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Report on eLawyer Law Conference 2009 – Blogging & Law

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

”The event is the 1st of its kind that I have attended…”. “Been useful…” “…it was a great conference”. “I missed the conference…” “Eddie, the event was a great success…”.

These are the feedback that we received from the participants who came to our law conference on last week.

Below are some brief report of the event.

We arrived at the law faculty of Univeristy of Malaya (UM) about 8.15am. It was a raining morning and the KL gate of UM was congested as many activities were held in the UM campus on the same day.

“Debbie was conducting briefing with the usherers before the guest arrival.”

”Our professional usherer was ready to welcome our guest of VIP.”

“Registration started at 9am…a busy morning ahead for our usherers”

“Counter getting busier and crowded”

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eLawyer Law Conference 2009- Blogging & Law

Friday, February 13th, 2009

(Click the poster for bigger image)

Anyone can blog. Anyone can also blog and get sued or sometimes facing the threat of being sentenced to spend years in jail.

It is however, understandable that not every blogger is well versed with the law, and therefore don’t know their rights and liabilities. Here are a few examples of which you may be able to relate to:

- Is it against the law when I link to other blogs?
- What should I do if someone claims that I have infringed his or her copyrights?
- Do I have rights to ask someone to remove the link to my blog?
- Can I use pictures found in other websites or google images?
- If I found out others have defamed me in their blogs, what should I do?

This is the reason eLawyer.com.my brings you the eLawyer Law Conference 2009, themed “Blogging and Law”. It is our sincere hope that bloggers will have the sufficient legal awareness in them that they are able to protect themselves in case of defamation claim or accusations of copyright infringements.

The details of the conference are as follows:

Theme: Blogging and Law
Date: 14 March 2009
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Fees: F.O.C.
Venue: Auditorium Tun Mohd Suffian, UM Law Faculty

Topic 1: Blogging & Intellectual Property Law in Malaysia (By Mr. Foong Cheng Leong, KL Lawyer & Blogger)

You will learn about:
1. Is it against the law when I link to other blogs?
2. What should I do if someone claims that I have infringed his or her copyrights?
3. Do I have rights to ask someone to remove the link to my blog?
4. Can I use pictures found in other websites or google images?
And many more…

Topic 2: Blogging & Defamation Law in Malaysia (By Mr. Nizam Bashir, Malacca Lawyer & Blogger)

You will learn about:
1. What amount to defamatory statement?
2. What should I do if someone claims that the content of my blog defames him?
3. If I have found out others have defamed me in their blog, what shall I do?
4. What are the remedies available for defamation action?
And many more…

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Malaysian 2nd Legal Career Fair 2009

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Reported by Tsing Yie

In the blink of an eye, a year has gone by since our participation in the Legal Career Fair 2008 and the Legal Convention 2008. And this year, it is back again: the 2nd Malaysian Legal Career Fair.

This event was held in Legend Hotel’s Ballroom and we were allocated our individual booths placing according to two different categories: Law Firms and Corporate Companies.

The Law Firms were placed inside the Grand Ballroom while the Corporate Companies were placed outside the Ballroom. eLawyer.com.my’s booth was placed outside the grand ballroom alongside KPNG and PETRONAS, our friendly neighbours for the day!

Unlike last year, this year we are unfortunate to be placed in a desolate corner of the ballroom’s foyer…

Even so, with the effort of our harworking and dedicated team, we managed to sign up more than 130 new members (including lawyers and law students) alike!

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Legal Career Fair 2009 is back!

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Once a year legal career fair organised by Pupils’ Welfare Committee of KL Bar is back.

Based on the statement made by Reggie Wong Mew Sum, the chairperson of the said committee at KL Bar Blog: “There were 617 law graduates who began pupillage in the year 2008. There are about 2,061 legal firms in Kuala Lumpur alone. Many of these firms are constantly on the lookout for placement for new law graduates and even opportunity to recruit new lawyers. The opportunity for legal firms to meet law graduates and potential pupils is limited and likewise for graduates and new lawyers meeting practitioners. The competition, undeniably, is stiff. With this in mind, the Pupils’ Welfare Committee (PWC) is pleased to organise the 2nd Legal Career Fair to create a platform, hopefully to resolve these recurring employment problems as best as it can.”

This time participating law firms number are coincidentally the same as last year, however, we notice that some of the law firms skip this round and we also glad to see some new faces, they are Alex Chang & Co, Azim Tunku Farik & Wong, Azman Davidson, Halim Hong & Quek, Kamilah & Chong, PS Ranjan, Paul Ong & Associates, Ram Reza & Muhammad, Thomas Philip and a non law firm KPMG.

The thoughtful organiser, as usual, has organised the below talks for law students who are going to attend the career fair:

Location : Enggang Room – Legend Hotel

12.00pm – 12.30pm : Common Bar Exam / Ethics Course by Steven Thiru

12.30pm – 1.00pm : Pupillage by Colin Andrew Pereira

1.00pm – 1.30pm : BREAK

1.30pm – 2.00pm : Young Lawyers by Dipendra Harshad Rai

2.00pm – 2.30pm : Legal Aid by Ravi Nekoo

2.30pm – 3.00pm : Human Rights by Edmund Bon

The legal career fair will be held on 17 January 2009 from 10am – 3pm. We hope to see you there and please do drop by and say HELLO to our team of representative.

Please click the below links to see Legal Career Fair 2008 and Legal Career Conventions 2008:

http://www.elawyer.com.my/blog/elawyer-in-legal-career-fair-2008/

http://www.elawyer.com.my/blog/legal-career-convention-2008-lcc/

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Blogging and Defamation Laws Forum

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

By Eddie Law

“Jeff Ooi & eLawyer Team”

Last Thursday (23 October 2008), I have attended a seminar organised by the KL Bar Committee entitled “Blogging & Defamation Law Forum”.

During the welcoming speech, the chairman of the IT committee of the KL Bar, Richard Wee, said the main purpose of organising this Forum is to educate the general public, especially the growing community of bloggers, about their rights under the law, so that they know what to write and what ought no to write in their blog. He hopes through this Forum, bloggers could gain the knowledge of drawing the line between freedom of speech and defamation.

There were about 80 to 100 attendees turned up on that day. The said number will be greater should the organiser use the right strategy in promoting the Forum. (more effort should be spent in reaching out to the bloggersphere instead of legal community).

The 1st speaker was Nizam Bashir, who is practising in Malacca. Nizam started by giving an overview of cases against bloggers in Malaysia. He further explained about the laws which bloggers need to know, especially defemation law, what is considered defamatory and what is not.

Followed by Foong Cheng Leong, who is a young lawyer practising in one of the largest law firm in KL, were sharing about the precaution manners to (more…)

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Legal Career Convention 2008 (LCC)

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

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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Most Favourite Website in Malaysian Legal Industry

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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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eLawyer Legal Blog Writing Contest 2008

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Look! A new contest is open to us.

By Eddie Law

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. He was hailed as “the most promising appointment” in the new cabinet by The Economist (read “Shuffling deckchairs” in The Economist, 2008-03-19,issue). He has so far lived up to the name.

Datuk Zaid has forced the government to apologize for the 1988 judicial crisis (a huge leap, that one), introduced the Common Bar Examination and won his staunch support for the establishment of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip. Well, 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 student 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 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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Law Career Convention 2008 (LCC 2008)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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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MSU eLawyer Member’s Day

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

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!“