QUOTE(wodenus @ Oct 19 2008, 04:51 AM)
Eh.. when you become a partner, that's when you really make money. It's not glamourous, but it still makes a lot
come back when you're a partner and then tell me you earn peanuts
u only make partner if...
1. ur really good at what u do
2. someone died i.e. a partner
3. or ur 5 yrs before ur retirement.
it really depends whether u can make it there, u need to polish up your knowledge experience and skill in 5 yrs... Most Law Grads only see what is infront of them and complain, low pay and long hours. if u pass that 5 yr mark u would have succeeded and on your way to riches.
thing is what can a law grad or a chambering student for that matter help a Lawyer, Lawyers have an opinion that Chambering students should pay them instead of the other way round because they r filling up an empty tin with knowledge!
Besides the points above...
I don't deny that there are abuses by law firms, how they take advantage of chambering students or law grads. To hire them as cheap labour or despatch boys in lieu of hiring an office boy. The shouting, screaming, tempers flaring and constant fear whilst working in a law firm, that's why being a lawyer has never beeen easy. It will take nerves of steel and guts to stand out if u right.