No, we don't need to show any such evidence, simply for the reason you haven't needed to show any in order to enjoy the fruits of other people's labour. Yes, we get to build on the works of people before us, that's what progress means. You don't get to choose whom the law would protect other than you.

Better how? You have got more law firm partners? More senior advocates? More academicians? More senior people in policy bodies? Only more entitlement it seems. And enough arrogance to not even try to understand what alumni base means before parading your superiority and clowning out in the process.

But sir with all due respect what is the use of such cold, harsh cash when I am not able to spend it with my family. Those rolex and suits does not interests any more, its the humane family connection that matters when you reach that age. Khair each to its own, ky hi faayda aise paisa k, agar celebrate karne k liye tym na ho.

We arent harassed because of some vague notion of patriarchy. We are harassed because of the material reality of our sexed bodies. Our bodies are weaker and more vulnerable and we had to prove time after time in court and legislature and in courts again that we are harassed and assaulted and murdered because of our sexed bodies. We werent allowed entry into workplaces or educational institutions because of our sexed bodies. We wouldn't be treated better if we used he pronouns and dressed butch.

You do not get to piggyback/ forced-team on the few hard-fought gains of the women's movement. If you want to argue that you are harassed because of your body- you will have to prove that. Who are you harassed by and what is the harassment of which you speak. You will have to go to courts and legislatures and make your case. Just because women have something does not mean they are obligated to share it with you. This is every kid on the play ground trying to take away his sisters ice cream after throwing his in the dirt. Except no one wants to call you on it because you play on peoples pity. The one thing men in this country dont feel for women- pity. No means no. Get over it.

We need a gendered law to protect us from male aggression. thats it. If you want a gender neutral law- we are at cross purposes. Females dont sexually harass males by and large. There may be very rare exceptions but it is not a problem at a large scale. We need gendered laws that recognises this material documented well evidenced fact. If males want to make the case that they are "oppressed" then they need to show evidence.

50k-60k for one person in a 2/3 BHK is for the more posh buildings in Lower Parel. You can get an independent room in an apartment in Dadar/Parel (which are also not far from office) within 40k. I have been living in Mumbai since 2021, 3 kms from the office and my current commute is 20 minutes. If you can, get a scooter/bike for transport. Saves a lot of time and money.

There is this collogue of mine at my current firm who moved from a senior position of the said practice at Bharucha, trust me all she does is do bullishit with little to no core work. Tier 1s use the term manager very casually for a job so lame. Best holiday job if you can move in.

Hi, first year here. I know what time sheets are. Wanted to see a picture of it .

• Can someone upload it ? • Do partners themselves update timesheet or get it done from associates ?

• Does everyone has to fill timesheets or is it Team Based ?

∆ If we keep filling timesheets when will we fuggin work ?

Lets break B&F into 3 parts (just like how transactions are broken into during negotiations) and then take up the folks doing great work across Indian law firms:

1) DCM and Structured Finance

- Manisha Shroff (KCO)

- Sonali Mahapatra (TT&A)

- Gopal Bankar, Nihas Basheer (Wadia Ghandy)

- Shubhangi Garg (SAM)

- Amit Aggarwal (SNG)

2) Project Finance

- Jatin Aneja, Deepto Roy (SAM)

- Hemant Sahai (HSA)

- Santosh Janakiram (CAM)

- Abhir Lal Dey (Saraf)

- Pallavi Bedi (Phoenix Legal)

3) General Banking/Consortium Work

- Kumar Singh Saurabh (KCO)

- Anand Shah, Gautam Ganjawala (AZB)

- Aashit Shah (JSA)

- Kannan Rahul (Trilegal)

- Karan Mitroo & Girish Rawat (L&L)

4) Derivatives

- Smrithi Nair (Juris Corp)

- Rahul Gulati (TT&A)

- Veena Sivaramkrishnan (SAM)

5) Insolvency & Restructuring

- Ashwin Bishnoi (KCO)

- Bikash Jhawar (Saraf)

- Nilang Desai, Suharsh Sinha (AZB)

- Siddharth Srivastava (KCO)

- Divyanshu Pandey (S&R)

6) Fintech

- Gowree Gokhale (NDA)

- Namita Vishwanath (IndusLaw)

- Probir Chowdhury (JSA)

- Rahul Matthan (Trilegal)

- Anu Tiwari (CAM)

Hope this helps!

I am looking to get a Criminal Manual for my personal reference. Lots of publishers in the market - Professionals, Universals, Shreeram, Law and Justice, EBC, etc. Unable to zero in on one. Currently, Shreeram and Universals look interesting to me as they seem to be comprehensive, cover SC guideline, model drafts and case laws.

PS - I know the new criminal laws will be enacted soon. I want to buy a criminal manual based on current laws so that when the new laws come in I'll have a reference to compare current laws and the new.

Not that good professor are caste biased discriminated against racial or caste background given marks on that basis not supported SC and ST as well as OBC students problems. Very caste minded people RSS background vice chancellor discriminated against sc people who work on their quarters remove sc people on the basis of caste

One t3 boutique Technology media firm gave me very simple work back in my second year to prepare one document but when i wasn't able to prepare in 10 minute , she publicly shamed me for not completing it and she said that she did herself in 2-3 minute. Thats was my worst experience first she didn't explained me properly what all is required in document and then berated publicly. The main problem i saw in majority of law firm that they( Associate/ Partner ) have worst skills in term of delegation of work. Adhi law industry ki problem khatan hojegi if they delegate work with properly.

As someone who been a partner in a Tier-1 and a GC with a venture backed co, I've been on both sides of the table. My 2 cents:

Avimukta and Vahura are decent for law firm roles. Although it's a hit or miss with both of them. Depends more on the recruiter than the firm tbh. Neha (Avimukta) and Lee, Suren (Vahura) are some great folks to speak to from a Mumbai hiring perspective.

Michael Page - global brand, professional folks but yet to find a footing in the legal industry. Great folks but don't have the best law firm roles. They have some great in-house legal roles, as does Vahura.

Adept, Yellow Wire - absolutely horrendous, arrogant, avoid at all costs. CVs get sent to firms without candidate's consent.

Legal League was decent back in the day when Bithika was more hands on - the current set of people are just not up to the mark professionally.

A lot has already been said about the TMPL folks although I haven't interacted with them personally.

Aree yaar ye sab band karo.

On another note, @mod @kian , legallyindia should have a way to classify threads. Pls separate Gossips, internships, salary , work culture , practise area discussions and these kinds of Gossip thread. Please do it.

Just a friendly reminder that while these numbers look and sound great, keep the following in mind:

1. These are typically for GC roles in MNCs and venture backed startups for a select number of sectors (as the article mentions). Ergo, these roles are few and far in between. Not everyone will be qualified for these roles. As the article indicates, GCs at top-tier cos more often than not, have been partners at respected law firms in the past - which is why they can command such compensation numbers in the first place. The average law graduate would be better placed working with a law firm for the formative years of their career and then switching to leadership roles within in-house teams.

2. 3cr to 10cr is a MASSIVE range. I'd be very surprised if there are more than a handful of GCs earning >7cr a year. Imo, the article conveniently uses a range to create sensational value as opposed to more indicative criteria that would indicate what the most common range would typically look like.

3. Earning 3cr as a law firm partner /= Earning 3cr as a GC. Simply because the 3cr you earn as a GC is CTC - which includes monetary pay, perks and RSUs/Stock Options that vest over time. As a partner it's cold, hard cash. And once you hit equity, the upside is unlimited. Unlike a GC.

Overall, it's great that Corporate India is finally starting to recognize the value of in-house legal expertise. However, unlike what this article suggests, it's good to be cautiously optimistic. There's a long way to go.

If only it was THAT easy. Let me explain:-

1) At this point of time in India, many lower ranked NLU students are not getting even internships in these big firms. Internship applications are not being responded to for months.

A0/A1 is a VERY uphill climb for you (or me even).

Think about it this way -

You are a partner/HR and you receive 2 emails asking for internship (or say, A0) position. One is from NLU student, who has also interned with another law firm in past and other one is you (or me) with no experience in General Corporate matters and has only litigation experience.

Who amongst the two will be more useful to corporate law firm? Hope you got your answer.

2) Why would any HR (or firm) make unnecessary efforts to shortlist candidates when they are getting best NLU candidates easily ? I mean you or me may be equally competent but do you think HRs (or Partner) should spend time and take the RISK and give an opportunity of damaging the firm's name (and work) ?

3) At this point of time, there are atleast 20 good universities (NLUs + GLC/ JGLS/ Symbi/ ILS/ NM/ Nirma - yes I am including all!) which means that every year there are atleast 20 X 50 = 1000 Job Seekers. But there are only like 50 Law firms (Big and Small) , therefore 50 X 10 vancancies = 500 ONLY. So, even many students from lower ranked NLUs can be seen struggling in Litigation or other fields

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lawctopus.com/ministry-of-corporate-affairs-legal-trainees-program-internship-office-of-registrar-companies-mumbai/amp/

You can send an email to the ID mentioned in this blog. For students, the internship is for a minimum of 2 months and for graduates for 6 months. Apply with your resume and cover letter.

All the best!

By your logic, even the High Court judges are employees; they get a salary from the Consolidated Fund of the concerned state.

The Supreme Court, in the Review Petition All India Judges’ Association v. Union of India , AIR 1993 SC 2493, in its judgment delivered on 24 August 1993 had held that, "The Judicial Service is not service in the sense of ‘employment’. The judges are not employees. As members of the judiciary they exercise the sovereign judicial power of the State. They are holders of the public offices in the same way as the members of the council of ministers and the members of the legislature."

The above observation has consistently been followed in subsequent judgements including the ones delivered by SC in 2023!

If its that obvious that Ikigai's name will come up (which it is), then they have probably already made it (which they have). Its a great org and in a fairly traditional market, a breath of fresh air. How do you determine a "leading player"? Should we rely on rankings in chambers and legal500 and IBLJ and ALB, and what clients/broader market (particularly in tech) has to say or listen to you? Don't make generic statements and diss for no reason.

Work: The work given to me was good. It also depends on how you do your assigned tasks. If the work submitted is a little substandard or incomplete, some folks stop giving you work/start giving it to another intern in the same team. They have good work coming in. Tax is one of the biggest teams. Work Culture: The work culture is generally good, people start leaving by 7:30-8:30 pm max, food, and office facilities are all good. People are decent and do not become abusive/irritated, patient in general and will take pains to explain as long as work is given on time (allows reasonable extensions). Weekends are off unless your team is working (not really).

PPO: They prefer lateral hiring. Interns are taken on a monthly basis and based on feedback/presentation or something may be called back as a paralegal and then a trainee associate. The chances of PPOs are less but not impossible.
Pay: Interns 10-12.5k not aware otherwise.

I have drafted , argued and cross-examined enough in Trial Courts to know and understand that every single word matters and before what forums. I regularly meet Justices of HCs too - both dull and stupid. I have read countless stupid orders and judgments too. You speaking about business of law ? Please go back and read how some Justices write lengthy incomprehensible sentences.

There is a reason that procedural laws have provisions like order 6 rule 17 , sec 153.

There are "material errors" which can classify as implied admission and "non- material errors".

If you go on a T-1 Judgmental Spree over basic grammatical errors then I hope you also .

This illogical anxiety of partners at T-1 and gaslighting is the reason that Junior Associates are made to go through 100 pages of draft for simple grammatical mistakes - costing them their mental health in the long run. No wonder T-1s have high attrition these days.

Rather than answering and being a bit helpful. You are just being lowkey sarcastic in an anonymous forum and gaining validation for yourself.

I have an interview for an assistant professorship post in a college. Preparing for competitive exams resulted in having gap years in my CV. If asked, should I be honest and tell them the reason or a fake one of taking care of family during COVID. Also, if they ask why I didn't join litigation, should I again be honest and tell them the reasons of 1st gen, no money, not interested or make up some fake excuse.

The advice received is be yourself. However being honest may result in non selection. People who have been successful in interviews, could you mention something that should and shouldn't be done ?

Govt exams, competitive exams, etc, same thing. Just like people call the "civil service examination" as UPSC exam or IAS exam, the former being a constitutional body, the latter being one of the services, it's common lingo. No matter what you call it, what matters is whether you've cleared it or not.

Signatories include Indira Jaising, Aruna Roy, P Sainath, Harsh Mandar and John Dayal.

https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/mahua-moitras-threatened-exit-from-parliament-will-create-void-in-the-discourse-of-crucial-issues/amp