Little KEMPies - Empowering Young Minds in Law through a Mini Law Degree Programme

Little KEMPies, an initiative by HK-based law firm M.B. KEMP LLP, offers courses for kids interested in law careers. Currently, they run a Mini Law Degree programme for bright minds aged 12-15. Led by experienced M.B. Kemp LLP lead partner Yeelign Wan, the 9-week course covers key subjects like contract law, tort law, and criminal law, along with soft skills like critical thinking and public speaking.
In this episode, we spoke with Yeeling to find out more this course.

Our Guest

Yeeling Wan

A twenty-year veteran commercial litigator, Yeeling is KEMP’s pragmatist-in-chief. She approaches each case with her focus squarely on her clients’ business objectives and the real value her expertise can add. 

Clients value her straight-shooting guidance and trust her to fight determinedly for the right resolution. 

Commercial litigation chose Yeeling, rather than the other way around: it was a fit for her assertive, tenacious style, and propelled her to partnership in a Big Law environment at a young age. That fast-track success gave her a thorough technical grounding – and also a desire to practise in the setting most conducive to doing her best work. 

Our Host

Ajay Shamdasani

Ajay Shamdasani is a veteran writer, editor and researcher based in Hong Kong. He holds an AB in history and government from Ripon College, JD and MIPCT degrees from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce Law School, and an LLM in financial regulation from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law.

His 15-year long career as a financial and legal journalist began as deputy editor of A Plus magazine – the journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. From there, he assumed the helm of Macau Business magazine as its editor-in-chief, and later, joined Asialaw magazine as its deputy editor.

More recently, he spent close to seven years as a senior correspondent with Thomson Reuters’ subscription-based trade-wire service Regulatory Intelligence/Compliance Complete (previously called Complinet) in Hong Kong. While there, he covered regulatory developments in that city, as well as Singapore, India and South Korea.