ALITA is celebrating its 1st birthday at TechLaw.Fest 2020 - and you’re invited.
ALITA was first launched in September 2019 at TechLaw.Fest 2019. One year on, ALITA is excited and proud to celebrate its first birthday with two events and three launches at TechLaw.Fest 2020!
Panel on the State of Legal Innovation in the Asia-Pacific 2020
2 October 2020, 4.30 pm - 6pm (GMT+8)
A year on from the signature and ground-breaking State of Legal Innovation in Asia-Pacific (SOLIA) Report 2019, the legal innovation picture globally has changed drastically. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we have seen a significant rise in legal innovation and the use of technology in providing justice. These include the rise of virtual courts, transformational shifts to a fully-virtual mode of working. At the same time, as economies take a beating, we see both light and dark spots in the appetite for legal innovation.
Building on the goal of SOLIA to provide actionable market intelligence to key legal innovation decision-makers and players in the region, this panel will see the launch and discussion of the SOLIA 2020 Report. Featured in the discussion will include new jurisdictions, insights on legal tech investments and money flows, and how enabling policy environments can be built to take legal innovation forward – which together will help you make sense of the shifting sands in legal innovation in the Asia-Pacific. At the same time, bringing matters from 30,000 feet level to ground-level, a second panel of regional law firms will be sharing with us their breakthroughs, experiences and insights in how they have embraced legal innovation and adopted legal technologies.
Uniting APAC’s Common Aspirations for Legal Innovation and Technology (ALITe)
2 October 2020, 6 pm - 6.30pm (GMT+8)
Closing off TechLaw.Fest 2020 will be an APAC-wide open ideation project to determine and unite common aspirations and hopes for legal innovation and technology for the region. Tapping on the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA)’s convening power to encourage coordination and cooperation in legal innovation, the session will give participants a say in identifying the region’s aspirations, concerns and imperatives for legal innovation and technology, based on statement submissions from TechLaw.Fest attendees over the 5 days of TechLaw.Fest.
The session will also see ALITA officially launch three new exciting initiatives for the region: the 2020 State of Legal Innovation in the Asia-Pacific Report, as well as the world’s first Legal Technology Observatory and Asia’s first Legal Innovation Strategy Toolkit.
ALITA is also launching three significant projects - including two projects-of-firsts.
State of Legal Innovation in Asia-Pacific (SOLIA) Report 2020
The SOLIA Report was first published in 2019 at Stanford University’s Future Law Conference, and then at TechLaw.Fest 2019. Building on these successes, the SOLIA 2020 Report contains several substantive improvements. These include covering new jurisdictions like Brazil, Indonesia and New Zealand, featuring updates from four regional law firms (Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Rajah & Tann and White & Case), and covering the impact that COVID-19 has brought to this sector. Much like a kaleidoscope, the SOLIA 2020 Report was made possible by contributors across APAC, and published in conjunction with the Singapore Management University School of Law, whose academic expertise was instrumental in putting the Report together.
Legal Innovation Strategy Toolkit and Legal Technology White Paper
Launched on the basis that legal innovation flourishes best with a whole-of-jurisdiction approach, the Legal Innovation Strategy Toolkit a first-of-its-kind document that seeks to advance legal innovation regionally by providing guidance on creating a coordinated jurisdictional-level legal innovation strategy. It is accompanied by a Legal Technology White Paper that, with ALITA’s regional perspective, provides an overview of adopting legal innovation through a coordinated effort with the aid of practical and illustrative examples to mobilise action. Both the White Paper and Toolkit are intended to be guiding documents. They do not instruct; rather, they share ideas in the hopes that these are useful and instructive. They are also “living” documents, which will be evolved in line with technological, industry and societal developments.
ALITA Legal Tech Observatory
ALITA’s Legal Tech Observatory is the world’s first regulatory observatory for legal technology. Modelled after the OECD AI Observatory and the EU Blockchain Observatory, the ALITA Legal Tech Observatory provides a real-time database of legal tech players and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific. It will be a hub for actionable insights for jurisdictions and industries, with input from a broad spectrum of legal tech actors.
At the heart of the Observatory will be an extensive directory of players in the APAC legal tech ecosystem. It will give viewers a clear picture of the vibrancy of the legal tech ecosystem in the APAC region. It also seeks to complement the SOLIA Report 2020 by allowing viewers to draw actionable insights through data dissected by jurisdiction, market research, technology and other categories. It will also house ALITA’s other initiatives, like the SOLIA Reports series and the Legal Innovation Strategy Toolkit.
We hope you are just as excited about ALITA’s involvement at TechLaw.Fest 2020 as we are!
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