Category: Legal Industry

  • Are Legal Services A Necessity In Financial Crises? Or A Necessary Evil?

    Are Legal Services A Necessity In Financial Crises? Or A Necessary Evil?

    Article gives reasons why you will need lawyers even more in times of a financial crisis and the role of a lawyer.

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  • Project Law Help

    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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  • Open Source Laws

    Open Source Laws

    Open Source Laws? No! No! Not about open source – it’s the Law that is open source!

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  • Money Laundering And The Diamond Jeweller

    Money Laundering And The Diamond Jeweller

    An article on FATF Recommendations and the Jewellery Trade in Singapore.

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  • Law As Art?

    Law As Art?

    An intriguing article about using law as an integral element in artworks.

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  • How Much Can Your Lawyers Charge You?

    How Much Can Your Lawyers Charge You?

    Like all other service providers, lawyers are entitled to charge for their services. How much is the legal costs usually depends on the nature of the legal work.

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  • Wireless LAN for a Law Office

    Wireless LAN for a Law Office

    This article explains the basic components and technologies of WLANs and how they work together.

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  • Ten Rules To Helping Your Lawyer Help You

    Ten Rules To Helping Your Lawyer Help You

    As in any successful relationship, a good lawyer-client relationship involves cooperation on both sides. As a client, you have a role to play to make sure you get the best possible legal help. To do so, you must hold up your end of the responsibilities. This article lists ten common sense rules to establishing a…

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  • Singapore Laws On The Internet 2005

    Singapore Laws On The Internet 2005

    A listing of Singapore Online legal resources found on the Internet.

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  • Secrets They Never Taught Me At Law School – Reflections of a Retiring Lawyer

    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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  • Electronic Filing System (EFS) – A User’s Perspective

    Electronic Filing System (EFS) – A User’s Perspective

    User’s comments about Electronic Filing System.

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  • The Role of Service Bureaux in EFS

    The Role of Service Bureaux in EFS

    Service bureaux are probably the first contact points with EFS for most law firms. So what are service bureaux? Who will be dealing with them and what are the procedures? Lim Seng Siew takes us on a brief but enlightening tour of what it will be like to deal with them when filing documents under…

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