Mentoring platform under investigation for 'speculative' claims, 'opportunistic' operations: LawSoc
Kelly Ng
THE Law Society is investigating a coaching platform lawmentors.sg, after the enterprise, which promises to equip students and graduates for plum training contracts for a fee, came under fire in Singapore's legal circle early this week.
The programme - with its website set up just over a week ago before being pulled on Tuesday - claimed it had a "mentor network" across elite law firms in the United Kingdom and the United States. It had promised to help mentees land jobs among the Big Four and mid-sized firms here, amid the rough economic climate.
The move to charge one-and-a-half to two months of the mentees' starting salary in return for the purported offer of placement in plum jobs was especially alarming to the LawSoc, it told The Business Times. It called the website operator's claims "speculative" and "unsubstantiated".
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