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Casual academic staff are paid as follows: University of New South Wales - Human Resources - Casual Academic Staff Salary Rates, Human Resources, UNSW It's a bit of a gravy train in Commerce for those students doing honours - they're virtually guaranteed a few tutorials, and as you can see...

Those figures were already given (and, yes, are widely known). The management consulting firms and investment banks, not so much.

You're asking people to give up information that is commercial in confidence to satisfy your own curiosity.

Why is it that important? I can't imagine it'll greatly influence your decision as to where to apply, and if you receive multiple offers then you'll know about the salaries.

As a package, I think $65k is on the low side for top tier firms. You can quite easily look up graduate pay rates for government agencies if you wish. Investment banking salaries are anecdotally around $100k + bonus (~$150k) and probably more than that in the bulge bracket firms. I will...

I got an offer in a top-tier firm and I did around 5 hours of legal work a week, with the remaining time spent on the internet. It's a culture thing. They give offers to everyone who doesn't majorly screw it up.

Don't get confused. 80% of tutorials are compulsory.

No, it wouldn't - legal studies is not at all like law, and it would be very deceptive to students studying in high school.

Oooh, burn. True too, given the widely known requirement for billable hours per day.

Yes - the point is, there's no requirement to be passionate about law. The health sciences are a special case because of the responsibilities they entail. No one gets uppity about making sure mathematics students really love math. Why do law students need anything extra?

First, a 360 degree change would be no change at all? Second, what is wrong with wanting status and money? I'm not at university to help the needy or for the pure joy of doing law. Why would they have a responsibility? These people don't owe you or any other student a single thing.

I can't imagine you'd have any luck in a non-CL country.

No use sitting around - give them a call and see what they tell you. They might be willing to bend the rules on class size, or tell you that there will be another tutorial or - worst case scenario - now they know that more tutorials are needed.

Be warned that you will need to apply very early. I think they generally want graduates to apply a couple of years in advance (!!) and the same might be true of clerks. Also, the application process is tortuously long.

There's nothing quite like cashflow

Occasionally, I think that I must be the only person who aspires to get nothing more out of my law degree than a sweet, well-paid job.

Yes.

I think UNSW's tends to be around 86 or 87

I'd like to think I've retained the vestiges of personality, but everyone I know would disagree. Hapless drone is going a little far though.

Actually, it means that they're at the forefront of academic expertise. I'd much prefer a barrister who has a specialisation vaguely in the area of law he's teaching than someone with a Ph. D. in the same area. All of the best teachers I've had don't really have a massive academic background.