Sundaresh Menon SC is Singapore's Attorney-General. He was sworn in on 1 Oct 2010. Menon graduated with first class honours from the law faculty of the National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

The National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law is the older of Singapore's two law schools. The Faculty was initially established as the Department of Law in the then University of Malaya in 1956, with the first batch of students matriculating in the following year...

 in 1986 and later obtained his LL.M. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He was appointed Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

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 in 2008. He served a one-year term as Judicial Commissioner

Judicial Commissioner

A Judicial Commissioner in Singapore is appointed to the Supreme Court by the President of Singapore on the advice of the Prime Minister, and has the powers of a Judge. A person may be appointed a Judicial Commissioner if he/she has been a "qualified person" within the meaning of section 2 of the...

 of the Supreme Court of Singapore from 2006 to 2007. Before assuming his position as Singapore's Attorney-General, Menon was the managing partner of Rajah & Tann

Rajah & Tann

Rajah & Tann LLP is a transnational law firm headquartered in Singapore with offices in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Vientiane. Founded in 1955, it is the largest law firm in Southeast Asia with over 300 lawyers and fee-earners. The firm is incorporated as a limited...

 LLP, one of the biggest law firms in Singapore. He was also the deputy chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law

Singapore Academy of Law

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, and a member of the Advisory Board for the law faculty of Singapore Management University

Singapore Management University

The Singapore Management University was officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, and was Singapore's first private university funded by the government...

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