Date & Time: 21 May 2025 (21 May: 9.00am - 4.10pm)
Venue: ParkRoyal Collection Marina Bay Singapore

SAL is excited to announce the opening conference and launch of the Junior Lawyers Professional Certification Programme (JLP)! This event will unite legal professionals, thought leaders, and advocates globally to enhance the education and professional journey of junior lawyers.

Key highlights:

• Keynote by the Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and fireside chat on sustainability in legal practice
• International Advisory Panel on Lawyer as Learner: Cultivating Reflective Practices for Ongoing Excellence
• Interactive Masterclass

Participants will choose 1 out of 3 interactive masterclasses to attend in the afternoon:

#1: Masterclass on Ethics of Gen AI by Prof. Julian Webb: Explore the ethical risks of using AI in legal practice through case studies on duty to the court, competence, and lawyer-client confidentiality. Participants will develop strategies for the safe and ethical use of GenAI in legal work.

Date & Time: 21 May 2025 (21 May: 9.00am - 4.10pm)
Venue: ParkRoyal Collection Marina Bay Singapore

SAL is excited to announce the opening conference and launch of the Junior Lawyers Professional Certification Programme (JLP)! This event will unite legal professionals, thought leaders, and advocates globally to enhance the education and professional journey of junior lawyers.

Key highlights:

• Keynote by the Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and fireside chat on sustainability in legal practice
• International Advisory Panel on Lawyer as Learner: Cultivating Reflective Practices for Ongoing Excellence
• Interactive Masterclass

Participants will choose 1 out of 3 interactive masterclasses to attend in the afternoon:

#2: Masterclass on Lifelong Learning Agilities: This masterclass helps junior lawyers plan their ongoing development to thrive in a changing legal landscape. You’ll learn to identify transferable skills, create a self-directed learning plan, and build a network of mentors. 

Date & Time: 21 May 2025 (21 May: 9.00am - 4.10pm)
Venue: ParkRoyal Collection Marina Bay Singapore

SAL is excited to announce the opening conference and launch of the Junior Lawyers Professional Certification Programme (JLP)! This event will unite legal professionals, thought leaders, and advocates globally to enhance the education and professional journey of junior lawyers.

Key highlights:

• Keynote by the Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and fireside chat on sustainability in legal practice
• International Advisory Panel on Lawyer as Learner: Cultivating Reflective Practices for Ongoing Excellence
• Interactive Masterclass

Participants will choose 1 out of 3 interactive masterclasses to attend in the afternoon:

#3: Masterclass on Crisis Communications: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know to Mitigate Reputational Risk
This masterclass helps lawyers manage reputational risks for their clients. In this interactive session, we'll explore common reputational risks in legal work, discuss mitigation strategies, and examine two high-profile case studies to understand how legal communications can be hijacked and avoid a reputational crisis.

Date & Time: 26- 27 August: (9.00am - 5.30pm)
Venue: SAL, Stamford 1 & 2, The Adelphi #08-08, 1 Coleman Street (S179803)

Corporate

Note: The module duration is 1.5 days. Day 1 (26 Aug 2025): 9.00am - 5.30pm; Day 2 (27 Aug 2025): 9.00am - 1.00pm

Learn ethical considerations, key drafting principles, and the use of commercial precedents and boilerplate clauses. Focus on enhancing clarity, avoiding pitfalls, and structuring contracts for better enforceability and value.

Globalisation and the economic shift to Asia has resulted in significant new opportunities for law firms and in-house counsel operating in this region. At the same time, partners in these law firms and corporate counsel are facing increased challenges including cost pressures, growing competition and talent retention issues. In this changing legal landscape, legal professionals must complement their technical legal expertise with strong leadership to manage these challenges and seize emerging growth opportunities.

The SAL-INSEAD Legal Leadership Programme is a two-day intensive management programme specifically designed and contextualised to address the needs of law firm partners, general counsel and legal service officers. Participants from the private sector should currently have P&L remit in their roles or will soon be assuming P&L responsibilities in their organisations.

This unique programme applies business school methodologies to address leadership challenges faced by legal professionals including improving organisational alignment, managing growth and change, motivating people and teams for high performance, and communicating effectively.

Programme Fee
Leadership Programme: $7,412 (incl. 9% GST)
Both Leadership and Strategy Programme: $10,900 (incl. 9% GST)

Globalisation and the economic shift to Asia has resulted in significant new opportunities for law firms and in-house counsel operating in this region. At the same time, partners in these law firms and corporate counsel are facing increased challenges including cost pressures, growing competition and talent retention issues. In this changing legal landscape, legal professionals must complement their technical legal expertise with strong leadership to manage these challenges and seize emerging growth opportunities.

The SAL-INSEAD Legal Leadership Programme is a two-day intensive management programme specifically designed and contextualised to address the needs of law firm partners, general counsel and legal service officers. Participants from the private sector should currently have P&L remit in their roles or will soon be assuming P&L responsibilities in their organisations.

This unique programme applies business school methodologies to address leadership challenges faced by legal professionals including improving organisational alignment, managing growth and change, motivating people and teams for high performance, and communicating effectively.

Date & Time: 27-28 May 2025 (27 May: 9.00am - 5.30pm)
                                                   (28 May: 9.00am - 5.30pm)
Venue: SAL, Stamford 1 & 2, The Adelphi #08-08, 1 Coleman Street (S179803)

This 2-day course comprises 3 modules of in-person learning to arm the family lawyer with competencies to support their clients and stakeholders to achieve therapeutic justice. The course is developed by the Singapore Academy of Law in conjunction with the Singapore University of Social Sciences, and is supported by a working group comprising Judicial Officers of the Family Justice Courts and senior family lawyers.

Early Bird rates for sign-ups by 27 April 2025:

SkillsFuture Credit (for self-funded individuals only)

SSG funding available. See the 'Fees and Subsidies' table below for more details.

Date & Time: 15-16 May 2025 (15 May: 9.30pm - 5.30pm)
                                                      (16 May: 9.30pm - 6.30pm)

Venue: SAL, Stamford 1 & 2, The Adelphi #08-08, 1 Coleman Street (S179803)

The course covers contentious issues that regularly occur in building construction projects and disputes: payments and variations; time and delays and termination. It also covers other practical aspects of the built industry such as construction programmes. Each session covers the legal principles and developments pertaining to these issues with a tutorial thereafter. Participants can also expect to be guided on the practical aspects of the construction dispute process: cause papers, witness selection and conferencing, use of experts, Scotts Schedule, written submissions and preparing document bundles.

The workshop takes place over two days:

DAY 1

Module 1: Construction Lawyer’s Toolkit
This session deals with the matters commonly encountered in construction arbitration, adjudication and litigation: the preparation required and expected of construction lawyers, selection of arbitrators, use and selection of expert witnesses, preparation of Scott Schedules, documents available for discovery, witness conferencing and the preparation of bundles of documents. Participants can also look forward to hearing from Mr Adrian Kong, Managing Director of Ankura, on delay analysis and delay experts.

Module 2: Payments and Variations
The session covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of claim preparation for payment and variation claims. These would include pointers on preparation of claims in accordance with the requirements of the contract, providing the necessary substantiation for valuation and how factual and expert evidence on such claims can be led or produced in adjudication and other hearings.

DAY 2

Module 3: Time and Delays and Construction Programmes
Everyone construction project will specify a date for construction of the works i.e. the contract completion date. However, delays on construction projects are inevitable. All standard form construction contracts contain provisions to address this scenario and allocate the risk between the owner and the contractor. This session covers legal concepts unique to construction projects, namely, concepts such as extensions of time, acts of prevention and time at large. It also discusses the consequences of the contractor being late in completing the works and the remedies available to the employer, namely, the right to impose liquidated damages for each day of delay.

This session will also cover construction programmes, the information that goes into one and how they might be designed and incorporated into a contract document.

Module 4: Post-Completion and Termination
This session examines the requirements to achieve completion of the construction works and the consequential obligations imposed on the Contractor post-completion.

It will cover termination under building contracts: the rights available to both the Employer and the Contractor to terminate the contract, the concept of the termination of the employment of the contractor, the usual disputes which arise following termination, the procedure to be complied with to effect a valid termination under the Contract and general law and the effect of both a valid and invalid termination on the rights and obligations of the Parties. There will also be a discussion on the provisions relating to termination under the various forms of building contract in use in Singapore.

Written Assessment
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. 

Early Bird rates for sign-ups by 15 April 2025:

Date & Time: 22 October 2025 (22 October: 9.00am - 5.45pm)
Venue: SAL, Stamford 1 & 2, The Adelphi #08-08, 1 Coleman Street (S179803)

Essential Skills

Understand legal innovation, map your organisation's tech footprint, and apply legal tech tools and generative AI in practice. Maintain ethical standards, optimize legal processes, and use legal design thinking to solve problems.