Business of Law (Jul/Aug 2025)

Date/ Time: 31 July - 1 August 2025, 9.00am - 5.15pm
Venue: SAL, Marina 1 & 2, The Adelphi #07-01, 1 Coleman Street (S179803)

This 2 day programme will help you to gain insights on the managerial and business aspects of the legal profession. You will understand strategy in a law firm and how you can map your firm's strategy.

This is an SILE Accredited CPD Activity

Number of Public CPD Points: 12.5 Points

Day 1: 6.5 Public CPD Points
Day 2: 6 Public CPD Points (inclusive of 1.5 Public MEC Points)
Practice Area: Professional Skills
Training Level: General

Early Bird rates for sign-ups by 30 June 2025:

Prices before GST	Early Bird Rate (until 30 June 2025)	Usual Rate (1 July 2025 onwards)
Member*	$1,038	$1,384
Non-member	$1,297.50	$1,730

*To access the member price, please sign in with your SAL membership account.

SkillsFuture Credit (for self-funded individuals only)

All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can utilise their SkillsFuture Credit from the government to cover a wide range of approved skills-related courses. You can explore available courses on the MySkillsFuture website.

SkillsFuture Funding (for self/company funded)

As an Approved Training Organisation (ATO), this training programme is subsidised by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG). Course Fee Funding and Training Allowance / Absentee Payroll are available to self /company funded individuals.
Please click here and complete the form if you are interested in using SkillsFuture Funding or using both SkilsFuture Funding and SkillsFuture Credit.

*Written Assesment

Participants (self- or company-sponsored) who apply for Singapore SkillsFuture (SSG) Funding are required to complete an open-book assessment at the end of the course. Those who do not pass the assessment will be liable to pay SAL the amount of SSG Funding received.

Save even more with Early Bird rates AND SkillsFuture (SSG) Funding. See the 'Fees and Subsidies' table below for pricing details.

Organisations who sign the Training Pledge enjoy the following benefits
Our Training Pledge is an invitation to the legal community to join us in building a future-ready profession. By signing the pledge, law firms and in-house legal teams commit to investing in the professional development of their lawyers. Firms/legal teams who sign the Training Pledge before 30 April 2025 can enjoy a 10% discount on this training workshop until 31 December 2026. The unique discount code has been shared with the firm/legal team after the pledge signing.

Member's Price: SGD 1,508.56

Usual Price: SGD 1,885.70

Member's Price: SGD 1,508.56

Usual Price: SGD 1,885.70

CPD Points : TBC

Overview

Day 1

8.30am - 9.00am	Registration
9.00am – 11.00am	Displaying Leadership in a Professional Services Firm
11.00am – 11.30am	Break
11.30am – 1.00pm	Setting Objectives and Key Results and Providing and Soliciting Ongoing Feedback
1.00pm – 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm – 4.00pm	Decision-making in Groups
4.00pm – 4.15pm	Break
4.15pm – 5.15pm	My Personal Conflict Management Style and Developing Confidence with Other Styles

Day 2

8.30am - 9.00am	Registration
9.00am – 10.30am	Mission, Purpose, Vision and Values in the Professional Services Firm
10.30am – 11.00am	Break
11.00am – 1.00pm	The Business Environment of Legal Services
1.00pm – 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm – 3.15pm	Strategy in a Professional Services Firm
3.15pm – 3.30pm	Break
3.30pm – 4.45pm	Application Exercise
4.45pm – 5.15pm	Assessment

Speakers

Patrick T. Gibbons

Patrick is the Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Strategic Management and until recently headed up the Executive Development programmes at the UCD College of Business. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Strategic Planning and Policy from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior educational qualifications at bachelor’s and master’s levels were gained at UCD.

He has presented academic papers at over 80 international conferences, has published two books and his articles have been published in leading academic journals.

Before entering academia, Patrick worked in a number of financial and corporate strategy roles with KPMG; the Jefferson Smurfit Group; An Post (The Irish Postal Service) and The Investment Bank of Ireland.

Patrick is a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School (Singapore), the School for Executive Education and Development (SEED) in Budapest and at the State University of New York-Albany. He previously held visiting positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the European School for Management of Technology (ESMT-Berlin) and Peking University.

Between 2008 and 2013 he was a member of both the UCD Governing Authority and its principal sub-Committee, the Finance, Remuneration and Asset Management Committee (FRAMC). He was also the Vice-President of the University, Staff and Administration between 2004-2006, overseeing a period of significant structural change at the institution. He also served as Associate Dean-Academic of UCD Business School between 2007 and 2011.

His consulting and executive development clients have included: Abbott Laboratories; Agilent Technologies; Allied Irish Banks; Alltech; ALMAC; A&L Goodbody; Brown Brothers Harriman; Dairygold; Dale Farm; Dawn Farm Foods; Dalata Group; Department of the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister’s Office); Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (DJEI); Dimension Data; DuPont Asia-Pacific; DuPont Korea; EJ; EY; Enterprise Ireland; ESB; ESRI; Essilor; Failte Ireland; Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA); Geith International; Global Shares; GSK Pharmaceuticals; Google; Health Information and Quality Agency (HIQA); ICON; IDA Ireland; the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO); The Courts Service; Irish Defence Forces; Irish Funds; Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC); Irish Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association (IPHA); ISME; Keppel-FELS Corporation; KPMG-Singapore; Mason, Hayes & Curran; Microsoft; National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI); National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA); Pharmaceutical Managers Institute (PMI); Port Authority of Singapore (PSA); PWC; Santos Dumont; Skoda (Ireland); Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI): Teagasc; Tour East-Singapore; VHI; Vilicom; Volvo Construction Equipment APAC and a number of other small and medium-sized enterprises, professional service firms and non-profit organisations both in Ireland and Singapore.

Fees and Subsidies

SAL Members

Category of Individuals	Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents	Employer-sponsored and self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 40 years old and above	SME-sponsored local employees (i.e. Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents)
Funding Source	SkillsFuture Funding (Baseline)	SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy	SkillsFuture Enhanced Training Support for SMEs
Early bird price till 30 June 2025 (save 25%)
Course Fee	$1,038	$1,038
SkillsFuture Funding	$519	$726.60
Total Nett Fee	$519	$311.40
GST of Course Fee (9% x $1,038)	$93.42	$93.42
Total Fee Payable to SAL (including 9% GST)	$612.42	$404.82
Original price
Course Fee	$1,384	$1,384
SkillsFuture Funding	$692	$968.80
Total Nett Fee	$692	$415.20
GST of Course Fee (9% x $1,384)	$124.56	$124.56
Total Fee Payable to SAL (including 9% GST)	$816.56	$539.76

Non-SAL Members

Category of Individuals	Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents	Employer-sponsored and self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 40 years old and above	SME-sponsored local employees (i.e. Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents)
Funding Source	SkillsFuture Funding (Baseline)	SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy	SkillsFuture Enhanced Training Support for SMEs
Early bird price till 30 June 2025 (save 25%)
Course Fee	$1,297.50	$1,297.50
SkillsFuture Funding	$648.75	$908.25
Total Nett Fee	$648.75	$389.25
GST of Course Fee (9% x $1297.50)	$116.78	$116.78
Total Fee Payable to SAL (including 9% GST)	$765.53	$506.03
Original price
Course Fee	$1,730	$1,730
SkillsFuture Funding	$865	$1,211
Total Nett Fee	$865	$519
GST of Course Fee (9% x $1,730)	$155.70	$155.70
Total Fee Payable to SAL (including 9% GST)	$1,020.70	$674.70

* Please ensure SME declaration has been completed prior to registration.
* Please note all funding from SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) is subjected to approval from SkillsFuture Singapore and subjected to meeting SkillsFuture Singapore terms and conditions.

Other Information

SILE Accredited CPD Activity

Number of Public CPD Points: 12.5 Points

Day 1: 6.5 Public CPD Points
Day 2: 6 Public CPD Points (inclusive of 1.5 Public MEC Points)
Practice Area: Professional Skills
Training Level: General

SILE Attendance Policy

Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, participants are reminded to sign in on arrival and sign out at the conclusion of each day of the event in the manner required by the organiser. Participants must not be absent from each day of the event for more than 15 minutes. Participants may obtain Public CPD Points for each day of the event on which they comply strictly with the Attendance Policy. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy on any particular day of the event will not be able to obtain CPD Points for that day. Please refer to www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.

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