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Corpo, CM, Fin Reg - Mumbai
Revitalizing this thread again
Can anybody share there experience of switching practice areas?
Really need to switch from Indirect tax, any tips or experiences would help
Thanks
I mean the entire premise is if you want to get a job, you either go to the best universities or work for long enough that your ability and CV speak for itself, that is how it works all over the world, people at hofstra get into tier 1 finance entities due to proximity, guys from harvard do cause of their brand, do you hear about guys from university of arkansas becomming a ceo of a fortune 500 company? No right, because you have one of two routes in the world.
Expectating the best of both is ridiculous and if you didnt have either by going to a no name college is a tier 3/4 city you anyway were never contending for t1 jobs ( it should not be this way in an ideal world because there very well could be exceptional people anywhere, but that is just how the market works)
1.What is the work like? At a research fellow level what sort of work can I expect?
2. What are the working hours like? Not on paper. Realistically how many hours do you put in everyday?
3. How often is it that you work on the weekends? Is working on the weekends the norm/bare minimum expected of you or is it for genuine reasons?
4. What is the pace and how much of it is driven from a fake sense of urgency? Are employees working on short deadlines because there is a genuine need for it or is the manager just messing with you?
5. How do managers treat their juniors? How is feedback given? How receptive is management to feedback?
6. What's the attrition rate like?
7. What is the pay like?
8. How is internal communication handled? Do they use google workspace/outlook etc exclusively or is this a Whatsapp and calls forward place? Additionally is there an expectation to stay available at all times?
9. Are people mean? And I don't mean public yelling but are people passive agressive? Does management openly play favorites? Are unprofessional comments the norm? How are disagreements on work put across?
10. Ever since joining Vidhi, have you had the time for personal commitments, socializing, just being a person in general or do you feel like all you've done is work, eat and sleep?
Would also love to know of other orgs doing similar work! (except for Square Circle, CLPR, CSEP, any TCF org)
You will not regret it.
Subjects like sociology, political science,History, philosophy etc become important as they cover the societal and humanitarian fields of inquiry.
This becomes particularly important as Law,as a field,is heavily intertwined with Society,Humanities and their constructs.
One cannot understand law in its full context without understanding the Societal conditions, Historical conditions,power structures etc.
Sure,one could argue that modern day capitalism especially in India,wages more focus on STEM and it's counterparts,
However,that's primarily because of its relatively easier access to the majority and higher economic conductivity.
The fields of Humanities while not offering immediate short term profits,Offers something greater to the common man.
The mechanisms through which one can understand Society,the idea of Power,The various philosophical Outlooks that change your mindset for the good etc.
The STEM fields of India are themselves in the road of brilliance,amounting to brilliant,dynamic hegemons like TCS,Infosys,HCL who are front leaders in the AI race.
In this context, understanding both STEM and Humanities becomes important.
It's no wonder that most billionaires or say even millionaires come from elite pedigree and privilege;They possess in-depth knowledge of Humanities and it's associates through the forms of cultural and social capital through which they understand the broader contexts of Life.
When you are run by Engineers and STEMtards especially in India,you risk the neglecting of important elements that balance and refine society and power.
you might get spineless institutions like IIT Delhi that remain mum while they get pegged;while colleges like NALSAR make two legal Institutions bend down and apologize.
I will wager an exception for the Medical and pharmaceutical fields who themselves are involved in the herculean task of managing the healthcare of such a nation filled with morons like you.
When Cambridge University interviewed Jason Arday for one of the most prestigious sociology positions in the world, he was an early career scholar and underqualified, by the school’s own standards.
Cambridge’s requirements, reviewed by The New York Times, called for “an outstanding research record of international stature” and a “proven successful track record” supervising Ph.D. students. Dr. Arday had a modest publication record and had bounced from one university to the next — not staying long enough to oversee a full three-year-or-more doctorate.
Cambridge hired him anyway in 2023, making him, at 37, the university’s youngest Black professor at a time when the school was under pressure to diversify. In doing so, Cambridge thrust him into the international limelight, giving him a platform at one of the world’s elite universities to champion academic diversity and making him a target for critics.
Dr. Arday was found dead in London on Friday, days after resigning from his jobamid accusations that he had plagiarized chunks of his papers, embellished parts of his recently published memoir and fabricated aspects of his life story. The controversy exploded along cultural fault lines — race, neurodiversity and academic hiring.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/world/europe/jason-arday-cambridge-hiring-questions.html
I know people might say that I’m asking for too much or expecting a perfect scenario, but if you could also suggest teams with a good work environment and strong mentorship, I would be really grateful. Specifically, I’m looking for opportunities in Delhi.
“The test-blind policy was a well-intentioned experiment,” she wrote, “but the reality in our classrooms shows that it has failed.” Admitting students who are unprepared, she warned, “sets them up for discouraging struggle. … We cannot afford another cycle of administrative delay.”
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/08/15/uc-berkeley-sat-test-blind-admissions-math-scores/
So this brings us back to the universal debate that is waging both in India and the US: are we seriously compromising on merit if we admit people solely because they are from a lower social or economic background?
It’s also interesting that these policies are followed in the US, UK and India, but perhaps not in the EU and definitely not in countries like China, Japan, Korea. What explains this? Is it populist vote seeking that prompts these policies without much thought?
2. Panag & Babu Law Chambers (PBS Legal)
3. Kochhar & Co. (Dispute Resolution / White-Collar Group)
4. Bharucha & Partners (Delhi Office
2. Chambers of Sidharth Luthra (Senior Advocate)
3. Chambers of Arshdeep Singh Khurana
4. Chambers of Vijay Aggarwal