Hi, is anyone who is an OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) currently a litigator? Was enrollment friction-free?

How do OCIs working for law firms looking at the proposed Advocates Act amendment that looks to do away with reciprocity and looks to bring law firms under its ambit viewing this amendment? Will they fall under the definition of "foreign lawyers"?

See: https://www.barandbench.com/news/law-firms-in-india-must-register-with-bar-councils-bci-proposes-changes-to-advocates-act

What crap. It is absolutely bereft of any historical context.

West Bengal has substantial industry and industrial capacity. Kolkata was once India’s financial capital. With the communists and TMC out of the way (for now), there is every hope that much of the industrial capacity lost over the decades will be reclaimed.

That will naturally generate legal work requiring lawyers of high calibre. KCO is the only major Tier 1 firm in Kolkata. It is only obvious that others will want a share of what promises to be a generous pie. Businesses follow money and the path of least resistance. Remember that.

Not a good look. The CJP needs to reform the core group if it wishes to be taken seriously.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cjp-removes-spokesperson-vijeta-dahiya-condemns-deeply-insensitive-actions/amp_articleshow/132534529.cms

I have secured internship at luthra for their delhi office under sanjay kumar and at saraf and partners in their noida office for nov in the disputes team. Can anyone who has last interned their share their experience, like should i expect a call back, i currently am in my 5th sem from a t1 nlu.

This reads less like an assessment and more like an attempt to rationalise an exit. The team comprises experienced and competent lawyers with established client relationships and a credible body of work. Whether they were the right institutional fit for CAM is a different question altogether.

Treating the manner in which an exit is being handled as conclusive evidence of a team’s value is a considerable leap. Departures are influenced by multiple commercial and institutional considerations, most of which are not visible externally.

CAM undoubtedly has several excellent corporate teams. That does not require diminishing the credentials of lawyers who choose to leave it.

Amitification of Jindal is underway. They gave a lot of facilities, benefits and higher than market salaries to faculty when they were new and needed to build their brand. Now that their brand has already been built, they would rather spend money on other things rather than on faculty. Faculty is being seen as easily replaceable, a cost-centre to be optimised, rather than a core part of the educational environment. Sad!

Better late than never. It was looking very bad that NLSIU/NALSAR/NLUD were not getting involved. It was sending an incorrect message that T1 NLU students are too elite and do not want to associate with protests by Hindi-speaking students from ordinary backgrounds. Now thankfully that has ended (although the figure of 100 is a bit low).

NLSIU and NLUD will hopefully hold protests this week and then the other law schools will follow. 6 hours hunger strike is doable if your health permits and if you seek medical advice. You are allowed to drink water within this period.

https://hyderabadmail.com/nalsar-students-solidarity-fast-neet-paper-leak-accountability/

Creative? Not defending the BCI here but honestly there is nothing creative about these people posting on Instagram. Real lawyers actually work at their jobs. Legal influencers just misuse the tag of their universities and jobs while being bad at it and being a liability to their teams too. I would say for once BCI isn't entirely in the wrong here.

The tough taks dont do the task. They do everything around it.

T1 juniors dont service the client, they service the partner.

Their goal isnt excellence, their goal is strictly billing targets.

Having been there, I found T1s regularly over complicating everything.

They idea is to look busy to client, to partner and to each other.

The general shallowness is only increasing and the low quality shows.

The are hired on their name to satisfy people. Much like consultancies and audit firms.

Great. This will reduce the competition by pushing out those with creative capabilities and letting only the khadoos , private and non-creative people remain in the sector. (Note: I didn't say that non creative people are khadoos and private, the three are three separate categories)

Market is definitely bad across firms right now. That being said- tier ones have a similar threshold of difficulty to enter - perhaps because of "LUCK".

Merit + Culture + Vacancies = Luck in this context.
Don't try to rationalize anything about a firm - because it'll be a rumor - better to rationalize on basis of TEAMS. Think Marginally.
Don't stress, work anywhere, there will always be a good firm and a good team for you. Vertically move when you get that opportunity. Have faith in God.

There are pros and there are cons.

Pros:

1. He has a vision and conviction to put that in practice.

2. He's obsessed with academic rigour. That's why you see a lot of good folks being hired as faculty.

3. He has curbed a lot of corruption that used to happen earlier. The fiscal management is solid with uni posting a good surplus.

4. While there is a lot of construction on campus, he has been careful to approve designs that cause least amount of environmental damage.

5. Sports facility is top notch.

Cons:

1. My way or highway, doesn't listen to opposition that much.

2. Too much focus on academic rigour, and less on other things like Moots. NLS hasn't won a good moot for a long time.

3. He is adamant that NLS will not allow students to intern at the expense of attendence. Those who do from other NLUs get advantage.

4. The same sports facilities have ensured NLS doesn't have strawberry fields.

5. The expansion, imo, was an exercise designed to achieve a larger vision. But personally, feel that uni was better without expansion.

6. One of the first things he did- remove a number staff hired by previous VCs. While a lot of them did not do much, it did impact those staff adversely.

What’s funny is that it’s 2026, and even today as of a news article in June. Nothings being done. In the era of technology, a murderer just walks free. Meanwhile in my locality a 18 year old guy was framed by his 17year old girlfriends family for POSCO and he got lifetime prison.

This country is truly only for crooks

This is really the most serious problem that, remember people, the Indian regulator for lawyers (!!) had to deal with!!?? Really?

This reminds me of a joke that John Oliver made about former governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem (DHS secretary formally in the second Trump admin). For Kristi Noem, ensuring that college sports women teams were only played in by biological as opposed to trans women was a huge thing. She even had an add about it. Oliver's joke was, I think, that if somebody from the future who did not know about anything of the past came back with a time-travelling machine and saw Noem's add, they would think that all the problems of the world had been fixed.

Same way, some lawyer who has perhaps been working outside the country for many years and hasn't kept in touch with the Indian scene will think it's seventh heaven! If the "BCI uncle" has time to go after social media posts, then surely India is now a heaven on earth for lawyers? I just don't envy that hypothetical character when he experiences the hard and disconcerting bump of reality - that these guys are wasting time on stupid stuff as usual.

Sure. Go after confidentiality being broken. But isn't it better to go after the senior lawyers? After all, they are supposed to be the ones responsible for giving the students/interns work? If they are prat enough to recruit someone who engages in childish behaviour, I would have thought it is those advocates in chambers or law firm partners whose heads need to be put on the chopping block?

This may not be a valid "strike rate" consideration for the 25 year point, but definitely should be for the 50 year point: United Kingdom's King's Counsel designation. As somebody once pointed out on this website itself, a KC from England and Wales often says a good deal more about the person's knowledge of law and analytical abilities than does a Senior Advocate designation. Again, NLSIU has set the benchmark on this front; had it not been for NLSIU and its high achieving graduates, bringing up KC in this conversation would be like talking in a foreign language.

Signed,

A graduate of a university other than NLSIU who is not hopelessly partisan

Nope. Spent nearly 10 years in a T1. Happily out of it. Happier for it. Still have recuiters who buzz me with potential partnership roles in T1s and T2s. They also lie about the roles and the teams.

The only reason recruiters post things like this is because people are now going for irregular non linear paths especially good talent.8pMost don't know much about what we do and do not understand the practical realities as we get senior. Its also the reason why recruiters only succeed at lower levels. They're a intermediary servive - a middleman - who fake being a career coach to get prospective clients.

This makes getting their commissions harder. Their job is to find as many linear career progressionist to push into T1s for their big bucks. When people pull wool over your eyes, always watch out for the incentives at play here.

*Harbinger. As someone that supports your argument, do try not to make typographical and/or other types of errors. Undermines your credibility with the other side, one of whom will surely pick on that and portray you as an uneducated, emotional liberal trying to use big words.

CC there is a limit to being proud. Most of NDMs supporters are genuinely like bots. They lack critical thinking. For them everything is funded by the Bhikari neighbour (No one thinks how can this Bhikari neighbour fund millions of these people). At the same time they become the 3 Monkeys whenever an Gora RKBs (RawndiKeBache) spread vitriolic propaganda against Indians, film poverty porn in Indian slums, etc.

Overall a useless bunch of people.

As for NDM and his ministry, although he has to be credited for UPI popularizing , defence capabilities and stuff, his 3rd term doesn't have a single major positive. 56 Inch inflated balloon can solve the problem at hand by sacrificing his barely literate lackey EjAcuLaTion Minister DP and show some accountability. Par Nahi, just released few of bots with AuntyNashonal accusations and the l0wIQ dehatis will vote

We are talking about rich kids who will be successful irrespective of which subject they study. The broader point, about the humanities serving to purpose in the job market still stands. In comparison with a regular STEM or business grad, regular pure humanities grads have much fewer job opportunities. That's why they waste their whole lives preparing for UPSC and then go to Cockroach Janata Party protests when they don't succeed. The smarter ones either go for an MBA or try to go abroad.

I would absolutely scrap BA subjects from the law curriculum (except economics) and replace with courses on AI, accounting, finance, business communication and perhaps any one among climate science, coding, forensics and toxicology etc.

And most of the idiots in my law school (to be fair, other NLUs too) were supporting them and simping for Messi (he was among those who turned their backs).

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7456935/2026/07/19/argentina-world-cup-fouls-disgrace/

Dear Mr. Sambamurthi,

Carnegie once wrote that the rarest thing you can give someone is honest, sincere appreciation, and what struck me about your post wasn't the numbers themselves but that you took the trouble to write it at all. Most firms let the rumour mill run. You corrected it in public, with your name on it.

I'm a final-year law student who has spent over three years interning across dispute resolution teams, most recently in arbitration and commercial litigation. I'd like to ask if Lexygen would consider me for an assessment internship with the DR team.

Happy to share my CV and past work if that's useful.

Warm regards,

I have been looking to rejoin law firms after a career break but it has been a while and I am not getting many opportunities. Reaching out to the Legally India community, if you can help out by letting me know if any M&A and General Corporate team that you know is looking to hire at SA level.

Can we also keep this thread ongoing and post about vacancies for those looking out?

Thanks in advance!

It is simply incorrect to portray CAM as a “frying pan.” CAM is demanding, but it is also very clear about what it expects and whom it backs. In this case, the problem has not been the firm but this team. Internally, it has long been evident that this group was misaligned, difficult to integrate, and not delivering the value expected of a corporate team at CAM's standards.The narrative of them being “poached” is convenient but not convincing. The more straightforward explanation and one that most people inside CAM would acknowledge without hesitation is that the team never earned strategic relevance within the corporate practice. CAM has multiple corporate teams that are high‑performing, tightly run, and deeply valued. This team was not one of them. The ease of their exit is the clearest indicator. When a partner or team that CAM genuinely values attempts to leave, the firm does not make the process smooth. CAM is known for being extremely firm and protective in those situations. The fact that this transition is happening without resistance tells you everything about how the organisation viewed the team’s contribution.

Only if indian professor knew how to operate their emails. Lol. As a PhD scholar at IUTKgp, I manage my advisors emails for him. Clear instructions: do not inform him about any student that wishes to apply with him, instead tell them to apply for through the official channels and he has no say in selection. Which isn't true, since I applied through his former PhD student. Lol. Sad to delete many such emails with hopeful candidates who think the professor has read their email and is just following the non-existent university protocol.

Doesn't happen to everyone especially if you don't have a recommendation. My friend emailed a very famous university in Geneva. No reply. He contacted his professor in Jindal, who sent him the personal email of the faculty concerned, and through that he got in touch. Can you believe a normal student doing that ?

If my friend wasn't rich , he wouldn't be in Jindal and if he didn't flaunt his connection in Jindal, his professor wouldn't have given him this geneva professor's personal email. And if he didn't have the personal email, he'd end up in the long list of people who would send their emails and be rejected even before replying.. in the end it's all about money and connections.

So, I would say law is decent. Every profession has certain issues.

(1) Not all teams have hectic hours.

(2) If you do get a bad team, you can change laterally.

(3) You can also become a professor - provides a stable job. Switching to in-house counsel is not difficult but not easy either. You need the creds, experience and networking.

I would like to be stand corrected, but NEET protest stems out from the fact that the supposedly merit based opportunities were also marred by the power and money leading to diminishing more hopes for the general people and their kids. What do you think will happen if the realities of the Law field, on these same lines, gets known to the people hereinafter? Will it be given the same weightage?

Bro there was a previous post on LI about the aptly said and though they are people promoting money over merit, it is also a thing that they won't stop at just the upfront pay. They will eventually want to loop you into other services, my bad I mean mentorships, and take more unless they are satisfied.

Not at all excited about joining my T1, same with a few of my friends. We are all already looking at alternate career options. I know people who gave up T1 offers to join chambers. You are speaking from a point of bias (I assume from the post that you are a recruiter). Litigation doesn’t require recruiters.

Have noticed Bar & Bench only reports new partners joining CAM. Exits of partners are not reported or selectively reported ! Is it by design or intention?

So many exits have happened this year, such news being suppressed….can anyone confirm how many partners have left this year?

RC joining S&R or AK joining Dassault by way of examples. Check LinkedIn to confirm.

Then what is it about boutiques and chambers that these miserable T1 ppl don't want to go there. If the pay cheque is the only reason, are you admitting that salary is all that matters? Am I not correct when I say that T1s reign supreme. And are T1s not justified in imposing tough work loads if they're paying the most?