Seniority and Court Hierarchy
“After five years of practice, I don’t want to do anymore lower court work, man. It will be High Court and above only,” said my friend when we hung out in the court corridors of the Kuala Lumpur courts when they were located at Jalan Raja. He was in a well known corporate litigation set. I was in my father’s firm doing debt collection. We were second year lawyers. “I only want to do big …