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What is Knowledge Center?

Knowledge Center is an online database containing all our latest legal updates and precedents and is accessible by all our Legal Shield clients.

For further information on Knowledge Center, please read the FAQs on Knowledge Center below.

Documents that are covered

• Except as stated below, all contracts and documents that are no more than 15 pages.

Documents that are not covered

• Documents involved in transactions specifically governed by the Solicitors’ Remuneration Order 2005 (as may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time), including but not limited to documents relating to transactions for the sale or purchase of property, loan agreements, leases, tenancies and etc.;
• Any company secretarial, human resources, taxation, financial and accounting documents;
• All documents in connection with any court/tribunal/arbitration proceeding;
• Wills;
• Any documents related to merger & acquisition exercise, legal due diligence exercise, initial public offering, reverse take-over, pre-listing, corporate restructuring, regularization matters; and
• Any other document as stated in your letter of engagement.

Flexibility for your business

• You can upgrade or cancel your Legal Shield plan anytime by giving us 30 days notice.

Insurance

• The advice you receive from us are backed by professional indemnity insurance
  to give you peace of mind. (Professional indemnity cover are only afforded to regulated law firms and not your employees such as in-house counsels.)

Partners for your business

• We strive to understand your business and dealings and take immense pleasure in seeing your business grow. We know that as your business grows, so will your demand for legal services.
• Your relationship with us is an ongoing with frequent contact. Through this, we will develop a strong understanding of your business, what is important to you, and what we can do to better advise you and guard you against risks.

Prevention is cheaper than cure

• The costs to fix legal problems and issues are far more expensive than doing
  things right from the beginning.
• We practice preventative law, meaning we provide legal advice and solutions
  to minimize risks to your business with the aim of not only ensuring legal compliance, but avoiding litigation, or worse.

Peace of mind

• Having the comfort of reliable legal advice at your fingertips. This is especially
  important to business owners who are constantly grappling with different legal issues including but not limited to debt recovery, employment, data protection, tax and so on.
• We encourage our clients to resolve any doubts they may have by reaching out to us. This includes issues that are legal but also where our experience, network of resources and, hopefully, common sense can be helpful.

Fixed monthly budget for legal fees

• Our Legal Shield plan represents a fixed monthly cost for your day-to-day legal needs.

Save money in the long run

• Don’t let your failure to seek timely legal advice become expensive and painful lessons. A lawyer on-call to provide timely legal advice that can help avoid this scenario is a smart investment.

Affordability

• Our Legal Shield plan is often cheaper than hiring a lawyer on an as-needed basis.
• Often or not, businesses require quick and concise legal advice. Going to a
  lawyer who is unfamiliar with your business to deal with legal issues that can be resolved by a simple phone call or email with us will end up costing your business more!
• For businesses without an in-house counsel, our Legal Shield plan represents an affordable, yet highly effective and flexible way to manage the legal aspects of one’s business.