OP here once again. To further prove my point above that it is well-settled that law students have had the chance of benefiting from an in-house internship (and that the only way in is NOT just to go in after years of practice), and to persist in progressing this discussion in answering of my question above - for the benefit of all law students interested:
NUS law school has facilitate in-house internships with (source: s://law.
nus.edu.sg/cfglaw/students/i-want-to-find-internships-training-contracts-jobs/vi):
Aberdeen Asset Management
Accenture
AEM Singapore Pte Ltd
Align Technology
Allfunds
Amadeus GDS Singapore Pte Ltd
Aramco Trading Singapore Pte Ltd
ATT Systems (Spore) Pte Ltd
BBC Worldwide
Bollore Logistics Asia Pacific Corporate Pte Ltd
BP Singapore Pte Ltd
Bunge Ltd
ByteDance (Singapore)
Canon Singapore Pte Ltd
Capgemini Singapore
Changi Airport Group
Citibank N.A. Singapore
Danone Asia Pte Ltd
Dril-Quip Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Engie Services Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Epsilon Telecommunication Pte Ltd
Fox International Channels
Fushinova Technologies Pte Ltd
GE Money
Gemalto Pte Ltd
General Electric
General Insurance Association (GIA) of Singapore
Google Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Guocoland Management Pte Ltd
Harley-Davidson Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
HydraX Tellabs, Inc
Imerys Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Ingram Micro Asia Ltd
Intelllex
Intel Technologies Pte Ltd
JP Morgan Chase Bank
Klook Travel
Lazada South East Asia Pte Ltd
LEGO Group
LinkedIn Singapore Pte Ltd
Luxottica
Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd
Marriott International
Merck Pte Ltd
Merz Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Minterest Private Limited
Mitsubishi Corporation
NBCUniversal
NEFIN Technologies Pte Ltd
Nestle Singapore Pte Ltd
NTUC Income Insurance Co-operative Limited
Orica International Pte Ltd
Pavilion Capital International Pte Ltd
PayPal Private Limited
PetroChina International (Singapore) Pte Ltd
RCI Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd
Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte Ltd
RtM International Pte. Ltd.
Samsung Asia Pte Ltd
Silverdale Capital Services Pte Ltd
Singapore Petroleum Company Limited
SMRT
Standard Chartered Bank
Symantec
Temasek Trust Ltd
TES-AMM (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Unilever Singapore
Vopak Asia Pte Ltd
Yara Asia Pte Ltd
SMU YPH law school has facilitated in-house internships with (source: s://law.
smu.edu.sg/student-activities/internship):
Accenture Pte Ltd
Asia Pacific Breweries Limited
Adobe Systems Pte Ltd
Allianz International Pte Ltd
Allianz SE Insurance Management Asia Pacific
Aon Singapore
BP Singapore Pte Ltd
Capitamalls Asia Limited
Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Coca-Cola Far East Limited
CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd
Dymon Asia Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Dyson Operations Pte Ltd
ESPN Star Sports
Financial Industry Disputes
Resolution Centre Ltd (FIDReC)
GE Capital Services Pte Ltd
GE Healthcare
Google Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Hewlett Packard Singapore (Private) Ltd
Hong Leong Finance Limited
Ingram Micro Asia Ltd
Keppel Fels Limited
LexisNexis Singapore
McDonald's Restaurants Pte Ltd
Monsanto Singapore Co. Pte Ltd
NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative Limited
Pavilion Capital
Paypal SG
Pontiac Land Group
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Saxo Capital Markets Pte Ltd
SE Insurance Management Asia Pacific
Siemens Pte Ltd
SingPost
Singapore Aero Engine Services Private limited
Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Symantec Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Tellabs Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd
Tiger Airways Singapore Pte Ltd
Vopak Asia Pte Ltd
You can't tell me that:
1. Working at Tiger Airways wouldn't enable you to gain legal and commercial experience/understanding in asset/aviation finance/law.
2. Working at AON wouldn't enable you to gain legal and commercial experience/understanding in insurance brokerage/laws.
3. Working at Aramco wouldn't enable you to gain legal and commercial experience/understanding in oil and gas/project development/project finance/laws.
4. Working at Pavilion Capital wouldn't enable you to gain legal and commercial experience/understanding in fund formation/structuring/corporate laws.