Originally Posted by Unregistered

I think the Ministry of Law is making a huge mistake IMO. They simply can't absolutely control supply of lawyer through the number of law schools or by opening a new law school. Supply of lawyers are determined by the number of training contracts the private firms decide to give out.

The aim of the third law school is to provide Singapore with more community lawyers. The issue here is where the hell are the community law training contracts? Why can't it be fulfilled by the glut of excess lawyers? Don't this people study family law, criminal law or even medical law?

The answer to that is most small firms don't have any training program in place. Even if you start a law school based on community law, where are these people going after they graduate.