Where we came from
Amelia Yap opened the firm in 2012 with one desk, one conviction and a rented room in Bangsar: family disputes were being run like commercial litigation, and families were paying for it — in fees, in years, and in children who watched all of it. The alternative wasn’t softness. It was process: explain the road, price it honestly, settle what can be settled, and fight properly over only what cannot.
Nadira binti Azman joined in 2014, bringing the syariah practice that made the firm genuinely whole — because in Malaysia, a family firm that practises only one of the two systems sees half the country’s families. She became name partner in 2015. Priya Sandran, who leads children and protection work, completed the partnership in 2019.
What we believe
Court is the last resort, not the first move. Mediation-first is policy. We measure ourselves on how many matters end at a table rather than a trial — and on how the ones that do go to trial were prepared.
The bill should never be the second trauma. Fees are published, quotes are written, contested work is staged, and you can stop at any stage. Fee fear keeps people in bad marriages and worse situations; we refuse to profit from it.
Plain language is a professional duty. If you leave a meeting more confused than you arrived, that is our failure. Everything on this site — the guides, the route planner, the fee list — exists because informed clients make better decisions and carry them with more peace.
The shape of the firm
Eleven people: six lawyers — three partners, three associates — and five in client care, accounts and administration. One office, on Jalan Telawi 3 in Bangsar, chosen deliberately: a walk-up above the cafés, not a tower with a marble lobby. People tell us hard things here. The room should not make it harder.
What we don’t do
Everything else. No conveyancing, no corporate retainers, no criminal files except where they intersect a protection matter. Specialisation is the only honest way to promise you that whoever takes your call has seen your situation before — many times.