Interview with Mr. Paisan Thongkhao, Vice President of Dharmniti Law Office.

1. What is your educational and career background?

Answer: I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the Ramkhamhaeng University. My previous occupation was a teacher of St. John’s Polytechnic School.

Initially I was permanently appointed as an apprentice lawyer and then as a lawyer of Dharmniti Law Office Co., Ltd.

2. What legal practice areas do you currently work in?

Answer: I work as a legal consultant at DLO. I handle both civil and criminal cases as well as general cases regarding business law.

3. What specific skills and expertise do you have which you think can be of benefit to your clients?

Answer: As a business law consultant, I have experience in cases involving commercial law, labour, real property and arbitration disputes.

4. What do you think is important when you are serving your clients?

Answer: The ability to solve problems for clients to their satisfaction and in a manner fairest to all parties concerned: “victory without fighting required”.

5. What is your greatest achievement in your legal career?

Answer: Settlement of a dispute without the need to undertake court or arbitration proceedings.

6. What legal issues/ areas are you interested in and why?

Answer: I am interested in business law because assignments in this area require experience and success results from the resolution of problems for clients.

7. What skills and attributes do you think makes a good and effective lawyer?

Answer: good lawyer always learns something new, sees the problems of their clients and solves them in a fair manner.

8. What is your opinion about the firm’s direction in the new global legal society?

Answer: As to the law firm’s direction at present, its personnel must always adapt themselves to keep pace with an evolution of the law and a business change in the current world so as to maximize their response to clients’ requirements for services.

9. In your opinion, what do you think DLO should do to improve its lawyers’ ability to better serve its clients’ needs?

Answer: In addition to enabling its lawyers to respond to clients’ requirements for general legal services, the Company has created teams specialized in specific laws for clarity in terms of professional areas and in response to clients’ problems, which enable such matters to be resolved in a more straightforward manner.