKU) cordially invites you to join our visiting guest Ashurst global digital leader speakers from London to speak about “Vox PopulAI: Learnings from Ashurst’s exploration of Generation AI”.
ALITA is proud to be supporting organisation of the FutureLaw Conference 2024, the premier legal innovation conference in the Baltics and the largest in Northern Europe
ALITA will hold its first in-person event in Hong Kong next week in conjunction with LITE Lab HKU on May 13, 2024!
Join Asia Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA)’s first 2024 in-person gathering of legal innovators and technologists in Singapore kindly hosted by Rajah & Tann.
ALITA convened its inaugural India Roundtable in New Delhi comprising ecosystem players across India's ecosystem players ranging from large and SME law firms and advocates, general counsel from large legal departments, large multinational and local legaltech players, local legaltech startups, as well as representatives from university law schools and civil society.
ALITA launched the 3rd installation of its flagship ALITA Awards, with the final Award ceremony held in conjunction with Techlaw.Fest 2023! ALITA Awards were launched with the aim of giving voice and recognition to contributors of legal technology and legal innovation ecosystem across Asia-Pacific.
In 2023, ALITA Awards was presented LIVE in person at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre on September 21 and 22.
The Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA) announced the winners of its second annual ALITA Awards at TechLaw.Fest in Singapore on July 20, 2022.
#Upyourgame at TechLaw.Fest 2022 this 20 to 22 July! Once again, the world’s leading law and tech conference will discuss and deliberate developments and innovations in the law of technology and the technology of law. Here’s your chance to connect with the brightest legal professionals and technologists from the world-over.
The Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA) has launched its second annual ALITA Awards, Asia Pacific’s first community-based legal innovation and technology awards. Finalists will be invited to the award ceremony in person at TechLaw.Fest’s Live opening on July 20 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
On behalf of the outgoing Steering Committee members, it remains for us to express our incredible gratitude to all of ALITA’s members, partners, advisors, and friends. It has been an amazing experience growing this wonderful organisation for the last two years. The support, friendships and memories we have formed will always remain with and inspire us. As a parting request, we hope that all members and partners can support ALITA’s new Steering Committee just as you have supported us, so that we can take ALITA to new heights together.
Here’s wishing you a joyous close to 2021, great new beginnings in 2022, and the very best of health!
After months of planning, nominating, voting and judging, we're proud to bring the inaugural ALITA SOLIA Awards - Asia-Pacific's first legal innovation and technology awards - to a successful close!
After an exciting round of voting and close assessment by our esteemed judges during TechLaw.Fest 2021, we're pleased to present our ALITA Main Awards winners for 2021:
Lower The Bar: Recipient of Legal Technology Entrant Award 2021
InSync Evidence Platform - DR Transformed: Recipient of Legal Transformation Award 2021
Lower The Bar: Recipient ofTech-cess to Justice Award 2021
They join the winners of the People's Choice Categories as our inaugural award recipients of the ALITA SOLIA Awards 2021 - congratulations!
Besides celebrating our winners, we also celebrate our wins as a community. As the first celebration of the Asia-Pacific legal innovation and technology industry's innovation, daring and purpose, the Awards show even the toughest skeptics that the sparks amongst us are worth cheering on, and that our community is at its finest when we unite together.
The Awards also saw an amazing reception. It brought together over 20,000 people online. Organisations from over 20 jurisdictions around the world threw their hats in the ring, from the humblest teams to large law firms. This inspires us to want to do even better for the community in the Award's next edition!
We'd like to thank our esteemed judging panel, comprising Justice Lee Seiu Kin (Judge, Supreme Court of Singapore), Mary O'Carroll (Chief Community Officer, Ironclad, Inc.) and Mark Beer, OBE (Co-Founder, Seven Pillars Law), for their support, time and keen eye for thoroughly ensuring the quality of our award recipients!
We'd also like to thank our partners: Linklaters and CLOC (Gold Partners), Clifford Chance (Silver Partner), TechLaw.Fest (Event Partner), Prophet.ru (Website Partner) and Skolkovo Legal Tech (Outreach Partner) for supporting us in making the event possible.
Most of all, we'd like to thank all 51 candidates for stepping up to the plate and inspiring us all with your amazing projects, and to all voters for cheering your favourite teams on. The buzz generated is what really made the Awards come to life!
The saying goes: "All good things must come to an end". But in ALITA, we believe otherwise -- we're only just getting started. Thank you all once again, and we'll see you at an even bigger and better ALITA SOLIA Awards 2022!
For the Asia-Pacific,
ALITA.
Dear Members,
TechLaw.Fest 2021 returns from 22 - 24 September 2021 in a hybrid format! Once again, the world's leading law and tech conference will discuss and deliberate developments and innovations in the law of technology and the technology of law.
With just a month to go, preparations are in full swing, and our friends at the Singapore Academy of Law are working in tandem with all stakeholders to ensure that the fourth edition of TechLaw.Fest is both "COVID-safe" and packed with themes and topics to start pertinent conversations with!
What's more! For 20 weekdays, both before and after TechLaw.Fest, get matched with the delegates you want to meet and have a chat -- in style over wine! It's #Matchworking! - TechLaw.Fest's definition of the perfect meeting of minds.
The best part? It's complimentary.
Also come on board as an exhibitor: Collaborate with TechLaw.Fest to showcase your brand solutions and services, and enjoy awareness and presence in the community of the brightest legal professionals and technologists from the world-over! Connect with Quinie Tan (quinie.tan@mpinetwork.com) for more details.
It doesn't get any better than this. Register today to save your slot!
For the Asia Pacific,
ALITA.
Since its inception, the mission of ALITA has been to coordinate legal technology and legal innovation initiatives across the Asia-Pacific, as well as enhance opportunites for its member organisations.
This year, one of ALITA's key objectives is to recognise and highlight exemplary role models for legal technology in the region, as well as raise the stature of the Asia-Pacific's legal innovation and technology industry.
To these ends, ALITA is establishing an APAC-centric set of legal innovation and technology awards that will be recognised as high-quality, ethical, inclusive, community-based, and tied to the long-term growth of the legal technology industry. The Awards comprises six categories under two broad sections - ALITA Main Awards and the People's Choice Awards. The categories are:
1. Legal Technology Entrant Award;
2.Legal Transformation Project Award; and
3. Tech-cess to Justice Award.
1. Sans Silo Award;
2. Legal Technology x COVID-19 Award; and
3. Legal Technology Wildcard Award.
The finals of the ALITA Main Awards categories will be held at TechLaw.Fest 2021 in late September. Recipients of the ALITA Main Awards categories and People's Choice Awards will also be recognised at TechLaw.Fest 2021. More information on the application, voting and selection processes can be found by reading the Awards informational factsheet.
If you have a project that might fall under any of these categories above, register at https://solia.alita.legal, or use the registration form today! Registering for more than one award category is permissible.
For more information about the Awards, please do not hesitate to contact ALITA at hello@alita.legal. We look forward to your participation in the Awards!
For the Asia Pacific,
ALITA.
Following a long journey of nominations and voting, ALITA is pleased to announce the recipients of the People’s Choice categories for the inaugural ALITA SOLIA Awards 2021!
At the outset, we wish to thank all nominees for your commendable performance. Over the course of voting, the ALITA SOLIA Awards platform registered over 21,000 impressions and thousands of votes — a sheer testament to the spread and reach of the clarion call of legal innovation in the Asia-Pacific. This certainly bodes well for the future of our region’s legal innovation industry.
To nominees that did not win this time, please let this take nothing away from the good work you have accomplished. If anything, it merely shows the room available for your work to reach, touch and shape, as well as the potential markets for growth. The Asia-Pacific eagerly awaits your impact!
To the winners, heartiest congratulations! This award is a testament to the impact your projects have made (and can and will make going forward). We hope you will continue to advance the mission of legal innovation in the Asia-Pacific, and work with other stakeholders big or small (including other projects who participated in the Awards!) to further transform our region’s legal industry.
Without further ado, it gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the three People’s Choice Categories:
Sans Silo Award 2021: Collaborate by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Legal Technology x COVID-19 Award 2021: InSync Evidence Platform - DR Transformed by Litigation Edge
Legal Tech Wildcard 2021: Lower The Bar
Catch these projects as they share more about their work on the Tech Talks Stage at TechLaw.Fest 2021 next week!
ALITA Main Awards Categories
For projects in the ALITA Main Awards Categories, remember that voting ends this Sunday (19 September 2021, 11.59pm SGT) - so there's still time to collect more votes! Remember that the top two most-voted candidates will progress to the Finals at TechLaw.Fest 2021 next Friday, 24 September 2021.
For everyone else, we welcome you to join us at the Finals for the ALITA Main Awards at TechLaw.Fest, happening on 24 September 2021, 1pm SGT, and the official prize-giving ceremony later that day at 3pm SGT!
For the Asia-Pacific,
ALITA.
ALITA is pleased to announce the finalists of the ALITA Main Awards categories for the inaugural ALITA SOLIA Awards 2021!
At the outset, we wish to thank all nominees for eagerly participating in, and supporting, the ALITA SOLIA Awards. Collectively, your projects obtained over 23,000 engagements on our voting platform! This is an amazing reach - and besides showing that everyone is a winner, it also shows the heights we can achieve when we celebrate legal innovation in the Asia-Pacific together.
The show will go on. The Finals will be held at TechLaw.Fest 2021 on 24 September 2021, at 1pm SGT, with the results announced at the close of ALITA's Innovation Dialogue Panel at 3pm SGT. Held in an innovative talkshow format, the Finals will see our Finalists engaged by our Judges: Justice Lee Seiu Kin (Supreme Court of Singapore); Mary O'Carroll (Ironclad, Inc.); and Mark Beer OBE (Seven Pillars Law).
Without further ado, it gives us great pleasure to announce the Finalists of the three ALITA Main Awards Categories:
Legal Tech Entrant Award 2021: (1) OnPoint Law and (2) Lower The Bar
Legal Transformation Project Award 2021: (1) InSync Evidence Platform and (2) PageLightPrime
Tech-cess to Justice 2021: (1) Probate Helpers and (2) Lower The Bar
Want to support your favourite team? Join us at the Finals for the ALITA Main Awards at TechLaw.Fest, happening on 24 September 2021, 1pm SGT, and the official prize-giving ceremony later that day at 3pm SGT!
For the Asia-Pacific,
ALITA.
Dear Members,
On behalf of the College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation (CLI), ALITA is pleased to share that applications are open for 2021/2022 cohort of CLI's Innovation Incubator Programme!
The Incubator is intended to be a place for law firms, legal departments, community legal centres and alternative legal service providers in Asia, Australia and New Zealand to advance innovation and change initiatives, with the support of specialist coaches over 9 months. CLI will also run a dedicated booster series to help teams settle in with the project, and position yourself to make the most of your time in the Incubator.
The Incubator is focussing on four areas for projects in the 2021/2022 Programme:
1. Building a digital strategy;
2.Client-centred design;
3. Re-defining value; and
4. Legal workforce 2025.
The Incubator is open to projects of all sizes, and at all stages of project implementation. The Incubator is also open to projects whether or not focused on technology, as long as it relates to advancing change to improve effectiveness or efficiency, removing client pain points, or experimenting with innovations.
As there is only 1 cohort per year, don't miss your chance to apply! Applications close on 5 July 2021 at 5pm AEST. Participation is free, and the Incubator will be held entirely virtually.
For more information about the Incubator, please visit here, or contact CLI at LPLab@collaw.edu.au.
For the Asia Pacific,
ALITA.
Following the success of the first ALITA Members' Call in April 2021, ALITA was pleased to bring our members to the next session of of our ALITA Members’ Call — an initiative to drive performance and success through insights, information and interaction.
Tapping on ALITA's vast network of legal innovation industry leaders, the 2nd ALITA’s Members’ Call continued the spirit of being exclusive zone within which deep insights could be cultivated, information shared and networks developed, all in an informal and specially-tailored manner.
On 23 June 2021 (Wednesday), we organised our second Members’ Call. The Call featured Andrew Arruda, CEO of Automate Medical, Co-Founder of ROSS Intelligence, and a member of ALITA’s Board of Advisors, as our key speaker.
Andrew’s sharing centred on How to Build a Legal Tech Start-Up. In the discussion that followed, participants learnt and discussed about the four key areas of building a legal tech start-up: Product, User, Team and Execution. The group also discussed about how these insights could be used to spot high-potential legal tech start-ups, and how even law firms and organisations could use these principles to adopt a “start-up mindset”.
We are very pleased to see our members’ continued support for ALITA’s Members’ Calls, and glad that we achieved the objectives of providing an informal and exclusive space for deeper discussions about the industry to be had. Participants’ feedback was also highly positive, reflecting the demand for such an initiative.
We look forward to seeing more members at the next Members’ Call!
For the Asia-Pacific,
ALITA.
