Working with Emotionally Vulnerable Clients – Tips and Strategies
Lawyers will encounter clients with a myriad of emotional problems across their varied and complex work. Working effectively with emotionally vulnerable clients is essential across all areas of law. This is particularly the case in family and criminal law where
Lawyers Go Global – Go Guangzhou
The mission trip to Guangzhou (Mission) was the inaugural trip of Lawyers Go Global which took place from 8 to 12 April 2018. Thirty practising lawyers with varying seniority and expertise joined this four-day trip, led by the President of
Lawyers Go Global – Guangzhou Mission Trip
When the Ministry of Law (alongside the Law Society of Singapore and Enterprise Singapore) announced in February 2018 that the Lawyers Go Global programme was starting with Guangzhou, I jumped at the opportunity without any hesitation. Ever since China unveiled the
Fifty Shades of Sexual Offending – Part III: Exhibitionistic Disorder
A newspaper headline in 2017 reads “Recalcitrant Flasher Gets 3 Months Jail”. A married man, and a father of two young daughters, why did he keep exposing his private parts in public and attracting charges of insulting a person’s modesty,
Family Conference 2018
8 May 2018 Keynote Address by Second Minister for Law Indranee Rajah, SC Supporting, Healing, Reconstructing President, Law Society of Singapore, Presiding Judge, Family Justice Courts, Deputy Presiding Judge, Family Justice Courts, Ladies and Gentlemen, Introduction Thank you very much for inviting me to this
Fifteen Years – and More?
April is a significant month to me. Besides the anniversary of this column, which turns 16, I also started my law firm 15 years ago this month. Whilst my colleagues and I celebrated the Firm’s anniversary, the event was made even
How to Succeed in the Business of Law
Competition in the legal field is intense and getting more cutthroat. In Singapore alone, there are 881 law firms,[ref] See Comparison of Size of Law Practices in the Last Five Years, Law Society Annual Report 2017 at page 33.[/ref] nearly