In his first year of school, Mr Aadil Dafir found himself searching online for definitions of legal terms, to catch up with his peers.
"My class had a lot of paralegals, so they already had industry knowledge and knew the lingo and how it worked," said the 33-year-old who belongs to the first batch of students at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) law school and is now into his second year.
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