Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Definitely marketing. They're also recruiting for the new public defender's office as well as the general shortage of criminal defence lawyers because it simply isn't a lucrative practice area.

AGC has no lack of talent pool of prospective hires, because there's still a cachet of prestige working for the govt / Singapore Legal Service (nothing prestigious compared to international firms obv, but it's not that far off from big 4, and definitely leaps and bounds ahead of your run-of-the-mill local midtier and chinatown sweatshops).

It should be noted that SUSS grads were supposed to fill this shortage of criminal defence lawyers, but to absolutely nobody's surprise at all (since there's no restrictions on which areas they can practice), most SUSS law grads would simply use their education as a 'backdoor' way of getting a recognized local LLB on the cheap despite being NUS or SMU rejects, and join the more lucrative practice areas.

The best route as a crim defence lawyer is to work in one of the white collar crim defence teams in the big firms, like Chentils, Sashi, Wendell's or Chee kun's, then jump to do regulatory, investigations and fraud in an international firm.

What about AGC? Who would be the people to shadow or learn from? Can you ask to work with specific individuals like an SC or their top litigators when you apply? And would working with such people be equally marketable if you decide to go out to practice after? Or does it not work the same way?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Any opinions about Drew's TMT department?

Exit options to intl firms / in house?

No point. Low chance of transition to intl firms. Based on past record.

Go A&G’s M&A or something - best chance to go intl firm

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What if you have to go against former JLCs from Oxbridge ? Good game

Lol stop the hero worship. Ive gone up against former JLCs, SCs and equity partners and won. If the facts and the law are in your favour, it is easy.

so many nus grads this year joining nyc law firms straight asia's top law school

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Lol stop the hero worship. Ive gone up against former JLCs, SCs and equity partners and won. If the facts and the law are in your favour, it is easy.

So what if i worship JLCs who are from Oxbridge?

Best still if they succeed and are in Intl firms.

My idol

Originally Posted by Unregistered

so many nus grads this year joining nyc law firms straight asia's top law school

Good lor they go enjoy with NY tax rates

Originally Posted by Unregistered

so many nus grads this year joining nyc law firms straight asia's top law school

Better deal than going for JLC

Originally Posted by Unregistered

so many nus grads this year joining nyc law firms straight asia's top law school

The work in NYC is still miles ahead of the work here, in terms of scale and complexity. It’s a reflection of the market maturity and size of the economy. Working in NYC is probably better exposure and may be a good choice for young lawyers, even after factoring the crazy rent and high tax.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The work in NYC is still miles ahead of the work here, in terms of scale and complexity. It’s a reflection of the market maturity and size of the economy. Working in NYC is probably better exposure and may be a good choice for young lawyers, even after factoring the crazy rent and high tax.

Its only complex because us laws are whack. But agreed 2-3 years there = can lateral into anywhere.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The work in NYC is still miles ahead of the work here, in terms of scale and complexity. It’s a reflection of the market maturity and size of the economy. Working in NYC is probably better exposure and may be a good choice for young lawyers, even after factoring the crazy rent and high tax.

also good in a non white shoe firm?