Troy Zhaoyi Song
Disputes lawyer in Hong Kong, qualified across three jurisdictions — England & Wales, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Fudan law grad who ended up doing international arbitration, crypto disputes, and fraud recovery. Wrote a piece for the Oxford Business Law Blog arguing that English legal AI is stuck behind a data bottleneck that Chinese researchers don’t have. Built CaseThread so lawyers can analyze judgments with AI on their own terms — bring your own key, keep your own data.
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CaseThread
Chrome extension to analyze and organize court judgments using multiple AI models. Supports a "Bring Your Own Key" approach, giving users direct control over their AI providers and data.
Featured In
- Oxford Business Law Blog — Annotating English Judgments for AI: Structural and Practical Challenges
An analysis of why English legal AI development lags behind China’s — arguing that inconsistent judgment writing styles and copyright restrictions on legal materials create an annotation bottleneck that slows NLP training.
- HSF Inside Arbitration — Cyber Disputes – Are There Borders in the Blockchain?
A thought leadership piece examining jurisdictional challenges in blockchain disputes and how the borderless nature of crypto assets complicates traditional dispute resolution frameworks.
- HSF Asia Disputes Notes — Hong Kong Court Ordered Disclosure to Maintain Healthy Operation of DAO
A case note analyzing how Hong Kong courts are addressing accountability in decentralized autonomous organizations, examining the Mantra DAO ruling.
- Delos Dispute Resolution — ROAP Asia 2025 Finals
Named finalist in the Delos Remote Oral Advocacy Programme Asia competition, competing against top practitioners from leading firms across the region.