Legal Jobs In Thailand?

[Bencal26]

Is there a market for US attorneys in Thailand? Fluent English of course but no Thai. I've researched some law firms with Bangkok branches, but they all seem to have Thai attorneys who speak fluent English.

[Oleg_Rus]

Is this refering to wealthy US attorney ? Than answer is "Yes, please"

next week my friends from Chechnya will come looking for exactly one ...

Also, free sight seeing tours to Grozny City, if somebody's interesting

[Casanundra]

Is there a market for US attorneys in Thailand? Fluent English of course but no Thai. I've researched some law firms with Bangkok branches, but they all seem to have Thai attorneys who speak fluent English.

As being a working lawyer in Thailand is restricted to Thais only that may be the reason. there are many foreign lawyers working here however but they either own their own law firms and therefore call themselves something else or they work as an employee with a title that doesn't have the word lawyer in it for the purpose of getting their WP.

The problem you have, there are A LOT of well qualified Thai lawyers who speak excellent English out there who currently don't have a job and you are competing with them.

[Bencal26]

Is there a market for US attorneys in Thailand? Fluent English of course but no Thai. I've researched some law firms with Bangkok branches, but they all seem to have Thai attorneys who speak fluent English.

As being a working lawyer in Thailand is restricted to Thais only that may be the reason. there are many foreign lawyers working here however but they either own their own law firms and therefore call themselves something else or they work as an employee with a title that doesn't have the word lawyer in it for the purpose of getting their WP.

The problem you have, there are A LOT of well qualified Thai lawyers who speak excellent English out there who currently don't have a job and you are competing with them.

By well qualified do you mean US/Europe law grads or Thai law school grads? I noticed some Thai lawyers even went to US law schools/undergrad. I hope the legal job market isn't worse than CA or NY.

Speaking truthfully I just came back from my first trip to Bkk and it seems like a great place to live. I'm in South OC right now and life seems so boring in comparison.

[Casanundra]

Is there a market for US attorneys in Thailand? Fluent English of course but no Thai. I've researched some law firms with Bangkok branches, but they all seem to have Thai attorneys who speak fluent English.

As being a working lawyer in Thailand is restricted to Thais only that may be the reason. there are many foreign lawyers working here however but they either own their own law firms and therefore call themselves something else or they work as an employee with a title that doesn't have the word lawyer in it for the purpose of getting their WP.

The problem you have, there are A LOT of well qualified Thai lawyers who speak excellent English out there who currently don't have a job and you are competing with them.

By well qualified do you mean US/Europe law grads or Thai law school grads? I noticed some Thai lawyers even went to US law schools/undergrad. I hope the legal job market isn't worse than CA or NY.

Speaking truthfully I just came back from my first trip to Bkk and it seems like a great place to live. I'm in South OC right now and life seems so boring in comparison.

Almost ALL the lawyers I work with have Harvard / Wisconsin / Cambridge (UK) Law Master / Doctorate degrees and so are very well educated both from a Thai perspective (All have their Thai bar exams under their belt) as well as a USA / UK perspective too.

HOWEVER, qualifications / knowledge versus decent experience seems to be their biggest issue and so there is still a requirement for good experienced lawyers here. You may want to consider becoming a professor of law and teaching at the Universities here instead.

[steveromagnino]

The few foreign lawyers I have met here who are doing well tend to have specialist experience as well, concentrated in one aspect of IP law or commercial real estate law or similar. That gives them a bit more value. Their clients tend to be MNEs.

That said, obviously the law here is not the same as the law in USA or New Zealand or wherever, so there is some re-learning required.

Doesn't USA have the most lawyers per capita?

[bendix]

The few foreign lawyers I have met here who are doing well tend to have specialist experience as well, concentrated in one aspect of IP law or commercial real estate law or similar. That gives them a bit more value. Their clients tend to be MNEs.

That said, obviously the law here is not the same as the law in USA or New Zealand or wherever, so there is some re-learning required.

Doesn't USA have the most lawyers per capita?

That's not necessarily true, Steve.

My place has, I think, 4 farang lawyers and paralegals and with one exception who specialises in IP issues, the others are all general commercial / corporate lawyers.

Except, of course, they're not called lawyers on their business card