August 18, 2020 Tags Article Going Beyond The Numbers Of A Business Valuation Report A business valuer is a trusted expert called upon during many commercial and court proceedings.
August 17, 2020 Tags Article 5 Things Alex Wong Has Learnt About A Life In The Law The office managing partner at Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee and Senior Accredited Specialist in Building and Construction Law looks back on a two-decade career and the lessons it has brought. IT REMAINS CHALLENGING, 20 YEARS ON Two decades in, Mr Wong admits that work still challenges him. “The resilience required
August 11, 2020 Tags Article Veteran Trials These days, we are constantly reminded of the need for resilience and fortitude in the face of Covid-19. For veteran lawyers Mr TPB Menon and Mr Sat Pal Khattar, it did not take a global pandemic to turn their lives upside down. At an age when most of their peers were focused on their studies, they had to shoulder the added responsibility of being head of their households while grappling with the demands of law school. Their stories, taken from excerpts of their oral history interviews with SAL, are inspirational in these difficult times. Mr TPB Menon was studying for his HSC (Higher School Certificate, equivalent to today’s A’ levels) when his father was
August 5, 2020 Tags Article Get Everybody In The Firm To Service A Client? That’s The Way To Go. Getting your firm’s finance or HR team to chip in on a client’s project may seem counterintuitive, but it can make your final product much more sophisticated, says Pinsent Masons’ Debra Filippin. “Law firms are moving away from siloed departments to more integrated ones” Hearing Ms Debra Filippin’s chipper tone, it’s easy
August 3, 2020 Tags Article TechLaw.Fest 2020 Will Be Largest Edition Yet Five-day virtual event will be complimentary, with a new format for networking sessions and panel discussions. More than 5,000 members of the world’s legal and technology communities are expected to gather online at TechLaw.Fest 2020. The virtual
July 30, 2020 Tags Article Benjamin Gaw On Lawyering, Two Decades On The changes are dramatic, to say the least. In the two decades since Mr Benjamin Gaw entered practice, he has seen how aspects of lawyering have already changed
July 23, 2020 Tags Article Balancing Innovation And Individual Rights In An Ai World Navigating these issues can be tricky given their intersectional nature. If the first half of the year is anything to go by, 2020 is going to be one full of
July 23, 2020 Tags Article Let’s Talk Legal Operations TechLaw.Fest 2020 shines the spotlight on the disruptors transforming in-house departments and law firms alike. This year marks the 12th since Ms Mary Shen O’Carroll was hired by Google as the tech giant’s first-ever legal
July 20, 2020 Tags Article A Path For Pofma: How The Law Might Evolve This Decade SMU’s Assoc. Profs Warren B Chik and Saw Cheng Lim weigh in on its direction and those of other ICT laws. PDPA and POFMA: the passing of these two Acts made the past decade the most eventful ever in the local
July 8, 2020 Tags Article Stefanie Yuen Thio On Her “Sleepless Nights” And how LawNet’s latest initiative might have kept them at bay. It’s hard to imagine a Stefanie Yuen Thio who’s unsure of herself or her work. After all, confidence is almost