LITE Lab HKU

What should today's legal practitioners know about to better prepare themselves for the opportunities and challenges of future practice and the delivery of legal services?

Join LITE Lab's founding executive director, Brian W Tang, as part of the HKU Faculty of Law Lectures For the Practitioners 2023 to explore this timely and pressing area, with time set aside for Q&A.

Registrations are still possible (with CPD points applied for) via https://www.law.hku.hk/events/law-lectures-for-practitioners-2023/

HKU Fintech HKU Master of Laws - LLM HKU LLM in Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Our current LITE Lab@HKU students are featured in the november Issue of Hong Kong Lawyer!

LITE Lab@HKU students Named Global Finalists For Baker McKenzie Boost Legal Innovation International Competition. Best of luck to them!

Be sure to read the article through the link below:

LITE Lab@HKU Students Named Global Finalists for Baker McKenzie Boost Legal Innovation International Competition | Hong Kong Lawyer Boost Legal Innovation is an inaugural international competition organised by global law firm Baker McKenzie, in conjunction with ekipa as accelerator, to drive purpose- and content-driven legal tech. The global digital generation was invited to come up with digital and sustainable innovation in coo...

Honored to be featured in Australian Lawyers--Hong Kong University initiative supports development of legal solutions by law students

LITE Lab@HKU has recently partnered with NGO Equal Justice and an Australian legaltech firm and is featured in an article in Australian Lawyers.

Click on the link to read the article:

Hong Kong University initiative supports development of legal solutions by law students LITE Lab@HKU recently partnered with NGO Equal Justice and an Australian legaltech firm

HSF Computational Law e-Mooting Competition- All LLB, JD and Combined Degree Students Welcome to Apply!

Calling all passionate mooters!

Are you passionate about mooting? Do you enjoy challenging yourself? Do you have an interest in computational law (blockchain, artificial intelligence, data governance, and so on)?

If you said yes to ANY of the above, make sure to consider signing up for the annual HSF Computational Law e-Mooting Competition! Take the chance to be mentored by Oxford and Cambridge mooting coaches!

With the Hong Kong Department of Justice promoting online dispute resolution, this competition would be a great chance for you to practice key skills needed for the technological shift taking over the legal field. We need YOU to represent HKU!

Link to competition website: https://law.anu.edu.au/clem


Please use the link below to fill out the short sign-up form by Tuesday 23rd November.

We will inform you whether you have been selected to represent HKU at this competition shortly after:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfybYlkytzs65pWhM3roQTEjGsdBrB2FVJlZEMSSZjmFvoJfA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Should you have any questions, please contact Brian Tang, Founding Executive Director, LITE Lab @ HKU at [email protected] with the heading ‘CLEM’.

Good luck and we look forward to receiving your submissions on the sign-up form!

Weekly Article--Food For Thought

"Emerging Legal Technology Forum 2021: Law firms need to leverage legal tech to stay competitive"
By Kenneth Jones
Published on November 13, 2021

Read this informative article by Reuters to understand the importance of legal technology.

Emerging Legal Technology Forum 2021: Law firms need to leverage legal tech to stay competitive At the recent Forum, panelists discussed how legal tech has raised issues of risk management & implementation that are changing how firms address new tech.

Brian W Tang, the Executive Director of HKU LITE Lab, has been invited to discuss “Data Challenges for Innovation, and ” at APAC Women Data Leaders' Global Summit 2021 to be held at 11:30am on Nov 16.

Brian will exchange his thoughts with other industry experts and leaders from Accenture, Bank of Singapore and Westpac NZ, covering topics surrounding trust and ethics in data, the recent trends of data in Asia, and more!

Feel free to raise any questions in the Q&A session to maximize your learning outcome! Register now and enjoy the meaningful and value-adding discussion with the leaders! https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XLXD4iexTX2M0Mbzm4DbaQ

Honoured for the Lite Lab to be nominated for the
World Commerce & Contracting Innovation & Excellence Awards 2021 (WCCA) and passing as the finalists under the Outstanding Cooperation and Collaboration category!

LITE Lab@HKU as an interdisciplinary and experiential programme whose Lawtech & Regtech Sandbox invites organisations to co-design proof-of-concept solutions with our students to solve their real-world problems.

Collaborating with FedEx Express's multi-jurisdictional legal department in a win-win proposition, LITE Lab's students learn invaluable design thinking, project management and tech skills while addressing the corporate bottleneck due to time, budgetary and human resources constraints by using already licensed Microsoft no/low code automation tools to improve clients' accessibility, enhance the inhouse team's efficiency and obtain data-driven insights.

The virtual awards ceremony will be held on 1st December, 2021. Stay tune on updates on how LITE Lab's performs on the WCCA!

Click on the link below to learn more about the awards.
https://www.worldcc.com/awards

FinTech Association of Hong Kong Launches Green Finance and RegTech White Paper

The FinTech Association of Hong Kong has today launched a new white paper, “Our Changing Climate: Applying RegTech to Green Finance” in conjunction with the LITE Lab@HKU. The report has been released to coincide with Hong Kong FinTech Week 2021 and COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference and aims to help demystify the ESG and sustainable finance landscape at a critical time for financial services.

The paper also examines regulatory development trends in ESG, in particular how ESG fosters technology innovations.

A full copy of the white paper can be downloaded here: https://lnkd.in/gHPTbemD

Vote to support LITE Lab@HKU and its students for the ALITA Awards (by September 19)

Follow Legal Transformation Award link and 👍: https://www.facebook.com/alitasoliaawards/photos/a.126725053021999/127364446291393

LITE Lab@HKU and its students have been nominated for 3 awards by the Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association ffor empowering under-resourced organisations (NGOs, tech startups, legal departments) with our innovation and lawtech platform.

The selected finalists will feature at TechLawFest 2021 next week, where one of our LITE Lab@HKU alumni Angel Lui has been invited to speak on the panel "Augmented Lawyering in an Automate World" on Friday Sep 24 (Register for free: https://www.techlawfest.com/register )

Please support our LITE Lab students by voting and spreading the word on Facebook!

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Vote to support LITE Lab@HKU and its students for the ALITA Awards (by September 19)

Follow Tech-cess to Justice Award link and 👍: https://www.facebook.com/alitasoliaawards/photos/pcb.127164836311354/127164719644699

LITE Lab@HKU and its students have been nominated for 3 awards by the Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association ffor empowering under-resourced organisations (NGOs, tech startups, legal departments) with our innovation and lawtech platform.

The selected finalists will feature at TechLawFest 2021 next week, where one of our LITE Lab@HKU alumni Angel Lui has been invited to speak on the panel "Augmented Lawyering in an Automate World" on Friday Sep 24 (Register for free: https://www.techlawfest.com/register )

Please support our LITE Lab students by voting and spreading the word on Facebook!

Homepage - LITE Lab@HKU Previous Next 2021-2022 LITE Lab@HKU Semester 1 Signups Live Now! Students Tech Startups NGOs Lawtech & Regtech https://youtu.be/s1abHgJkal8https://youtu.be/zU5TtEOqwLghttps://youtu.be/SrovbtOzM3whttps://youtu.be/tjdkLsarqOg Students Under-Resourced Organisations LawTech4Good Legal Professionals App...