Careers

Practice Training

Want A Place At The Table?

When we recruit, we look for partners, not associates. Grades and a burnished CV may get you in the door, but it is the strength of your character, personality and partnership potential that get you a place at the table. Practice Trainees will be mentored by senior lawyers and Partners from day one, with opportunities for extensive high-end corporate and dispute resolution work throughout.

Areas of Practice

  • Practice Trainees will be exposed to, amongst others, the following areas of practice:

    • Banking And Finance
    • Banking & Securities Litigation
    • Capital Markets
    • Commercial & Corporate Litigation
    • Competition Law
    • Construction & Engineering
    • Corporate / Commercial Transactions
    • Corporate Real Estate
    • Employment & Labour
    • Financial & Technology Crimes and Investigations/Criminal Litigation
    • Intellectual Property and Technology, Media & Telecommunications
    • International Arbitration
    • Investments
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Private Wealth and Trust Advisory
    • Project Development
    • Regulatory, Compliance and Crisis Management
    • Restructuring & Insolvency
Remuneration
  • From 2025, in light of the one-year practice training period, we will offer a monthly training contract allowance of S$2,500 before retention, and S$3,500 upon retention. We typically start offering retention two months into the training contract. Trainees may also take up to 14 days of leave with the prior approval of the firm. We offer a market leading starting salary upon call, with Part B course fees reimbursed for lawyers employed for a minimum tenure of one year with the Firm.
Pro Bono and Continuing Legal Education

  • The Firm believes in actively contributing back to society. Our lawyers are required to fulfil a minimum of 25 pro bono hours per year, and the Firm plans for at least two outreach events a year with a focus on three groups of beneficiaries, namely: children and youth at risk; the elderly; and migrant workers.

    Lawyers are also rostered for regular legal clinics, with the opportunity to interact with the community and assist with their legal issues.

    A lawyer is only as good as his or her training and experiences. This is why we place great emphasis on our comprehensive Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programme, conducted by Partners and senior lawyers for our Practice Trainees and Associates.

    Practice Area: General

    Our CLE Programme:

    • Lawyering: Requisites and Expectations
    • A Senior Counsel’s Perspectives on Advocacy
    • Professional Responsibility, Etiquette & Conduct
    • Shareholders’ Agreements
    • Legal Research
    • Effective Arguments and Drafting − The Use and Abuse of English
    • Branding and Premium Services, Client Development
    • Insolvency I
    • Due Diligence Reviews (IPO/M&A)
    • Insolvency II − Judicial Management & Schemes of Arrangement
    • Bankruptcy
    • Banking Secrecy, Banker’s Guarantees
    • Employment I
    • Settlements
    • Injunctions
    • Employment II – Restraint of Trade
    • Exemption Clauses & Indemnities
    • Leases
    • Defamation
    • Economic Torts
    • Solicitor’s Account Rules
    • Probate
    • Data Protection
    • Understanding and Interpreting Financial Statements
    • Developments in Contract Law
    • Developments in Trust Law
    • Negotiation Workshop

     

    Practice Area: Transactional

    • Corporate Secretarial
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Initial Public Offering
    • Conveyancing
    • Reverse Takeovers
    • Banking and Security (incl Charge of Shares and Units in Listed Companies)
    • Asset Financing
    • Securities & Regulatory Licensing
    • Exempted Public Offerings
    • Overview of Private Equity and Hedge Funds
    • Formal Legal Opinion for Cross-Border Transactions

     

    Practice Area: Litigation

    • Litigation Case Management & Firm Processes
    • Construction I
    • Civil Procedure and Practice
    • Discovery
    • Arbitration
    • Construction II
    • Construction III – Security of Payment Act
    • Mitigation Pleas
    • Judicial Review
    • Moots Workshop
Application

  • If you would like to apply for practice training with us, please download and complete our Practice Training Application Form here and email it back  to us together with:

    1. A short cover letter 
    2. Your CV
    3. Your latest academic transcripts
    4. (optional) details of all awards., scholarships prizes won
    5. (optional) any essays, articles or papers recently written

  • While we generally welcome applications for Relevant Legal Training and Training Contracts all year round, foreign returning graduates would typically apply after they have obtained their second year examination results. Graduates from Singapore universities would likewise be expected to provide, at a minimum, their second year examination results.

    Please email your Practice Training Contract applications to:

    practicetraining@tsmplaw.com

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