Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yah hurry hurry before existing European clients boycott and take their business to competitors example that hungry MC Firm A and US Firm B, let's hurry break up asap and slap "Asia" behind their names. Now it's clear they are relegated to the Asian market to atone for their PR mistakes. Yes! Finally, they can no longer cause affront to precious Anglo-German sensitivities.

End of day, all about money.

Access to Singapore and SEA market = moar $$, please add Taylor Wessing to your name.
Reputational damage threatens £301.5 million revenue per year = less $$, mate please remove Taylor Wessing thankew.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So no matter how much they bill, they will always use this story to scout juniors and underpay them? Sounds familiar to me too.

A timely reminder that RHT is now home to Partner Ang Chong Yi, distinguished founder of lawmentors.sg

s://.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/lawyer-reprimanded-over-website-offering-mentorship-to-law-students-and

Say what you will about the firm but the one thing that cannot be denied is that they are grooming the next generation of 'leaders'

Anybody saw THAT firm's latest post bragging abt its 100% retention rate? Lols

The British used the same argument about helping India society become more civilised to justify colonialism.
Turn behind and laugh their way to the British Museum with their chronicle of pillaged stolen treasures!

A firm may think they are laughing their way to the bank by all the money they scrimped from their lowers,
But turn behind and you see their billion dollar revenue generating competitors turn them into a penny wise pound foolish laughing stock!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Will that be good optics if an international firm like Taylor Wessing,

> headquartered in a country with strong labour laws and trade unions
> billing its clients millions

and yet
> its tactless Singaporean office is relishing how it exploits its juniors for no pay, in BUSINESS TIMES, openly accessible for its client that just got billed millions in legal costs?

Hohoho. Scrimp on peanuts and you get a monkey deal.

It is hardly surprising many international tie ups don't work. RHT and Taylor Wessing, Eversheds and Harry Elias to name a few. There were also some attempted tie ups in the earlier decades.

Culture fit is very important. Everyone who has worked in an intl firm knows that they are serious about stuff like diversity, wellness, fair work conditions. Basically "Western" values that we're not supposed to import into our little island paradise for fear of igniting culture wars.

Of course YMMV but the fact is that their home jurisdictions have non-discrimination and fair work laws hardcoded into their system.

The internationals must surely find our casual exploitation of juniors, overtly racism and low pay endemic in our local firms, utterly backwards and horrifying.

3PQE receiving inhouse offers from a listed US data software company and a Chinese top bank. Which is better in terms of career prospects? Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It is hardly surprising many international tie ups don't work. RHT and Taylor Wessing, Eversheds and Harry Elias to name a few. There were also some attempted tie ups in the earlier decades.

Culture fit is very important. Everyone who has worked in an intl firm knows that they are serious about stuff like diversity, wellness, fair work conditions. Basically "Western" values that we're not supposed to import into our little island paradise for fear of igniting culture wars.

Of course YMMV but the fact is that their home jurisdictions have non-discrimination and fair work laws hardcoded into their system.

The internationals must surely find our casual exploitation of juniors, overtly racism and low pay endemic in our local firms, utterly backwards and horrifying.

The low pay regime is structured for associates mainly because when they go in-house, we do not wish to see them suffer such a huge paycut. We believe in fairness, because be it in-house or private practice, people deserve the same opportunities in receiving equal salaries.

Mate we r werking so bloody hard to sell ourselves as a deserving premium firm for moneybags, but u cheeky impish tattletale bodged it all! U imp went to scrape the bottom of the barrel hand in hand with a blonde Barbie lookalike. Now our paymasters grunt about our chargeout rates. Moneybags want their money back, ever since u recruited gullible zero-costers onto our deals!

Can anyone share details of what the salary for lawyers (who are NOT LSOs) at MAS / other govt agencies is like at the junior/mid-level (eg 2, 3, 4 PQE). Thanks!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Can anyone share details of what the salary for lawyers (who are NOT LSOs) at MAS / other govt agencies is like at the junior/mid-level (eg 2, 3, 4 PQE). Thanks!

Not high lor LOL