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This is a list of the world's largest law firms based on the AmLaw Global 200 Rankings. [ 1 ] Firms marked with "(verein)" are structured as a Swiss association .
In October 2016, UniSIM informed that the law school has filled all 60 places for its two law programmes, from close to 400 applications. The school accepted 27 applicants for its LLB programme, and 33 for the JD programme. [14] In January 2017, SUSS School of Law started with an initial intake of 60 students. [15]
Stakeholders in the legal industry have periodically raised concerns about the sustainability of legal practice. On 20 August 2024, the Law Society of Singapore published a guidance note titled "Sustainable Practice Initiative" in which it asserted it was committed to preserving the mental and social well-being of its members in practice.
[55] [56] [57] The faculty have also authored various leading texts regularly cited by the courts, such as The Law of Torts in Singapore by Gary Chan [58] and The Law of Contract in Singapore by Goh Yihan et al. In the QS World University Rankings by subject, the school was ranked 101–150 for Law and Legal Studies in 2021 and 90–100 in 2022.
WongPartnership is a Singaporean law firm. It is regarded as one of the Big Four law firms in Singapore, alongside Allen & Gledhill , Rajah & Tann , and Drew & Napier . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2021, it was ranked as the second-largest law firm in Singapore by size, with 111 partners and 223 associates.
The LL.B. programme at NUS Law is a four-year programme. Students take compulsory modules in their first two years and elective modules in their third and fourth years. In terms of exposure to non-law subjects, students may choose to take non-law elective modules offered by other NUS faculties, read for minors outside of law, and take on concurrent or double degree programmes.
In 1964, Shook Lin opened an office in Singapore, [4] [5] and by the 1980s, it was considered one of the four local leading law firms of the time. [6] [7] In 2001, it was among the first batch of joint law ventures approved by the Singaporean government to operate a partnership with Allen & Overy. The partnership dissolved in 2009. [8]
The firm is registered under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, on and from April 2007. In 2016, the firm integrated with global law firm Dentons and was renamed Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP. The tie-up, billed by the local media as "the biggest legal news in Singapore history by proponents" would create a combined entity that would have ...