Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Some people have the art of stating a claim and defending it, using simple arguments and not hiding behind esoteric terms only under which he feels most confident, so that all are enlightened. It seems you are not such a person.

Yadda Yadda Yadda.. meaningless words and statements from a nobody on a thread they obviously have no real life connection to.

BTW, because you fail to comprehend a simple logical fallacy that any first year law student would, I'll patronise and answer your question in layman's terms. The burden is not on me to disprove your statement, it is rather on you to prove it having made the claim in the first place. See? Hardly 'esoteric' at all

Lastly, I won't have time to reply to you anymore. Enjoy your miserable life and job and know that I consider myself lucky I'll never have the displeasure of mixing with people like you. Ciao

So let's recap. I said this at 09-05-2016, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I like your earlier points. But I think the common generic FO banker at a top 5 bank, say GS, MS, JPM, BoA, Barx, I forgot the ranking anyway, has a better chance than the Harvard Law top law firm associate, in entering Blackstone.

If you want to end up in finance, start in finance.

Then you said this at 09-05-2016, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Lol and to those giving 'advice' about getting into BX PE, just like SIM kids wanting to go IB - dream on.

To which I replied at 09-05-2016, 10:45 PM with

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Does mentioning BX scare you? And please enlighten me what in my advice makes it 'advice'. I don't go on talking about things I don't know. Maybe you can try to argue against my basic, but still sound, advice.

And now you just said:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The burden is not on me to disprove your statement, it is rather on you to prove it having made the claim in the first place.

I would like to ask you what is my statement I have to prove. Since you probably expect more from me, I believe this statement I have to prove is the advice I posted right at the top. Generalizing your idea that everyone has the burden of proving what he or she says, then you are probably consumed by the bigger battle by getting a proof for each comment made in this forum.

But if you just need a proof from me, I could go to every single Blackstone employee LinkedIn page and track which came from a finance related degree or company and which from a law degree or firm. How do you like your chances that I'll find more from the former than from the latter? I guess not much.

Ok kids, stop bickering.

Yes.

When you two have stopped comparing the size of you dicks, could we get back on topic.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yes.

When you two have stopped comparing the size of you dicks, could we get back on topic.

Thanks.

Yeah. For two people with supposedly high flying jobs you both are very free leh.

Or has work driven you both mad?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah. For two people with supposedly high flying jobs you both are very free leh.

Or has work driven you both mad?

There are no high flyers here, only lowly lawyers.

For all the posts and exchanges, i would suspect 50% are not lawyers actually. They are people who know and have seen a lawyer

What is the starting salary like for a legal counsel?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What is the starting salary like for a legal counsel?

Nobody can give a meaningful answer to that.

Firstly, very few legal counsel positions employ fresh grads. Most would have come in with a few years of private practice experience.

Secondly and leading on from the first, it really depends on industry and experience. Oil and gas would obviously pay more than stat board or SME legal counsel.

Perhaps the only thing to say is that it will be benchmarked against comparable private practice salaries of equivalent experience but with very wide variance across industry sectors or companies.

Your question is as vague as asking what's the starting salary of an office job at raffles place

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What is the starting salary like for a legal counsel?

My Friend head of legal in an oil & gas company, about 25 - 30k pm excluding bonus.