Ervin Tan
⚒️ What do you do?
I’m currently one half of Adroit Law LLC (the other half being the immensely capable Amy Seow). Together we provide flexible and affordable dispute resolution and advisory services, in collaboration with other firms or directly to clients.
At home: I’m getting new dining chairs, and through this I am going down a rabbit hole of Danish names; planning a honeymoon after a Covid-era wedding (primarily: the logistics, not the sights); start building a Lego Millennium Falcon; hosting friends for the year-end, which means menu planning and a rather urgent start on ferments which will go into the meal.
🏆 What is your proudest achievement?
Delivering a wedding speech with just three main internalised points and three glasses of champagne; project managing a renovation at the tail end of the pandemic by finding vendors on Carousell and completing the renovation under budget and faster than what was quoted by a main contractor; once hosting (with my partner) two lunches and two dinners over a weekend; completing an arbitration quickly and successfully so that a main witness could be reunited with his family he had not seen in over a year; graduating from law school (to be the first lawyer in the family).
⌛ There are now 25 hours in a day! How do you spend your extra hour?
Finding out where that extra hour came from. Alternatively, learning a language, putting that daily hour toward preparing for an outrageous weekend dinner party, or an additional 30 minutes of cardio (the other 30 being motivating myself to start).
🚀 If you weren't a lawyer, what would you do?
I would either: work at Industrial Light and Magic (or do equivalent work that entertains and engages in the nature of human belief); or work at IDEO or equivalent, designing products that make the world a tangibly better place.
😋 Your favourite food haunt
I don’t have a favourite but a few excellent meals in recent days to which I would repeatedly return: Jin Xi Lai (Mui Siong) Minced Meat Noodle at Veerasamy Road; Charlie's Peranakan Food at Golden Mile Food Centre; Serangoon BBQ & Curry 1983 at Sin Ming.