Exclusive: The second part of Legally India’s salary survey analysis is out in print in Mint today, and coupled with personal interviews and additional research, revealed huge discrepancies between salaries even within the same firm at the more senior levels. Click through to read the analysis.

After an unfortunate defeat in July, two Amarchand lawyers have now won the pre-quarterfinals of the same NDTV technology-themed quiz show convincingly.

The duo consisting of an associate and a senior associate of the firm wiped the quiz-show floor what seemed like two engineers KIIT Bhubaneshwar’s industrial institute.

Prepare for a couple of awful litigation puns from the host and some nail-biting gameplay set in the now familiar tunnel of mood lights, and prizes sponsored by a friendly neighbourhood gadget shop (prizes apparently upgraded this time from old-school Blackberry and iPod Shuffle to ear phones, an 8GB MP3 player and a low-end Taiwanese Android smartphone. [NDTV Goodtimes (22 minute video)]

Exclusive: Trilegal, which is claimed to have been growing at 25 per cent per year, has converted into nearly a full equity partnership, created an elected management committee and a democratic model where the founding partners could theoretically be ousted by an equity partnership vote.

Legally India was candidly walked through the changes and examines the back story to the end of its best friendship with Allen & Overy (A&O), the grief lawyers can cause, one-way referrals and the inevitability of associate attrition when a firm has to run fast without godfathers.

Wake up on a Monday morning with coffee and a side of four best comments on Legally India this week. Challenge your colleague to a round of “ways in which to lose your bar license”, learn all about BigLaw oligopolies and poor networking judgements and more…

After he retires as Chief Justice of India (CJI) today, Sarosh Homi Kapadia will leave a legacy that will be both defined and shrouded by his circumstances.

Legally India’s best commenters of the past month talk LPO, defamation and women in law.

Today’s Legally India page in Mint: The typical citizen could be forgiven for fearing that the world’s largest democracy is hurtling towards George Orwell’s 1984 rather than 2013.

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In today’s edition of Mint: The finance ministry’s latest concession on service tax imposed on lawyers that was notified in June has been welcomed by some; others continue to say it wasn’t enough and many remained unaware of the current law and how, or if at all, they had to pay this tax.

Latest featured blog: India’s favourite expat lawyer in London, Nandii Reywal has an adventure with a bottle of champers and more. Click to read how Nandii Reywal got drunk, got wild and got laid (off)

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The selection is out again dear readers, and we bring you speculations old, perspectives new, and advice borrowed in a week that had a mix of everything.

Exclusive: Just behind being a brain surgeon, an air traffic controller, and flying remote control UAVs over civilians in Afghanistan from Nevada, being a lawyer can be one of the most stressful of jobs in the world.

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We provide a compendium of the best that LI readers have had to share in the past weeks, trying to come to terms with legal market realities as well as human tragedy.

In today’s edition of Mint: “Today our biggest problem is not foreign firms, it is people working at one-tenth the price that we work at,” said Cyril Shroff, the Mumbai managing partner of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., in an interview in early 2012. “You are constantly being pulled down in price.”