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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the legal profession at an unprecedented pace, transforming everything from contract review to talent acquisition. While it is estimated that up to 44% of legal tasks can be automated by AI and done even faster and better, here’s the reality: AI will not replace lawyers who know how to leverage it.

Join three legal professionals at the forefront of this revolution: a private practice lawyer from a top-tier firm with first-hand knowledge of how AI is reshaping legal practice and associate training, an inhouse counsel with a leading tech company working every day in an AI-augmented environment to support business needs, and a legal recruiter who knows exactly what gets candidates past AI screening systems and what AI skills employers are after. This panel cuts through the hype to deliver what you actually need to know.

Register today and learn how to develop your competitive advantage in a rapidly transforming profession. The lawyers who thrive won’t be those who resist AI, but those who understand well the capabilities and limits of AI and how to harness it for safe and productive work, ie. true “bilingual” legal professionals who are grounded in legal expertise and fluent with AI.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS

1. AI in Action: What’s Actually Happening in Legal Practice
Cut through the noise and hear first-hand how AI is being used by private practice lawyers as well as inhouse lawyers

2. How AI is Reshaping Legal Roles
Understand how legal work, and junior associate roles, are being reshaped by AI

3. Getting Hired in the AI Era
Learn how AI is deployed in legal recruitment and master the tactics forgetting your CV past AI scanners

4. Your Unfair Advantage: Soft Skills That Command Premium Value
Identify the high-value human skills – Critical judgment, Communication, Strategic thinking—that AI cannot replicate and develop a plan to cultivate them before graduation

About the Speaker

Anastasia Chen 
Deputy Head of Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity
Drew & Napier

Anastasia Chen is Deputy Head of Data Protection, Privacy and Cyber security at Drew & Napier. Her key areas of practice are Data Protection, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Trust, as well as Technology, Media, and Telecommunications.

Prior to joining the firm, Anastasia was Deputy Chief Counsel to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) for close to 10 years. She was lead counsel for PDPC’s matters, IMDA’s procurement and intellectual property portfolios, as well as IMDA’s Data Administration Group.

Anastasia has advised on a broad range of regulatory, compliance and commercial matters, both in her role as in-house counsel as well as in private practice. Her extensive experience includes advising on data protection compliance and management programmes, cross-border data transfers, data incident management and response, investigations and enforcement by the PDPC, AI governance contractual clauses, as well as legal and regulatory risks arising from the use of large language models.
Anastasia has been recognised as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Data & Digital Economy Law by the Singapore Academy of Law. She has also been awarded several accolades for her data and TMT practice, with clients commending her deep industry and regulatory experience, ability to anticipate potential legal issues, and subject matter expertise especially when dealing with novel problems.

She has also been appointed to SAL’s Lexplorer Career panel of coaches.

Serena Foong
Deputy Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN
Microsoft

Serena Foong is Deputy Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN at Microsoft and a2023 SG100 Women in Tech honouree. A tri-qualified lawyer admitted in Singapore and England & Wales, she has built her career across diverse industries, including mergers and acquisitions, US securities, manufacturing, hospitality and technology. Today, she advises organisations as they navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital trust and emerging technologies.

Before joining Microsoft, Serena led Avanade’s Southeast Asia legal function, where she guided her team to its first major industry accolades, including
Best Technology & Media In-House Legal Team 2023
and Southeast Asian In-House Department of the Year 2024. She also won multiple global innovation competitions for developing creative solutions to address complex business and customer challenges.

During her university and professional training years, Serena received the Simon Wallace Memorial Prize for Contract Law and the William Rose Memorial Prize for Excellence in Drafting. She has since contributed to landmark initiatives such as the Singapore Ministry of Law’s Guide for Using Generative AI in the Legal Sector and the Singapore Academy of Law’s Prompt Engineering Guide for Lawyers. As a mentor on vLookUp, she’s passionate about helping the next generation build a meaningful and impactful career.

Jessica Deery
Co-Owner
Horizon Recruitment

Jessica Deery is co-owner of Horizon Recruitment, specializing in recruiting legal professionals for in house roles and international law firms throughout Asia and the Middle East. Before recruitment, Jess was a lawyer in private practice and in house.

Jess read Law at King’s College London. She trained and qualified in Londonwith Freshfields also working in their Hong Kong, Shanghai and New Yorkoffices before moving to Sydney with Allens and then Singapore with BakerMcKenzie. An intellectual property and technology lawyer in private practice,she moved in house with ESPN STAR Sports and was later the Head of Legalfor Sony Pictures Entertainment’s media networks business in Asia.

Horizon Recruitment’s key recruitment markets are Singapore, Hong Kong,Tokyo, Seoul, PRC, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.