President’s Message

It is with much pride and happiness that in my first message as President in this Gazette, I have the pleasure of congratulating and welcoming to our fraternity the new members of the Law Society of Singapore who were admitted

This was the speech delivered by the President at the mass admission ceremony held on 21 and 22 April 2025.

This was the speech delivered by the President at the Opening of the Legal Year on 13 January 2025.

Law Society President Lisa Sam delivered this speech at the Mass Call held on 19 August 2024. My warmest congratulations on your admission as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court. This moment marks the culmination of years of rigorous study

Vice-President Chia Boon Teck delivered this speech at the Mass Call on 20 August 2024. My warmest congratulations to each one of you on your admission as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court. This moment signifies not just the culmination

This was the speech delivered by the President at the Opening of the Legal Year on 8 January 2024. May it please Your Honour, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General, Justices of Appeal, Judges, and Judicial Commissioners. I am honoured to welcome the

Lawyers perform many roles. Amongst other things, clients depend on lawyers to advise, analyse, strategise, crisis-manage, draft, represent and advocate on their behalf. In other words, a lawyer resolves a client’s problem and designs solutions for the client.[ref]https://www.lawsociety.org.sg/publication/analysing-the-traditional-roles-of-lawyers-in-light-of-technology-in-singapore/[/ref] Law firms should

This speech was delivered by the President at the Mass Call held on 21 and 22 August 2023. Congratulations to all of you on your admission as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court. I would like to take this opportunity to

This month’s recommended reading is Kenji Ong’s article, The Evolution of Practice. The article is featured in our June issue of the Law Gazette, as part of a regular column by our Young Lawyer’s Committee. Kenji is from Meritus Law LLC. He’s

For Singapore lawyers, we all have a common problem. The public thinks that it knows what we do, as lawyers. The public gets its misconceptions from Hollywood movies, Korean dramas, and American paperbacks. From these unreliable sources, they form a completely