Category: Legal Industry
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Portrait of the Old Timer – The Not-So-Private-Nor-Secret Life of a Sole Proprietor of a Singapore Law Practice 1990-2018 (with 2-year hiatus 2005-2007)
Written By: Ong Ying Ping of Ong Ying Ping Esquire – An Affiliate of PracticeForte Advisory. This article was first published on PracticeForte’s website: www.practiceforte.sg As my late pupil master said, you can complain all you like about how exacting and demanding – even unforgiving – legal practice can be, but litigation practice is never…
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Our Director Mr. Lim Seng Siew as one of the panelist at the Singapore Academy of Law’s Panel Discussion: Next Generation Small & Medium Sized Law Firms
PracticeForte Advisory Affiliate Lim Seng Siew of OTP Law Corporation as one of the panelist at the Singapore Academy of Law’s Panel Discussion: Next Generation Small and Medium Sized Law Firms (8 November 2018). Advocating the relaxing of regulations to support collaboration, referral and the sharing of resources of small firms, cross discipline. Opening address…
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Our heartiest congratulations to our director Mr. Lim Seng Siew, a recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law Merit Award!
Mr. Lim Seng Siew accepting the Singapore Academy of Law Merit Award from the Chief Justice at the Singapore Academy of Law 30th Anniversary Dinner. Inaugurated in 2008, Singapore Academy of Law Awards are a recognition of the notable contributions of the recipients for service in promoting and advancing the objectives of the Academy in…
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