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Wondering how to survive in law school, or make the best of your law school years? In this panel for freshmen, three alumni share tips from their personal experience. Alumni will be sharing in short segments, followed by a Q&A and informal interaction.
A light dinner will be served.
Date: 24 August 2017, Thursday
Time: 7.15pm to 8.15pm (Registration for participants commence from 7pm onwards)
Venue: SMU School of Law Building
Level 2, Seminar Room 2.03SR
Kindly REGISTER for the above talk, latest by 22 August.
Hope to see you at the event!
Assoc Prof (Dr) Tan Seow Hon
Director for Alumni Relations
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Ada Chua graduated from SMU in Law and Business in 2015. She is currently an associate at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP in the Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group, delving mainly in commercial litigation and family law. In SMU, she was in SMU Broadcast & Entertainment, served at SMU Students' Association President, and co-founded ICON Camp. She didn't have a love for law in law school, but grew to understand the privilege of the profession after starting practice, and loves her job!
Lee Chia Ming is a senior associate with Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP’s Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group. Her main areas of practice comprise international arbitration and commercial disputes. Chia Ming graduated from SMU in 2013 with a double degree in the Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business Management, both Summa Cum Laude, and she worked in a leading local law firm prior to joining Dentons. In 2016, she was appointed on the Supreme Court young amicus curiae scheme which allows promising young lawyers to assist the court on novel points of law or important public policy issues. Chia Ming is currently anticipating her upcoming secondment to Dentons London next year.
Sui Yi Siong is an Associate in Eversheds Sutherland's Litigation and Dispute Management Team in Singapore. He handles civil and criminal litigation and has specialist experience in medical disciplinary proceedings and criminal appellate issues. His recent experience includes: acting successfully for the Singapore Medical Council in Singapore Medical Council v Wong Him Choon [2016] 4 SLR 1086, the first successful appeal against an acquittal from a medical disciplinary tribunal; defending the accused in what prosecutors described as “the most complex, sophisticated and largest money laundering case that the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force has ever been involved in”; and appearing as lead counsel before the Court of Appeal, Singapore’s apex court, on behalf of an indigent client.
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