[SMULA] Professional Certificate in Legal Practice of the Future Module 5: HR in Law - Attracting and Engaging Legal Talent and Being a Leader in a Professional Services Firm (PCLPF)

This module provides methods for law firms to position themselves as attractive employers for talent and identify pathways for the development, as well as help lawyers, identify their leadership styles to improve themselves in becoming effective leaders.

This module is part of the Professional Certificate in Legal Practice of the Future. It is also available on a standalone basis.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the 1-day module, participants will be able to:

• Understand the ways in which law firms can position themselves as attractive employers for millennial talent for the development of their professional skills and careers
• Identify their personal leadership inclinations and take a deliberate approach towards upgrading the necessary skill sets for being an effective leader in addition to a proficient lawyer
  
   

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Senior Associates with 3-4 years of experience
• Junior Partners with 5 years’ experience and above
• Paralegals and HR Professionals in the legal services industry

PREREQUISITE

Participants should have at least 3 years experience in a legal services firm

 
ASSESSMENT

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of every module. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a presentation or based on classroom exercises.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Singapore Management University.

SPEAKERS

Carina Rogerio

Carina arrived in Singapore in 2011 as a Paris Bar Foreign practicing lawyer and joined the German International law firm Luther LLP as a junior associate in December 2011, whereby she was asked to develop a French Desk within the firm. She had 2 years of experience as a practicing lawyer, when she arrived in Singapore, a totally new legal and cultural environment. She had to quickly learn skills and tools which weren’t taught back then in Law School, such as doing business development, pitching new clients, nurturing a relevant network, managing teams and clients etc. By embracing such aspects of the profession, she became Senior Associate in 2013 and named Partner in less than 5 years after joining the firm.

Within that time, she decided to get trained as a Coach and a Mediator in order to strengthen different types of skills, such as communication, leadership and other soft skills, which resulted in a 1,500% increase in the turnover of the French Desk.

Alongside her lawyer career, Carina was also Board Director of the Belgium Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (formerly BLBG) as Luxembourg representative from Sept 2012 till Sept 2018. She became an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coach in 2015 and reached the level of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) in December 2018. Up to this day, she remains an accredited Mediator at SIMI & SMC as well as a University Lecturer at the Singapore Campus of the Sorbonne-Assas International Law School.

Carina regularly collaborates with key business stakeholders in Singapore such as but not limited to the French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (FCCS) and the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL), more specifically under their Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP). She was part of the Global Legal Hackathon end February 2019 as a mentor to all the Singapore participating teams. Last year, she was Judge in the IMSG - the premier mediation competition for international universities in Singapore and will be a judge again this year. She regularly conducts training and workshops for Corporate Clients since 2016 in Profiling, Communication, Core Skills, Business Development and Leadership.

Rodney Yap
Rodney is the Co-Founder and Director of Regall Private Limited and UserTip Private Limited, and represented Singapore in the New York finals at the inaugural 2018 Global Legal Hackathon. As Regall’s director, Rodney has taken on multiple legaltech development projects and consulting projects with solution providers, law firms, and government affiliated agencies. Regall is also the first Singapore based company to provide legal design services to the market. As UserTip’s director, Rodney oversees the development and implementation of technology that is specifically designed to smoothen out the process of digital adoption. The UserTip platform is the only digital adoption platform in Singapore enabling the building of in-application guidance for solutions without the use of code.

Rodney’s prior experience also includes helping with the implementation of a legal technology solution with many local law firms of varying sizes, ranging from sole proprietors to mid-large size firms. This experience lends well to identifying potential roadblocks or pitfalls in the legal operations of a firm that would impact the effectiveness of any digital transformation efforts by the firm. Being called to the Singapore Bar, Rodney is also able to understand the requirements for certain areas of laws and how the legal operations of the firm needs to cater for certain situations.

Rodney is also an adjunct faculty with the Yong Pung How School of Law, where he specialises in teaching Legal Design and Design Thinking to both undergraduate and professionals. Rodney is 1 of only 3 Singaporean members in the global Legal Design Alliance which links professionals and researchers in the Legal Design space.