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:
Wardah Hanim (Malaysian Bar Secretariat)
(pirm@malaysianbar.org.my / 03-2050 2001)
Perak Bar Secretariat
(perakbar@perakbar.org / perakbar@gmail.com / 05-2537 590)
Speaker
Arthur Wang Sze Yao
Arthur Wang Sze Yao obtained his LLB from the University of Wales, UK in 1990. He was admitted to the Bar at Middle Temple, London in 1992 and began his pupillage with a prestigious 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 & Low. He then joined Messrs Michael Chen & Lee as Head of Litigation 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 who has been involved in the Bar Council Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee since 2004 (in 2024, the committee was renamed Professional Indemnity Committee). He has also been involved in various risk management activities and given numerous 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 Council in court matters, both since 2012.
R Jayabalan
R Jayabalan graduated with LL.B (Hons.) from the International Islamic University Malaysia in 1996. He was admitted to the Malaysian Bar as Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in April 1997. He also obtained post-graduate Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the International Islamic University Malaysia in 2005.
He is an active trial and appellate litigator since 1997. He has conducted trial and appeals before all levels of courts in Malaysia. He has handled claims and disputes such as contract/commercial claims, negligence claims, professional liability claims, medical negligence claims, employment disputes at the Industrial Court and Labour Court, house buyer’s claim, road accident claim, industrial and workplace accident claim, professional negligence claims, construction disputes, judicial review proceedings, claims against financial institutions, claims under insurance policies, land disputes, probate claims and disputes over validity of will. Cases handled by him over the years are also reported in the law reports.
He has served as Chairman of the Johore Bar. He is a member of the Bar Council and serving as Secretary of Malaysian Bar. He has also chaired several committees of the Bar Council. He actively speaks in seminars and trainings for members of the Bar on issues of law and on matters of interest to the legal profession in the country.
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 20 May 2026 (Wednesday), at 5:00 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).
