Originally Posted by Unregistered

No need to chew out the kid lah. Honestly this kind of legal news saga and gossips, nobody outside of law cares.

Lawyers always think that outsiders care a lot about what's going on within their industry. Overinflated sense of importance. Truth is, no one cares. No one has bandwidth to pay attention to kacang puteh news like this, after the 5 minute news cycle has passed.

Its partially how the industry is structured - to idolize the top senior partners, 'dealmakers', SCs and judges like they're Gods. Entire industry magazines devoted to covering X lawyers jumping ship to Y firm. Honestly, no one outside gives a d__n.

Take it from someone who practised in a transactional area and is now in-house. Lawyers aren't anything more than glorified transaction support and paper pushers or business support. The real dealmakers are the C-Suite and financiers. Commerce is done by talking money, not by negotiating endlessly over obscure Clause 21.3 of appendix 4 of some document no one actually reads except the lawyers.