Any young lawyer entering the Marina One offices of Rajah and Tann for the first time must feel a mite overwhelmed, as a pilgrim would when approaching a hallowed shrine.
There are thoughts of the founders - T.T. Rajah and Tann Wee Tiong - formidable men in their time who were baked in anti-colonial sentiments and whose convictions led them to leave the People's Action Party for Barisan Socialis, eventually setting up a law firm regarded as a force for the underdog. Mr Tann was a co-founder of the PAP and Mr Rajah, briefly its secretary-general.
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