Category: Legal Industry
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Reflections of An Intern – Eileen Lim
My 3-week internship with OTP Law Corporation during my short winter break was truly an eye-opening and nourishing experience. I rekindled my passion and interest in family law and felt uplifted by the people I was working with. I am sure a lot of law students can relate to this, but law school can be…
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Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) With Your Lawyer
by Lim Seng Siew, Director OTP Law Corporation The BasicsSingapore recently passed laws to allow for lawyers to enter into conditional fee agreements with their clients for certain types of cases. The purpose of such changes is to allow for better access to justice for deserving cases. The changes allow a flexible fee arrangement, in…
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My Story As A New Mum & Young Lawyer
By Isabel Chew-Lau Part One: My pregnancy and birth journey I was not ready to be a mum when my husband and I got married in November 2020. We were only 26. Most of my friends in law school were still unmarried; in fact, my close friends were mostly single. We were living with my…
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S’pore launches welcome pack to help Jiangsu firms set up business hub here – The Straits Times, NOV 15, 2021
Established by the Law Society of Singapore and Enterprise Singapore, the “Professional Services Welcome Pack” is a listing of Singapore’s Professional Services firms. This list highlights more than 70 of Singapore’s Professional Services expertise, ranging from legal, accounting, corporate secretarial, human resource and real estate firms, presenting them to the rest of the world. The pilot initiative focuses on…
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MACO – Lawyering as a Service (LaaS)?
By Lim Seng Siew The lawyer of yesteryears is trained to analyse a legal problem with a client and to come up with the best possible solution in the circumstances. Yes, there will be constraints of time and resources and the solution takes these into consideration. Because lawyering of the yesteryears is effort-intensive, it is…
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Working from Home – 5 Doable Steps to Protecting Confidential Data
Article by Chloe Chua, an incoming trainee of OTP Law Corporation. Working from home is now part of a new normal in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. While we adjust to this change in environment, it is important that we consider how best to ensure the privacy of confidential work data. Section 24 of…
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Working Remotely – What Do I Need to Do?
Article by Lim Seng Siew. This article was first published in the Law Gazette: ” Law In The Time Of Covid”, Practice Matters, May 2020 With the issuance of the Infectious Diseases (Workplace Measures to Prevent Spread of COVID-19) Regulations 2020, gazetted on 1 April 2020, working remotely is no longer a luxury or optional…
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Reflections from an Intern to an Associate – Emelia Kwa
It’s been 3 years since I conducted an interview with Ms Susan Tay on practice, pupilage (or TCs), and pro bono. Since then, I’ve joined OTP Law Corporation as a trainee and now, an associate. This interview looks at the changes since then and our reflections. On training EK: OTP Law Corporation went from having…
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Law Society encourages firms to adopt new technology
“Despite more than 80 percent of Singapore law practices (SLP) agreeing in a 2018 LawSoc survey that technology helps the delivery of legal services, only 12 percent or 115 practices have adopted technology solutions to date…. Local law firm OTP Law Corporation is currently using a cloud-based practice management system called CoreMatter, which allows its…
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Litigation Conference 2019
Our Director Lim Seng Siew chairing at the plenary session 5 ” The Trial ” at the Litigation Conference 24th April, 2019 organised by the Law Society of Singapore. Panelists discussed possible impact of the Civil Justice Reforms on trials, preparation of witnesses and what it means to have “increased judicial involvement” during trials in…
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FLIP one year on. OTP Law Corporation is proud to be pioneer members of FLIP and still staying strong.
“Our smaller law firms, too, like OTP Law Corp, have leveraged FLIP to lighten-up their back-end operations and increase efficiency,” said Justice Lee Seiu Kin, who chairs SAL’s Legal Technology Cluster. ” Full article available here: https://www.sal.org.sg/Newsroom/News-Releases/NewsDetails/id/1091