Steven Thiru
31st President of the Malaysian Bar
In office March 2015 – March 2017
Preceded by	Christopher Leong Sau Foo
Succeeded by	George Varughese
Personal details
Nationality	Malaysian
Alma mater	University of Leicester, England (LLB Law), University of Malaya (LLM)
Occupation	Lawyer

Steven Thiruneelakandan is a Malaysian attorney and former President of the Malaysian Bar.^[1] He is a senior partner at Messrs. Steven Thiru & Sudhar Partnership and was a litigation partner of Messrs Shook Lin & Bok from 2000 to 2018. He has been practicing since 1992. His main areas of practice are administrative law, employment law, electricity supply law, native title law, and a variety of areas of civil litigation.

Steven was recognised by Chambers Asia Pacific 2016 in the area of dispute resolution as having “a broad practice that encompasses employment, commercial and administrative litigation. He is considered a ‘very solid, very hard-working’ practitioner of impressively varied experience by market sources.”

Further, in the area of employment and industrial relations, he is described as having “a long-standing reputation in the market and is considered ‘a very good lawyer’ by his peers. His practice comprises varied employment law disputes as well as judicial review applications.”

Education

Steven read law at the University of Leicester and graduated in 1990. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Middle Temple in 1991, and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1992. Steven holds a Masters in Laws (LL.M) degree from University Malaya (2000).

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