Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

go to ldn so you can make all your whiteworshipping peers jealous with your ig stories of you sipping a flat white by an australian barista in south kensington without having to do that tt check in crap

its not about the money its about telling yourself and your peers that you're better than them. when you come back to sg with some dead white man's name on your cv and several litres of his descendants' sperm in your cervix/colon your peers will worship the ground you walk on and everything you tell them to do in that plummy new accent sounds like an order from the queen herself

Who hurt you bruh. Lost your spg gf to a white man?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Who hurt you bruh. Lost your spg gf to a white man?

how's uni at exeter treating you ? rmb to attend your morning lectures and dont have too many nights out, daddy didnt shell out all that money just for you to get herpes and a 2:2, even b4 back home has standards these days

This forum has really gotten toxic beyond belief.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This forum has really gotten toxic beyond belief.

Microcosm of the legal profession here. Sinkie pwn sinkie so can sleep better at night.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The take-home for £150,000 annually post tax and national insurance is £7555 per month. Rent and bills in London (assuming you live alone and you live in a very nice modern apartment in central london) ranges from £2000-£2200 per month. That leaves you with £5355. You can save significantly more if you don’t mind apartments further out or if you flat share (some people don’t spend more than £1000 per month on rent and bills). Bearing in mind this is before bonus. US firms hand out multiple bonuses/ pay-outs (in addition to the fixed bonus when you hit your target hours, which is northwards of £8-10000 for FIRST YEARS). Skadden gave out 2020 Christmas bonuses for shits and giggles. US firms hire PR firms to manage your LinkedIn, there’s 24h secretarial and IT support, you have medical/life/dental insurance (your life insurance is upwards of £600,000), there’s wellness payments monthly on top of sponsored gym memberships. Even as a first year associate, you have experienced PAs, paralegals and dedicated support teams to help proofread and format your documents. The list goes on.

OP, I presume you are being pegged as a first year. £150,000 works out to nearly £205,000, which is the revised Cravath/DPW scale. This is one of the highest £ rates offered to first years by US firms in London. V&E tops the scale at £153,000.

I made the move from a B4! If there is any way I could reach out to you privately, I would! Am happy to answer any other non-monetary questions you have (eg about culture, deal flow, hours compared to B4 etc).

*USD205,000 not £205,000

Anyone has any thoughts about the NUS JD programme, whether that will make next year's TC application more competitive given that some of those JD students are qualified in another jurisdiction?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone has any thoughts about the NUS JD programme, whether that will make next year's TC application more competitive given that some of those JD students are qualified in another jurisdiction?

I don't think most self-respecting lawyers will do a JD if they already have an LLB, they'll probably do an LLM. If someone does take a JD to whitewash their LLB, that probably means they are quite ashamed (or feel that their degree is useless). Why bother being frightened? In any other ordinary situation, an LLB in another jurisdiction would have taken an LLM, suggesting either poor planning or a poor degree.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The take-home for £150,000 annually post tax and national insurance is £7555 per month. Rent and bills in London (assuming you live alone and you live in a very nice modern apartment in central london) ranges from £2000-£2200 per month. That leaves you with £5355. You can save significantly more if you don’t mind apartments further out or if you flat share (some people don’t spend more than £1000 per month on rent and bills). Bearing in mind this is before bonus. US firms hand out multiple bonuses/ pay-outs (in addition to the fixed bonus when you hit your target hours, which is northwards of £8-10000 for FIRST YEARS). Skadden gave out 2020 Christmas bonuses for shits and giggles. US firms hire PR firms to manage your LinkedIn, there’s 24h secretarial and IT support, you have medical/life/dental insurance (your life insurance is upwards of £600,000), there’s wellness payments monthly on top of sponsored gym memberships. Even as a first year associate, you have experienced PAs, paralegals and dedicated support teams to help proofread and format your documents. The list goes on.

OP, I presume you are being pegged as a first year. £150,000 works out to nearly £205,000, which is the revised Cravath/DPW scale. This is one of the highest £ rates offered to first years by US firms in London. V&E tops the scale at £153,000.

I made the move from a B4! If there is any way I could reach out to you privately, I would! Am happy to answer any other non-monetary questions you have (eg about culture, deal flow, hours compared to B4 etc).

Damn elite. Teach plz.

What practice area best?

Alternative is also to look at US firms in HK or STB and K&E. Market is red hot.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't think most self-respecting lawyers will do a JD if they already have an LLB, they'll probably do an LLM. If someone does take a JD to whitewash their LLB, that probably means they are quite ashamed (or feel that their degree is useless). Why bother being frightened? In any other ordinary situation, an LLB in another jurisdiction would have taken an LLM, suggesting either poor planning or a poor degree.

lol another example of the toxicity / small mindedness of some people, they think Lord Thomas LCJ was "ashamed" of his "poor degree" and had "poor planning".

s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas,_Baron_Thomas_of_Cwmgiedd

Thomas was educated at Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in Law in 1966. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall in 2004. He proceeded to the University of Chicago where he earned a J.D. degree and was a Commonwealth Fellow

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone has any thoughts about the NUS JD programme, whether that will make next year's TC application more competitive given that some of those JD students are qualified in another jurisdiction?

no need to get anxiety over it because even if it's more competitive so what, that's life. Assuming getting TCs is the concern, you got the advantage of relative youth and you didn't have to spend as much money. And with people like #14109, they may look down on these people anyway.


if you lose a spot to someone who has more degrees/qualifications than you, i'd imagine it's not as a bad as losing it someone who got in because of daddy.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Damn elite. Teach plz.

What practice area best?

Alternative is also to look at US firms in HK or STB and K&E. Market is red hot.

All I can say is that from what I’ve heard, white shoes in HK are ****ing cutthroat.