Head of Innovation and Special Projects – Meridian Lawyers, Sydney

Zile Yu is the Head of Innovation and Special Projects at Meridian Lawyers. Zile combines his established legal background as a leading property lawyer and his fervent belief and experience as an innovation professional to revolutionise legal practice and transform the status quo. He has presented extensively on topics such as blockchain, smart contracts and artificial intelligence to lawyers and professionals and is highly passionate about legal technology innovation and cutting-edge technological applications.

Zile has developed and built legal automation platforms utilising machine learning as a hobby and led a team in the Global Legal Hackathon 2018, winning two awards, developing a prototype smart contract on blockchain technology and a new programming language created for law that simplifies and unifies legal practice. He was also listed as finalist for Real Estate and Construction in the 2018 Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 awards.