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I had to search and find this to actually read it.
The person doing it is thinking that I am the one doing this - some guilty conscience.
Take care - ask your associates for help and I’m sure someone will - communicate politely over call and tell them that you don’t want harms way when it is preventable.
Take good care and all good energy to you.
But can you not take unpaid time-off? Why continue with the job?
Complain to National Commission for Women. Am sure they will bring your firm to its senses.
PMO also has a helpline of sorts or just send a letter. They are generally quite helpful.
what is this country about bro?
However, the YouTube algorithm led me to this interview with the Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Arlekar and the man himself, Mukul Rohatgi: https://youtu.be/maovnJlpD4g
An absolute must-watch for everyone.
The Governor was confronted directly, firmly, and respectfully, and by the end, was subtly but clearly told not to fool around with the Constitution and to allow a minority government to form, regardless of the consequences.
🫡 for Arnab, and 🫡 Mukul Rohatgi for doing this!
Am 100% sure that Tushar saw this interview, and, by now, advised his client to take operation lotus down a few notches. Especially in TN. In the off chance Tushar is reading this, I have a message - sir, please install a smarter CM in WB than the one you have in Delhi, else anti incumbency will hit your employer real hard in 2029. From SG, you’ll return to obscurity. Your client is winning elections only because the INDI Alliance doesn’t have its act together. You aren’t winning because you are doing a stellar job governing this country. How do I know? I have voted for you - the BJP- thrice already. We still have corruption, abject poverty, crony capitalism and broken roads. There’s an acute shortage of judges. You’ve repeatedly obstructed the collegium to get your way. The tribunals, esp. NCLT and NCLAT are corrupt, filthy and poorly managed. Do this country a favour and scrap them. Please. One still needs a jack with some minister, judge or with your office to get on a panel for the union of India, and get work from that panel. The office of the Attorney General has been reduced to a joke with the SG marking briefs! Why don’t you become the AG, bro!? It’s well known that Amit bhai is your buddy. Tell him to make you AG! Why this farce of a installing a namesake AG!?
Credit must also be given to Kapil Sibal🫡. Had it not been for his press conference, I doubt any of this would have happened.
Maybe you are part of this “Sir/Ma’am” hierarchy culture, but as seniors, we never expected juniors to greet us with such suffixs or salutations. We always made it clear that they should use whatever they were comfortable with more like most of us say bhaiya/didi.
We talked about sir/ma'am culture and you had to bring "Alumni".
Dear sir, as a first year, are we forgetting the glorious open house ?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/05/07/narendra-modis-party-is-on-a-roll-in-india?taid=69fc812916d54400015ac582&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
As for the tacky sounding platsforms like Superlawyer, Forbes, Lex Falcon etc - all those are for outright sale. However, even those platforms/ awards are given to those who meet a certain basic criteria.
For more information on how to improve your visibility like this and in other such ways, contact Priyanka Karwa.
Coming to the implications for the legal world, this means that everyone associated with the TMC is now persona non grata. Whether it's the board of NUJS of the board of the WB Bar Council, there will be a total purge.
Nandimath deliberately stayed away all this while. Now he will be active and become a BJP supporter, knowing that it may bring him gains like VC-ship of NLUD or GNLU.
Aspiring lawyers blitz City firms with doughnuts in TikTok stunt
Two women drop pastry boxes at leading Square Mile legal practices, using social media clips to try to catch recruiters’ attention
Jonathan Ames, Legal Editor
Thursday April 30 2026, 6.50pm, The Times
With starting salaries for City lawyers approaching £200,000, competition for jobs is fierce, prompting two prospective candidates to employ a novel approach to getting noticed.
In arguably the most modern spin on a job application, two young women have posted videos on TikTok as they blitz some of the biggest law firms in the Square Mile, dropping off piles of boxes of glistening Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
In one video, posted under the name Alini on the social media site, the women say their mission is: “Making law firms hire us with doughnuts.”
Image description: A woman sitting with a Krispy Kreme box holds a sign saying "Your Next Solicitors (once you hire us)."
Alini’s friend joined her on the stunt
To a background track of Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode, they place a sign next to a box of doughnuts that reads: “Your next solicitors (once you hire us)”.
In another, one says, “The job market is crap; let’s see what we can do about it,” adding: “Every graduate in London knows how hard it is to get a job nowadays, so we have done the only logical thing, which is: show up on the doorstep with doughnuts in hand. And what better place to get them from than Krispy Kreme, because who would say no to that?”
Legal profession experts have pointed out that competition for junior roles at leading City firms has become even keener with new technology. “AI continues to reduce the number of trainee positions,” said Chris Clark, the director of Definitum, a head-hunting consultancy.
The women filmed themselves handing over boxes at two prominent firms, Freshfields, a member of the elite “magic circle” group, which last year recorded an annual revenue of about £2.25 billion, and Addleshaw Goddard.
While Addleshaw Goddard had a more modest revenue of £500 million last year, the prospective trainee solicitors note in the video that the reception team at the firm is “so nice”.
They add: “And look at us smiling through the whole entire thing — like, what are you smiling for? You don’t have a job.”
The TikTok video was unearthed by the website Legal Cheek, which has a history of highlighting novel approaches by wannabe lawyers” to get noticed by prospective employers.
In 2018, it reported on Jordan De Leon, a law graduate from Anglia Ruskin University who stood outside Liverpool Street railway station in the City dishing out copies of his CV, while clutching a sign stating that he was after an “entry level” legal job.
As with many practices in so-called “big law”, the largest and most prestigious law firms in the US, the trend for unique pitches for jobs seems to have started in the US.
In 2013, the law graduate Brian Zulberti sent a mass email to law firms in Delaware in which he posed bare-chested with boxer shorts sitting low on his hips. The image included a handmade sign that read: “Hire Me!!! No… as a lawyer … not a [sic] escort…”
Training places at City law firms have historically been highly sought-after but a combination of US firms fanning salary inflation and social media has spawned increasingly resourceful efforts by job-hunters.
The top of the City pay tree is dominated by US firms, nearly 30 of which offer starting salaries to newly qualified solicitors of between £157,000 and £180,000.
Image description: Two women deliver Krispy Kreme doughnuts to law firms.
However, American firms offer only a few training places each. Many more places are available at the London firms, but the highest-paying — the magic circle players A&O Shearman, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Linklaters — all offer starting salaries of £150,000.
While those salaries are significantly higher than the starting wages of most graduates, there is a price to pay for those who get the jobs. Trainees and junior qualified lawyers in the City routinely work at least ten-hour days and often longer, and law firm partners are also frequently required to weekend shifts.
Clark had a word of warning for the women’s stunt. “Getting the prospective firm to notice you is key,” he said. “The issue with offering confectionery is that the firm might think you’re a doughnut!”
> want to take a moment to sincerely thank each and every one of you who has reached out with kind words, support, and encouragement during this incredibly difficult period. I would especially like to thank all my mentors, friends and colleagues in the fraternity who know the true facts and have read between the lines. Your messages have meant more to me than I can express.
> I feel it is important to address the situation directly: the charges that have been brought against me are entirely false and malicious. I want to be unequivocal about that. I intend to contest each and every one of them vigorously before the appropriate court and I have full confidence in the legal process to reveal the truth.
> For those who may be unaware, legal proceedings have already previously been initiated by me and are currently pending before the family court since some time. Without going into unnecessary detail, this situation is, regrettably, an extension of a deeply painful divorce (and all the issues that inevitably come with it such as a financial settlement and child custody) - one that I had hoped could be resolved with dignity and mutual respect. Misusing one's connects in the media to further their own financial cause in the manner being done is not appropriate.
> I remain committed to my work, my values, and the people who have stood by me. I am grateful beyond words for your continued trust and support.
> Thank you.
he is not on ▮▮▮ website any longer is it him
i dont know who is right here, but the poor child has been dragged into this shit storm by one (or both) fucked up adult and it just pains my heart to see it so
*sigh
By the way, his favourite phrase was "Let's play it by the ear" when I sought some meeting with him. Every time he used to repeat this phrase.
The ▮▮▮ lawyer accused is a pretty popular and wealthy lawyer.
Usually many of these POCSO charges are concocted by the mother against father when there is a matrimonial dispute for four reasons (a) To get full custody and avoid any visitation rights for the father (b) To ensure that the father is in lockup (c) in a relationship women are able to file pretext of marriage rape case etc. But these charges won't last after marriage. (d) to get back against the father for vengeance.
Now this ▮▮▮ Partners entire identity is ruined while the wife (popular ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮) will gets crores of rupees in alimony.
Read about Parent Alienation Syndrome. It mostly affects fathers. Women in a lot of cases have concocted these stories and courts have warned them not to do it.
To let young students do as they please without consequences is not about caring for them- it’s about taking the easy way out as the admin and a teacher.
And is Claude or Legora helping with full drafting and research or just incidental work?
Thanks :)
Helps to save time, but again we are getting more work because of it xD
Also funny how earlier they used to offer ₹7,500 stipend, but now interns are apparently “not worth it.” Meanwhile, people coming from other cities are easily spending ₹15–20k just to stay there.
Overall, not a great experience. If you’re looking for actual mentorship or a healthy work environment, you might want to think twice.
;-)))))
Also policies are bad!