Advocate
| Highest | $12,950 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 5+ yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 4 years of study + 3-month internship |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $12,950max |
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $12,000 |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $10,550 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $10,550 |
| United KingdomIELTS 6.0–7.0 · £11–38k | $10,550 |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $9,850 |
What does the day look like?
Roughly 20–40% of your week is courtroom work — pleading, examining witnesses, responding to judges. That share runs higher in criminal and family cases and lower in commercial work, where written tasks dominate 40–50% of the time: drafting pleadings, skeleton arguments, opinions, and chronologies. Client work takes about 15–25%, often through a solicitor who passes instructions and runs conferences.
The rest is research and prep, which spikes before hearings. You work in Word and legal databases such as Westlaw, Lexis, Beck-Online, Dalloz, and Kluwer Navigator, file through court portals like CE-File, and track time in systems like Clio or Elite. There is no shift rota or on-call duty like in medicine, but evenings and weekends are normal before trials, and urgent cases can mean very long days. Many advocates are fee-based rather than paid by the hour.
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