Please find below the interactive edition of the October 2019 issue of Asian-mena Counsel, magazine for the In-House Community, featuring a Legal Innovation & Technology Special Report. The report focuses on some of the ways that legal services are changing, and how New Law is changing how legal services are being delivered in a flexible way across Asia and the Middle East.
In this issue’s In-House Insight, we speak Gill Meller of MTR Corp about challenges of providing legal advice in a constantly changing environment.
Elsewhere, Sarah Bell of Law in Order looks at bringing e-discovery in-house.
And as usual, you have access to the latest legal jobs, moves and deals, including our deal of the month, important legal updates from the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Africa and an offshore legal update.
You can read, download and print the magazine as you wish. We hope you enjoy this issue.
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