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Many law firms and in-house legal teams around the world are now implementing Legal Project Management (LPM) as a key strategy to maintain or improve profitability. Learning how to manage a project effectively will help you value-add to your future employer and hence give you a significant competitive advantage.

Come join us for this lunchtime panel discussion comprising of experienced legal project managers in Clifford Chance and senior in-house legal counsels working with Accenture. Other than sharing their career journeys since graduating from law school, they will share valuable insights into LPM principles such as project-scoping, use of legal technology, resource planning and stakeholder management from the perspective of practising lawyers and in-house counsels alike. They will also share practical tips on soft skills needed to succeed in LPM and shed some light on exciting career opportunities available in this space.

Law students who attend this talk will receive an early-bird invitation to a special Legal Project Management Workshop next year which will be conducted by an accredited trainer in Legal Project Management.

About the Speakers

Melissa Koh
Market Unit Legal Director and Contracting Lead for Southeast Asia, Accenture

Melissa, based in Singapore, is the Market Unit Legal Director and Contracting Lead for
Southeast Asia. She’s been with Accenture for more than 10 years and has held various
portfolios in that time, including a 3 year stint in Hong Kong to grow the Greater China & Hong Kong legal team. Melissa is passionate about learning about new technology and the growth of Accenture’s services continues to keep her engaged constantly learning new things!

Tracy Lau
Senior Legal Project Manager,
Clifford Chance Pte Ltd

Tracy is a PRINCE 2-qualified Senior Legal
Project Manager at Clifford Chance. Currently she is based in Singapore and oversees a team of legal project managers across the APAC region.

She started her career as a Projects lawyer in Australia, where she practiced with a large, national law firm. In 2015 she joined Clifford Chance in Singapore as a Project Finance lawyer. In 2017 she transitioned into the role of legal project manager and has been managing crossborder, cross-practice legal projects for four years.

Huilin Loh
Contracting Effectiveness Lead for Southeast Asia, Accenture

Huilin, based in Singapore, is the Contracting Effectiveness Lead for Southeast Asia. She started her career at Accenture as a deal lawyer in Hong Kong and has now taken on the Contracting Effectiveness Lead role for Southeast Asia. In this role, she is focused on enabling the client contracting legal team excel in supporting the business on the client-facing deals.

Debby Ratnasari
Legal Project Manager,
Clifford Chance Pte Ltd

Debby Ratnasari is a PRINCE2-qualified Legal Project Manager in Clifford Chance, based in Singapore.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Debby practised as a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer in local and international firms in Singapore for about 6 years, managing a variety of civil and criminal matters. She transitioned to her current role in 2020 and now looks after a wide range of transactional and restructuring projects as well as disputes.

About the Moderator

Petrina Tan
PhD candidate, NUS Law

Petrina Tan is a PhD candidate at NUS Law, researching on issues of securities and capital markets regulation. She was
previously a regulatory and policy advisor at Bursa Malaysia, Federal Counsel at the Attorney General’s Chambers and a corporate lawyer at a leading law firm in Malaysia.