Singapore's legal profession is growing steadily in numbers, but at the same time, trends indicate that the number of foreign lawyers is growing faster than its local counterpart.
Making the point at the opening of the New Legal Year was the newly appointed President of the Law Society of Singapore, Lok Vi Ming.
The number of lawyers holding practising certificates here has exceeded the four thousand mark for the first time in 2012.
But between 2007 and 2012, the growth in the number of local lawyers was 27 per cent whilst that of foreign lawyers was 42 per cent. Full story
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