The KorumLegal Blog - v1

LegalTech Soapbox: Automating law with LucioAI

Lily Evans and Darsan Guruvayurappan — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:31:38 GMT

1. Hi Darsan, tell us the story behind LucioAI.

Between 2020 and 2023, Vasu and I observed that around 20% of lawyers joining law firms were leaving their roles within two years. We interviewed approximately 30 such lawyers and discovered that their burnout wasn’t driven by long hours, but by the monotony of routine work. This insight inspired us to build solutions that would bring the joy of practising law back to lawyers.

KorumLegal Consultant: Kahina Bouagache shares her path into NewLaw and a global perspective on modern legal services.

Lily Evans and Kahina Bouagache — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:31:04 GMT

This month, our KorumLegal Consultant is Kahina Bouagache, a General Counsel with extensive expertise across business and corporate law. She brings deep experience advising on a wide range of commercial agreements and has held senior roles as a manager, corporate attorney, and senior legal counsel for international US and EU firms, as well as companies investing across multiple markets, including the MENA region.

Kahina has significant experience advising clients and foreign investors and regularly coaches and trains employees and managers on FCPA, OFAC, AML, GDPR, and other corporate and compliance matters. She also has strong knowledge of national and international banking systems, financial regulations, customs and labour laws, and commercial law.

GC Spotlight: Andrew Ong combines law, technology, and human touch in APAC leadership

Lily Evans and Andrew Ong — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:30:39 GMT

Featured in our GC Spotlight Series this month is Andrew Ong, Vice President of Legal & Compliance for Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa (APM) at KONE. KONE is one of the world’s leading elevator and escalator companies, moving 2 billion people daily. In addition to being part of the APM Leadership Team, Andrew serves as the Sustainability Sponsor and Cybersecurity Champion for KONE in the region. He once ranked number one in Singapore’s Hoxhunt gamified cybersecurity training, though he held the top spot for only one quarter. He obtained his LLB from the National University of Singapore. In his free time, when he’s not riding KONE elevators, he teaches children in Sunday School.

2025 Year in Review

titus.rahiri@korumlegal.com (Titus Rahiri) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:29:34 GMT

A Year of Growth, Gratitude and Grounded Ambition

LegalTech Soapbox: Gamified legal learning with Lawyal Tech

Lily Evans and Nabiha Khwaja — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:33:48 GMT

1. Hi Nabiha, tell us the story behind Lawyal Tech

A few years ago, when I was exploring LegalTech, I found myself at an impasse. I was eager to break into the field, but was struggling to find any structured guidance or courses on how to become a legal engineer or a legal technologist. There were very few industry resources in general, and what was available was fragmented.

KorumLegal Consultant: Andhitha Mega reflects on her NewLaw journey and the future of technology-enabled legal services

Lily Evans and Andhitha Mega — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:22:11 GMT

This month, our KorumLegal Consultant is Andhitha Mega, who has over eight years of experience as a legal consultant specialising in corporate law, contract law, and foreign investment services. Her expertise includes drafting agreements, conducting legal due diligence, obtaining licenses, providing corporate secretarial support, and delivering comprehensive legal advisory services. Andhitha has advised multinational clients from a wide range of industries, helping them to ensure their business activities in Indonesia comply with relevant regulations.

GC Spotlight: Victor Chan combines legal expertise and aviation insight to shape in-house law

Lily Evans and Victor Chan — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:14:21 GMT

Featured in our GC Spotlight series this month is Victor Chan, a technically focused and trilingual lawyer dual-specialised in banking and finance and corporate finance. Victor joined PAObank (previously known as Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) Limited) in 2021 as Head of Legal and was promoted in 2023 to Head of Legal and Compliance, now overseeing Legal and Governance, Compliance, and AML Quality Assurance functions. Victor is passionate about growing with the organisations he works with and driving business success from strategic, legal, and compliance perspectives. Under his leadership, PAObank’s Legal and Governance team was awarded the Technology, Media and Telecommunications In-house Legal Team of the Year in 2023 and the FinTech In-house Legal Team of the Year in 2024, winning at Asian Legal Business (ALB) Hong Kong for two consecutive years.

Victor has extensive in-house legal experience in banking and finance (particularly asset financing) and corporate finance with major organisations including BOC Aviation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, China Huarong International Holdings Limited, and Hong Kong Airlines. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at Allen & Overy and Ashurst, and later re-specialised in banking and finance at the tier-1 asset financing firm Stephenson Harwood, focusing on aircraft financing and syndicated loans.

Victor contributed to Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong – Civil Aviation (2019) and is currently a contributor to the Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (Logistics – Aviation). Both are leading Hong Kong legal reference collections published by LexisNexis. He has also been a speaker at various legal seminars. Victor holds two bachelor’s degrees in law and aviation management, and two master’s degrees in law and finance from City University of Hong Kong, Coventry University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is now pursuing a PhD in law at City University of Hong Kong, specialising in asset financing.

Guardian. Strategist. Leader. The Modern GC’s Playbook

Titus Rahiri & Lily Evans — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:22:51 GMT

The evolving role of the APAC General Counsel (GC) was front and center at two recent October events: the Economist GC Summit Asia 2025 in Singapore and the Hong Kong In-House Community Congress 2025. Both highlighted how GCs are redefining their remit - balancing their traditional role as legal guardians with new responsibilities as strategists, innovators, and leaders alongside CEOs and CFOs.

LegalTech Soapbox: Strengthen your daily operations with Juro

Lily Evans and Richard Mabey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:11:17 GMT

1. Hi Richard, tell us the story behind Juro.

Of course! Basically, we started Juro to help the world agree faster.

I was a corporate and M&A lawyer at a large firm who spent countless hours doing mundane and routine work on contracts. It seemed like a process that hadn’t been improved much by automation, and so many contract tasks could be done faster and more cheaply. I co-founded Juro in 2016, setting out to build a flexible, collaborative platform that anyone could use to process a legal contract end-to-end in their browser.

Fast forward 8 years and we have helped our customers process over 2 million contracts in more than 85 countries. Some of the world’s fastest-growing businesses, like Deliveroo, Remote, and Trustpilot, have relied on Juro to help them streamline routine contracts at scale across multiple years of their growth.

We’re proud to have helped these companies, and many more across the globe, collectively save millions of hours on low-value work, accelerate deal closing times by more than 75 per cent, and keep track of contract renewals worth billions of dollars.

KorumLegal Consultant: Mark Hamilton shares his journey from traditional law to NewLaw innovation

Lily Evans and Mark Hamilton — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:06:06 GMT

This month, our KorumLegal Consultant is Mark Hamilton. Mark is admitted to practice law in England, Wales, and Israel, holding 13 years of experience in corporate transactions, financial services regulation, and General Counsel roles at prominent law firms and investment companies in London and Tel Aviv.