Advocacy • Legal technology • Legal research

Isaac Lu Yang

LLB graduate (Magna Cum Laude) headed into dispute resolution, with experience in legal research and legal technology.

Isaac Lu Yang
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
Exchange at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland · 2025

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.

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 ProgrammePro bono · Legal-rights workshop for migrant domestic workers

  • 2023

    SMU Project Laos IPro bono · BABSEACLE 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

04 — Off the record

  • 2026

    PADI Advanced Open Water DiverTwo trips to Pulau Tioman, Malaysia

  • 2022

    Valuable Content Creator, BilibiliNamed in Bilibili Selected Creators for Mobile Legends videos

  • 2016

    SpeedcubingCompeted in 2015 and 2016. Personal best on the 3×3, set at home: 9.69 seconds.

Isaac Lu Yang scuba diving off Pulau Tioman, giving a peace sign through a stream of bubbles, with another diver behind him.
Pulau Tioman, Malaysia

Open source

Tools for the unbillable hours.

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

Explore the work