Innovation courses to gear up lawyers for future economy

Under the Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP) launched in January 2018, FLIP will partner the SMU Academy to groom a new breed of legal professionals who can go beyond offering legal advice. Legal professionals can sign up for a two-part course at SMU Academy, where they can learn design thinking and corporate and entrepreneurial ideation. Apart from the new modules, FLIP will also launch its own start-up accelerator to groom and mentor promising start-ups in the legal technology sector. SMU Lecturer of Law Jerrold Soh and legal tech start-up founder said the accelerator is a particularly promising new initiative. He is involved in another new FLIP initiative to produce an annual report on legal innovation in the region.