“I wouldn’t call what I do now my passion; to me, it’s the same concept as breathing – you wouldn’t call it your passion. It’s become [what I do and] a part of my identity.”
n 2005, law graduate Jo Tan was called to the Singapore Bar after she had completed all the requirements for legal education and vocational training to become a lawyer. Unlike most of the other lawyers in her cohort, she quit the profession the very day she was