Tech first, innovation later for legal sector

LAST week, the Singapore Academy of Law unveiled Accelerate!, an accelerator that will groom legaltech startups and incubate new business ideas conceived by law firms. It is part of the Future Law Innovation Programme (Flip) announced by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon last July, a two-year pilot that seeks to prepare the legal industry for tech disruption.

In many ways, Flip marks a potential…