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what will azb do with this influx of infra partners
Akila. Won't care.
▮▮▮. To engrossed in ▮▮▮ retirement plans.
I would like to emphasise that the NUJS administration gives students access to counselling faculties and has a zero-tolerance policy towards ragging.
Understandably, the new partner is not happy with his situation. He’s relying on interns and keeps on borrowing associates from other teams. I’m curious if anyone else has witnessed something like this.
If you really believe women and men should be held to the same standard in a society such as ours which is deeply patriarchal and continues to be extraordinarily discriminatory towards women, you have merely confirmed yourself as yet another misogynist, insecure, failure of a man. Perhaps this is the problem with your generation. Also explains why women find many of your ilk completely insufferable. Which is why they gravitate towards older men. If you do not understand such basics, you are already beyond the point of redemption. Continue barking up the ridiculous tree of equality and continue being a woman hating failure.
So throwing around words like 'patriarchal insecurity' and moralising after calling me an irredeemable dolt (with horrible spelling) doesn't make your position on this issue any better. Rather, it just deflects from the real issues. We have all seen enough 'where there is smoke, there is fire' comments from women. Women set those standards. Here, someone has spoken about the smoke. Look for the fire.
Your rush to defend the unnamed woman in this unnamed team without an inch of uncovering what may have happened speaks volumes on how you would adjudicate gendered disputes. It's prejudging it. In simple terms, women too should face a process of scrutiny rather than squirming out of their responsibility. All of this should actually trigger a talk with HR. Again, women set those standards.
Finally, someone with power over someone else and the larger team is, by default, to be held to a higher standard. The optics of a team and disaffection shown by a team should be something a partner should have a reasonable idea about. That comes with the territory of being a partner. At least a good one.
Guts to quit. Don't be affected.
I already know enough of your character.
Another comment here accurately describes hurdles from a partnership PoV but that assumes people think that far into the future - which no one does when hiring a fresher. The other thing that’s relevant is that a 34 year old has lived live a fair bit and will be presumed to not put up with the garbage behaviour many partners engage in. Young adults who’ve never made money before are much likely to put up with that kind of behaviour.
Additionally, while most law firm partners lack emotional awareness, they also will know that hiring you will be a recipe for friction that will likely be unavoidable - a 27 / 28 / 29 year old SA or PA will direct your life more than you can think right now. Call you at 10 or 11 PM asking for a draft by noon the next day. No matter how much one denies it, egos will come into play when you work the hours law firms do.
I won’t bring up the reductions in hiring due to perceived efficiencies from AI - and yes, they have begun no matter what people tell you. Legora and Harvey aren’t cheap. The money has to come from somewhere.
All of these factors can only be overridden or dispensed away if you get a good partner who is open to unconventional thinking about how lives are lived - and law firm partners like that are exceedingly rare. So, this comes down to the question - are you willing to spend 3 years going you law school when your only chance of success will require immense luck, in this context.
Also, your diplomas and understanding of economic theory will not help your cause. Law firms don’t care about that stuff, much. I’m sorry if my phrasing is a bit blunt. This is not to discourage you or downplay your achievements, knowledge and lived experiences - which I am sure will be more rich and will have helped build more character that most law firm ghouls have. This is an honest opinion of someone who is over 30, and has experienced multiple firms including having a say in hiring exercises.
https://legal.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/cam-partners-anchal-dhir-and-shubham-rastogi-join-anagram-partners-with-their-teams/130279931
Privacy pillar is a privacy automation tool company and rather small. If you join you’ll work only around privacy automation and not laws. However i do understand we dont always have a choice and sometimes have to make do with what we can find.
Had a few questions around this:
1.Do partners typically take their clients along? What happens in cases where the client was originally referred by the old firm?
2. How do they handle fee mandates with clients when they move — do they renegotiate or just continue on similar terms?
3.How are conflicts managed, especially if the new firm already has clients who are competitors of the incoming partner’s clients?
4.What happens to the partnership / LLP agreement of the old firm, and how does onboarding in the new firm usually work?
I know it varies case to case, but would be great to understand what the usual market practice looks like.