Lukas Lim

⚒️ What do you do?

I’m an international disputes lawyer with Norton Rose Fulbright specialising in international arbitration. I would like to say that my time is divided between conducting devastating cross-examinations and delivering game-changing closing submissions, but my life involves a lot of drafting, re-drafting, reading my drafts, and re-drafting again.

Case in point – I’m currently preparing a second draft of a request for arbitration on a contractual dispute, drafting a first cut of a legal memo, and writing material to teach a class at NUS on document production.

What is your proudest achievement?

Planning a third date with my wife while we were still dating in KL, who told me some time later it was the key event that made her decide to marry me.

It started off with a morning learning to bake croissants (and watching in horror at the amount of butter involved), eating chill pan mee for lunch, spending the afternoon at the Dialogue in the Dark exhibition led by blind guides in total darkness (which allowed me to hold her hand to avoid bumping into things), followed by a walk in the park, and having mamak food for dinner.

If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?
Probably sleeping in, but ideally writing a science fiction novel on interplanetary arbitration where opposing counsel from different galaxies overcome jurisdictional challenges to find true love.

If you weren't a lawyer, what would you be?
I always wanted to be a palaeontologist as I loved dinosaurs as a child, but now the only bone I pick is with my opponent’s arguments.

Your favourite food haunt is...?
I enjoy going to Micasa Kitchen & Bar, a no-frills family-run restaurant along Jalan Jurong Kechil (nearish Beauty World MRT), with generous portions of paella and sangria.