Originally Posted by Unregistered

Okay, let's take stock, the comments were (1) Baker does not pay near to SC/MC salary in SG, and pays closer to b4 salary and (2) that Baker is the Macdonald's of law firms.

Firstly, even before the payraises this year for big4, Big4 was paying close to 6k, Baker W&L paid 7.5k for NQ in 2020. This year, Baker increased their pay slightly, whereas the Big4 like A&G bumped their pay up to 7.5k as well.

This is compared with true internationals paying >10k (in fact the going rate for true internationals is around 12-13k). I think you can obviously see that BM is closer to big4, and is nowhere close to int firm salary in SG, unless you want to "educate" me on how Baker has caught up to true int firms in terms of pay?

Secondly, let's discuss the type of work BM does, and the kind of profits it generates. In the list of top 100 law firms by revenue, Baker was ranked 4th in 2019/2020, but by profits per partner, it was ranked 79/80th.

Therefore, it shows that Baker employs a high volume, low cost model to remain profitable. It's a big firm that hires many partners/assocs and works them to the bone doing minor, low profit cases. This is the epitome of a Macdonald's firm.

So please tell me, apart from your bruised ego (I assume you work there or have worked there before), and hiding behind the vague comment of obtaining "current information", what is there to disprove that BM is actually the Macdonald's of international firms?

Please do not just refer me to one or two big cases/tasks that BM has been asked to do in recent times. Almost every firm, even small to mid-size firms, has a few "superstar" clientele, one piece of work to brag about does not suddenly whitewash your firm's reputation.

Just to note, I have been in multiple true international firms in various capacities, as well as some FLAs. In internal meetings (and global catchup meetings), I can honestly say that none of them refer to BM as their rivals or aspirational goals respectively.

If you're from BM W&L or even BM proper, you should already know this, this is not news. BM is consistently talking about how they want to try to become a proper snooty international firm, and the steps they are taking to leave the Macdonald's type of work (albeit with a corporate-positive spin).