In my team at a so called tier 1 - one EP has no book of his own even after 2-3 years of becoming an EP- he was considered to be decent at execution until his own senior EP left thus exposing this junior EP. Still not fired despite no demonstrated book of business and deteriorating quality of work. Second EP has demonstrated bad quality of work and a mediocre book of Business- but his own- he is thriving. The salaried partners in this team are pressured, humiliated etc if they don’t bring enough business - most of them are way better at execution and also client building and retention as compared to these two EPs- yet none of the salaried partners have a road map to the next level and are treated like associates.

I have two nagging worries and am sharing them here. Please let me have your views.

Like most Associates at ELP, after collecting the withheld portion of my bonus, I will probably scoot – provided, I get a decent job before that.

FIRST WORRY: What if, after announcing a split in the next few weeks, which will be effective from say, October 1st, the new law firm (SAN Sword Law) which will house Lit, Corp, RE, Employment etc., doesn’t pay me my bonus on Diwali? What if, after splitting monies amongst the departing partners and sharing the spoils from the ELP brand sale, there isn’t enough to pay the 60% bonus that has been withheld?

SECOND WORRY: What if, on October 1st or even earlier, I am asked to sign a new contract with SAN Sword Law which has a number of restrictive clauses? E.g. a 2 year lock-in? A requirement to spend 2 hours a day training an AI on “how to do what I do”??

MY PLAN: Immediately after the split is announced (say on Sept 7th during the 25th anniversary dinner party), I will write to HR and ask for an email confirmation that my 60% is safe in an escrow account. If the split is to be effective from October 1st, I will request that the 60% withheld amount should be paid to me on or before Sept 30th. Logic? When the bonus was announced in April, I was told that if I put in my papers before I received my withheld 60%, I would forfeit the 60%, even if I am still with ELP during Diwali. Now the shoe is on the other foot. If ELP ceases to exist or if ELP is undergoing a vertical split or if the entity that has to pay me my 60% during Diwali is not the general partnership named ELP that exists now and has my money, I want my 60% to be paid to me before the split becomes effective. If not, I will sue ELP immediately. Not that my retainer contract says this, but because it sounds fair and equitable to me.

I also want the interest on the withheld 60% to be paid. Logic? My retainer contract does not have a clause saying the withheld bonus amount will be paid without interest. It is silent and so, equity demands that I get the interest.

I may also demand interest on withheld bonus for the past years. Logic? If I can claim interest for 2026 and I win, then it means I should have been given the interest that was accumulated on my withheld 60% for the past n years. What do I have to lose?

Two questions for the wider audience:

1. Summary Suit under Order XXXVII or an ordinary civil suit?

2. Civil court or commercial court (assuming the claim + interest due is above Rs. 4 lakh)

If I am filing a suit, I will post an update here and also create a Sub Redditt. If anyone wants to join me, you are welcome. We can do it together!

Satyameva Jayade!

Heard from a reliable source: the report is true. Because of NLSIU's reputation and influence, the matter was taken up at the highest levels: SG and ASG VB handled it and kept Modi and Amit Shah informed. A decision was taken to fly in 3 key NLSIU student agitators in the evening and a meeting was held very late at night at the CJI's residence. SG and ASG VB separately met the 3 students. Menaka Guruswamy was approached by SG and ASG VB to be a mediator, using the BJP's back channel with the TMC, but she was hesitant. Ultimately, no agreement was reached and the students were flown back.

Everything was very hush hush, but it's 100% true. If challlenged, I can give you the names of the 3 students and the flight number.

Quite unprecedented for one college student body to be commenting on the internal affairs of another college, but this is obviously a matter of national interest. Importantly, the statement give Sudhir a clean chit. Perhaps Gautam Bhatia and others should apologise for fasely accusing Sudhir of being a sell-out to the establishment?

https://www.barandbench.com/Law-School/nalsar-sbc-says-it-was-not-nlsiu-administration-that-demanded-students-to-publicly-invite-cji

"This is about leading with values. Leaders who make students understand why the Chancellor has the right to attend a convocation and be treated with respect."

"What is clear to me from all perspectives is an absolute and complete failure of the NLS leadership to let the situation come to this pass. If it enjoyed a better standing with its students, it would have impressed upon them why the Chancellor is entitled to attend the convocation and duty bound to do so. "

Kehna kya chahte ho? That Sudhir is bad because he couldn't get the CJI to attend? Isn't the whole point that the students were aganst the CJI attending?

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arghya-sengupta-23ba5393_my-convocation-at-nlsiu-bangalore-in-2008-share-7498678030354231296-azu2/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arghya-sengupta-23ba5393_since-my-post-expressing-my-dismay-at-nls-share-7499146010670211072-NVsn/

do I need to be very knowledgeable on B&F technicals to get a call-back, or just hard-working and willing to learn? I have prior experience in mapping term sheets and creating due diligence reports for project finance, but do not have a lot of technical knowledge in the field. Would this be enough for an assessment though?

Hey i am a fifth-year law student with a keen interest in tax laws IP law, disputes and, general corporate law. Not being from a tier 1 law college, paving my way through last year is becoming very tedious to be thruth full i have no clear path right now. But i want to focus on tax and open to other above-mentioned areas. I would really love some some good recommendations for tax firms where i can intern long term and aim for a ppo or similarfor any of the above areas. I am based in pune but open to wokrin gin Mumbai, Bangalore , Hyderabad,

Also i have only 3 month to prepare for CLAT PG should i go for it ?

This echoes the overwhelming pro-reservation sentiment across NLUs, which see reflected on LI.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DctBDAZmmm6/

Hi everyone. I am a Non-NLU student who is in his 10th semester. I am technically from Batch of 2026 but due to Covid induced weird schedule of my University, my batch would have our final exams in October, get our results in November and get our official degree documents by December first week.

I have never seen another person in a similar situation, so I would like to get some advice from people currently working in a law firm , in this matter.

I have always kept a mental target of getting hired in 2027, the earlier the better but even if I get hired in middle of 2027, it's fine..

I currently have Internship experiences at T1 and T2 firms, and I am open to working as an assessment intern, paralegal, trainee associate, etc if it eventually.. directly or indirectly helps me get a job at a good lawfirm.

I wanted to what would be a good step for me to take, and also which week and month after December 1 2026, would be the best time for office campus hiring?

Thanks to everyone in advance!

Hii, I am a law student and I am trying to get an internship at CMS IndusLaw law and I have sent my application on the email I'd which is on its website but they have never reverted back. I would be really grateful if anyone could share the active email ID on which I can apply for Mumbai or Bengaluru office

Genuine question for others running boutique or mid-size practices in India: has anyone else noticed T1 firms pricing mid-market deals at levels that don't seem commercially rational? I recently came across a five-figure invoice for work that would typically run well into six figures on a deal of that size. Doesn't feel like a one-off. I get the logic: loss-leader pricing to lock in a relationship; associate leverage a large firm can absorb but a boutique can't; deal-count metrics that matter more than margin on any single mandate. What I keep coming back to: does this actually serve the market? Compressed fee expectations don't stay contained to the firm doing the undercutting; they reset what clients expect everyone else in that segment to charge, including firms without the bench to subsidise pricing this way.

Curious whether others in the mid-market space are seeing the same pattern, and how you're responding

Tax litigation and tax teams in law firms do very different kinds of matters. A few teams in law firms may be more dispute-focused, but generally tax teams in law firms do tax consequences of M&A deals, and general advisory work.
You should take a call on the basis of your preference. You can also consider a few Big 4 teams that do litigation.

I work in tier 2 law firm and one of my closest friend works in a tier 1 law firm in Bombay who uses Lucio. One time i used his acc to get due diligence report done and it actually was pretty good, didn’t expect much but since i used it for corporate related work and not litigation so I’m not sure how it is for litigation.