As technology continues to shape the legal landscape, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is emerging as an efficient and cost-effective solution to empower in-house legal teams to streamline and resolve disputes. ODR offers an automated, accessible, and collaborative platform where parties can participate in proceedings from anywhere, effectively managing cross-border disputes in a less confrontational environment.
Join ACC HK and eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre for a lunch time seminar to explore in practical terms what ODR means for in-house counsel, for insight into the uptake of ODR across Asia, why ODR is efficient and cost-effective, and the benefits of ODR when resolving cross-border disputes. To bring ODR to life, eBRAM will also demonstrate their online arbitration and mediation platform.
Chair: Sharyn Ch’ang, PwC NewLaw Leader
We look forward to welcoming you to this unique event specifically curated for ACC Hong Kong members.
Speakers:
Emmanuelle Pui-Ki Ta, Chief Executive Officer eBRAM
With over 15 years of experience in international arbitration and case management, she has supervised hundreds of international arbitration cases in a wide range of jurisdictions and economic sectors.
As Counsel of the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, Asia Office in Hong Kong (2016-2021), she was responsible for managing the Hong Kong team, including administration of Asia-related arbitration cases. She was appointed as Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG) from 2016 to 2019.
Prior to that, she worked as Deputy Counsel of the Secretariat of the ICC Court in Paris and was one of the founding members of the ICC Court Secretariat’s first overseas case management team based in Hong Kong (2008).
She holds a Masters degree in International Business Law from the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the University of Marne-la-Vallee (France). She is qualified to practice at the Paris bar.
Jacob Sin, ODR Director eBRAM
Jacob is the ODR Director of eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre Limited. He coordinates efforts at eBRAM to make dispute resolution more accessible to all by drawing upon his experience in ADR (alternative dispute resolution) and his knowledge in technology.
Prior to joining eBRAM, Jacob was a member of a leading international law firm for seven years. He was part of its international arbitration practice. He was also a core member of its Digital Law Group.
Jacob read law at the City University of Hong Kong and is a Hong Kong-qualified solicitor, currently non-practising.
Sharyn Ch’ang, PwC NewLaw Leader
Sharyn Ch’ang is PwC Hong Kong’s NewLaw Leader and a founding Director of PwC’s Asia Pacific NewLaw team. She is responsible for driving the development of the NewLaw business across the Asia Pacific region for multinational and domestic clients. NewLaw services include strategic consulting, legal technology and outsourcing solutions for in-house legal departments and law firms.
Sharyn has a 30 year career including as a law firm partner and general counsel, and specialises in working with Chief Legal Officers, General Counsels and other stakeholders in the legal ecosystem, to assist them to deliver high value legal work, whilst being innovative, efficient and cost-effective. These outcomes are achieved by reimagining the future of legal practice and law as a business, leveraging the right transformative processes and legal technology to resolve key pain points. She brings a distinctive blend of legal and business experience with a true appreciation for being a practising lawyer, and the operational realities, challenges and expectations of delivering in-house legal services.
When Sharyn was in-house, she served on the ACC Hong Kong Board for a decade including as President.
EVENT DETAILS:
Date:
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Time:
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm - Registration and Light Lunch
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm - Seminar Presentation
Location:
Room 205-207, 2nd floor, West Wing, Justice Place, 11 Ice House Street, Central
(Queen Road’s Central Entrance)
CPD Point(s):
Hong Kong qualified lawyers are eligible to receive 1 CPD point for this seminar, subject to approval from the Law Society of Hong Kong.
