Over just four years up to March last year, the number of practising lawyers here leapt by nearly 25 per cent to more than 4,400.
Another 1,500 are expected to join them in the next three years. And there has been a sharp rise in those heading overseas to study law. In Britain alone, the number of Singapore law students more than doubled from 510 to 1,142 between 2010 and last year.
