Yeah you definitely can. I also am one such person. In litigation the most important factor is to build trust. Trust amongst your senior, your senior's friends, the client and the court. As long as you are honest at your work and really own the work given to you, nothing else much matters. Once your reputation as a hard working and sincere advocate is made, work will start coming to you. I personally get matters from my senior, his friends at the bar etc.

Just give it a shot buddy and try it for yourself. May the force be with you

And you think IndiaCorpLaw accepts all good articles and rejects the bad ones? The editorial process in ICL is actually very erratic. I have seen mere judgment summaries getting published on ICL. Also, they publish only a certain number of articles every month. So they can't accommodate all good articles.

I don't understand the need for these kids to intern at T1s? They aren't gonna learn anything there. Like just go to your nearest district court and start from there before proceeding to boutique firms. It was honestly so embarrassing seeing those second-year interns there talking mad smack during the intro

I am a newbie, I am thinking of prepping for Law school entrance exams 2025 and get into law school in 2025.

I have heard many bad things about law as a profession here but that goes with every other profession I believe.

Now, write your hearts out. Give whatever gyaan and good advices you wanna give.

Thank you.

The floor is all yours.

I guess this is marked trollish by the same contact intern scrolling through threads here because Luthra associates barely have any work to assign. Bro contacts hai aur luthra mein gaye? you are wasting precious time. Intern at places where interns, specifically contact interns are actually assessed.

Salary: Won't disclose but its out on public forums anyways

Overall Expenses: Not more than 2/2.25 lakhs

Savings: Total - 2/2.25 lakhs

Marital Status: Single/Man

i) Rent: 80k

ii) Clothing: 60-70k

iii) Outing: 20k

iv) Food: 10k

iv) Travel: 10k

v) Misc: 10k

Its difficult to save in Mumbai due to the pressure to keep up with the hawabaazi and potray an image for your blue chip client. Also, one does not get time to routinely go for outings since weekends are very rare (without work) and most of the times you are out for business development dinners/lunches with your client/team when time permits. Lastly, cutting down on smoking and junk food has helped both my pocket and my health which I do not regret and infact recommend everyone to follow suit.

The money may be good but your savings discipline makes the change if you want to have a family and keep up with a above-middle class lifestyle in a place like Mumbai or Delhi. Personally never ever thought about getting married since its a lot of responsibility (my parents hope this thought changes haha).

Cheers!

Quick check-in about my internship application at Bharucha – I wrapped up the assignment with a good rating, but haven't heard about next steps. 🤔

Is it usual to get internship details like a month before the desired start date, or did I miss something? Just want to make sure I'm on the right track. 🙏

Thanks a bunch!

Hope you all are doing well! Quick check-in about my internship application at Bharucha – I wrapped up the assignment with a good rating, but haven't heard about next steps. 🤔

Is it usual to get internship details like a month before the desired start date, or did I miss something? Just want to make sure I'm on the right track. 🙏

Thanks a bunch!

That's the problem with Bhakts. They are eager to personalise the law and accept individuals as authority figures and their words as sacrosanct, without application of individual mind. Which is exactly what legal education is meant to help one unlearn. You probably don't even understand how disturbing your pronouncement about the judge being the law sounds.

I was an MBA aspirant. I gave CAT 22 and got 68 percentile. I am a non-engineer.

What I have realized by doing extensive research on the B-schools are these few things -

An Ideal Profile for the Top 20 B-schools of the country across all rankings are -

10th - 80%+

12th - 80%+

UG - 80%+ (Preferably in a NON-ENGG course and if it's from an elite institute then it's a major advantage)

Work experience - 2 years from a good reputed company

Gender - Female gets diversity points of around 5 percent weight.

Co & Extra Curricular - You need to have some extraordinary achievements here which your leadership and managerial acumen

Also, there should not be a gap of more than 2 years.

Lastly, an MBA is not worth it if you don't do it from the TOP 20 institutes as these institutes only have the capability of placing you in a job that pays around what you invest in 2 years which is upwards of 25 lacs at least in the CTC term.

I realized that given my profile and the aptitude I have, I wouldn't land in a Top 20 B-school anytime soon so I left the MBA space altogether.

the aslc process will begin after you're formally inducted. atleast that's how it's been till now

you will receive emails from the uni about when to pay the fee and report to campus. Essentially, anything that you must know, will be told to you. Don't worry so much! hope this helps!

Depends on how the chamber/ senior is. If you are concerned about finances, network with senior's network to get drafting/ appearance work on the side. Unless your senior will actively help you land clients, make independent work generation your focus since day 1. Use the senior's name/ reputation/ office infra as much as you can.

Seems like every other person (probably from Lala firms) wants Trilegal to fail. Not the first such thread I have seen after they increase the pay of their associates.

I don't think Trilegal is going to implode so easily. However, they need better PR. It's very evident.

And Lala firms people should instead be more interested in treating their lawyers well and should match Trilegal's pay structure.

To be very honest, being good looking does eventually become a double-edged sword. Frequent compliments and appreciation makes you feel like you’re on top of the world but the moment it stops, even for a day or two, you start spiralling into a pool of insecurities.

The only real (and unfortunate) way of dealing with this insecurity is to disregard other people’s appreciation or criticism as far as practicable.

recently worked with Ikigai Law - Delhi team for our seed and pre Series A rounds. responsive team with good understanding of the vc market. fees slightly on the higher end given the size of the round but we found it to be worth our while. I mention a law firm because earlier we tried our hand at termsheet negotiation with a Ca / lawyer and soon realised that it would be good to have a specialist do this for us.

Sure, every Bank is now branching out into composite credit schemes/new policies for its credit card systems for which the need for data protection, licensing, strategic joint venture strategies have been on a boom (before dotting the deal with tech enablers, privacy consulting MNCs and so on). This will require expertise of IPR, TMT and some bit of M&A - from the lens of a Bank or a Fintech. For which I believe one should first aim at joining a TMT team of leading firms like Trilegal, Khaitan, IndusLaw or NDA; and then lateral after 3-4 years of understanding the legal side as well as the business side of TMT (along with both its IPR and M&A takeaways). Hope that helps, best of luck!

Hello, I am 1.5 PQE looking to shift out of a T1 Disputes Team to a smaller firm. The idea is to do more work, handle matters independently (w ofc oversight of seniors), get to brief more and argue more. Money is a constraint hence can’t move to a chamber.

Thanks in advance!

how can you be united with someone who thinks of themselves are more Indian than you? who thinks that the language you've known since you were born is a joke? who thinks that you should be accommodating to all sorts of migration and not expect anything at all in terms of assimilation into society?

Why are Kannadigas not angry with Telguites? because they learn the language. they assimilate, and they treat the locals as equal humans. Read that stupid angels share book and tell me that there isn't irrational bigotry in how north Indian migrants- particularly the wealthy people- treat the so-called "natives". why should South Indian states pay more than their fair share toward the national coffers and receive less than their share? why are they punished politically for implementing health care and family planning and education and employment? why are we made to go along with the silliness of religion-based politics when that stuff is irrelevant to most South Indians?

If you want the country to be united- you have to take seriously the issues raised by those unlike you. If you want to simply shame people by calling them anti-national when not doing anything to help them lead a better life- you can go ahead. You just won't be successful.

Yes, variety. Civil Criminal Corporate Tax Commercial. I have tried my hand here. Criminal litigation at District level is based on turning witnesses hostile and civil litigation is a Joke as Trials get dragged for 10 years.

What I am focusing is on variety of litigation in higher courts so I just have to research , read and argue and get out of mess of dirty trial court lethargy and work.

It's very funny how much people talk on LI without knowing anything. I'm at NLUD and I can say with 100% certainty that students do not have to pay tuition fees of the University they are headed to but only their home University, which they already pay. However students have to pay for food, accommodation and travel if they cannot avail of a scholarship like Erasmus

Don't know why you're getting down voted. In law when corporate firms don't hire your only option is to perform free labour for an independent practitioner. In MBA even when the market is bad, the fresher salary is always enough for you to be able to sustain yourself. Job market across sectors is really bad. In law we have an already saturated labour marker, tough external conditions make it even worse.

To be fair, CBCL always gives the most detailed feedback. IRCCL is great though.

Content wise, IndiaCorpLaw seems to follow an approach where they accept the first half decent article they get on a new update, irrespective of whether the author has something to contribute to the topic. The published articles, therefore, tend to be very dry (more often than not). IRCCL has great content.

I was a T1 Associate for a short while. I always maintained the philosophy that you cannot expect to be awed and thrilled by every hour or minute on the job. At the end of the day, even if you are doing what you love and enjoy, the fact that it has to be done repeatedly and its perfection is tied with your livelihood, you cannot expect to be happy all the time. I had to leave to take care of my family and became an entrepreneur for the time being. While it is equally arduous and stressful, meeting and interacting with people all day instead of just staring at a screen make it seem more dynamic. I am sure that it is just a matter of perspective though.

I too am from a metro city, and I too look forward to that tier 2 city experience that you mention. I have never to Rajasthan before, and I would like to see the fabled charm firsthand. I am fascinated by the heritage of my own city and often go for walks at these spots. Would like to continue the same in Jodhpur too. (There would inevitably be some comments about poverty or the lack of infra, etc. I do not mind any of that.)

As for the Aslc process, when does it start? I'm guessing probably a month or two before induction? Is there any way to connect with seniors beforehand? I know LinkedIn is an option, but it seems kind of weird to just approach them out of the blue there