Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You living in your own dream or is your daddy super connected in the legal industry? Doubt it’s the latter when you’re on this forum asking for tc advice.These intl tcs get filled way in advance and you’re here struggling to even find one to apply to. Of course if you’re talking about the local tie ups then things might be a little better in terms of spots freeing up some how but again, you’ll be better served in getting called with b4 and looking to lateral. Getting a b4 tc doesn’t magically make you the wunderkind.

Remember that Big 4 (especially WongP) takes in second lowers

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You living in your own dream or is your daddy super connected in the legal industry? Doubt it’s the latter when you’re on this forum asking for tc advice.These intl tcs get filled way in advance and you’re here struggling to even find one to apply to. Of course if you’re talking about the local tie ups then things might be a little better in terms of spots freeing up some how but again, you’ll be better served in getting called with b4 and looking to lateral. Getting a b4 tc doesn’t magically make you the wunderkind.

I’m not asking for advice lol — I was replying, as someone who made the jump to a better place. It’s a tedious and painful process but very worth it. This may surprise you but people do leave in the middle of a TC or drop a TC late in the timeline and they open up spots that aren’t necessarily advertised. A lot of your success depends on timing and you can count on everyone else thinking it’s impossible and not even bothering to check or try so late in the period. There’s certainly no harm in trying. Obviously before you jump you need to secure an offer first, so what is the harm? I don’t understand why you’re trying to convince juniors something is hopeless and not even worth the attempt but it’s got more to do with your issues than their situation. Frankly if your point was that some places don’t offer TCs maybe you would’ve had a point. But that’s not the topic here is it?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

whenever i come here and see this thread so active im quite surprised how come people still slogging so hard aspiring to become lawyers. fretting over TC and workload and bar exams.

im one myself now inhouse and if i were one of you younger people, i wouldn't even bother. not worth it.

legal profession has definitely lost its lustre. i studied law in the early 2010s and that was really the height of its prestige. apart from med, most law students can strut around nus or smu campus feeling prestigious whenever you tell people ur from law. also very easy to xian girls saying tt you're a law student.

back then law starting salaries also highest amongst the GES so quite prestigious. but now other fields like CS have easily overtaken the average local firms' salaries and more importantly cost of living and property hv gone up tremendously. if you're stuck in a local firm as a newbie lawyer, you're literally looking at BTOs rather than dreaming of condos, even if your fiance is also a lawyer. Unless you manage to get an international firm gig.

The statement abt cs grads did not stood the test of time.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

don't talk cock la
my friend currently tc-ing now. barely 3k

Next year when it’s a 1 year trainee, will it be 3K?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Next year when it’s a 1 year trainee, will it be 3K?

No lower because they paying you more money in the long run. Have to factor in cost to the firm.

what if a firm take in a lot of trainees but can't afford too many NQs, many unretained?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

what if a firm take in a lot of trainees but can't afford too many NQs, many unretained?

No leh hearsay they stay on as trainee after getting called

Originally Posted by Unregistered

good to see some SUSS representation amongst the latest batches of trainees in the fam and dispute practices of some of the b5/b4 (whatever you want to call) firms . hopefully this dispels the stereotype that SUSS graduates are inferior as compared to their counterparts from the other local unis.

Why arent SUSS students confined to only crim and family law? I mean that is what they said they wish to do during their interviews. Isnt it disingenuous that they now try other practices

How is the environment there?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why arent SUSS students confined to only crim and family law? I mean that is what they said they wish to do during their interviews. Isnt it disingenuous that they now try other practices

I don’t think Suss is a threat to us. I know smu peeps going over to crim law too despite being a “management “ Uni.