Only posting about Mumbai scenario

If you are associated with any chamber, then you will make around anywhere from 15k-35k in the first two years given you have some previous experience in litigation or atleast have the basics of drafting/filing/knowledge about courts, etc

The upside is if the Senior has good work coming in he will let you argue small applications in civil courts and high courts which acts as a major boost for any fresher advocate plus will slide not so important matters to you which he can't take up, giving you some side money. If you are associated with designated Sr Adv chamber then the exposure is unparalleled and you get to learn from the best and helps in making easy contacts with the top advocates.

In law firms it will depend as per the firm size and from where you are graduating. Normally it starts from 20k and will go anywhere till 60-70k in a very good law firm.

Hi, I've been in that anxious state of mind some years ago. That said, I'm also someone who got the maximum number of job offers in my college, and I was ranked in the bottom 40% of my batch along with 8 repeats & 4 fails in my transcript. So, I strongly believe that most people have the ability to get offers from T1 & T2 firms. It's very much possible, and I'll try my best to give you as helpful & detailed an answer as possible as a how-to.

At the outset, let's get one thing cleared up: noone looks at your transcripts for corporate jobs — internship applications will include your CV & cover letter, and interview scheduling mostly happens through your PCC — so, as long as you get the degree in the end before joining, it's all fine.

Secondly, the important thing you need to understand is that your ranks and grades serve as a proxy to your skills and abilities for an HR personnel who is swamped with work. So if you want those to value less, you have to replace those with some really powerful achievements — and present those in a way that is easy enough for the HR to notice. I, for example, had significant mooting & research achievements — which may not have been enough for T1 HRs because they wouldn't have gone through my CV otherwise, but such achievements would probably be enough for one to get boutique & T2 internships. [If you still have trouble getting accepted in those, then try targetting & cold-mailing firms & partners that work on areas & issues related to your achievements. Of course, if you're lucky enough to have contacts, that will make this easier, but I've seen many of us get through without any contacts too — the achievements just have to be worth it.] So, I made sure to first intern with such firms run by ex-T1 people and get powerful references. Once you have those, you can then reach out to their friends, colleagues, and batchmates at T1s for internships, via a well-written short cover letter that highlights those achievements. Once they forward your application to the HR, the HR will now have to open the email and read those achievements, which would often lead to acceptances thereafter.

Thirdly, you'll also have to keep in mind that getting the internships is only the first step. At the internship, you may not be the most intelligent person, but you must visibly be the most hard working. This can be done through effective, meaningful, and well-rezearched communication. For example, your 'I'm available for work' mails should mention your key experience & knowledge relevant to the practice area and, if possible, the ongoing work. When you get the work, you should get clarity on what you're supposed to do before doing it, and if possible, keep the seniors informed on the progress and direction of the work — it's best to ask rather than waste anyone's time. You must also keep the seniors informed of possible inevitable delays, and post submissions, ask if there are any follow-ups that you can contribute to — and if they have any feedback. You must visibly inculcate the feedback, once again. In fact, once you get an idea of the key set of applicable sections & laws, you should ideally pick up e-books on that and read up in order to keep doing better. The more privileged you are, the easier it will be for you to develop quick familiarity with the words & the law — so if you've also not attended a top school etc, you'll also have to spend more hours here. I used to read up for 3-4 hours daily after office.

Fourthly, once you feel you've created some goodwill with the seniors, it is very important for you to ask them for some time & have a clear and frank conversation with a senior — one where you inform them that you're a serious candidate, and are strongly here to be meaningfully assessed for a PPO — as such, any recommendation from their side to the partner for work etc would be deeply appreciated. Once you do that and eventually get to work directly with the people responsible for giving PPOs, repeat the process and work even harder.

At the end of it, in the absolute worst case scenario, you'll have another recommendation from their side to another T1 firm, or a callback, or a PPO interview. If you show up as well-researched for interviews as well, there would be no reason for them to not take you — they won't need your rank to serve as a proxy for your ability & performance because by that time they would've already seen your performance, and liked it.

Yes, a good rank would probably enable to bypass this whole process and get a campus placement. But honestly, this will make you a much better associate & a lawyer than that. Just keep repeating this process till you get an offer — which, for the record, I'm sure that you're fully capable of getting. All the best!

ESOP work in law firms are either done by (i) employment teams; (ii) gen corp teams; or (iii) tax teams. Generally, company’s choose to go to entities like Aon or ESOP Direct which help structuring equity incentive plans. Some law firms may have specific partners though very rare like Shabnam Shaikh in KCO

You seem to have a very surface level knowledge of the field and degree. Finding a good corporate placement after a 3 years LLB is a difficult task. Also, you wouldn't be preferred by employers because of your age.
Threat to life etc. is pretty low lol, that is not even a consideration most have.
However if you really want to study law you can enroll in some distance course or one that doesn't have a strict attendance requirement like CCS and do a job alongside.
Studying a 3 years full-time course and that too LLB this late is not a good idea. I myself started LLB pretty late - will graduate just before 26 - and it troubles me. Many of your peers will be earning and growing while you will be studying for a degree.

You need referrals. Look around, since you have mooted, connect with some people you met there and ask for assistance or just elsewhere. If nothing else, ask your seniors who have previously interned at the firms you want to intern for HR Id and number. Hope it helps. Also, please do not stress much about not getting such internships, it is not the end of the world if you don't get them.

Hello friends, which are the good litigation chambers in Delhi to learn ropes for a new graduate. I am a first generation lawyer and not from Delhi. I need help with offices which are encouraging for outsiders and where I can learn and ultimately start my own independent practice one day.

KCO. Both Harsh & Tanu's teams are well handled, with polite people. They admittedly aren't the best or most experienced in the field, but they do know how to run their ships.

Among the mainstream TMT partners, Nikhil's team in TL Blr is pretty good; same with Ameet Datta's team at Saikrishna.

If you don't mind going boutique, then Abhinav's team at LawNK & Rahul's team at Anantlaw are pretty good too.

Hi everyone! I am a fourth year law student interested in Gen Corp/M&A. I have not got a full-fledged experience of the work done by teams practising in this area and I am very interested in learning the nitty gritties of this practice area.

I request folks experienced in this field to please tell me how do I really learn more about this field and get a hang of it. Please suggest any books and other reference materials that you believe will help.

Thank you so much!!! Have a great day!!!

Hello, I am an anxious fourth-year law student from a tier 3 NLU. I got an internship at Trilegal Bombay. I am hoping to convert it into a PPO after a call-back. I request someone to please help me out wrt how I can get a PPO out of this internship.

Additionally, I request people to please tell me which teams/partners in Tri hire more or are planning to hire more for the 2026 batch.

Thank you so much for your help!

if you have the option do it from a NLU, similar boat, mid tier NLU UG, currently mid tier nlu PG, different NLUs.

If interest in IPR then IIT Kgp, without any doubt.

Rest of the Universities, only after you've exhausted tier1 and some of the tier 2 nlu, like ILI is definitely better than tier2s

If you want to go for academics then college matters

Inefficiency? The sheer audacity of calling senior professionals inefficient shows the disrespect by the concerned writer. They have reached there, that fact itself exemplifies their efficiency (at least in terms of professional capabilities, keep their personal nature aside). Coming to the boat metaphor. Where do salaried partner slog and do all work while the junior sits and sips coffee? At least, I haven’t heard of such utopian law firm. If you have please suggest some. It’s everywhere, juniors slog, senior reviews, partners approves. In your email 📧 there is a cc option, where on every internal deliverable the lead partner is marked so that he/she is aware of your contributions.

Let not your personal vindictiveness take the best of your logic.

I fck*d up big time and I have the realization of the same. I am willing to work very hard throughout the remaining 4 years. Is it possible to get above 8 CGPA by the end of 3rd year? If yes, please do give some examples as well. (I really need some gyan varna overthinking khajayegi mujhe)😭😭😭😭

To all the people who downvoted, give me one reason why not having reservation in armed forces is ok, but excluding medicine as a field for reservation will cause havoc in this country?

All social and moral factors aside, strictly speaking from a practical pov, is reservation in medicine (especially PG entrance) justified? Do you really want to have inclusivity and representation at the cost of danger to life and health? (Don’t even make the argument that INICET Rank 1 and Rank 10k, studying in the same branch at AIIMS are equally good doctors).

Also, before bashing me with your comments, please talk strictly wrt medicine domain.

Hi, I am a law graduate looking for a long-term internship in energy/infra litigation. I have applied to a lot of boutique firms but I am not getting any response. I would really appreciate it if someone, someone from this platform knows or can connect me with an advocate practicing/ boutique accepting internships.

pls mail to : lawgrad23@proton.me with any info you might have

PS: I am a graduate but I dont have any prior ex in this area so that is why I am willing to intern also.

Thank you for any help

It's a good firm but the PPO process is extremely unnecessarily lengthy. You have to intern twice and then only you would get the chance of an assessment internship which is again for two months. If you are sure you want to work at B&P, it's good enough to spend your 4 months here but many other firms give PPOs comparatively easily

How much ego-massaging do you Jindalites need? Alright, you're better than the vast majority of NLUs, but you know you're not as good as (a) either the best NLUs (NLSIU, perhaps include NALSAR and NLUD in this); and (b) or the respectable foreign universities (some of the RG unis in Britain (Oxbridge and the four major London law schools) and the ivy league places in the US). Why not be happy with your current status and work on improving it in a verifiable, meaningful way, instead of asking for validation on a virtually dead gossip blog?

I sincerely hope he’s wrong. If not, Nirmala Sitharaman is the most clueless, insensitive, visionless and anti-middle class FM in history.

😡😡😡😡

Doesn’t she realise that tax cuts will also help boost consumption, which in turn will help the poor? I am really sick of being taxed up to the eyeballs to subsidise corrupt netas and babus, plus rich farmers.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/budget-2024-expect-a-more-of-the-same-and-here-s-why-fm-nirmala-sitharaman-won-t-rock-the-boat/ar-BB1q5RIO?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds