You can keep couching it the way you like, the fact remains that it was a blatant disrespect to the memory of a student whom most of you didn't even know that well, butv whose death used to get out of jams like debarment list and unpreparedness for exams. There have been students who immediately left for vacations after the exams were made optional and then were those who chose to exercise their opt-out after seeing the question paper.

Hi everyone,

I’m a PA at a tier 1 law firm and currently in the last phase of my pregnancy (due in about 1–2 months). Based on my doctor’s advice, I’ve been working from home due to certain medical risks.

However, the situation at work has been quite difficult. Despite my condition, I’m constantly being made to feel redundant by my partner, and there is an expectation to continue handling deliverables with the same intensity—including pulling all-nighters. There is also frequent yelling and an insistence on being available virtually 24x7.

This has been extremely distressing, both physically and mentally.

I have tried addressing this internally, but there hasn’t been any meaningful change in behaviour.

I wanted to understand from others in the community:

- a. Is this kind of expectation normal in similar situations?
- b. How have firms generally dealt with maternity-related accommodations?
- Would it make sense to escalate this externally (for instance, to the Bar Council), or are there better ways to handle this?

c. Would really appreciate any perspectives or experiences—especially from those who may have gone through something similar.

Thanks in advance.

Hi

I am a corporate lawyer mainly experience general corporate and banking experience. I have experience of law firms and now working as an inhouse counsel with an india conglomerate.

I am planning to pursue MBA on weekends from a IIM/or any other good college while working. Please give your opinion on it.

Thanks

I know a girl who joined a T1 back then and slept with a fresher during the out-of-station induction itself.

Some freshers came back from the induction weirded out by her behaviour, as she was not very subtle about it.

Unbothered, she had a series of flings in office across teams; she had married male partners texting her at night.

At one point she hated what were termed as "uncle" clients; she then learnt the game, and now she knows how to feed them.

She knew what she was doing all along. I personally hated watching it, but I definitely had my eyes open to how it was normalised.

Some play the game. You don't want to. You have my respect. I get the weirdness, but you're also not "all" women. Don't be a misandrist.

I know it is one of the most sought after non-lit firms in Mumbai, offers great learning and (hopefully) earning opportunities. I gave the 4 names above as I am roughly aware of some merger/ JV-kinda thing but I'm not sure. Can someone please help me with details on the following:

1. Work timings for A0.

2. Pay Scale

3. Is there any reservation as to hiring people from Bombay over ones from outside Bombay?

It may be trollish, but post this: if you even find a POSH Comm., etc., & report, blv me, the entire industry will make you unemployable for the rest of your life.

Be what you are.Do best in your job.Learn.Repeat.Revise.Then keep switching.Do not make your job your life.People will stare, they may even approach.If you're uncomfortable with those overtures, just tell them plainly.

And as far as husband aspect is concerned, gurl, he'll definitely.he's a man, & that's in his genes.if yku are 'really' concerned, marry a house-husband, & take care of your family's expenses.

Hey everyone,

I’m a final-year law student from an tier 2 NLU, about to graduate soon. Even with a decent rank, some publications, and a tier-1 internship under my belt, I haven’t been able to land a job yet. My family is dealing with a lot of debt right now, and I’ve also taken a student loan to finish my studies. A job at this point would really change things for me and help take some pressure off at home.

If any of you know of any openings in law firms, corporate teams, or even litigation chambers where someone like me could actually get a fair chance, I’d be really grateful if you could refer me or just point me in the right direction. I’m open to doing an assessment internship where I can be seriously considered for the job.

If nothing works out, I’ll probably have to shift fully towards preparing for government exams. Honestly, this feels like my last real shot at making things work.

Its actually better to go after day zero when people are desperate for jobs. Honestly for the BO'27, a lot of deserving candidates would be left out after day zero. The market is extremely bad. Top and mid-high rankers will not apply if these boutiques and T2s go before day zero.

More than the guys, the girls in my college have made me (and many others like me) very shitty and unsafe. The 4th and 5th year girl groups in particular are extremely mean and belittling towards me because of my weight, caste, accent and dressing sense. They often commented on it and giggled continuously whenever I was around in corridors, only to stop and give me fake smiles when I turned around. It got to the point that I was crying constantly and having anxiety attacks whenever I spotted them.

It didn’t even register as bullying at first, but now that it has I hate seeing these people going towards a happy future. If all this sounds similar to something you’ve been doing to others, YOU’RE A BULLY. NOTHING ELSE. Know that you’re horrible human beings. For all your feminist stances, you’re absolute assholes to your juniors and other girls. No matter how much you pretend, you’re not allies and are complicit in making women in your surroundings feel unsafe and inadequate. You are the kind of people who use feminism as a shield to get away with your shitty behaviour because you know no one would call you out. I wish the worst on you.

This is hardly the head's fault if the students including the victim choose not to bring the matter up to the administration. If they have already done so, then yes, IC proceedings do take time to finish. The perpetrator may graduate by then. That's how law works. If you don't like it, then lobby to change it.

How extremely vile of you to bring up students being given an OPTIONAL exam deferral mechanism in light of a co-student- batchmate- friend's death on campus FOUR DAYS before exams began as some cheap talking point about opportunism.

I'd like to understand, is there genuinely no difference in your mind between:

1. Having to sit down and concentrate for endsem exams immediately after a suicide on the same three-acre campus, with police poking moving around, students breaking down and the entire atmosphere being steeped in grief and shock; and

2. Going ahead with internships scheduled weeks later, with professional and financial consequences attached?

Putting the words "mental health" in quotation marks the way you've done, and your armchair grief-policing and purity testing are nauseating, but I'd like to understand, what exactly according to you is the bar for trauma to opt out of writing an exam? Unless someone's catatonic enough to your liking, they ought to be forced to write exams 4 days after, no?

The picture you paint of us students as some feudal beneficiaries enjoying the fruits of admin corruption is laughable. Maybe it could've occured to you even as you typed this out that we were trying to cope with shock, grief and exhaustion, and accepted said OPTIONAL institutionally provided concession during such an extraordinary tragedy, but alas.

Listen man, whoever you are, our sincere apologies for failing to perform trauma in your aesthetic. We'll ensure that if there's a next time, nobody will attend internships, smile accidentally, leave our rooms or function in any visible capacity unless certified to be sufficiently traumatized by a licensed practitioner. God bless.

A close friend worked for NJ, and he had a terribly experience. To say that the office was toxic might be an understatement, there was way too much emphasis on billable hours to the extent that they worked through weekends just to log billable hours.

There was barely any mentorship by the senior leadership, and they were let to sink or swim on their own for the most part.

While some colleagues were half decent, consider the extremely high attrition rates I wouldn't be surprised if they've also left by now.

I understand the PPO/Assessment anxiety, especially in the final year of law school but don't make this your sole option, do try and look for greener (or atleast saner) pastures.

Atb!

6 final year students at MNLU Mumbai got into a brawl with 3rd years. The police was called to contain the brawl and the matter was escalated to UGC. The university has now expelled these students from both the hostel and the university, despite half of them having PPOs with leading firms and chambers. ▮▮▮ They’re appealing the decision court now, but weren’t allowed to write the final year exams with their batchmates this week.

Many of our alumni have publicly shamed the victims for standing up against these people stating that the punishment is disproportionate and to have consideration since it’s their final year. But none of them, absolutely no one, stopped these people when they were bullying others and causing harm to others.

Some of the 3rd years have also conceded to this punishment being excessively harsh. But a lot of us are so happy and proud of this step in the correct direction. Finally some accountability ▮▮▮ by the administration! I hope the university also intimates their future employers of this development as well so people know exactly what the consequences of bullying and sexual harassment are (looking at you NUJS).

Name and shame this person and publicise this mail. People like this deserve far harsher consequences than a public apology with no real consequences. I know the mods won’t allow for names, but give the initials at least so others maybe aware of the kind of person they’re engaging with.

Actually succeed in life first. People don't just get foreign citizenships by putting their hands in a hat and pulling out the first passport that they find. They get it by working their backsides off. That foreign passport is usually just one small representation of years of hard work, of self doubt, of wondering whether you are good enough, of sleepless nights, of not taking holidays when others do, of taking up five extra assignments at work when the average high performer at most takes up one or two, and increasingly, of having also studied in that country. Do that first, then give big big lectures. Also, have some basic empathy for people. Some people need it. One person I know needs it because of his family circumstances: he has a British passport but his mother and his adult sister, who is severely autistic, live in India and can't be brought to the UK in part because of medical problems the mother is facing, in part because family reunion in the UK is difficult, next to impossible, and in part because this person's son (living in the UK) has a medical condition that makes it very difficult for him to work at all.

There is a good deal of hypocrisy among OCI holders. I will grant you that. I have personally come across somebody with a British passport who is a partner at an Indian law firm (who made sure to change her own daughter's passport from Indian to British in the girl's middle school years) tell me, when my ambition to establish myself in legal practice in Britain was still at quite a baby stage, that having anything British on your profile makes the lives of Indians miserable in India and everywhere else in the world (happy to confirm that two British university degrees and a few other British qualifications have not had this unhappy consequence). If that's the case, then the visa free travel should not be worth it, correct?

Also, I don't know, but you seem really privileged and secure in life. Perhaps you are sure that nothing will ever happen to you in your life that will make you want to fundamentally change your circumstances. Or perhaps you are bitter because you have nothing to lose and want to throw up your bile on people who have done you no harm. I don't know what special knowledge or privileges you have, but despite being wealthy, I don't necessarily feel secure enough in any country not to want the possibility of an easy get-out card if I can get hold of it - who knows when I might need it. This stupid comment is a classic demonstration of why I say learn lessons from the Jewish people in the west who have western and Israeli passports. At least that gives them a get-out card from either country if they need it - and after what the world's Jews have suffered, they have every justification to want to have such an option. You never know what'll happen to you so don't have a go at people who are making careful life choices and keeping their eggs in multiple baskets. Also remember that even these life circumstances that give you options also can cause headaches in and of themselves - think of double taxation in regard to UK-US dual citizens. Take me as an example. When finally I do manage to become eligible to give up my Indian passport and take up a British one, one of the factors I will have to consider is the huge problems that having an OCI would cause were I to try joining the British diplomatic service (working in international relations has been one of the things I have wanted to do for a few years now). That is certainly one of the considerations I will take into account when deciding about whether or not to take up an OCI - and if it is of interest to you, it might very well lead to me deciding not to take up one, for now at least.

I have applied to so many boutique firms as well as big firms and have not received a single response. i feel like im out of options i dont wanna be unemployed pls help with firms who are hiring in delhi preferably disputes/adr, ip, banking law or ibc and restructuring else even general commercial litigation

Good exposure and experience across teams however attrition rate is high, with sometimes the entire teams switching out in a matter of 1-1.5 year. You'll find this is consistent with other reviews of NJ on LI. Work culture can be quite toxic. Also, just fyi, no parity of pay across levels to my knowledge, especially for lateral hires.

Ishan Sharma, without much doubt. His legal career began around the same time as this thread, and the sheer volume and, indeed, the value of briefs he receives each year from the Union of India alone, running into several crores, would give even a Tier 1 corporate law firm partner some pause!

i’ve noticed across tier 1s (especially delhi ncr), the call backs/ppo situation for interns with referrals is very uncertain. are cam, sam, kco, azb and tri really not giving referral interns assessments and ppos? can someone please shed some light? and if someone has been able to score one despite having connections then too please share the firm that does not discriminate thanks!

Hi, I wanted to check if anyone here has interned with or knows the application process for Mr. Shashank Garg. I’m particularly interested in opportunities in dispute resolution/arbitration and would appreciate any guidance on how to apply, whether there’s a formal process, and if an email ID or point of contact is available. Thanks in advance!

Going for my first GC internship in October, acceptances from these two firms, apart from the same, are there any other good GC boutiques to learn with a good amount of work?

Which one to choose, NKR Law Offices or LexFavios or some other firm entirely

Boutique firms in Delhi only, going into my third year

whose team? most GC teams are not hiring for the batch of 2027. maybe that's why you didn't get an extension. besides "reasonably hard" is subjective. at the end of the day your extension depends totally on your training guide and partner - if you worked reasonably hard but did not have visibility, it's useless.

Hi all, I came across some lists on projects and energy teams ranked across firms but noticed limited information on the work mix.

What are some of the strong projects and energy + M&A teams (teams that do pure projects sections on deals + also do their own deals) that you have come across in the Tier 1 - 3 market?

I have been working with real estate team of t1 firm since past 2 years, and honestly pay is not as good as other teams, also the number of hours my team is putting is far more than other teams but still pay is very shite compare to theirs.

One of the worst practice area tbh

"See, the method of Axis My India is talking to people face to face. And when we tried to talk after the first phase, about 60-70 per cent of the people had their lips sealed. They were not even ready to say yes or no," Gupta told NDTV.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2026-west-bengal-elections-bengal-exit-polls-bengal-voters-staying-mum-may-not-release-exit-poll-data-today-axis-my-india-founder-11428067

Hmmm...

Kindly request your mentor if it would be possible to intern offline. Don't ask the hr. They'll deny as they only have limited seats. In any case, interning offline doesn't make much of a difference unless you're sitting with the team. The interns' space is in the basement while the entire office sits at 7th and 8th floor.

Hi
The transition from law firms to Big4 marks a significant shift in the kind of work you do. Though you might be working on the same kind of transactions and roles but we are all aware of the cultural shift and the difference in pay. My recent shift has got me into a big dilemma whether it was a right decision to go for a Big4 consultancy from a boutique law firm. Though i might want to come back to law firms, i am only attracted to the kind of pay they give and nothing else about it. Throw some light people!!