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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 .
"List of Law Agents – Special and General – and Advocates and Attorneys, admitted to the practice in the Straits Settlements, from the first Charter to the Prince of Wales' Island (Penang)". Cases heard and determined in Her Majesty's Supreme court of the Straits Settlements, 1808–1884. Singapore: Singapore and Straits printing office ...
The Malaysian Bar (Malay: Badan Peguam Malaysia) is a professional body which regulates the profession of lawyers in peninsular Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is no distinction between a barrister and a solicitor, in that, it is a fused profession. Membership into the Bar is automatic and mandatory. [1]
Tommy Thomas (born 3 September 1952) is a Malaysian barrister and the former Attorney General of Malaysia from 2018 to 2020. [1] [2] [3] He was the first practising barrister to be appointed directly from the Malaysian Bar to be the Attorney General, [4] and the first non-Malay and non-Muslim Malaysian to hold this post after the formation of Malaysia in 1963.
He is also the founder of Zaid Ibrahim & Co., the largest private law firm in Malaysia. Presently he is a member of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He also acted as the defense attorney for former prime minister Najib Razak in the RM42 million SRC money laundering case.
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.
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Since 1999 to date he has been a Consultant in Zaid Ibrahim and Company which is one of the larger law firms in Malaysia, which also has a branch in Singapore. He is a Paul Harris Fellow in Rotary International and was recently nominated by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia as its Advisory Jurist to the Asia Pacific Forum.