Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

any inhouse folks here?

do share your experience

are you content with your pay package?

Hello,

I haven't seen many responses to this question so i thought i'd give you my two cents worth.

I moved in-house after 2 years of practice and i've been in-house for a year plus now, so i'm at PQE 3+. My annual is now at 98k including bonus. I'll probably hit 100k in the next year or so.

Benefits are great and work life balance is even better. I can literally count with one hand the number of times i've stayed in the office past 6pm in the year+ i've worked with this company. Health, dental and insurance are also beyond generous (and extended to cover spouse and children, if it matters).

If you are at a big4 or international firm, this will most definitely be a pay cut. No question about it.

I advice you to consider carefully before taking the leap in house. If money is something that is extremely important to you, this may not be the route to take. I don't mean this in a judgmental way but more like if i were the sole breadwinner and had 4 kids to raise, i would not consider this option until very much later in my career (like when i have enough to pay off all my kids' uni tuition).

On the other hand, if you want a short break from life or to settle down and spend more time with your children, this is actually a pretty good option.

The down side is that work can be really boring at times. Going from practice to in-house is akin to your brain being on ten thousand cans of red bull to suddenly going back to normal again.

Happy to take questions!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Lol at some of the paranoia here.

U give the firm's way too much credit. BTW There's no such thing as a superb info sharing network across the firms working to blacklist TC breakers. Heck some of these HR departments can't even sort out their s**t within their own department.

The only thing you may be risking is pissing off the partner in whose team you are going, really. But if it's a bigger firm hiring by department as a pool, then you're just an unknown entity. Chill.

Fully agreed. To add, the risk of pissing off the partner is dismissively low. Not everyone are on good terms with each other. The partner in firm A could be an ex-spouse of the partner in firm B. Or perhaps competing for business. Or perhaps bad blood during university.

You can’t be so unlucky to go to firm A where the partner is a spouse of the partner in firm B.
Life doesn’t work like that.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Fully agreed. To add, the risk of pissing off the partner is dismissively low. Not everyone are on good terms with each other. The partner in firm A could be an ex-spouse of the partner in firm B. Or perhaps competing for business. Or perhaps bad blood during university.

You can’t be so unlucky to go to firm A where the partner is a spouse of the partner in firm B.
Life doesn’t work like that.

For what’s its worth, I know of a friend in law who has said he hates his ex (who is in law too) and he is going to take her down and the current bf (i.e. guy who stole his gf). Childish as it may sound but this friend is probably one of the top lawyers around and it’s possible he may just do that (in future). So yeah this is just one example but it shows you not everyone are good and chummy with each other. So don’t overthink just switch your tc!!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

i don't believe you - your english is awful for someone called to the bar

who cares.

truth is i passed my nus, i passed my bar and i got the job.

if you are a lawyer, i challenge you to come out and face me.

otherwise stop acting like one.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

i passed my nus

well it is an llb and not a ba english after all.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

well it is an llb and not a ba english after all.

Why people expect lawyers to write perfect English in an informal setting?
So you mean lawyers have to talk to their family (wife and children) in some pompous sounding English and qualify everything they say?

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

any inhouse folks here?

do share your experience

are you content with your pay package?

let me chime in:
- called ~8 years ago
- annual comp ~$15x k
- enjoying the work-life balance

anyone knows which US firms in SG pay the mid-atlantic/cravath rate? I heard some white shoes in SG pay even below MC rates..

Originally Posted by Unregistered

anyone knows which US firms in SG pay the mid-atlantic/cravath rate? I heard some white shoes in SG pay even below MC rates..

Dechert is not a white shoe firm.