Dear all,

 

Can anyone please tell me the average salary for an expat legal consultant here in Bangkok (3years experience)? Since I consider myself as a junior expat, what package should I be looking at? Your help would allow me to better negotiate my remuneration package later on, i truly appreciate it!

 

 If it helps I am already a qualified lawyer in my home country, I am common law qualified, legally trained in Australia and I am a multilingual speaker (native speaker of Mandarin, fluent in English, Cantonese, Bahasa and Taiwanese).

Not visa related moved to here.

Sorry about that @ubonjoe... Thanks for reclassifying the post for me. 

The higher of

i. 42,000 Baht per month

ii. your commercial value to the law firm

 

No charge for this advice.

 

Next.

Have a look here:

 

https://th.jobsdb.com/TH/EN/Search/FindJobs?KeyOpt=COMPLEX&JSRV=1&RLRSF=1&JobCat=1&SearchFields=Positions,Companies&Key=legal counsel&JSSRC=HPSS

Thanks @Briggsy and @FritsSikkink!! 

My wife worked in a law firm in Bangkok for 7 years.

 

The American Expat Lawyer (20 years +) experience was on 120K Baht/month when she left.

Greetings @Aussieroaming, how long ago was that? Did she work in a large firm or a local firm? Thanks for your feedback! 

34 minutes ago, Aussieroaming said:

My wife worked in a law firm in Bangkok for 7 years.

 

The American Expat Lawyer (20 years +) experience was on 120K Baht/month when she left.

Greetings @Aussieroaming, how long ago was that? Did she work in a large firm or a local law firm?

Thanks for your feedback!

8 minutes ago, Goosebump1988 said:

Greetings @Aussieroaming, how long ago was that? Did she work in a large firm or a local law firm?

Thanks for your feedback!

Not sure how you define large..5-6 lawyers and the local staff, specializing in patent law. Owner of the company was an Indian Lawyer. My wife left the company in 2013. A lot of clients from O/S with product sales in Thailand and I don't know anything about law but there was a lot of involvement with anti-counterfeit operations.

I started as a local hire expat lawyer at 80k for an international local firm 20 years ago. I had about your level of experience but no languages.  

 

Try the real international firms, then the local firms doing international work, then the local Thai firms and finally the chains marketing to foreigners for visas etc.  

 

Good luck!  

Clearly I made a bad career move, starting work twenty-five years ago as an English teacher at Terdsak's Palace of Expert Languages (Klong Toey branch).

Learn Thai, speak, read and write, start your own business employ lawyers with an honest interest in the problems of expats in Thailand, use Facebook and other media outlets to get your name around and you will have so much business  in such a short time that you will within reason be able to name your own salary.

 

just be honest and have a genuine interest in doing your best for them that is all your clients will ask of you.

Good luck 

from what i've seen  can probably start your own firm and hire/partnet with  thai lawyers. can be managing director because no law license in thailand.  see how it works out

If I remember correctly, the expat lawyer that assisted me a few years ago at SunBelt Asia was making 70,000 baht, and seemed to be roughly equivalent to you in terms of experience.

7 hours ago, Goosebump1988 said:

Greetings @Aussieroaming, how long ago was that? Did she work in a large firm or a local law firm?

Thanks for your feedback!

Sorry, that was a law firm in BKK, not an international one

Just want to say thanks to all of you for your contributions so far! :))) I appreciate it!