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Old 30-04-2020, 11:37 PM
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Kudos to you for sharing. There's no shame in leaving the industry and I encourage those who did to come forward to speak the truth about the industry especially the batches who got duped by the supply committee to read law. The way how toxicity and harassment at the workplace is normalised by junior lawyers is something which few would dare to speak out in fear of losing their jobs or being moved to cold storage.
Let's be clear here. No one duped anybody to read law. Its too bad if you were regaled by tales of young associates earning fat paychecks in the Big 4 and shortly after hopping over to international firms for even larger $$

That experience largely doesn't hold true for most people.

Let's look at the facts objectively: (1) the legal industry is going through structural changes worldwide, and the halcyon days of charging clients high finance-esqe fat fees are over, (2) the Singapore legal market has never been mature enough to support a large pool of lawyers working in big firms and earning big bucks. We are not a prime destination for finance in Asia, much as we like to think we are. That crown is (still) held by Hong Kong.

Your law degree still gives you an advantage and opens doors if you know how to use it. Sure, you may have to hustle like all other grads, but you were never "special" or guaranteed a high paying job to begin with.

You did not lose opportunity cost studying for an LLB at the undergrad level. The situation here isn't analogous to the US where people shell out big bucks (or take loans) for a post-grad JD, and expect some measure of ROI to pay off their loans.

If you were stupid enough to pay for an expensive overseas law education because you couldn't get into NUS or SMU for a cost-effective degree, then that's on you or your parents who footed your bill.

Short of holding another protected professional degree like medicine or dentistry, there ought to be no expectation of guaranteed employment in a cushy high paying role.

Grow up and learn to hustle, like everybody else.
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