Sundaresh Menon

Sundaresh Menon SC

1986 - Graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (first class honors) from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore; 1991 - Obtained a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School

1987 - Joined Shook Lin & Bok as a legal assistant 1990 - Rose to become a partner; 1992 - 2006 Together with Wong Meng Meng and Alvin Yeo, Menon co-founded WongPartnership, one of the four largest law firms in Singapore, and remained a partner in the law firm until 1995. He then joined Rajah & Tann as a partner and served as its Head of Projects & Infrastructure Group until 2003, and thereafter joined Jones Day as a partner until 2006; 2006 - 2007 Menon served a one-year term as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court; 2009 - Returning to legal practice with Rajah & Tann after this, he was appointed Senior Counsel on 5 January 2008, and became its managing partner in August; 2010 - 2012 Menon assumed the position of Attorney-General. He has also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Singapore Management University School of Law; 2012 - Appointed a Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal with effect from 1 August 2012. On 6 November 2012, he took office as Singapore's fourth Chief Justice; The first non-Chinese ethnic Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore and also the first Singapore-born Chief Justice

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