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I hear that so long as you have good relations with a party in power you will be lumber 1.
If you oppo lawyer good luck to you
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...urts-bullying-lawyers-attrition-study-6200181
SINGAPORE: Lawyers are leaving private practice amid toxic workplace cultures, bullying, unreasonable workloads and a profession that intrudes into their personal lives, according to a study commissioned by the Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc).
The Legal Profession Sustainability Study released on Tuesday (Jun 23) also found that some respondents felt law schools had not adequately prepared them for the realities of legal practice, and cited multiple lawyers saying that they were "scolded, ridiculed or publicly humiliated" by judicial officers over inflexible court timelines.
The four-year study was conducted by research firm Anthro Insights for LawSoc, and surveyed 855 practising and former lawyers and drew on 31 in-depth interviews with members of the legal community, including former judges, senior practitioners, junior lawyers and lawyers who had left the practice.
The 223-page report was commissioned by the late LawSoc president Adrian Tan, who had warned in 2022 that young lawyers were facing a “perfect storm” of record-high departures and record-low entrants into the profession. Mr Tan died on Jul 8, 2023.
“The legal profession now possesses systematic evidence about why lawyers leave and what might keep them,” the report stated in its executive summary, adding that "attrition stems not from individual failings, but from structural and cultural conditions that may have remained unchanged for decades".
The study found that workplace culture and its association with poorer mental health were among the strongest factors associated with lawyers leaving private practice and, in some cases, the profession altogether.
“Current interventions appear to fall short because they treat symptoms while underlying conditions continue to generate harm.
"This evidence points to the need for close collaboration across the legal ecosystem."
The study's findings add to longstanding concerns about lawyer attrition that have also been raised by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, who said in April that one in three new lawyers may quit within three years due to workload and poor culture.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Law (MinLaw) said the study's findings should be taken seriously and considered carefully.
"When every generation of senior lawyers has criticised the generation entering behind them for decades, the pattern points not to recurring generational deficiency but to persistent structural flaws in the design of early career roles," researchers said in the report's executive summary.
------ obviously the oldies are fearful of the youngsters taking over their livelihoods and condemn them first
If you oppo lawyer good luck to you
Lawyer attrition a systemic problem driven by toxic culture, bullying, court pressures: LawSoc study
The study said the issue stems not from individual failings, but from structural and cultural conditions that may have remained unchanged for decades.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...urts-bullying-lawyers-attrition-study-6200181
SINGAPORE: Lawyers are leaving private practice amid toxic workplace cultures, bullying, unreasonable workloads and a profession that intrudes into their personal lives, according to a study commissioned by the Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc).
The Legal Profession Sustainability Study released on Tuesday (Jun 23) also found that some respondents felt law schools had not adequately prepared them for the realities of legal practice, and cited multiple lawyers saying that they were "scolded, ridiculed or publicly humiliated" by judicial officers over inflexible court timelines.
The four-year study was conducted by research firm Anthro Insights for LawSoc, and surveyed 855 practising and former lawyers and drew on 31 in-depth interviews with members of the legal community, including former judges, senior practitioners, junior lawyers and lawyers who had left the practice.
The 223-page report was commissioned by the late LawSoc president Adrian Tan, who had warned in 2022 that young lawyers were facing a “perfect storm” of record-high departures and record-low entrants into the profession. Mr Tan died on Jul 8, 2023.
“The legal profession now possesses systematic evidence about why lawyers leave and what might keep them,” the report stated in its executive summary, adding that "attrition stems not from individual failings, but from structural and cultural conditions that may have remained unchanged for decades".
The study found that workplace culture and its association with poorer mental health were among the strongest factors associated with lawyers leaving private practice and, in some cases, the profession altogether.
“Current interventions appear to fall short because they treat symptoms while underlying conditions continue to generate harm.
"This evidence points to the need for close collaboration across the legal ecosystem."
The study's findings add to longstanding concerns about lawyer attrition that have also been raised by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, who said in April that one in three new lawyers may quit within three years due to workload and poor culture.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Law (MinLaw) said the study's findings should be taken seriously and considered carefully.
"When every generation of senior lawyers has criticised the generation entering behind them for decades, the pattern points not to recurring generational deficiency but to persistent structural flaws in the design of early career roles," researchers said in the report's executive summary.
------ obviously the oldies are fearful of the youngsters taking over their livelihoods and condemn them first
