President’s Message
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
So What Do You Do As a Lawyer?
Have you ever been asked whether by your children or by random strangers what you do as a lawyer and found yourself stumped to come up with an all-encompassing answer that conveys the myriad things that lawyers do? We posed
How Singapore Law Firms are Raising the Bar
While issues of AI, technology and innovative business models have dominated discussions about the changing landscape for legal practices, another significant factor is the movement of talent. In more traditional and multi-generational practices, the founding or senior partners of law
President’s Message
On April 1, the Straits Times published an article by S Chandra Mohan, “Being a good lawyer requires you to be a good person: Opinion”. I agree with much of what he said. Lawyers serve the community. Often, they are the first
#HeForShe & Commemorating IWD 2023
Conversations with Adrian Tan and Ng Wai King To commemorate International Women’s Day 2023, the Law Society’s Women in Practice committee spoke with Adrian Tan (President, Law Society of Singapore and Partner, TSMP Law Corporation) and Ng Wai King (Chairman and
Selecting and Evaluating External Legal Counsel
What In-house Legal Teams Look For While in-house legal departments are often responsible for providing almost all legal services to their organisations, sometimes the services of external lawyers are engaged for the following reasons: Expertise and experience in specific areas of
ChatGPT – Game Changer for Knowledge Management
By now most would have heard of how OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been taking the world by storm since its launch in late November 2022. Why is ChatGPT prompting so much discussion? Its interface is user-friendly, even for the Luddite. One merely
Embracing Equity: The Need for Allyship
Quite apart from the beginnings of a global pandemic that would come to re-define the way we lived, the year 2020 will go down in the annals of history as an eventful year. This was the year when the phrase
President’s Message
Can you believe it has been three years since Covid hit Singapore? In February 2020, the country went to Dorscon Orange. Then, we progressed to Circuit Breaker, and law firms all over the island were suddenly shut down. I remember chaotic scenes
ICC International Court of Arbitration: A Journey of a Hundred Years
History of the ICC International Court of Arbitration