Okay I am no lawyer, but I can advise don't enter a firm looking for a big salary enter wanting to be a part of the firm, any firm welcomes new business and unless you were just drinking and partying in campus you should know a few guys with problems and some chums and they need a lawyer, ask the boss what they would give you if you get them new business, if you happen to bring in a big one the firm starts to treat your pocket better.
But make sure you have an agreement first otherwise you will be very bitter for getting millions for your firm and getting your 5k at the end of the month.

Nolle prosequi for our young lawyers

The Young Lawyer

Prospects of being a lawyer is having a big car, big house, sizeable spouse and healthy kids who attend those schools.
But before then, a lawyer is sufferer.
After reading law for five years, one is expected to go for pupilage.
This pupilage stage is where most students wished they could have done "lighter courses"
At the ODPP there's no pay, you just work hoping they'll absorb you later.
At the AGs a lawyer is paid 10k, then you're posted anywhere in the country. How you transport yourself and your stuff there is your own typhoid.
The biggest taker of pupils are law firms.
Good law firms in Nairobi pay between 20 - 30k. Houses in Nairobi may consume half of that, u have to walk long distances at lunch hour to look for pocket friendly vibandas. Then you have to wake up before the birds to pay fair fare or you just pretend you want to avoid jam. Law firms in Nairobi that pay 10k and below should be evacuated because they are spoiling the name of the capital city.
In up country, some law firms are courageous enough to pay 5k to a degree holder. That 5k is not paid at once, some months you can even go without it.
Surely how do these law firms expect people to live?
You meet . a class mate who all over sudden looks twice their ageWith suits that passed retirement age two years ago. Shoes are not totally worn out because lawyers are thin and light. Suits have changed colors thrice from the original color.
The firms expect you to smile as you welcome clients. How can someone who ate nothing smile,? They keep thinking how much they owe the owner of madondo hotel, many wishing they were tunoi.
Some students have eaten greens so much so that they spit green saliva.
Some have entered MoU with kibanda proprietor so that they can eat and pay later whenever they use their wits in the firms to get money through other unorthodox means.
Mama mboga has her book where she records her debtors. The column of a lawyer she writes: wakili wa suti brown. Because there are several other lawyers in her book.
People from village keep sending you harambee cards for various projects. Some have so much faith in you that the make you guest of honor: Hon. Mwesimiwa wakili Ochi Baba- Guest of Honor.
Some concerned Aunties also tempt you with suitable spouses, wondering what you're waiting for while your agemates have beaten homes with two wives.
But lawyers are resilent, I haven't any who has committed suicide despite the untold sufferings.
Keep up friends, tough times won't last forever!!