First Principles and Navigating the Law
As a lawyer, I am fortunate my father is a lawyer too. In terms of age, we’re a generation apart. That means he has thirty years of lived experience ahead …
How Litigation Experience Helps Contract Drafting
My father stopped going to court in 1988. Save for moving or attending calls or giving evidence at trial, he avoided the courts. He became a ’corporate lawyer’. A corporate …
‘Always read your file before going to court’
This piece of advice was given to me by my father before I commenced my pupillage. The longer version was along the following lines: Before you go to court, you …
Communicating in English
The English language has always been my primary and natural language. Whilst I can read, write and speak Malay with some fluency, the gulf in my command between the two …
My Legal Baptism
In my twenty-three’ish year career at the Bar, there were two times I wanted to quit legal practice. The first time was after my legal baptism. And no, it wasn’t …
My parents raised me wrong
The older I get in this day and age, I have the inescapable sinking feeling that my parents raised me wrong. They raised me to earn an honest living. Yet, …
“Forget about clients’ money”
That was my father’s first piece of advice for me after I started practice. He gave that advice to every pupil that went through his firm. I don’t know whether …