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Legally Protective Writing Strategies For Engineers, Technical Professionals & Contractors (Re-run No. 115)

Qualified by PE Board for 8 PDUs or 8 CET Hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Date Scheduled

21 May 2024 (Tuesday)

Time

8.30 am - 6.00 pm

Venue

Hotel Grand Pacific
101 Victoria Street. Singapore 188018
This course is available either by zoom or at the hotel

Registration Fee

$410 per pax (inclusive of lunch & tea-break [for physical attendance only unless not permitted by law], course materials & electronic certificate of attendance; GST not applicable)

Early Bird Registration (Pay on or before 14 May 2024)

$360 per pax (inclusive of lunch & tea-break [for physical attendance only unless not permitted by law], course materials & electronic certificate of attendance; GST not applicable)

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Course Objectives

1. To highlight potential legal pitfalls in official correspondence, making participants more aware of their writing so as to avoid incurring inadvertent legal liabilities.

2. To provide coaching sessions in legally protective writing when drafting & replying letters, preparing reports, etc

Target audience:  

PEs, Engineers, Consultants Managers & Technical Professionals

 Course details

 1. Introduction - Knowing Your Audience & Purpose;

 2. The legal pitfalls in crafting correspondence, replying letters,

   writing technical reports & expert reports, minutes of meeting, etc

3.  How to avoid incurring legal liabilities that may even have been

   inadvertent?  

4. Use of legally defensive strategies – proper choice of words

 5. Hands-on practice & coaching sessions in professional effective

   and legally protective writing

 

 

For whom:

For professional engineers, engineers, consultants, technical professionals, business owners, managers, technical professionals, contractors, etc.

**Note: For all disciplines of engineering

Qualified by the Professional Engineers Board for 8 Professional Development Units or 8 CET Hours

Speaker’s CV

Mr. Lee Kwok Weng, B.Eng. (Mech.)(S'pore), M.Sc.(Ind.Eng)(NUS), DipBA(NUS), GradDip Mktg.(MIS), LLB(Hons)(Bucks), LLM(Lond), Barrister-at-Law, Advocate & Solicitor (Retired), Supreme Court of Singapore, MMIS, MSIArb, FIES, Honorary Legal Advisor, IES & SISO, a senior lawyer, was in continuous private legal practice for almost 29 years running his own law firm before his retirement from legal practice.

 

He is a trained practising Mediator and had been a principal Mediator on the panel of the Singapore Mediation Centre for many years before he stepped down to conduct private mediation. He is also an accredited arbitrator.

 

He has for many years been an adjunct Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business Admin, National University of Singapore, teaching Business Law in the MBA programme. He was also for many years an Adjunct Lecturer in the Nanyang Technological University & BCA Academy.

 

He specialises in Business Contracts, Negligence, Safety & Environmental laws, Information Technology and Engineering, Construction & Building Laws.  He is a very experienced lecturer and trainer and is well-versed in the technical field, marketing and management practice too.  

 

Mr. Lee brings with him considerable industrial project and business development management experience, having worked as a project engineer/manager for more than 12 years in the public & private sectors. Eventually before his switch to the legal profession, Mr. Lee was a Senior Project Manager in a leading Multi-national engineering and construction corporation serving the energy, marine, oil and gas industries onshore and offshore managing numerous EPC projects. 

 

As an “engineer-lawyer”, Mr. Lee has also dealt with cases involving amongst others safety, engineering and building and construction laws.