This seminar is cancelled. 

In the rapidly evolving landscape of legal technology, staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage, it’s a necessity. Building on past CLINDS webinars where Dr Eliza Mik has spoken about Large Language Models (LLMs) for lawyers and discussed technical concepts such as fine tuning, token limits, context windows and prompt engineering, CLINDS are delighted to host an exclusive webinar for law students and the legal profession where our guest speaker, Sharyn Ch’ang from PwC, will introduce Harvey, a legal domain-specific LLM designed for lawyers.

Harvey is not the only commercially available legal LLM in the market and this is not a product demo webinar. Harvey is also proprietary, so there will be no discussion about the inner workings of Harvey nor details of the data it is trained on. However, there are no publicly available demos or videos of Harvey anywhere, so seeing a LLM like this in action will inspire an improved understanding of the art of the possible for all lawyers. With LLMs like Harvey available now, where its super-powers include reviewing, analysing and drafting all forms of text faster than any human, imagine what the future of generative AI holds for legal practice, research and use of data-driven legal insights.

There are also risks and limitations when you use any generative AI tool, and no LLM always provides perfect responses. Nor do we. You wouldn’t send out the work of a junior lawyer to a client without checking it. You must also check an LLMs output.

Participants who join this webinar will gain a clearer understanding of the practicalities, potential, and precautions associated with the use of LLMs in legal practice. The agenda will include:

• AI Myth Busting: Dispelling common misconceptions held by the legal profession about AI.
• LLM Limitations: Acknowledgement of the inherent risks associated with the use of LLMs in legal practice.
• Harvey Unveiled: An introduction to and demo of Harvey as an example of a legal domain-specific LLM.

About the Speaker:

Sharyn Ch’ang is PwC’s NewLaw Leader in Hong Kong and a co-founder of the Asia Pacific NewLaw team. PwC’s NewLaw services include strategic consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions for in-house legal departments and law firms. Sharyn focuses on improving productivity, efficiency, and the quality of legal work through digital augmentation.

Given Sharyn’s 30-year career including as a law firm partner and general counsel, she brings a distinctive blend of legal and business experience with a hands-on appreciation for being a practising lawyer, and a deep understanding of the operational realities, challenges and expectations of delivering high quality legal work.

Sharyn has worked in private practice with Baker McKenzie and Gilbert & Tobin, in-house with IBM and Silicon Graphics, held in-house legal and client-facing roles with 3 of the Big 4 – PwC, EY and Deloitte, and government appointments at the State and Federal levels in Australia. Two early, transformative career highlights include her selection as an Associate to Justice Michael Kirby when he was President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, and her work with Australia’s first legal tech company (before legal tech was even a thing) called CLIRS – Computerised Legal Information Retrieval Systems. It was then her passion for the appropriate integration of technology into legal practice was born. But it is only now, with the emergence of accessible generative AI that Sharyn believes the future of legal work is primed for change.

Sharyn is the recipient of various legal industry awards in Asia including Winner of the 2021 Asia Legal Awards “Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Outstanding Achievement Award” for her contribution to the Hong Kong in-house legal community, 2020 Asian Legal Business “Hong Kong In-house Lawyer of the Year” award, 2017 Asia Legal Awards “In-house Counsel of Distinction” award and is recognised in the Legal 500 China-Hong Kong General Counsels Power List.