The Malaysian Bar is once again organising its signature biennial conference — the International Malaysia Law Conference (“IMLC”) 2023. This fifth edition carries the theme “Navigating the Present, Exploring the Future”. The main aim of IMLC 2023 is to shed light on the realities of practising in a post-COVID world that has embraced technology, and what we need to do, collectively and individually, to ready ourselves for the future.

Regardless of whether we are ready or willing, the only constant thing that we can be assured of in life is change! We have gone from typewriters to computers; and from the elite few who had libraries that were the envy of many, to every single lawyer having access to online legal research databases.

Take a moment and think back to 2019 — did we ever imagine a world where instead of getting up before sunrise to beat the traffic to arrive at court early enough to get a parking spot, we now merely turn on our laptops, because most court matters are conducted online!

We know many of us were not ready then. We know that many of us knew we had no choice but still pleaded for time and indulgence. So, we want IMLC 2023 to be a platform to discuss what is coming and our preparedness in relation to what is coming.