Professor Alexander Loke Joins Thomson Reuters Executive Roundtable on Operationalising GenAI in Legal Practice
Professor Alexander LOKE, Associate Dean of CityUHK School of Law and Director of the Hong Kong Commercial and Maritime Law Centre, was invited to an executive roundtable hosted by Thomson Reuters Hong Kong on 17 August 2026, joining Ms Kirsty ROTH, Chief Operations and Technology Officer of Thomson Reuters, Mr Vishal BALI, Managing Director for Asia and Emerging Markets, and senior legal leaders from across Hong Kong for a discussion on how the legal profession is adapting to generative AI (GenAI).
The invitation underscores CityUHK School of Law's position as a valued partner in conversations among legal practitioners, educators and LawTech providers about how AI is reshaping legal work and legal training.
Speaking at the roundtable, Professor Loke offered a perspective on the challenges confronting lawyers in an AI-augmented work environment:
"The lawyer will remain relevant as long as s/he can value-add to the outputs generated by GenAI software. How valuable s/he is depends on how much s/he can value-add."
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The qualities that AI cannot replicate — such as judgment, discernment, and contextual expertise — are the ones most worth cultivating.
For more on the discussion, see Thomson Reuters Hong Kong’s recap on LinkedIn.
香港城市大學(城大)法律學院副院長及香港商務及海事法研究中心主任陸飛鴻教授獲香港湯森路透(Thomson Reuters Hong Kong)邀請，出席其於2026年8月17日舉行的行政圓桌會議，與湯森路透營運及技術總監Kirsty Roth女士、亞洲及新興市場董事總經理Vishal Bali先生，以及多位來自香港的資深法律界領袖，共同探討法律專業如何適應生成式人工智能(GenAI)的發展。
城大法律學院獲邀參與是次活動，反映其在法律業界、法律教育及法律科技(LawTech) 服務領域的領導地位，是人工智能重塑法律實務與培訓受信賴的權威智庫。
陸教授在圓桌會議上，就律師在人工智慧日趨普及的職場環境中所面臨的挑戰發表了見解。
「律師只要能對GenAI產出的結果增添價值，就不會失去存在的意義。而其價值高低，則取決於他能為之增值多少。」
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判斷力、鑑別力及對脈絡的專業掌握等人工智慧無法模仿的特質，正是最值得我們著力培養的能力。
如欲了解是次會議的更多內容，請參閱路香港湯森路透於 領英(LinkedIn)發布的回顧。