{"id":1249,"date":"2015-03-02T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:51:13","slug":"tan-swee-poh-jo-pupil-legal-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/tan-swee-poh-jo-pupil-legal-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan Swee Poh Jo  Pupil &#038; Legal Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-333 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jo-Tan-Swee-Poh-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Tan Swee Poh\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Admission to the Bar Miss Jo Tan Swee Poh together with Mr Ale Chang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Admission to the Bar of Miss \u00a0Jo Tan Swee Poh.<\/h3>\n<p>Miss Jo Tan Swee Poh a graduate from UKM, joined the firm in 2008 as a pupil in chambers.<\/p>\n<p>She was admitted to the Malaysian Bar the following year and assisted Mr Chang in the firm until the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Miss Jo Tan Swee Poh&#8217;s Comments When She was a\u00a0Pupil<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\"> What I have learnt so far:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>1 Responsibilities<br \/>Learnt to take the responsibility for any wrong\/ errors you have made and how to fix the errors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2 Given ample opportunities to grow. \u00a0If you like not being \u2018spoon fed\u2019 in this firm- my Master will give you an opportunity for you to try to find the solutions before giving his opinions or directions to solve the problems.<\/p>\n<p>3 Guided by the Master first-hand<br \/>You will have the opportunity to be guided and learn from your Master directly instead of learning from the Legal assistants.<\/p>\n<p>3.1 My Master will give me his opinion and comments on the work I have done. For example, in research works-<br \/>you will be given an issue where you need to find the relevant cases or law. Then you will be taught how to analyse the facts and apply the law to the facts.<\/p>\n<p>3.2 You will not run short of opportunities to attend high court hearings (in Chambers) right after you have filed your petition for admission and long before \u2018short call\u2019. As far as I am concern, one cannot learn Advocacy skills from a book.<\/p>\n<p>4 Free English Lessons<br \/>Ha ha&#8230; 75% of the work is in the higher courts, it enhances your grammar and vocabulary skills.<\/p>\n<p>5 Colleagues<br \/>No \u2018politics\u2019 issue in this firm- colleagues are willing to help each other.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Swee Poh Jo<br \/>September 2008<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"root\">\n<div id=\"e1\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"e2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"e3\"><span class=\"text\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: large;\">Pupil&#8217;s Comments<br \/><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><b>\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1062\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1062\" src=\"http:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Tan Swee Poh Alex Chang\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Jo Tan receiving a book from Mr Alex Chang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Miss Jo Tan receiving the <a title=\"Footprints of a Judge\u2019s Journey Through Mother Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/footprints-of-a-judges-journey-through-mother-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Footprint of a Judge&#8217;s Journey<\/a> from Mr Alex Chang at the Launch of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chang received much assistance from Miss Tan on the said project. \u00a0The book was only a token of appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admission to the Bar of Miss \u00a0Jo Tan Swee Poh. Miss Jo Tan Swee Poh a graduate from UKM, joined the firm in 2008 as a pupil in chambers. She was admitted to the Malaysian Bar the following year and assisted Mr Chang in the firm until the end of 2012. \u00a0 Miss Jo Tan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1819,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}