Well, you have a point but it is too premature to say. If you have read the 4th committee's report, you would know that it is only the last 2 years or so that the numbers have really went up. Hence that is the reason why you don't see many law graduates complaining as the legal industry still manages to absorb most of them.

At the end of the day, why would the law firms worry. They have a set number to recruit, and they will go out there and cherry-pick. The main issue that I have gather from reading most of the posts by the other anonymous users has to do with the image and prestige of the profession. If you reduce the benchmark, ultimately over the long run, the quality of practitioners would only deteriorate.

Besides, if we want access to 'desirable' profession to be truly meritocratic, why would MinLaw allow more than half of the yearly intake of lawyers to come from overseas Universities. It is a known fact that large number of students in the Singaporean law faculty come from above-average households. Wouldn't it be more ideal to restrict the number of overseas university to only those that are better than what we have locally? With the third law school coming up, isn't it better to ramp up the numbers through the third law school so that the profession becomes more accessible to the public.

At the end of the day, it is just disconcerting to know that in the near future, more than half of the freshly-minted lawyers would come from overseas universities which are not accessible to the man on the street.