Category: Career
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Reflections of Ex-Intern, Tan Su
Selling shoes at clearance prices to ‘aunties’ for a week felt like an eternity, so when I received an email from Sandra informing me that my internship at OTPLC was 2 months long I felt almost aghast at the prospect – what, a quarter of my blissfully long holiday cooped up in a tiny office…
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Reflections of Ex-Intern, Nytia
To some overseas law students, the summer holidays would be the time where they use the break to spend time with their family. Thankfully, I have very understanding parents who allowed me to intern under Ms. Susan Tay and Mr. Lim Seng Siew for a good four weeks. I stumbled onto OTP’s website by accident.…
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Reflections of Ex-Intern, Greg Ong
I wasn’t in law school. I had no prior experience in the legal industry. I didn’t have any defining achievements to speak of. Yet, for some unknown reason (planetary alignment perhaps), the partners at OTP Law Corporation decided to take a gamble and offer me an internship. This is the account of my month-long internship…
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Reflections of an Intern by Evelyn Tan
Internship at OTP is different. How different? Read the Reflections by one of our interns.
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When Law Firms Need Interns
For our latest intern’s exit interview, we thought we might ask him to write a post about his experience for our blog. After a couple of minutes of mildly flipping out, our young friend came up with this gem of a piece. Needless to say, his experience was as valuable a learning experience for all…
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Project Law Help
This article was first published in the August 2008 issue of The Law Gazette. It is a personal account of Ong Tay & Partners’ involvement in Project Law Help, an initiative started by the Law Society of Singapore where law firms provide pro bono services to approved Voluntary Welfare Organisations (“VWO”).
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Secrets They Never Taught Me At Law School – Reflections of a Retiring Lawyer
Every single person makes law affecting himself all the time. Every moment when you relate to another person is a unique law-making situation. If he thinks you were wrong, he sues you. And vice versa. If you like to have business relations with him, the two of you have an agreement which makes rules on…
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