Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah, juniors are so worthless and always have strawberry mentality. They deserve even lower pay. Can’t wait till legal salary pay is $2-3k.

Boss u pay me half pay, I work half day ok?
Boi ah, u work half day, then how I make sure some of u burnout? I need to feed all of you until 5PQE ah? I no lui ah. I lawyer leh, force u resign, irony a not ah boi boi. Later lawsuit my PC gone, I law firm boss becum grab driver. U own self burnout go bake cakes lah boi boi.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Drewcorp good but Drew’s corp pass.

R&T has corp?

What drewcorp. You mean corporate secretarial? Why would anyone want to do that

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Junior assoc here from a small mid sized. Thinking of applying out and moving firm from Jan onward. Would applying in Sept be too early. Not expecting any bonus this year. Didn’t have any also.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

1 mth, but the team is severely short handed. No admin support, trainees or other assocs. The files and matters need a lot of handing over. Probably need to give even longer notice for transition.

What about application to firms like SLB, DRD? Anyone has thoughts about WP Corp or Eng&Co’s Corp team?

Which small mid sized firm is this. Attrition rate so high. Left 1 junior Assoc.
Don’t apply anywhere please. Your partner will cry.

Make up your mind before you write your hypotheticals.
Are you small or mid sized?
Are you a team or a partner-assoc pair?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Make up your mind before you write your hypotheticals.
Are you small or mid sized?
Are you a team or a partner-assoc pair?

medium, but on the smaller end of the medium sized.

seccie resigned, sometimes a sporadic intern, essentially a partner-assoc pair.

seems to be hard to find trainee oso now

Serious question. Is it true That Chinatown or small firms starting salary is 3k? Or how much is it?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

medium, but on the smaller end of the medium sized.

seccie resigned, sometimes a sporadic intern, essentially a partner-assoc pair.

seems to be hard to find trainee oso now

How is it a medium-sized firm if it's only a 2 man team. You have to be honest with yourself on whether you're a small-sized firm associate, and therefore it may be harder to upgrade to larger midsize or large firms.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How is it a medium-sized firm if it's only a 2 man team. You have to be honest with yourself on whether you're a small-sized firm associate, and therefore it may be harder to upgrade to larger midsize or large firms.

10+ lawyers. But the team 2 person

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Serious question. Is it true That Chinatown or small firms starting salary is 3k? Or how much is it?

I've heard it ranges around 3.5 (bare minimum) -4.5 (most small firms are closer to at least <4k), but that's excluding bonuses. You'll earn about 30% less than big law firms, but the difference will not be as big in the formative years (assuming your firms pays out around 3-4 months of bonus).

Also, if you're hardworking or good at negotiating, usually what happens is that associates will ask for a cut of the fees they generate. I've heard of chinatown lawyers under 3PQE earning 10-15k from chinatown firms, as they have deals where they get 10-20% of fees generated.

If you're not super ambitious, the partners make a really decent living. It's just that your earning at chinatown firms (those crim/family sweatshops) will top out at say 20-30k, whereas biglaw firms (if you slog for years and make it to equity level), will top out at alot higher.

Our PM has announced low wage regimes to be revamped and encouraged fair hiring. Does this apply to legal practice?