Lawyer Salary

Why is everyone so eloquent in law while I’m not

Shagged. I’m a trainee at Baker now and drawing 2k a month. Not even enough for food and taxi (not able to claim taxi mostly because of difficult claiming system). Working till 2am daily. FML. Honestly the amount of work we are doing, should entitle us to a higher salary. CC pays its trainees 7k, why can’t other firms follow?

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Shagged. I’m a trainee at Baker now and drawing 2k a month. Not even enough for food and taxi (not able to claim taxi mostly because of difficult claiming system). Working till 2am daily. FML. Honestly the amount of work we are doing, should entitle us to a higher salary. CC pays its trainees 7k, why can’t other firms follow?

Am I in a better position?
I am paid $1500 only but I get to go home by 6.30 everyday.
The amount of work I handle is relatively straight forward and my boss will guide me when I am unsure of anything. I get to go to attend court hearings for exposure and learning.

However I wonder if my pay is too little?

Should I move to a bigger firm for better pay say $2000?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Shagged. I’m a trainee at Baker now and drawing 2k a month. Not even enough for food and taxi (not able to claim taxi mostly because of difficult claiming system). Working till 2am daily. FML. Honestly the amount of work we are doing, should entitle us to a higher salary. CC pays its trainees 7k, why can’t other firms follow?

Because CC is an English law firm that does a two-year training contract (so trainees are getting paid about $7k for two years before getting the NQ pay which is about $10k or so), whereas other firms do the Singapore law training contract which is merely six months - CC does pay more obviously but they are an outlier and only offer a handful of training contracts in Singapore each year.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Because CC is an English law firm that does a two-year training contract (so trainees are getting paid about $7k for two years before getting the NQ pay which is about $10k or so), whereas other firms do the Singapore law training contract which is merely six months - CC does pay more obviously but they are an outlier and only offer a handful of training contracts in Singapore each year.

So CC doesn’t have to follow LPA to conduct 6 month tc and can run their own 2 year tc?

Doesn’t explain why then post tc sg firms don’t pay $7k or more.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Am I in a better position?
I am paid $1500 only but I get to go home by 6.30 everyday.
The amount of work I handle is relatively straight forward and my boss will guide me when I am unsure of anything. I get to go to attend court hearings for exposure and learning.

However I wonder if my pay is too little?

Should I move to a bigger firm for better pay say $2000?

I suggest you move to a bigger firm for greater challenges and $500 more.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Shagged. I’m a trainee at Baker now and drawing 2k a month. Not even enough for food and taxi (not able to claim taxi mostly because of difficult claiming system). Working till 2am daily. FML. Honestly the amount of work we are doing, should entitle us to a higher salary. CC pays its trainees 7k, why can’t other firms follow?

why u so shortsighted

in 5 months time once u qualify, assuming u get retained, your salary will be 4 times your present

eat at golden shoe and save money la. dun need to eat at atas restaurant everyday for lunch. i know a certain social studies textbook will define you as low class, but what to do

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Shagged. I’m a trainee at Baker now and drawing 2k a month. Not even enough for food and taxi (not able to claim taxi mostly because of difficult claiming system). Working till 2am daily. FML. Honestly the amount of work we are doing, should entitle us to a higher salary. CC pays its trainees 7k, why can’t other firms follow?

I suggest you quit now lah. work until so unhappy also no prospects of retention.
Even you get retained and get paid $8,000, do you have the time, health, personal relationships to spend the money with quality?

We only leave once. Dont stay sad. Choose to be happy.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So CC doesn’t have to follow LPA to conduct 6 month tc and can run their own 2 year tc?

Doesn’t explain why then post tc sg firms don’t pay $7k or more.

Bcos CC does work for goldman sachs and blackrock wad.

Sg firms do work for ocbc & dbs.

chinatown firms do work for tan ah kow moneylenders pte ltd.

pay is commensurate lor.

you stoopid or wad

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So CC doesn’t have to follow LPA to conduct 6 month tc and can run their own 2 year tc?

Doesn’t explain why then post tc sg firms don’t pay $7k or more.

I think CC does a hybrid system whereby you do a 6 month Singapore TC with Cavenagh which is their Singapore tie-up, followed by a 1.5 months UK law training with CC itself in order to be dual-qualified in English and Singapore law.

However, after the two years, you will join either CC or Cavenagh (if you get retained, again there are no statistics for this) - so there is some uncertainty here whether the pay is different if you join their Singapore law practice as opposed to their UK law practice. You will probably have to ask people who were actually on the programme and have already qualified.