Lawyer Salary

No need to argue law vs med. Law mostly medicine rejects. If could do med they would have done, why settle for a life of uncertainty?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone watched CBT’s mass call speech? Seems to have generated some controversy on LinkedIn.

Vote that unrepentant boomer out

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Seriously, why are people still studying Law thinking that they can make it big in an international firm. Most law graduates end up in a Big 4 or worse a mid/small Chinatown firm.

If you compare the salary for law/med, law is laughable.

Medicine:

Year1-Year 5 (MBBS). Year 5-Year 6 (HO $6000/month) Year 6-Year 11 (MO $8500/month)

Year 11 (locum GP $250,000/year)

Law:

Year 1-Year 4 (LLB). Year 4-Year 5.5 (Part B+ bar exam $2500/month).

Year 6 NQ (Big 4 $7500/month) Year 11 PQE 5 (Big 4 $13000/month).


Salary aside, a local Med graduate (male) gets to serve his NS as an MO, earning more than those law students who had to do their NS right after poly/a levels.

Employment prospects, let’s not even talk about that. 100% of YLL Med grads are in full employment, barring those who failed/dropped out in Med school. Whereas for Law, most are struggling to land a Big 4 TC and get retained… having to settle for low value work in small firms for a rice bowl that will break anytime if the economy is bad

lol this entire post is so biased it’s pathetic.

Learned friends, thoughts?

Is it me or I’m just biased? I’ve had mixed opinion working with Malaysian called counterparts.

Especially those from the mysterious unis or twinning grads.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Learned friends, thoughts?

Is it me or I’m just biased? I’ve had mixed opinion working with Malaysian called counterparts.

Especially those from the mysterious unis or twinning grads.

As in they’re working alongside you in SG? Or are they in KL?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Go TKQP. Very strong disputes.

not OP but just curious do all these firms pay around the same for NQ?

or how easy or hard is it to jump to big 4 after trainee?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

No need to argue law vs med. Law mostly medicine rejects. If could do med they would have done, why settle for a life of uncertainty?

Why are people still comparing law vs med? This is so passe à la the 2000s or early 2010s.

The world has moved on people. Nobody drops to the floor and prostrates themselves at either doctors or lawyers any longer. So, please get over yourselves.

When I qualified for NUS law in the late 00s early 2010s, I thought that it was a great achievement.

Now all that me and my wife hope for is to quickly redeem our condo mortgage, upgrade to a landed property, hope our kid doesn't f**k it up and at least qualifies for a university, and retire as soon as we can.

You guys can keep arguing with yourselves over which line of work is more prestigious.

Computer science is the best ofc. Get into FAANG/ Quant trading (>10k/month).

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why are people still comparing law vs med? This is so passe à la the 2000s or early 2010s.

The world has moved on people. Nobody drops to the floor and prostrates themselves at either doctors or lawyers any longer. So, please get over yourselves.

When I qualified for NUS law in the late 00s early 2010s, I thought that it was a great achievement.

Now all that me and my wife hope for is to quickly redeem our condo mortgage, upgrade to a landed property, hope our kid doesn't f**k it up and at least qualifies for a university, and retire as soon as we can.

You guys can keep arguing with yourselves over which line of work is more prestigious.

Wrong. I get a mini-erection when I sit SQ business class and get called a “Dr”.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Computer science is the best ofc. Get into FAANG/ Quant trading (>10k/month).

So low???

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