Do you have a persistent pain-point or repetitive tasks in your legal, compliance department, legal operations or contract management functions but do not have the budget nor staff bandwidth nor knowhow to create an automated solution? Would you like to learn more about some upcoming lawtech and regtech solutions first-hand, and at the same time assist the next generation of aspiring legal and compliance professionals to better prepare for their 21st century careers… all for free?

We most welcome your interest in becoming a project partner for our students this upcoming semester (Sep - Nov 2021).

Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Lab at The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (LITE Lab@HKU) is an interdisciplinary and experiential programme to better prepare our next generation of legal professionals and to grow the Hong Kong legal innovation and lawtech/ regtech ecosystem.

Undergraduate students from law, computer science, business and other disciplines work in teams to apply their learnings in legal design thinking, agile methodology and computational thinking to work with our under-resourced Hong Kong legal and compliance departments on co-designed proof-of-concept (PoC) lawtech and regtech  based on no-code/low-code document automation and workflow platforms (eg, Checkbox; Documate; Josef; plus Microsoft) to address your real world pain-points.

After receipt of your expressions of interest, matches are made based on student indications of their preferred project partners and projects as well as perceived readiness and commitment of the project partner to effect a successful proof-of-concept. Since LITE Lab students participate as part of for-credit courses (120-180 hours of student learning), there is no charge for participating companies. Students spend 9-10 hours per week working on their project deliverables, and we welcome project partners giving the students the opportunity to visit and meet at your offices (although this would be subject to the ongoing COVID situation).

Some examples you may consider include:

- commonly used template documents (eg, NDAs, employee letters, legal declarations);
- legal intake and triage automation (eg, compliance, procurement, FAQs, self-help); and
- corporate approvals (eg, document review processes).

Some projects may be very bespoke to your organisation - if you like the PoC and want to implement it, we would be pleased to introduce you to our relevant Lawtech/Regtech Tech Partners and their SaaS platforms. Other projects may be benefit similar startups and under-resourced organisations - with mutual consent, LITE Lab@HKU may be willing to host such projects on our website so that you and other parties can benefit from it. In either case, there no further obligations and it is a win-win solution for all without any cost !

Our LITE Lab: Lawtech & Regtech Sandbox was honoured to recently be nominated as the only university-led  initiative for the inaugural Financial Times Innovative Lawyer's Collaborative Innovation Award 2021!

* Note that students in LLAW3272 LITE Lab: Lawtech & Regtech Sandbox will also have the option to co-design #Lawtech4Good solutions with NGOs and participate in competitions such as Georgetown's Iron Tech Lawyer Invitational (which our LITE Lab@HKU team won in 2020).

Please note that:

(a)  neither LITE Lab@HKU students nor instructors are licensed to provide legal advice, and any work project or communication should not be construed as legal advice nor relied upon as such;

(b) neither LITE Lab@HKU students nor instructors are licensed to practice law, and so there is legal professional privilege regarding any communication, including this form. Accordingly, please do not share any confidential information in this form which you would be uncomfortable with our students or other potential supervisors knowing about; and

(c) LITE Lab@HKU desires to extend its impact and benefit other under-resourced organisations through reproduction of some of the student work product on LITE Lab@HKU's website, and project partners should be prepared to agree with the students to have some aspect of the student work project to be shared in this manner.

(d) The project deliverables are student work products and so there is no express or implied warranty as to their merchantability or being fit for purpose.

(e) In accordance with the Faculty of Law's policy from 2021/22, all experiential courses will be graded on a pass/fail basis.

Learn more about LITE Lab@HKU at https://litelab.law.hku.hk/

If you have any questions, please feel to contact Brian Tang at bwtang@hku.hk with the title "LITE Lab @HKU - Lawtech/ Regtech PoC Project Partner Registration".

We would appreciate your completion of this online questionnaire by September 10, 2021 to enable us to start matching as early as possible at the start of semester.