While the use of legal technology once seemed confined to the e-discovery-centric United States and a growing number of European countries, it has since become a global phenomenon. Asia, with a growing digital economy that is placing new pressures on corporate counsel, is fast becoming a promising region for legal technology. Some countries, like Singapore, are implementing tech-connected legal services more broadly than many in the West.
While Asia-based corporations’ embrace of legal technology is driven by universal factors, such as the need to manage and protect their growing intellectual property assets and working across languages, there are many unique reasons for local technology implementation and demand.
