Eric recently joined PwC NewLaw as a Director. He specialises in innovation, strategy and technology consulting in the legal industry, working with legal departments and law firms in the APAC region. He is also engaged in building grassroots LegalTech and legal innovation movement through the formation of ASEAN LegalTech Association and Legal Hackers Melbourne.
Prior to joining PwC, Eric was the Principal & Co-Founder of Alpha Creates, an innovation, strategy and technology consulting firm that specialised in the legal industry in the APAC region. Eric was involved in the following projects:
- Global engagement for a 22,000 lawyer-network of top-tier independent law firms to analyse the client and competitive trends in the global cross-border legal market to inform the launch of new cross-border legal service
- Worked with the Law Society of Singapore to develop and launch the inaugural business transformation programme, ‘Raising the Bar’.
- Developed training programme to assist global bank’s rollout of Microsoft Teams for 220 in-house lawyers across the Asia-Pacific region
- Worked with $10.5 billion law firm network’s APAC member firms’ in 10 countries, using data to analyse competitive landscape, identify technology trends and build case for greater referrals between firms.
