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Legally
Protective Writing Strategies For Engineers, Technical Professionals &
Contractors (Re-run No.
119) |
Qualified by PE Board for 8
PDUs or 8 CET Hours
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Date Scheduled |
9 October 2024
(Wednesday) |
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Time |
8.30 am - 6.00
pm |
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Venue |
Hotel Grand Pacific |
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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) |
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Early Bird Registration (Pay on or before 2
October 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) |
Click here for
the Registration Form
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Course Objectives |
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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
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For whom: |
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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
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Speaker’s CV |
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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. |