Cavinder Bull
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Cavinder Bull, Senior Counsel, is a lawyer and director of the Singapore law firm Drew & Napier. Bull graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity College, Oxford University in 1992, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales the next year.[1][2] He was ranked fourth in the Bar Examinations, and returned to Singapore and came in first in the Singapore Bar Exams.[1] He served as a Justices' Law Clerk to former Chief Justice Yong Pung How before joining Drew & Napier in 1994,[3] and left for Harvard Law School in 1995 on a Lee Kuan Yew scholarship to pursue a LL.M..[1][2] He then passed the New York Bar Exams and joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a litigation associate.[1][4]
Bull re-joined Drew & Napier and was made a partner in 1998. He is heavily involved in commercial litigation and is cited regularly by Chambers Global and Asia Pacific Legal 500 as one of Singapore's top lawyers.[1][5] In 2008, he was appointed Senior Counsel, the tenth lawyer to be made Senior Counsel before turning 40.[6] Bull is also occasionally involved in academic writings, having written on subjects such as civil procedure.[7] He has sat on various review committees, such as one chaired by the Attorney General in 2006 regarding the supply of foreign lawyers in Singapore.[8]
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- ^ a b c d e Cavinder Bull, www.drewandnapier.com, accessed 7 January 2008.
- ^ a b THE SPECIAL ACADEMIC AWARDS 1995 PRESENTATION CEREMONY, www.moe.gov.sg, 12 August 1995, accessed 7 January 2008.
- ^ Wong, Karen, "Young Seniors", The New Paper, 6 January 2008.
- ^ Candidates Who Passed The July 1996 NYS Bar Exam, www.nylawyer.com, accessed 7 January 2008.
- ^ Chambers Commentary — Dispute Resolution, www.chambersandpartners.com, accessed 7 January 2008.
- ^ Loh, Dominique, "Six appointed Senior Counsel at opening of Legal Year 2008", www.channelnewsasia.com, 5 January 2008, accessed 7 January 2008.
- ^ Civil Procedure, www.singaporelaw.sg, accessed 7 January 2008.
- ^ Government Accepts Key Recommendations of the Third Committee on the Supply of Lawyers, wwww.wwlegal.com, 17 August 2006, accessed 7 January 2008.
