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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Withers KhattarWong is one of the 4 known sinking ship law firms. Apply at own risk.

Think this was true 6-7 years ago but not quite anymore, the colonial rulers have made them clean house internally

Any views on Hogan Lovells (not Lee & Lee)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

corp or ip tc?

do you mean IP in a narrow sense or TMT?

TMT sets you up for some of the best inhouse opportunities

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Which are the other 3 sinking ships. Lee & Lee?

How can.. That one got eternal support from our founding father.. They just don't bother to market themselves because got no reason to.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Think this was true 6-7 years ago but not quite anymore, the colonial rulers have made them clean house internally

This is true. If you're in the know, you'd know that Withers has done serious house cleaning in the past few years, ruthlessly dropping the less profitable practice groups and many local partners. Most of the old birds that formed the core KW aren't there any longer.

In fact, I would say WKW is probably more "international" than many of the other JLVs and FLAs around, by virtue of the massive house cleaning. Just that Withers has always been a niche private client and tax London law firm so their peers obviously aren't MC or Silver Circle

Its kinda ironic because what occasioned the KW-RHT split almost 1 decade ago was, to my understanding, a difference in direction of how the firm should internationalize. Both firms are in vastly different places now.

full integration means what exactly? their associates still paid less than the b4?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Which are the other 3 sinking ships. Lee & Lee?

Give this man a balloon.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

full integration means what exactly? their associates still paid less than the b4?

Lol. Asking the real questions

Which FLA/JLV can be considered “international”?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Which FLA/JLV can be considered “international”?

If you're talking about people paying >big4, quite a few smaller FLA/JLVs do indeed pay above big4, like my firm. However, the work that we do is (admittedly) not at the level you expect from int firms.

Mostly, the int firm have their own payscale/track, and the local firm pays based on their size. For example, Ashurst pays int rates but ADT law does not pay anything close.

There are only a few "pay int, do int work" firms, such as CC/Cavenagh Law, and "pay half-way int rates" firms like BM.

Most of the truly international firms in SG just do not bother with a local partner and get a foreign law license instead or just use the local partner to get the appropriate FLA/JLV license.