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Professional Certificate in Legal Practice of the Future Module 2: The Business of Law and Digitalising and Streamlining Legal Operations

  • Innovation & Business Improvement
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  • This module is part of Professional Certificate in Legal Practice of the Future

This module is conducted in-person.

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Fee
SGD1,090* (as low as SGD127 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

1 Full Day (Weekday)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Associates with at least 1-2 years of experience
  • Paralegals and Operations Managers in the legal services industry


PREREQUISITES

Participants should have at least 1-2 years of experience in a legal services firm.

Overview

Implementing new operation procedures often come with challenges and unexpected bottlenecks. Smart solutions, however, can make operations smoother and automated, saving time and improving efficiency in these processes for both lawyers and clients. 

This module provides useful frameworks and metrics to evaluate the performance of one's practice, as well as highlights the optimisation of a financial setup.

Learning Objectives

  • Reframe their firm’s business model as contrasted with a legal department
  • Justify and plan for a budget from management in order to stretch the dollar and “do more with less"
  • Appreciate legal operations in a digital, data-driven world and be equipped with frameworks for analysing and improving operations

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course. 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.

 

CPD POINTS

Participants will be able to earn 6 CPD Points awarded by Singapore Institute of Legal Education for this course.

Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes signing in on arrival and signing out at the conclusion of the activity in the manner required by the organiser, and not being absent from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$327

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$127

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$327

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$127

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$127

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$127

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$1,090

(No Funding)

$1,090

(No Funding)

$1,090

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Lee Kee Choon
CFO
BLINK Design Group
Lee Kee Choon
CFO
BLINK Design Group
Kee Choon is a seasoned finance professional with more than two decades of senior financial leadership experience, mostly within the professional services sector. Beginning as an auditor at Arthur Andersen in 1997, he transitioned to Hewitt Associates, where he held progressive corporate controllership roles for eight years, spearheading global business transformations and M&A ventures. As CFO of Baker & McKenzie (Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia), he navigated the firm through the post-Financial Crisis resurgence, igniting his passion for legal practice management. Subsequently, he served as Group CFO for a luxury hospitality design firm before co-founding Otter Esquire in 2018. This boutique firm, led by Kee Choon and former Baker & McKenzie colleagues, offers specialised business advisory and practice management support to law firms and professional services entities. Presently, he oversees operations and finances for nearly twenty law firms in an outsourced COO/ CFO capacity.
Rodney Yap
Adjunct Faculty
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law
Rodney Yap
Adjunct Faculty
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

Rodney, Co-Founder and Director of Regall and UserTip, represented Singapore in the 2018 Global Legal Hackathon finals. As Regall’s director, Rodney has managed various LegalTech development projects and consulting projects with solution providers, law firms, and government affiliated agencies. As UserTip’s director, Rodney oversees the development and implementation of technology designed to smoothen out the process of digital adoption. Rodney was called to the Singapore Bar, and understands the requirements for certain areas of laws and how the legal operations of the firm needs to cater for certain situations. He is currently a adjunct faculty at SMU Yong Pung How School of Law, teaching Legal Design and Design Thinking. Rodney is also a member the global Legal Design Alliance.

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