Legal research — Legal technology — Singapore

Isaac Lu Yang

Law graduate building and stress-testing AI for legal practice — from benchmarking legal research tools for hallucinations to shipping open-source tooling for litigators.

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Now: Legal AI Systems Evaluator; Legal-tech startup · since Sep 2025
Next: Practice Trainee, Dispute Resolution; Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP · from Jan 2027
Education: LLB, Magna Cum Laude; Singapore Management University · 2026

Presented & recognised at

ICAIL 2025, Chicago
CLS Workshop 2026
Clifford Chance Award
Dentons Rodyk Access to Justice Award

01 — Research

How AI performs — and fails — in legal research, and how the law should respond to it.

Jul 2026 · 5th Computational Legal Studies Workshop, TechLaw.Fest

Working paper

Cited but Unsupported: Modernising Hallucination Testing for Retrieval-Augmented and Web-Enabled Legal AI in Singapore

Benchmarks six legal research tools — specialised and general-purpose — on 102 self-curated questions of Singapore law, testing whether each can reconcile multiple authorities into a correct, grounded proposition.

Jun 2025 · ICAIL 2025 Workshop, Chicago

Presented

Leveraging LLMs for Efficiency in Family Law Research

Introduces Factsmith, an AI research tool built for the Legal Aid Bureau to process family-law judgments on divorce, custody and the division of matrimonial assets — with verifiable, human-in-the-loop outputs.

2026 · Working paper

In progress

The Dead Have No Lawyers: Reforming the Law for the Age of Digital Human Twins

How the law should respond to human digital remains and digital human twins. Research on this question was joint winner of the Clifford Chance Award for Law & Technology (2026).

02 — Experience

From Jan 2027

Practice Trainee, Dispute Resolution

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP

Incoming trainee in the firm’s dispute resolution practice.
Sep 2025 — Now

Legal AI Systems Evaluator

Legal-tech startup

Pressure-tests AI products and prompt design for legal, medical and insurance applications.
May 2025

Builder, Factsmith

Legal Aid Bureau · volunteer

Built and deployed an AI research tool for family-law judgments, observing human-in-the-loop principles.
2023 — 2024

Dispute resolution internships

Dentons Rodyk · WongPartnership · Virtus Law (Stephenson Harwood Singapore Alliance) · Aequitas Law

Legal research, client advice, AEIC review and hearing notes across litigation and restructuring matters.

03 — Recognition & Service

Recognition

2026
Clifford Chance Award for Law & TechnologyJoint winner — research on regulating human digital remains and digital human twins
2025
H V Perera QC Memorial MootFirst Runner-Up of 21 teams
2024
B.A. Mallal Moot CompetitionQuarter-finalist of about 120 participants
2023
SMU Law Innovation & Technology HackathonFinalist; Dentons Rodyk Access to Justice Award

Service

2025
MOM–School Partnership ProgrammeLegal-rights workshop for migrant domestic workers
2023
SMU Project Laos IBABSEACLE externship; tutored at the National Institute of Justice, Vientiane
2023
Clan Head, SMU Law OrientationLed 85 facilitators and incoming students
2022
Law Society Pro Bono ServicesClinic Legal Assistant

Open source

Tools for the unbillable hours.

Solo legal-tech projects, released in the open. One available now; two on the way.

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