This is sad. But there is nothing much to do unfortunately. The partner is not doing anything illegal per se.

What you should do is -

Take your maternity leave or go on a sabbatical or maybe go in house.

Law firms are mostly like this. Only exception is during maternity leave or sabbatical. The reason is billing. The partner has heavy targets and they must utilise every resource available to them and bill the max.

You are a PA which means you are a very expensive resource (50 to 70 LPA) They will not show any mercy because of your pregnancy or when you become a new mother. Because you as a resource is expensive.

Go in house. Don't join another law firm or big 4.

I'm a man, and I have seen this before in a firm setting. This is common in firms but very toxic. I also just spoke to someone who went through the same thing in a chamber a few hours ago. Do NOT accept this. Your kid is more important than your job. ALWAYS!

I had a female boss who vindictively gave work on weekends to a new mother to punish her. She would get a lackey to send the e-mail as well – never directly. I completed the work for the new mother without the boss knowing it because I felt awful. The new mother was treated poorly internally, and no action was taken against the boss at the time – only an investigation for the sake of it, despite senior partners noticing it all. Money talks loudest in law firms.

Women on my team who got married or had kids at the time were always under immediate scrutiny. Most who got married or had kids left. Those who were married were treated more harshly – do not buy into their Lean In worldview. All of that is corporatespeak wrapped in pink. There is no prospect of escalating to the Bar Council – lawyers have no recourse and have never been model employers. Find a new job. Your kid is your priority. Your husband needs to be around, too. Get his buy-in. Full stop.

- Menaka Guruswamy, Kapil Sibal, AM Singhvi, Gopal Shankarnarayan, Debanjan Mandal, Aquilaw Basu family, Suhan Mukherji, Sanjoy Ghose, Kalyan Banerjee and his son: All losing briefs from the WB govt. A new set of firms and counsels will get those briefs.

- MG: Not getting a Rajya Sabha seat for her second term, since seats for the TMC will be scarce and they will probably give it to people from Bengal and mass leaders. Her only realistic option (if she wishes for a second term) is to switch to the Congress.

- NUJS: GC and EC dominated by TMC ministers, MPs, MLAs and various TMC sympathisers. All out. Complete whitewash. Replaced by BJP ecosystem.

Hey,

JGLS 2028 here, specifically targeting competition law and Delhi-based (not looking to move to Mumbai unless absolutely necessary).

Here's my internship lineup so far:

- Trilegal Delhi (disputes team, was sitting next to the competition team; thats why im now interested in competition law and i took an elective on competition law in mergers control)
- CCI — June
- JSA Delhi — July(rn m&a team ill have to change for comp again which one is better nisha’s or vaibhav’s? one associate who left jsa said vaibhav’s for better ppo chances)
- Khaitan Delhi — December

A few things I want to understand better:

1. I've heard JSA has a three-internship policy before they even consider you for a PPO — is this still true for the Delhi competition team specifically, or has that changed?
2. Khaitan Delhi — multiple people have told me they don't really give PPOs in Delhi (especially competition), and that most of the team actually sits in Noida anyway. Is this accurate? Should I even be pushing for a PPO there or just treat it as a learning internship?
3. Is Chandhiok & Mahajan worth seriously targeting for a competition PPO? It seems like the strongest Delhi-native competition boutique but I don't see much discussion about their intern-to-hire conversion rate.
4. SAM Delhi competition team — how contact-dependent is it really to even get in?
5. AZB noida competition team — how contact-dependent is it really to even get in?
6. Is staying in Delhi for competition law a viable long-term call, or is Mumbai just unavoidable if you want to grow in this practice area? (Mumbai cost of living is a genuine concern for me as a fresher.)

Would really appreciate inputs from people who've actually interned in competition teams in Delhi specifically not just general firm gyaan. Thanks!

Heys guys

I need suggestions to apply for good direct tax litigation firms. I am fine with working in Mumbai, Bangalore or Delhi, however the deciding factors are good working culture and good pay have. Well, to talk about my experience, I have 7 years of experience handling both direct and international tax matters and I posses credentials of CA, CS, LLB and LLM. I would really appreciate your responses.

Honestly, only NLUD and perhaps NALSAR. NLUD is definitely not a corporate factory. The rest of the NLUs aren’t ever going to be in the top 3, so market-wise, their reputation isn’t guaranteed and all have heavy domicile and backdoor entry options stuff like NRI sponsored quota and such, diluting quality and merit.

The recent emphasis by NLS on law and philosophy research. The fact that their VC is an ex Paul Craig supervisee (you know, supervisee of one of the world's greatest minds in constitutional law). The fact that there are some very bright minds among the faculty. All this is possible for anyone who sits down with the NLS website for 15 minutes during an extended lunch recess to figure out. You don't have to be there to understand this (I am not).

I cannot seem to understand the source of your inferiority complex.

Is it due to not being able to work in top places of your field (like Tier 1s or Legal roles in Famous MNCs)

Or is it not being able to go for Post Docs?

Or is it not being able to excel in STEM?

My family has two IITians

my cousin, who founded a 'crazy' Al startup long before the Al boom, and my own brother, who works at Google DeepMind. This makes me feel deeply insecure so much so that I feel anxious whenever someone asks what I'm doing right after asking about my brother. Because I don't study at a top-tier or even a mid-tier university, I feel small in comparison, and sometimes I just don't want to be here.

Growing up, I was a 'B' or 'C' student. My parents didn't focus much on my studies because their first experience was with my brother, who was a natural topper without even trying. Because of this, I was never taught how to study or how to approach complex problems at an early age-an issue I still struggle with today. It might sound silly, but it's a genuine struggle. Despite this, through my own efforts, I've maintained a 9+ CGPA and secured two Tier-2 internships. Yet, I still find myself crying at night, feeling like I was 'robbed' of the high-IQ genetics my family seems to share; for context, my father has a Post-Doc in Polytechnic Fiber and my mother has a Post-Doc in Mathematical Computation

How does someone deal with the anxiety of being inferior.

Focus on the faculty who can guide you, not the university. Foreign universities like Stanford for example will have some advantage because of their institutional research and culture geared towards your topic, but no Indian law university has got anything real going in that direction from an institutional perspective. On an individual level, some faculty are doing work, focus on where they are working and whether they have vacancy for scholars. AI and Law itself is a huge domain, you also need greater clarity and specificity before you can draft a research proposal.

Mods, this label 'trollish' being applied to such posts is not representative of their content. This is clearly a bit of cheap humour - whether good or not is not a normative judgment for you to make, the marketplace of ideas that makes up all who use LI will do that. You should instead introduce a tag called 'Probably humour' or 'joke' or 'satire'.

Not as bad from admin but definitely by students. got asked by AmbedkarGPT what my caste is. First years attributing their clat ranks to their caste. "Rajput kaun hai dikhata hoon," "baniya hoon mein, itni jaldi chhodunga nahi" at FoodBox. Its a very spoken reality.

So I am from a top 3 NLU, but my grades after two years are below average with not much scope of getting better a lot, haven’t done any comps too.

How do I make a comeback from here? I really wanna get a law firm job and do well like my batchmates, and willing to put all efforts towards it, so guide me regarding the same, will appreciate a lot, thanks

My worst bullying and rumors came from a guy I rejected. But none of these people matter in the long run hon. Just focus on getting ahead. They are classic evidence that hurt people hurt people. They are body shamed at home so they body shame you. It's sad under all that hostility. move forward, forget them.

All this sound quite strange to me. As in not sure whether I was living in some parallel universe while going through law school. Didn't have much time to discuss other people while there. Didn't care much about how other people felt about me either to be honest. Went about my own business, got as much value for my money as I could from the resources and people available, graduated peacefully. Tried to be kind as much as I could, since I didn't know what the person opposite was going through. Still have fairly cordial relation with my batchmates, juniors and seniors alike.

Trilegal is the likeliest to give you a fair chance on day zero through their test. You can also try getting into a good T2 like Argus or NDA and then shift to a T1 as a lateral after a year. Pay-wise, it won't be too bad for a year and you can get the fresher tag off yourself which is what will matter most.

BO'24 had decent PPO offers, but the last two years (25,26) haven't been great, BO'27 have gotten some good callbacks however from T1/2/3 firms. The college does facilitate some T1 internships and a good number of firm internships every year starting from your third year, but your indivdual CV, connections and skills is the most important for getting a good offer, there is only a marginal status tag attached to tnnlu. From a lit perspective, lots of Madras HC clerks and advs. are now coming out of the college and some clerkships/LR's in Del HC and SC and pretty good from that perspective, considering the locational disadvantage of the campus.