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Originally Posted by Unregistered
We were having some discussions before with a group of law friends and we agreed it makes sense to nurture the law scholars more since they are funded by taxpayers and there is a vested interest in them - society expects them to contribute and serve Singapore in a leadership role in the legal function.
Of course they need to be supported and our universities produce enough law graduates each year to form the support base.
It’s good to go legal service only if you’re eventually invited in once you work your way up in the private sector (e.g. the current AG, LW, VK, WW, SM) etc.
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Well, nobody cares about the lowly-paid legal service. The impression is that you go into legal service if you can't take the hours outside, and want to just get a retirement iron rice bowl. Scholars go to top universities overseas and are forced to stay in AGC earning peanuts - this is a great pity.
For example, I have a friend who went to CC. Getting paid $12k as a junior associate. Another friend in AGC, same batch, getting paid $6k. Really peanuts.