Lawyer Salary

[QUOTE=Unregistered;192609]Classic clueless Singaporeans going on and on about universities and academic rigour. Grow up and move on. Outside of appeal cases how much academic skill is there in practice.

If you don’t want to be a partner move to international and grind your youth away for upper middle class income before going in house or changing industries.


Do you mean to grind it till a certain point before changing industries? I thought its better to change industries from the beginning since need to start all over

Does anyone know what’s the average pay in tech MNC as in-house for a 5 pqe?

Is this correct? Any updates?

A&G-7.5 (2022)
R&T-6.1 (Dec 2021)
WP-6 (2021)
Drew-6 (2021)
BWL-8.5 (2021)
TSMP-7 (2021)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Take any top 20 US uni llm and you can generally move over. You may not get a white shoe unless you take a top 6 uni though lol.

This guy obviously does not know what he is talking about. US big law firms do not "generally" take llms....

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Number 1 - Canadian lawyers have JDs, like US lawyers. It is the general perception that a JD lawyer is better than an LLB lawyer, since JD is regarded as a post-grad professional degree in the Anglo American world.

Number 2 - the global economy of high finance and transaction is still very much a white man's world. It is just the reality that someone from the OECD economies of Canada or Australia, will be preferred over someone from Singapore, even if they're theoretically equally qualified and/or experienced.

This is the harsh reality of life. and no I'm not a racial equality SJW.

My firm (in London, as English as they come) just took two Aussie associates as laterals, both of whom are Chinese Australian and did LLBs, so not sure what you are going on about.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is this correct? Any updates?

A&G-7.5 (2022)
R&T-6.1 (Dec 2021)
WP-6 (2021)
Drew-6 (2021)
BWL-8.5 (2021)
TSMP-7 (2021)

I believe TSMP’s 7 only applies to its core corp NQs but I stand to be corrected. The rest looks right tho

So BMWL reverts to its rightful spot as top top tier firm. Suck it B4s!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

My firm (in London, as English as they come) just took two Aussie associates as laterals, both of whom are Chinese Australian and did LLBs, so not sure what you are going on about.

Read properly - it says "someone from the OECD economies of Canada or Australia, will be preferred over someone from Singapore, even if they're theoretically equally qualified and/or experienced"

It isn't a race thing as people seem to be interpreting wrongly. No wonder Singaporeans keep racializing all issues.

It is mostly a country thing. There's a pecking order of countries from which candidates are preferred, and a candidate from an advanced First World / OECD economy would always be preferred over a non OECD economy from the global south. It so happens that the aforesaid countries are historically, and remain presently, majority white countries.

Canada and Australia have better claims than Singapore of being a First World advanced economy.

Again, it is not a race thing. An average British-born-Indian grad will be perceived as a preferred hire in a US/UK firm over an average India-born-Indian grad. Same with Chinese - An Australian-born-Chinese grad will be a preferred hire over a Singapore-Chinese or HK-Chinese grad.

We r talking about working in the HQs of major international law firms in NY and London. We're not talking about working in their outposts in Asia, where of course they're prepared to hire lots of local lawyers from whatever jurisdiction they set up shop in.

Which firms in SG pay cravath rates for M&A? Does it also include annual bonus and special bonus?

I'm SG citizen but graduated from American university. Now looking to return.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So BMWL reverts to its rightful spot as top top tier firm. Suck it B4s!

Baker TC is the same prestige as JLC.
One 6 months the other one 2 years.