Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The same can be said of auditors what. And they earn significantly less on average. What toking you?

Most people who studied law did so because of the following reasons:

If low tier foreign law school, because they're mediocre but want the prestige that comes with being a supposed high flyer (according to misconceived layman notions).
If high tier UK law school or NUS or SMU, its because they are unimaginative, unambitious and are not the hustling or entrepreneurial type.

Let's face it most lawyers don't want to stray off the well trodden path and want everything charted out for them. This profession self selects for people with a more conservative bent, who just want to put their heads down to work

The high flyers in law will likely be high flyers in other fields too if they had the inclination for it. the mediocre people in law will also be mediocre even if they do something else

Go consulting or IB. $_$ more dough than Singapore law practitioners. LLMs are a waste of money. The returns are too uncertain, no one cares whether you can write a dissetation. Do something useful like an MBA

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If you had said any other MC there are no issues. But I think CC's culture has been examined in some of the forum posts.

can you elaborate more about CC

Im a law student from Bristol Uni. Anyone can shed some light on whether it it better to qualify in uk or sg? and how covid affects nq salary?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Im a law student from Bristol Uni. Anyone can shed some light on whether it it better to qualify in uk or sg? and how covid affects nq salary?

UK. Go and earn that pound. One day when the local grads have slogged out enough PQE at a reputable Singapore firm, they may (if the stars align) be hired in an international office where you outrank them.

If you come back to Singapore you will be subject to bad odds. This is because the Singapore system is skewed towards local grads. You will have to do Part A, which has an unreasonably high fail rate compared to Part B.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

UK. Go and earn that pound. One day when the local grads have slogged out enough PQE at a reputable Singapore firm, they may (if the stars align) be hired in an international office where you outrank them.

If you come back to Singapore you will be subject to bad odds. This is because the Singapore system is skewed towards local grads. You will have to do Part A, which has an unreasonably high fail rate compared to Part B.

Singaporean NQ in UK here, more or less accurate.

I think if you have a choice then yes UK will be better. But tbh if u can’t be a fake angmoh here your life will be quite miserable despite the nice comp

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Singaporean NQ in UK here, more or less accurate.

I think if you have a choice then yes UK will be better. But tbh if u can’t be a fake angmoh here your life will be quite miserable despite the nice comp

What do you mean by fake angmoh?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I'm with this guy.
I'm mediocre and pretty happy to stay mediocre. Not much interested in being a high flyer either, doesn't really matter what i do.

me too - i have a 2nd lower

drawing 150k pa at the moment, not sure if i would ever hit 200k pa

[QUOTE=Unregistered;167494]What do you mean by fake angmoh?[/QUOTE

say heya, lovely and my love to everyone all the time loh. be very fun, spontaneous and outspoken (right or wrong just whack, no need to use brain and think).

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

What do you mean by fake angmoh?[/QUOTE

say heya, lovely and my love to everyone all the time loh. be very fun, spontaneous and outspoken (right or wrong just whack, no need to use brain and think).

Ey mate I'm chuffed to bits. Fancy a cuppa

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ey mate I'm chuffed to bits. Fancy a cuppa

MC firm: this person makes a good diversity hire. Such good manners. My recruitment manager will be in touch.