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serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by dood » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:11 pm

seriously....i imagine something like:

1. do well in US office of big firm
2. ??
3. ??
4. PROFIT at king wood mallesons

any ideas on ?? and ??

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by stayway » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:14 pm

holy shit they are combining? yikes.

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by dood » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:41 pm

nooyyllib wrote:holy shit they are combining? yikes.
nice that was secondary purpose of my poast.

prediction: global top 5 within 10 years

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by stayway » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:53 pm

dood wrote:
nooyyllib wrote:holy shit they are combining? yikes.
nice that was secondary purpose of my poast.

prediction: global top 5 within 10 years
re: how to work there

one of my LS alumni is working for King & Wood right now. She did this international LLM program for her third year through my school at the University of Singapore - supposedly she networked there and got a job at King & Wood.

She was law review (graduated cum laude) from my school.

FYI, she is white and my school is T2.

HTH (if it does at all).

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by dood » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:41 pm

nooyyllib wrote:
dood wrote:
nooyyllib wrote:holy shit they are combining? yikes.
nice that was secondary purpose of my poast.

prediction: global top 5 within 10 years
re: how to work there

one of my LS alumni is working for King & Wood right now. She did this international LLM program for her third year through my school at the University of Singapore - supposedly she networked there and got a job at King & Wood.

She was law review (graduated cum laude) from my school.

FYI, she is white and my school is T2.

HTH (if it does at all).
Yea it does; do u know what they pay?

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by dood » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:42 pm

did she have to pass any bar in asia?

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by stayway » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:45 pm

dood wrote:did she have to pass any bar in asia?
She's working there as a foreign legal consultant (i think). I'm not sure about King & Wood specifically, but for firms in other asian countries, if you want to work as an FLC, you just need to pass the bar in the States.

I'm not sure what they pay. I don't personally know the person so I can't say more.

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by amyamy » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:29 am

google - seems like the firm pays new york associates USD 40 per hour.
not biglaw salary.

the pay is likely lower elsewhere - a lot of firms do not pay uniform salaries in all offices.

why would you want to work there?

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by dood » Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:10 pm

amyamy wrote:google - seems like the firm pays new york associates USD 40 per hour.
not biglaw salary.

the pay is likely lower elsewhere - a lot of firms do not pay uniform salaries in all offices.

why would you want to work there?
to work on the biggest LBOs, make it rain renmenbi, experience hookers and blow from the far east (vs. lower east side NYC)

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by Anonymous User » Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:02 pm

lol@ biggest LBO's. do you know anything about china credit markets right now?

also comp is based on the llb model, not the jd model. you will get hosed.

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:05 pm

A friend received a Beijing offer there coming from a T14 LLM program. They offered her US$1000 a month. She passed.

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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:16 pm

Anonymous User wrote:they offered her US$1000 a month. She passed.
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Re: serious Q: how to work for King & Wood Mallesons in HK

Post by dood » Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:50 am

Anonymous User wrote:A friend received a Beijing offer there coming from a T14 LLM program. They offered her US$1000 a month. She passed.
wow thats good to know. im glad i started this thread. thank u for the tip.

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