Originally Posted by Unregistered

this forum should focus on SG lawyers' salaries and experiences.

not sure why everyone is always harping on about US pay - law is a graduate degree there, law graduates are often up to their ears in debt (both undergrad tuition and law school tuition), the US bar exam is closed book, and it is very common for people to be renting their own apartments in high COL places like NYC, Boston, SF *during* law school. given those costs (time costs & monetary expenses), their high salaries make sense. and many people don't survive very long in biglaw anyway