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Lawyer Leaders, Kindness & Mental Health
As our world emerges from the global COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed (and in some cases ravaged) the lives of many at every level, many leaders and those they lead...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
The Future of Remote Working – Does it have one?
In July 2021, Morgan Stanley’s chief legal officer, Eric Grossman, indicated in a memo to law firms his organisation instructed, that those who maintain remote working practices instead of returning...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
A Note of Encouragement for Young Law Professionals
This note is for fresh graduates and young law professionals who, understandably, may be somewhat despondent and forlorn given that we are now in the third year of adapting and...Read more

James Lau
Singapore
General Counsels & Lawyers- Influencers and Leaders in Sustainability
In recent years, we have seen extensive changes in the corporate landscape, not just to the commercial, legal and societal aspects but also how these changes have intertwined in increasingly...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
There May Yet be Hope for Lawyers Exploring Relationship and Service Quality for Increased Value and as Competitive Barriers in Legal Departments
In his ominously titled book, “The End of Lawyers?” , Richard Susskind warns of the impending risk of lawyers being replaced by technology.
The legal industry is being fundamentally disrupted...Read more

Audrey Ng
Head of Legal, South East Asia, State Street, Singapore
The New Digital Landscape Digital Smarts – A Post Covid Necessity for Leaders

The Covid-19 crisis has seen the emergence of a digital divergence. Online businesses are on the quick ascendance, while bricks and mortar businesses are moving in the opposite direction, on...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Workplace Mental Health - A Priority for Leader Lawyers
Even before Covid, workplaces have been changing rapidly. Organisations have increasingly been required to deal with mental health challenges such as stress, burnout and executive loneliness. With the economic pressures...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Executive General Counsels - Lawyers Going Beyond Just Law
The COVID-19 pandemic has inundated lawyers in corporations with a multitude of challenges. In the past year, in-house lawyers aka General Counsels (GCs) have been providing valuable guidance to their...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Post Pandemic Corporate Lawyers in the New Normal
The recent months of pandemic lockdown has made us all familiar with seeing ourselves, family, friends and business contacts contained within ‘boxes’ that are now found in the ubiquitous virtual...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Future of Work in an Age of Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Technology 
I wrote this article to create greater awareness of the interconnection between work and technology and as a small contribution towards the wider, collective efforts for a human-centric future with...Read more

James Lau
Singapore