Showcasing AsiaPac’s best and brightest legal innovation and legaltech

The Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA), is recognising legal innovators and technologists across the Asia-Pacific region.  At this year’s Awards, they have 6 categories that include outstanding legal innovator, ‘legal tech for good’, and  ‘people’s choice award’.  If you believe that you are (or know) a deserving nominee, please consider nominating yourself or share these details – https://alita.legal/alita-awards-2023 – to encourage more wonderful legal innovation and technology work and stories to be known and celebrated.Nominations close on August 25 and the selected finalists and winners will be showcased at TechLawFest in Singapore on September 21-22. 

Queensland based Aussie Legal Tech company Halisok specialises in the use of AI and machine learning to extract information from unstructured data. The Halisok platform allows users to apply the latest machine learning technology from Google, OpenAI and AWS to any email, Word or PDF document.  Through the Law Tech Hub, Halisok has partnered with Aussie Law Firm, Lander and Rogers, to develop machine learning based products that will help law firms increase their productivity and lower their operational costs.  To learn more, head to https://www.halisok.com/

US Legal Tech company, DraftWise, recently raised USD $5million in a capital raise, which included adding global law firm, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, to its’ investor base.  DraftWise is a contract drafting and review platform that has been created to allow use direct via Microsoft Word, enabling contracts to be drafted faster and easier.  The platform also integrates with other practice management systems and knowledge resources.  With this new capital, DraftWise will be ‘doubling down’ on its generative AI platform to provide firms with more secure AI tools than ever before.  To learn more, head to https://www.draftwise.com/