I set out my thoughts on how to modify existing hearings for a pupil to be Called to the Bar in Malaysia. This is during a time of movement control, social distancing and the Courts being cautious in allowing the number of people into the court rooms. I present three options. The first being a dramatically scaled down Call to the Bar ceremony. The second being a remote Skype hearing . The third, and least preferable, is to grant the Order for admission in the absence of everyone.
A group of Malaysian lawyers drafted a Remote Hearing Protocol setting out a proposed protocol to conduct remote hearings during the movement restrictions in Malaysia. The paper hopes that it can be used as a road map for conducting hearings and trials remotely, and to be used as a guide for the Judiciary and the Bar in the future.
I touch on three points in the Remote Hearing Protocol. I highly recommend reading the protocol in full. You can download the Remote Hearing Protocol over here.
This week’s edition of The Edge has a feature on legaltech in Malaysia.
The article — titled “Innovation and the legal profession” — features quotes from TheMalaysianLawyer.com’s Marcus van Geyzel, as well as Cherilyn Tan (Asia Law Network), Eric Chin, Fahri Azzat (Fahri & Co and Locum Legalis), and Noemie Alintissar (Future Law Innovation Programme, Singapore Academy of Law).
Almost five years after the first draft rules to introduce the “group practice” model to Malaysian law firms, the Legal Profession (Group Law Practice) Rules 2018 (“GLP Rules”) have been gazetted, and will be coming into operation on 30 June 2018. The GLP Rules are available here.
The group practice model — which allows law firms to band together in a larger set-up and share resources while retaining the separate firm identities — has the potential to greatly benefit smaller law firms in particular.
Unfortunately, the GLP Rules that have been finalised and put forward by the Bar Council are flawed, and this will very likely result in the interest in, and benefits from, the group practice model being severely limited.
Valuable insights from guest writer Eddie Law, as he reflects on his 10-year entrepreneurship journey with eLawyer.
10 years ago, I was going through a challenging period in my legal career. One interviewer even bluntly said to me: “You change jobs like people change clothes”. Although I was very committed and worked hard, my career somehow was not going the way I wanted. I was in a state of despair, and kept asking God where I should go, and what I should do. I was upset, and felt lost.
I experienced a period of not having a stable full-time job. In the “extra free time” that I had, I started reading about e-commerce, blogging, and online businesses. I was fascinated with the power of the internet and the endless possibilities it offered. I started my own blog and exploring what opportunties there were online.
One day, the idea came to me to build a website as an online resource for Malaysian lawyers — this was how eLawyer.com.my was born, in November 2007!
To mark the 10-year anniversary of the launch of eLawyer (my co-founder was another tech entrepreneur, Larry Lam), I would like to share 10 things I have learned over this decade-long entrepreneurship journey:
Guest writer Crystal Wong, who has three law firm internships under her belt, shares her tips on making the most of those short stints.
Being an intern gives you a good platform to engage in an out-of-classroom and out-of-this-world experience. Internships give you a glimpse of how the legal scene unveils itself in a practical manner. I interned in Peter Ling & van Geyzel (PLVG) in Kuala Lumpur during my summer break in August 2017, and it turned out to be one of my favorite experiences.
Having now experienced internships in three different law firms, here are my 5 tips to make the most of your internship.
