Extract from Jessica Seah’s article, “Law Firms Race Ahead on Generative AI Workflows As Governance Lags Behind, Report Finds.”
New research from HKU’s LITE Lab finds AI adoption in legal practice is outpacing firm governance, with contributors citing hallucination risk, data restrictions and “Shadow AI” as open challenges.
Law firms and in-house legal departments across Hong Kong and Singapore are deploying generative AI tools into day-to-day workflows faster than many are building the governance structures to manage them, according to a report published this week by the University of Hong Kong.
The report, “From Chatbots to Workflows and Agents: Developing a Beginner’s Mind to Adopt Responsible GenAI into Legal Practice,” was produced by the Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab at HKU’s Faculty of Law (LITE Lab), with support from the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA) and The Law Society of Hong Kong. Microsoft is named as a collaborating and supporting organization.
The report’s methodology included mapping a “day in the life” of seven legal personas, facilitated by outreach from Microsoft, ALITA and LITE Lab, inviting practitioners to comment on those personas and submit their own AI use cases.
