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 CPD Seminar The Future of Legal Practice, Reimagined,
Reinvented, Redefined - Are you “people” ready? - 26
June 2018. Accredited by SILE for 1.5 CPD points.
 CLI Legalpreneurs Roundtable - 27 June 2018. ▄▌

Law Society delegation visiting Sydney
Law Society of Singapore delegation (President, CEO,
A several executive members and four staff) will be in
Sydney on 31 July - 2 August 2018 and the visit programme
will include a College orientation at St Leonards on 31 July
2018. The visit programme is outlined below:
31 July 2018
 COL introduction programme followed by lunch @ St
Leonards (9.00 am – 1.30 pm) .
 CLI session involving a number of innovative Sydney
law firms @. 111 Elizabeth Street (2.30 pm – 4.30 pm).
Delegation will be joined by 10+ Singapore lawyers who
will be participants in a mini mission under the Law Soci-
ety’s “Lawyers Go Global” programme

 COL networking reception for event participants and Cross-border transactions
COL guests @. 111 Elizabeth Street (4.30 pm) . within the ASEAN+6 region are
1 August 2018 the focus of the COL-IPBA
 Jean Wong (Director, CPD) to spend day at COL. ASEAN+6 LLM
 Delegation/mission visits Salvos Legal (9.30 am)
 Delegation/mission visits Nexus Law Group (2.30 pm) COL-IPBA ASEAN+6 LLM
2 August 2018 he new COL Asia LLM (Applied Law) in ASEAN+6 Legal
 Delegation/mission visits Legal Vision (9.30 am) T Practice programme is being offered as a co-branded
LLM programme in collaboration with the Inter-Pacific Bar
Association (IPBA). The Tokyo-based international
Singapore LLM (Applied Law) association for business and commercial lawyers was
OL Asia’s 2018-19 Business Plan provides for developing established in 1991 and has grown to become the pre-
C four LLM subjects in a new Singaporean legal practice eminent legal association in the Asia-Pacific Region, with
jurisdictional stream within the Master of Laws (Applied Law) membership drawn from throughout the world. It currently has
programme. It will become the College’s 5th jurisdictional over 1,500 members from over 65 jurisdictions worldwide.
stream: The COL-IPBA ASEAN+6 LLM is offered as part of a
Memorandum of Understanding between the College and
IPBA that was signed in London on 12 November 2017.

The subject matter for the first four subjects will be chosen in
collaboration with the Law Society - and will likely be informed College of Law CEO Neville Carter and IPBA President Denis
by the nine high growth practice areas identified in the report McNamara after signing Memorandum of Understanding.
of the working group on legal and accounting services. ▄▌

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