Description
As part of the Client Account Campaign that was launched on 21 June 2025, which can be viewed here, the Bar Council Risk Management Committee is organising a series of focused talks aimed at promoting awareness and best practices in managing client accounts. Through this initiative, lawyers would be able to better understand the responsibilities of being a sole proprietor or partner and manage client accounts prudently.
The talk is divided into the following three parts, which may be conducted in any sequence, provided all parts are completed:
Part I:
- Getting Started! Focus: Should We Be Partners?
- The Lawyer’s Guide: Stakeholders’ Duties and Responsibilities When It Involves Money
Part II:
- Getting Started! Focus: Accounting and Taxation
- Claims Under the PII Scheme
- ELEVATE Session
Part III:
- Getting Started! Focus: Fundamentals of Legal Practice
- Leaving Practice and Closing a Law Firm
For more information, please click here.
Should you have any enquiries, please contact:
Asma Samsudin (Penang Bar Committee)
(secretariat@penangbar.org/ 04-2615 669)
Wardah Hanim bt Hazidan / Nurfarhana bt Syed Malik (Malaysian Bar Secretariat)
(pirm@malaysianbar.org.my / 03-2050 2001)
Speaker
Zemilah bt Mohd Noor
Zemilah bt Mohd Noor was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1995 with an LLB (Hons) degree from the International Islamic University Malaysia (“IIUM”). She is an experienced lawyer in the conveyancing discipline specifically in project and real estate, islamic finance and banking, commercial, start-ups, and advisory matters.
She is a senior partner in EzriLaw Firm. She is currently the Co-Chairperson of the Bar Council Conveyancing Practice Committee and a member of the Conveyancing Practice Subcommittee of the Penang Bar. She was previously the Chairperson of the Conveyancing Practice and Islamic Finance Subcommittee of the Penang Bar for a few terms. Furthermore, she actively contributes as a member of both the Bar Council Islamic Finance Committee and the Disciplinary Committee of the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board.
On top of that, she periodically engages with the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia’s Lands and Mines office, and other Government agencies to resolve ever-evolving conveyancing issues. To contribute to other conveyancing practitioners, she regularly attends and speaks at various seminars throughout Malaysia as a panellist to enlighten her audience on conveyancing subject matters.
Arthur Wang Sze Yao
Arthur Wang Sze Yao obtained his LLB from the University of Wales, United Kingdom in 1990. He was admitted to the Bar at Middle Temple, London in 1992 and began his pupillage with a Middle Temple chamber under the guidance of Queen Counsel Esq Gibson Grenfell. Upon his return to Malaysia in 1994, he commenced pupillage with Raja, Darryl & Loh. He then joined Michael Chen & Lee as the head of the litigation department in 1995. His experience covers foreclosures, banking, civil and commercial litigation, contract disputes, tort, matrimonial and probate matters, bankruptcy proceedings, land and contractual disputes, injunctions as well as appellate matters in the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court. In 1997, he established the present practice of Arthur Wang, Lian & Associates.
He is an active Member of the Malaysian Bar and has been involved in the Bar Council Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee since 2004 (in 2024, the committee was renamed Bar Council Professional Indemnity Committee). He has also been involved in various risk management activities and given talks on the subject for the Bar with the aim of raising the standards of risk management in the legal profession. In 2022, when the Bar Council established a dedicated Risk Management Committee, he was assigned as the Co-Chairperson and now sits as the sole Chairperson of the Committee. The Committee is currently focusing on a risk management initiative, which aims to elevate the Bar’s risk management standards to an international level and is committed to instilling elements of good governance among law practices.
Arthur Wang Sze Yao sits on the Disciplinary Committee Panel of the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board and has been assisting the Bar in court matters, both since 2012.
Terms and Conditions
Event Policy
Places are limited and registration is on a first come, first served basis. The registration for this session will close on 9 July 2025 (Wednesday), at 12:00 pm.
For events with registration fees, all payments must be made in advance, including bank charges. Registration will be confirmed once proof of payment is provided by email or fax, and full payment is received.
The organiser reserves the right to modify, cancel or postpone the event, should circumstances arise that make such action necessary, whereupon all registration fees paid will be refunded.
Cancellation
Cancellations must be made in writing.
Please note that there will be no refunds for cancellations, but substitutions are allowed. Kindly inform us in writing with the relevant details at least three days in advance.
If you have failed to inform the organiser on your cancellation for three consecutive times, you may be blacklisted for future events.
Transferral
You are allowed to transfer your place to another participant, but you must notify the organiser with the necessary details at least three days in advance.
Attendance
CPD points for CPD Scheme will not be awarded to lawyers and pupils in chambers from Peninsular Malaysia who arrive more than 15 minutes late, are not present throughout the event, or leave before its scheduled end.
Privacy
The personal information that you provide to the Malaysian Bar, whether now or in the future, may be used, recorded, stored, disclosed or otherwise processed by or on behalf of the Malaysian Bar for the purposes of facilitation and organisation of this event, research and audit, maintenance of a participant database for the promotion of this event, and such ancillary services as may be relevant.
Disclaimer
• Materials (if any) will be emailed only. No printed notes will be provided.
• No recording of the event is permitted via any means at any time.
• No part of the event content may be used/reproduced in any form without the written and explicit consent of the Malaysian Bar and speaker(s).
