What sparks can be ignited by the collision between law and technology at the first Shanghai North Bund Legal Technology Expo?

From December 3rd to 5th, the first Shanghai North Bund Legal Technology Expo with the theme of "Forging Cornerstones with Law and Embarking on a New Journey with Intelligence" was held at Magnolia Square. The Expo focuses on showcasing the entire ecosystem and innovative achievements of the legal technology industry, creating a trading, communication, and exhibition platform for legal technology enterprises, and organizing them to jointly explore the future development and latest cutting-edge trends of the industry.

From December 3rd to 5th, the first Shanghai North Bund Legal Technology Expo with the theme of "Forging Cornerstones with Law and Embarking on a New Journey with Intelligence" was held at Magnolia Square. The Expo focuses on showcasing the entire ecosystem and innovative achievements of the legal technology industry, creating a trading, communication, and exhibition platform for legal technology enterprises, and organizing them to jointly explore the future development and latest cutting-edge trends of the industry.

It is reported that since the beginning of this year, Hongkou District has incorporated the development of legal technology into the overall layout of the North Bund International Legal Service Port, striving to create a full chain legal technology ecosystem. Several legal technology enterprises have settled in the North Bund, and this Legal Technology Expo has attracted more than ten well-known domestic legal technology enterprises, such as the Hongkou District Law Society and the North Bund Enterprise Out of Court Center, as well as Weike Pioneer, Meiya Technology, and iFlytek, to participate on-site.

On the same day, the flagship store of "Suishenbao" in Hongkou District, the Rule of Law Hongkou Column, was launched, empowering technology to create a distinctive constitutional propaganda brand. Through digital means, the digital base and unified entrance of "Suishenbao" citizen cloud mobile service for the people were consolidated, enhancing the integrated online service of the whole process, and providing citizens with rich service content such as legal service guidance, rule of law culture map, online public legal services, linkage between the three institutions, collection of rule of law observation and suggestions, and dynamics of rule of law construction.

The Law Commission of Hongkou District has signed cooperation agreements with the General Manager (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jingkun Yiqi Technology Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Lugu Information Technology Co., Ltd. to provide intelligent information management platforms to all law firms in Hongkou. This signing marks that the Hongkou District Law Commission has become the first district level unit in the city to provide an information management platform for law firms in the entire district through unified signing. It will adhere to the principle of "deepening the application of legal technology and promoting data sharing and openness", and use legal technology to promote the upgrading of the legal service industry in Hongkou.

As the first professional exhibition in Shanghai that uses legal technology as a medium, the first North Bund Legal Technology Expo is also a showcase of achievements, business docking, ideological sharing, resource sharing, and talent exchange.

In the keynote speech segment, Professor Yang Li from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Lawyer Zhang Xuan from Guantao Law Firm, and Ms. Liu Fen, founder of Lugu Technology, respectively took the stage to analyze topics such as smart rule of law, new chapters in legal application, and legal services under the digital wave. On the second day, a roundtable discussion will be held to explore from the perspective of legal service practitioners how legal technology can assist in the management of law firms in the new era.

At the three-day expo, Bizhi Technology, Fengzhao Technology, Dazhong Technology, Hehe Information, Weike Xianxian, and Meiya Technology will each carry out special promotions to showcase their latest or applicable legal technologies and strengthen communication and cooperation between enterprises. Beijing Guantao Zhongmao (Shanghai) Law Firm and Shanghai Everbright Law Firm also set up stalls on site to promote and advertise their tailored legal service products for legal technology enterprises.

The relevant person in charge of the Hongkou District Judicial Bureau stated that the legal service industry in Hongkou will keep pace with the times, continuously innovate service models, improve the quality of legal services, and achieve its own "leapfrog development" while promoting high-quality economic and social development. In the future, Hongkou District will take this Legal Technology Expo as an important opportunity to upgrade legal services, introduce the "Hongkou District Action Plan to Support the Development of Legal Technology", create a launching site for legal technology products, provide a display area and product roadshow area for legal technology products, support the holding of legal technology activities in the North Bund International Legal Service Port, and attract more legal technology enterprises to settle in the North Bund.