As mentioned in our previous post, we have participated in the 2nd legal career convention this year.

The LCC was jointly organised by United Kingdom Malaysian Student Law Union (KPUM) and the Law Society of University of Malaya (UM) and officiated by Y.B Dato’ Ngeh Koo Ham (Alumni of Faculty of Law, UM 1985).

LCC started at 9am till 5pm. Aprt from visiting the participanting booths, the visitors can also attend a series of legal seminars.

“In conjunction with the Opening Ceremony, Dato’ Ngeh Koo Ham was invited to give a speech entitled Judicial crisis in Malaysia”

“The president of the Law Society of UM, Kiang Lee Lian”

“[from left] Professor Dr. Cheong May Fong (Dean of UM law faculty), Dato’ Ngeh Koo Ham and wife, Eddie Law (eLawyer)”

“eLawyer’s representative were ready for the day!- [from left] Leanne, Gerald and Christine”

“our representative was answering visitors enquiries”

“Leanne was introducing our law portal to a law lecturer”

“Christine was explaining about our Legal Blog Writing Contest“

 “Entrance to the LLC”

There were 16 law firms and 7 non law firms participated in this year LCC namely:

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When we were conducting our Legal Career Survey early this year, amongst others, we have also asked the legal industry in Malaysia as to which website they visited most.

Those websites that manage to get into the list were LexisNexis, CLJ, Malaysian Bar as well as Lexis. Which one do you think will rank at the top of the list out of the 602 responses? If you guessed LexisNexis, you got it right! 42% of the candidates have chosen LexisNexis as their favourite law website, and most of the people who agreed with it were the law students as well as the paralegals where 237 students and 9 paralegals were LexisNexis supporters! However, most of the lawyers picked CLJ and Malaysian Bar website as their favourite websites.

LexisNexis is one of the pioneers online portal providing essential law resources to the legal industry in Malaysia as well as the world. Apart from providing law resources, they also provide business information solution to corporation, government, tax and accounting industries.

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The recent Political Tsunami in our country has yielded many changes for us, the Rakyat. We have seen the emergence of a dual-party system (well, almost), where a bigger and tougher opposition shares the limelight with the ruling party. We have seen giant-killers and the almighty falls of ministers. We have seen the weakening of racial politics and the strengthening of democracy.

For the legal community, the change came in the form of Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, the new de facto law minister. Hailed as “the most promising appointment” in the new cabinet by The Economist (Reference - “Shuffling deckchairs“, The Economist, 2008-03-19.), he has so far lived up to the name. From forcing the government to apologize for the 1988 judicial crisis (a huge leap, that one), the introduction of the Common Bar Examination, to his staunch support for establishment of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip –  Datuk Zaid is here to stay.

Thus, eLawyer, as your local legal community portal, would like to hear your views and concerns regarding some of the issues currently affecting the legal community and the country, as a whole.

We would like to invite all lawyers, law students and bloggers to participate in our blog writing competition, which features some ‘hot’ topics right now:

1) Towards an independent judiciary in Malaysia

2) Common Bar Exams: The creation of a new problem or a solution for an old one?

3) Welcome CheDet.com: the impact of Tun Mahathir’s blog

4) Anti-party Hopping Law- Agree or Disagree?

Choose EITHER ONE of the above topics, give your two-cents worth in not more than 1,000 words and you stand to win up to RM 500 cash! Successful entries will be featured in an exclusive section on our website.

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Following the Legal Career Fair organised by KL Bar this February, we are going to participate in another legal career convention on 6 September 2008. This time we are invited by the United Kingdom Malaysian Student Law Union (KPUM), who orgainses this event together with the Law Society of University of Malaya, to partake in its annul legal event.

The detail of the legal career convention:

Date: 6 September 2008 (Saturday)

Venue: Law Faculty, University of Malaya

Time: 8am to 5pm

We were also told that there will be a series of legal seminars conducted through out the convention. Among others, the most interesting topic is the “Common Bar Examination” and eLawyer is invited to give our feedback and opinion at the end of the session. 

Please drop by our booth located at the foyer of the UM law faculty to visit us or to just say hello to us.

Again, we will be giving out mystery gift for those who sign up at our booth.

Below is the letter sent to us by the organiser, which states the detail of the legal career convention: 

LAW CAREER CONVENTION 2008 (LCC 2008)

The United Kingdom Malaysian Student Law Union, or the Kesatuan Penuntut Undang-undang Malaysia di UK dan Eire (KPUM) and the Law Society of University of Malaya are co-organising the annual Law Career Convention again this year. The tentative date and venue is as follows:
Date: 6th September 2008
Venue: Law Faculty, University of Malaya

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This is our 2nd eLawyer Member’s Day in the campus. The 1st was held in UM last year.
		We were invited by the Law & Commerce Society of Management & Science University to set up an exhibition booth in conjunction with their Club Carnival on 15 July 2008.
“Law & Commerce Society Logo“		Based on one of the organising committee members, Ms Hernie, the main purpose of inviting us to participate “is to introduce and to give exposure to the members of the society about the benefits of joining it as a member, which covers on resources and services of educations, jobs, and legal questions in a faster way of online.“
		We were there early in the morning and our representative were busying in setting up the booth.
“Representative of different clubs holding respective flag“		The Carnival was officiated by MSU’s president Prof. Dato’ Mohd Shurki Ab. Yajid.
“The pretty and dynamic eLawyer representative were ready!“		The response from the law students were pretty good. Many were excited to know what eLawyer can do for them and how they can be part of this online law community.
“Law Students were signing up at the eLawyer booth“		“eLawyer Fans- the future lawyers and polices“
In fact, we were quite impressed with the preparation did by the law students. We never thought that they actually were gong to hold a mock trail presentation when the president visiting their booth. They way they conduct the hearing case was absolutely “professional” and very well prepared. It made us felt like we were in the actual court room….hahaha!
“Mock trail“		The most exciting moment for the law students, of course, was the long waited Lucky Draw session. Being the sponsor, our CEO were invited to give a short speech and introduction about our website.
“Eddie was giving speech“		During the speech, our CEO urging the law students to take advantages of the free services available at eLawyer, including storing their resume online, so that making their job hunting (for chambering and attachment position) easier, accessing to the free law resource at our website and many others.
We wish to congratulate the below lucky winners:
“Thathreswary (representative in picture) won the limited edition of eLawyer recycle bag“		“Wow..our eLawyer representative, Mudzilawati, were very lucky to win the eLawyer T-shirt. So wati, what are you going to do witht the 2nd T-shirt?“
“A baby cute mouse were won by Muhammad Azuan Jalil (rep in picture)“		“The most licky winner was Shah Rizal (rep in the picture), who has won a brand new HP Printer“
“Group photo with the Law & Commerce Society Committee Members“		“eLawyer BAGUSNYA!“

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Dear eLawyer visitors,

Please take note that in order to provide a better service experience to our users, our site will be closed for  maintenance from 6.00pm to 8.00pm this evening (30 April 2008).

We apologize for any inconvenience caused, if any.

Regards,

eLawyer Team 

We are glad to announce that on 23 February 2008, we have given away the prizes to all the lucky winners.

It was indeed our honour to have invited Mr Lau Kee Sern, the partner of the reputable firm, Shooklin & Bok, to grace our event by presenting the prizes to the lucky winners and at the same time conducting another round of lucky draw for those who have signed up during the National Law Students Convention (22 - 23 February 2008) organised by the Law Society of University of Malaya.   

“Richard was introducing our honourable guess, Mr Lau Kee Sern (middle) & eLawyer founder Mr Eddie Law (left)”

A total of 20 prizes were given to 15 winners who have signed up previously and 5 winners who signed up during the National Law Students Convention.

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After the legal career fair and UM Member’s Day, eLawyer has been invited by the KL Bar to partake in setting up a booth in the IT Fair in cojunction with the KL Bar Annual General Meeting (”AGM”) on 21 February 2008.

Apart from eLawyer, there were 3 other companies taking part in this IT Promotional Fair, namely Locus Pty Ltd, Business Network Solutions Sdn Bhd and CIMB Bank.

“Timothy, Sale Director of Lexis Nexis checking out eLawyer booth and the left is Bryan of Spider Law”

Spider Law is a comprehensive legal practice management software designed to assist law firm in managing their daily practice ranging from accounting system, KIV work flow, case management to document compilation system and many others. As at today, there is more than 100 law firms in Malaysia using Spider Law.

eLawyer now offer a very affortable subscription package of Spider Law starting from merely RM188 per month for those who sign up during this peomotional period. 

Please contact Mr Eddie at 012-654 6825 or email to eddie@elawyer.com.my for further enquiry. 

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Since eLawyer launched, the feedback has been tremendously good. We wish take this opportunity to thank for the supports received from the lawyers, law students and the general public.  

As a manner of saying thank you to our registered members. We will be giving away some prizes to the lucky winners.

We are glad to announce that we have conducted the lucky draw on 18 January 2008.

We also wish to express our utmost gratitude to Dato’ Dr. Nik Norzrul Thani, the HR Partner of Zaid Ibrahim & Co, the largest law firm in Malaysia to grace our event by conducting the lucky draw for us. 

“Dato’ Dr. Nik was conducting the electronic lucky draw under the witness of Ms Sarifah Mohd Amin, the HR manager of Zaid Ibrahim & Co”  

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The Law Faculty of University of Malaya (UM) is the most prestigious and longest history of law school in Malaysia. There are many famous Malaysian lawyers graduated from here, amongst others, Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang, the authority of Malaysian Corporate Law, Mr Teo Boon Kwang, the authority of Malaysian Trade Mark Law and many others.

eLawyer is so excited and proud to start its 1st campus Member Day Campaign in UM on 8-9 January 2008.

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