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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi I would appreciate it if I can get some advice.
Will doing 3 years with AGC after graduation help with my career progression if i exit after that and join a private law firm?

Only if you're considering doing litigation in future (and even then b4 liti or int firm liti/arb is probably a better bet).

If you want to do corp don't bother.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi I would appreciate it if I can get some advice.
Will doing 3 years with AGC after graduation help with my career progression if i exit after that and join a private law firm?

Question is too general. It depends on what you are doing at AGC and what you want to do in a private firm. For example, doing white collar crimes in AGC might be valuable experience for a white collar/investigations role in an international firm.

IB 40 pointer.

Got rejected from OxBridge and NUS Law.

Accepted to UCL and LSE.

But parents don’t like me to study in London because it’s not safe and rents are costly.

What are the alternative Uni choices that I should consider?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Did you get a tc rejection from them or sumthin like this behaviour is unhinged

Is being a lesbian hinged?

://.singaporelawwatch.sg/Headlines/upcoming-longer-training-contracts-could-hurt-law-firms-bottom-lines

How far up the ivory tower are these people? Dismissive, lip service about the financial impact of an increased 1 year TC period on trainees. A totally unnecessary increased duration, I might add.

Don't forget that for every firm that waxes lyrical about their generosity in increasing their TC allowance by $500-1000 (oh joy, how grateful trainees should be for their firms' largesse), 2 other firms are probably sticking with the same amount and happy to work their trainees like a full associate but pay them at the unchanged trainee stipend.

The part about hurting bottom lines because they can't charge clients for trainees' work is bollocks anyway, because the reality is that the trainees will be deployed to do more lower order tasks, freeing up the qualified associates to take on more billable work anyway.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Part B results just came out yesterday, kinda shocked that I did not pass one of the module. Kinda sad actually but I suspect because I didn’t finish one of the question. I’m going to take supplementary exam for that in April which hopefully I’ll pass.

Newbie here so just wanna understand how failing one module will reflect on me? Does it significantly diminish my chances of TC conversion? Is there any good way to tell the firm about it? Is it common for people to fail one mod?

Thanks guys!

I failed one of my exams this year too. Can i check if anyone knows when the supplementary exam results will be out this year? Can I still get mass called in August assuming the dates are similar to last year around 20 ish Aug?

Also will i get the SILE certificate to file my affidavit if the results are released late?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I failed one of my exams this year too. Can i check if anyone knows when the supplementary exam results will be out this year? Can I still get mass called in August assuming the dates are similar to last year around 20 ish Aug?

Also will i get the SILE certificate to file my affidavit if the results are released late?

These are questions you should be directing to SILE, not this anonymous forum. They have a Q&A page for precisely this reason.

For big 4, are all decisions on retention informed to HR by a particular deadline? Or do partners have discretion on when to announce retention?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

For big 4, are all decisions on retention informed to HR by a particular deadline? Or do partners have discretion on when to announce retention?

Different departments announce at different times, but they are usually not too far apart, maybe a week or two at most.

anyone knows which firms have announced retention of this year’s batch of trainees?