Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Same as what a first yearer earns in CC.

What to do leh? When your clients are mom and pop run companies who haggle over every bill, you are never gonna be able to win the foreign firms. Singapore’s corporate landscape is simply not robust enough for local firms to earn the kind of top dollar that CC earns. Just look at our exchange - most of them are family run towkay shops.

This is pretty obvious.
That’s why top law grads go to magic circle or the white shoes coz they know the very concept that you earn more and save, you essentially cut short the no of years you need to work. Possible to retire at 40. As compared to 65 if you’re in a small firm.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This is pretty obvious.
That’s why top law grads go to magic circle or the white shoes coz they know the very concept that you earn more and save, you essentially cut short the no of years you need to work. Possible to retire at 40. As compared to 65 if you’re in a small firm.

Its possible to retire at 25 if you join the Legal Service.

hi all,

any reviews on the corporate dept in Eversheds Harry Elias?

read some on glassdoor but I thought I could get more opinions here

what are some of the pros and cons working there?

salary? worklife balance (if any of course), career progression?

thanks!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

hi all,

any reviews on the corporate dept in Eversheds Harry Elias?

read some on glassdoor but I thought I could get more opinions here

what are some of the pros and cons working there?

salary? worklife balance (if any of course), career progression?

thanks!

All the reviews can be summed up as "go to an international firm instead"

Originally Posted by Unregistered

All the reviews can be summed up as "go to an international firm instead"

Yeah but if you start out in a small firm due to 2:1 and lower, it’s difficult to scale up.

You can scale up to big four (by exp), but always a long shot from the magic circle or white shoes.

Increasingly white shoes want pedigree. And pedigree can only be sought from Oxbridge or the top 5% from NUS.

Stay on topic pls

Bunch of Singaporean Asians with no connection whatsoever to US talking about partnership in wachtell cravath etc is frankly preposterous. Might as well say u wanna be US president

What's the NQ to 5pqe scale for big 4?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Stay on topic pls

Bunch of Singaporean Asians with no connection whatsoever to US talking about partnership in wachtell cravath etc is frankly preposterous. Might as well say u wanna be US president

What's the NQ to 5pqe scale for big 4?

From what I've heard:

NQ: 5.8k
1 PQE: 6.8k
2 PQE: 7.8k
3 PQE: 8.8k
4 PQE: 9.8k
5 PQE: 10.8k

Does anyone know what the salary and progression is like in the legal service? As a scholar vs non-scholar?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

From what I've heard:

NQ: 5.8k
1 PQE: 6.8k
2 PQE: 7.8k
3 PQE: 8.8k
4 PQE: 9.8k
5 PQE: 10.8k

Please don’t spread fake news.
The increase is not $1k