Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

grades required - bare min to practise, more fact than law

career progression - you wont be lateralling into bmcc or cc with 2:2 and clas volunteer of the year cert thats for sure

working culture - depends, some places you wont be able to tell colleagues and clients apart

work hours - depends, fam law on weekends and ph sure got clt call you for child access etc

exit opportunities - i had a friend quit to become property agent, dunno what you can make of that

Pls don’t look down on pty agent. Legit I bought a condo as a senior assoc. I took bus and mrt, the pty agent drive bmw 5 series brand new

Originally Posted by Unregistered

seriously considered quitting and teaching pri sch pe after that.

got lobang on how to become pri sch pe teacher?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Which area of community law has more exit opportunities?

why need to exit when u can make more than 200k pa working 10am - 6pm?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

why need to exit when u can make more than 200k pa working 10am - 6pm?

I think it’s harder for the new generation of lawyers

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So rare to see people talk about PIMA NIMA! One of the forgotten areas of law that nobody in law school thinks they will ever (have the misfortune to) do. Any chance for Defendant-side PIMA NIMA lawyers to move onto bigger things, like high value Gen Insurance and Re-Insurance work? Or do most of them get stuck doing low level motor claims?

Most law firms will always be stuck with the low level motor claims. Unfortunately, only the insurance lawyers from big firms get to do the high-value work. The smaller firms just contend with motor claims.

It is worse for the Plaintiff-side NIMA, doing lots of work with little legal costs. And clients are known to be very nasty and stingy.

It it hard for Chinatown lawyers with no corp exp to move in house?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It it hard for Chinatown lawyers with no corp exp to move in house?

Depend on the kind of inhouse, confirm not MNC. They looking for 7-8 PQE, you spent all of that doing cfrc mediation and drafting aom, you gonna advise your FAANG company on that? lol

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Most law firms will always be stuck with the low level motor claims. Unfortunately, only the insurance lawyers from big firms get to do the high-value work. The smaller firms just contend with motor claims.

It is worse for the Plaintiff-side NIMA, doing lots of work with little legal costs. And clients are known to be very nasty and stingy.

What’s new? With AI and automation, all these will be gone in another decade.
Maybe even faster.
That’s why already said, only FAANG, or those high level work like US securities law for capital raising in developing countries is the way to go.
The rest? You wanna fight with Wachtell, etc?
No chance

does anyone know of a 2.2 who actually made it into the international firms?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Depend on the kind of inhouse, confirm not MNC. They looking for 7-8 PQE, you spent all of that doing cfrc mediation and drafting aom, you gonna advise your FAANG company on that? lol

corp in mid size firms also hard to get into FAANG la