The Young Lawyer

Every generation Blames the one before And all their frustrations Come beating on your door The Living Years, Mike & the Mechanics The transition from law student to practising lawyer is rarely smooth and, at times, deeply frustrating. In practice, unlike law school, you must

Reflections from thirty years at the Bar To you, who have just been called to the Bar — welcome. You have worked hard to reach this moment, and it deserves to be savoured. But as the excitement of hearing the pronouncement

Background In Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon’s speech at the Opening of The Legal Year 2026, he described the 200th anniversary of the Second Charter of Justice as an opportunity to “survey the road ahead”. In that same speech, CJ Menon also

Long before you discovered that slapping the words “without prejudice” onto an email does not magically cloak it from scrutiny, you had already been schooled in a distinctly Singaporean doctrine that success could be distilled into an alphabet soup of

To the 2026 cohort: Congratulations on your call to the Bar! As Co-Chairpersons of the Young Lawyers Committee (YLC) of the Law Society of Singapore, we welcome you to the profession. Your path from university, through training, to finally becoming lawyers has been

On 30-31 October 2025, delegates from the Young Lawyers Committee of the Law Society of Singapore (“YLC”) had the privilege of attending the Hong Kong Bar Association (“HKBA”) Young Barristers’ Committee (“YBC”) Conference 2025. The event drew more than a

As our nation celebrates 60 years of independence, three young lawyers from the Young Lawyers Committee share their views on how they think law practice will evolve in the next 60 years, and what ought to remain unchanged, even as

On 21-22 March 2025, a delegation of 11 from the Young Lawyers Committee (YLC) of the Law Society of Singapore had the privilege of embarking on its inaugural exchange programme with the National Young Lawyers and Pupils Committee (NYLPC) of

A Conversation with Professor Tan Cheng Han, SC Coming Full Circle Several years after I first stepped into his classroom as an eager-eyed law student, I had the rare privilege of sitting across from Professor Tan Cheng Han, SC once more –

Dear Amicus Agony, As a newly-called disputes lawyer, I find myself increasingly concerned about the sustainability and longevity of my career. I do enjoy certain aspects of the work and want to be a good litigator in the future. However, given