Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Baker was the place to be in my time.
The starting pay was the highest.
Back when CC didn’t take in Sg trainees, baker was the go to place.
Everyone in the b4 looked in awe when they saw a baker trainee then assoc.

You throw a stone everyone in that batch was a first except for a small minority.
There was an unspoken rule that you do not need to ask a fellow trainee for degree classification

Well said. Baker is analogous to Singapore in its hey days with home grown talent but now with liberalisation and cecas look wats happened to Singapore

Appropriate to take marriage leave if you just joined the firm?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Lol what does that even mean?? Is this some baker worship I'm reading? Nobody who knows the market wants to train and start at baker. WP and A&G corp is far more reputable and offers way better exit options (and don't even get me started on liti, there's no way to even begin comparing baker for that) - the starting salary may be lower but you will easily outstrip baker once you make that first jump 1.5 years in.

Moral of the story: don't get blinded by the slightly higher starting salary and miss the woods for the tree. when you're a junior assoc, training and brand name is key

Unless you just want money and just waffle your way through practice and milk till you can't milk further. If you aren't enlightened you become the minority and you tank all the work that these wafflers refuse to do but sad you get same pay boohoo

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Appropriate to take marriage leave if you just joined the firm?

Very. Maternity leave also can. Then you win. You played the system kudos to u

So do people usually purposely wait for at least a year to get married after they just join the firm to avoid naysayers commenting on the inappropriateness of the timing of leave taken?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Lol what does that even mean?? Is this some baker worship I'm reading? Nobody who knows the market wants to train and start at baker. WP and A&G corp is far more reputable and offers way better exit options (and don't even get me started on liti, there's no way to even begin comparing baker for that) - the starting salary may be lower but you will easily outstrip baker once you make that first jump 1.5 years in.

Moral of the story: don't get blinded by the slightly higher starting salary and miss the woods for the tree. when you're a junior assoc, training and brand name is key

What's wrong w baker liti? Also what is the track record of ex baker liti quitting. Do they move upwards to big MC cravaths

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Very. Maternity leave also can. Then you win. You played the system kudos to u

Yeah you would have game the system.
But the other assocs would hate you

In my time, a baker trainee was minimally a fch.
But that was minimum, they would have other things such as distinctions in part b, prizes at uni level, dean’s list for all years, etc.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

In my time, a baker trainee was minimally a fch.
But that was minimum, they would have other things such as distinctions in part b, prizes at uni level, dean’s list for all years, etc.

Then how the fch assocs tahan the new bunch with the relaxed entry requirements

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah you would have game the system.
But the other assocs would hate you

Why would it matter to me if I don't even bother about them. All that matters is whether I have gamed the system and I get paid. I'm not there to stay anyways. And if they hate me isn't that good. They get even more riled up and their lives in distress whereas me enjoying my benefits and pay and having a louder last laugh.