Parents encourage their children to work hard in school and take up professions such as medicine or law because they’re deemed to be respectable and well-paid. According to Forbes Magazine, fresh graduates from prestigious law schools can, for instance, make GBP 120,000 per year. The figure can be higher or lower depending on the country the graduates choose to live and work in. Here are the top ten countries with the highest paid salaries for lawyers, based on information gathered from Robert Walters’ 2016 Salary Survey.