Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I feel like this is a circular argument. The same can be said for the firm to have paid your bonus despite you not hitting your billables/under your billables. But I guess emotionally / coming from the POV of how you might feel, your “base pay” is not that far off your admin staff counter parts.


Only real downside I can see is precisely that the front load portion being a “bonus”, the firm is at liberty to claw it back when you decide to leave.

Was always curious - is there actually a clawback if the assoc was determined to be a poor performer or does the firm let the poor performer keep his front loaded already-disbursed bonus?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Was always curious - is there actually a clawback if the assoc was determined to be a poor performer or does the firm let the poor performer keep his front loaded already-disbursed bonus?

Some firms remove front load when you tender, but doubt any reputable firms would claw back.

Front load is just annoying when they say your pay is comparable to your international firm friends but come bonus season you are behind.

Does anyone know the trainee pay for HSF singapore's training contract?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not a lot. 3k

Ey don't play play, 3k can buy many many plates of cai fan.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How’s the NQ pay at withers? Higher than Big 4?

LOL it’s lower… please leave if you can it’s not worth it - look at LinkedIn too exit opportunities are not great… not sure why someone would want to train there in the first place

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I feel like this is a circular argument. The same can be said for the firm to have paid your bonus despite you not hitting your billables/under your billables. But I guess emotionally / coming from the POV of how you might feel, your “base pay” is not that far off your admin staff counter parts.


Only real downside I can see is precisely that the front load portion being a “bonus”, the firm is at liberty to claw it back when you decide to leave.

Hi I am not OP but just curious.. how the hell would anyone not be able to hit their billables? Like i been in practise for so long, I haven ever once not been able to hit my billables or gone beyond it, even straight after getting called.

If anyone has trouble hitting billables maybe they should re-evaluate if practise is for them because its literally the basic bare minimum.

Of course there will be months where you feel burnt out or have family issues to resolve but thats probably only 1 out of 12 months so your point is kinda invalid.

Its not a circular argument imo. Front loaded is bs and we need to stop defending it.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi I am not OP but just curious.. how the hell would anyone not be able to hit their billables? Like i been in practise for so long, I haven ever once not been able to hit my billables or gone beyond it, even straight after getting called.

If anyone has trouble hitting billables maybe they should re-evaluate if practise is for them because its literally the basic bare minimum.

Of course there will be months where you feel burnt out or have family issues to resolve but thats probably only 1 out of 12 months so your point is kinda invalid.

Its not a circular argument imo. Front loaded is bs and we need to stop defending it.

Not the poster who posted the 'circular argument' reply. I'm the initial poster who asked for someone to explain in simple terms why frontloading is bad.

But that's the thing though. I still haven't really seen any compelling reason which clearly explains why frontloading is such a bs practice.

On an annual comp basis, if one gets "$X" in total for the entire year, does it really matter whether "$X" is divided between higher monthly and lower end year bonus, vs lower monthly and higher end year bonus?

Anyone can point me to the post that Jerald Foo made a while ago warning of the perils of joining an international firm? I think it makes for excellent reading that all that glitters is not gold.

may i ask the law students out there: does a tenancy agreement require a court order to be enforced, in the event of refusal of rent payment by tenant?

if clause states "if rent unpaid for seven days [...] landlord shall be entitled to immediate take possession of the premises"

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not the poster who posted the 'circular argument' reply. I'm the initial poster who asked for someone to explain in simple terms why frontloading is bad.

But that's the thing though. I still haven't really seen any compelling reason which clearly explains why frontloading is such a bs practice.

On an annual comp basis, if one gets "$X" in total for the entire year, does it really matter whether "$X" is divided between higher monthly and lower end year bonus, vs lower monthly and higher end year bonus?

Say you are paid $4,500 per month (that’s your base).
But if firms were to pay $4,500 per month, no one would join.

So to entice young associates, they pay $6,000 for instance. But the $1,500 is frontloaded.

Which means when you get your bonus of 2-3 months, it is based on the $4,500 per month. So if you calculated $4,500 x 3 months (bonus) it’s equal to $13,500 which is 2.25 months on $6,000 salary.

In firms that don’t practice front load, it means your bonus of 3-4 months is based on $7,500. That’s the meaning