On The Ground
Brain drain of younger lawyers a worrying trend as S'pore grows legal sector
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Some 310 junior lawyers with less than five years of practice exited last year, making it about one out of seven choosing to leave.
ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
SINGAPORE - There were four major developments in the legal sector this week.
On Monday (Jan 10), newly minted Law Society president Adrian Tan said at a ceremony to mark the opening of the legal year that the society will study the attrition rate of young lawyers after a record number of them left the profession last year.