The Ministry of Law, the Law Society of Singapore and government agency SPRING Singapore have launched “Tech Start for Law”, a $2.8 million programme designed to help local law firms adopt various technologies to improve their productivity and deliver better legal services.

Under the new initiative, Singapore law practices can avail of funding support of up to 70 percent of the first-year cost of adopting technology products for practice management as well as online research and online marketing. 

A 2016 study commissioned by the Law Society showed that only 9 percent of the small and medium-sized Singapore law practices interviewed used technology-enabled productivity tools. One of the top reasons cited for this lag was higher costs.