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Pay is extremely low and the founding partner has a nasty attitude. As a new joinee, you are just supposed to learn the work all on your own.
Also they don't have a lot of work- some disputes work and real estate due diligence. Don't know if that has changed.
Some of my colleagues who interned after me did not have much work given to them, so depends on your luck.
Let the softies/ slackers start down voting this now.
Although I haven't given up on my job search in Europe, I do need a job immediately. I've started applying in India, and I would prefer working in Mumbai, Bengaluru or Hyderabad. I'm looking for a job where my LLM will prove to be useful, which would be tech law or data protection. I'm looking at law firms with good TMT practice teams, although I would ideally prefer working in-house for either a big company or firm like one of the Big 4 (Deloitte, EY, etc.) or a tech start up dealing with the DPDPA.
Please let me know how I can start to build a career in data protection and what approach I should take in terms of building my CV, applying for roles, which law firms I can apply to for TMT, getting certified (e.g. CIPP) or making connections, especially if I have such a big work gap in my CV and I've been away from India for so long. For context, I have about 4+ PQE of experience. I've worked mostly in litigation and with NBFCs, and I've found it really hard to make the transition to corporate, compliance or tech law. I haven't had a proper full time job in over 3 years. I have no interest in returning to litigation.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you. Have a nice day!
I had expirence of weight loss while I was in class 11th and 12th it was 30 kg in 9 months .My weight fell form 100kg to 70kg after my crush called me football
so my advice is :
A) do anything that force your heart to beat faster like walking using stair or swimming pool . If possible get a treadmill
B) I know you guys dosent have the time to do physical activity but atleast control your dam diet .On average human body burn 1700 calories just to maintain itself eating less will create a deficit.
C) Buy a weighting machine and install any weight tracking app it . Track your weight in morning after you used bathroom. It will create a sense of achievement
D)Track your calories . Every bit form roti to pani puri to anything that have enegry
E) Try to create a deficit atleat of 650 calories per day.
F) if want to munch try to carrot or my personal choice bottle of soda with black paper it helped alot with constant munching habit I developed that time
G) Last and final important advice dont follow strict routine make it dynamic and simple .
H) Get a good watch. My personal favorite is Samsung watch 7 ,
At time of weight loss it was samsung watch 4
My personal advice on some days you will have to eat outside if happens fast the whole next day or try to burn it of by workout (walking, swimming, jogging)
You can ask me question.
Also, I would like to build a portfolio of commercial litigation and arbitration portfolio, since it seems like no tier 1 firm even in Mumbai or Delhi specialises solely in arbitration. Does any Bangalore firm or practice align with this?
Is this team still hiring for BO2026? My peers told me they hired late for previous batches typically, but hired very early for our batch? Any guidance would be appreciated
(a) laterally move to another tier-1/2 law firm in TMT; or
(b) move to corporate/M&A/PE/VC.
How do I do (a) when I do not have insights into whether such firms are hiring for TMT? Who do I reach out to? Don't say recruiters please, as they BARELY post TMT hirings.
If I were to shift from TMT to corporate, how do I do it? What do I have to do to convince the firm that I can do corporate work?
Please help me out, I really need the guidance!!
Also what’s the increment structure like based on the ratings? It seems pretty opaque and shady
Mods, again: PLEASE BUMP
Show me one human being who doesn’t have a sex , or who produces some third gamete- a spegg- intersex people aren’t “between the two sexes”. Intersex people have differences of sex development that means at some point their sexual development halted or got interrupted/ that doesn’t make them a third sex. A ma with a micropenis isn’t less of a man and a woman with hirsuitism isn’t less of a woman.most intersex conditions are sexed conditions- meaning they only happen to one set of people - either male people or female people. So saying someone is intersex is basically saying they’re a male person or a female person with a condition.
In any case most trans identified people don’t have any DSDs. Human beings can’t change sex by proclamation alone. It’s not magic and we’re not gods- we’re beasts like every other animal on this planet.
Public Healthcare in general is available to all irrespective of income. You or I can visit Aiims and avail free treatment even if we can afford to pay for private treatment. that's what taxes are for. Same logic would apply for gender transition surgeries as well. In any case, govt funded schemes sometimes have income limit, but this can be done irrespective of the persons gender identity.
I am just about to be promoted to SA (hopefully no surprises there) and this post made me feel like an AI description of my partner's habit. I am more scared than excited about my prospects here.
I think another aspect you can write is the absence of mid management (there are no counsels, other SAs in the team) and I think that's a gigantic red flag as well.
Ex Facie these judicial proceedings are very unsettling. Justice cannot look like this. Did this litigant manage to speak at all during the hearing. And Open Justice means that people watching should be able to understand what happened. But without knowing the contents of the petition, we don't know anything. And if a litigant is being described as a blackmailer by the Court, he should at least be heard first. The most basic principle of law and justice that no man will be condemned unheard has not been followed here.
In many jurisdictions including the US, court petitions are accessible to the public on court websites. We need to do this in India as well. Justice needs to be open. Justice must always be seen to be done.
https://youtube.com/shorts/8bSbj0NRel4?si=gYr_KjA3JLxtdpnd
Me: What other did we have brother............
But, what if I entered, & worked for a few years not only to save some capital but to gain experience & learn how things move around, & then pivot back to academia?Would it still be very implaussible, kinda?
I'm not completely novice.I hold a diploma in banking & finance from IIBF; and understanding of econ. is swaddled with core macro theories; although I concur, there shall be way more to learn in transactions, other than theory.
Thanks again for your message!
Welcome to equality i guess
I used to date a girl in school and junior college. We broke up around the time I joined law school.
She later went on to do Bsc. Nursing worked as a Nurse in a large Mumbai hospital for some years.
Last week I came across her profile on a social media platform. And I saw that she had moved to London to work as a nurse under the NHS, and then later got married to a guy who also is an allied healthcare dude, along the lines of a nurse.
Now I got curious and did a little stalking and some research. Per mine and AI estimates, the couple together makes 135k+ GBP per year. With pension, with a lot of time to spare, WLB. Max 50 hours a week with extra work. 37.5 with only NHS work.
They can buy a 550k house on mortgage comfortably at this point in time. And also have money for an okayish BMW because it's only 7 months of their savings.
And in INR terms still have savings of 3+ Lakhs per month. That they can invest in India.
You as a corporate law partner can max have a sea facing house in Mumbai. But they can invest in a 4bhk house in London or some other city.
To match their current earnings and lifestyle as an Indian you'd need to earn a profit, of 1.5 crores per year, assuming you're a businessman. Meaning a turnover of 8-12 cr with healthy profit margin.
1. kco bombay cap marks - 2 (1 nalsar, 1 nujs)
2. cam - 1 nliu and 2 more
3. spice route blr - 1 (nujs)
4. kco bom (competition)- 1 slsp
5. kco del (competition) - 1 nujs
6. azb bom (competition) - sad to hear what happened but it is a fact (jgls)
7. saraf bombay - 1 nlud
8. saraf delhi - 1 nujs
Also, do they give stipend for a month long internship?
JSA - Vandana Venkat
Would really appreciate any insights on their work culture and what freshers are typically paid.
I would really appreciate any advice on how to prepare effectively, as well as insights or experiences from previous interns that could help me make the most of this opportunity.
If you are a junior (1-4 PQE) and have a lazy boss, who has the qualities I will list below, run, run for your life. Get another job, change teams, but do not be their associate.
(a) Lazy Instructions - One of the biggest red flags. They will give you half assed instructions, without context, without information without proper briefing - despite them having the knowledge that you may have never done it before or do not have experience in something. For eg. One fine day, your boss calls you and tells you to review an ISDA Agreement and cuts the call, but you are an IPR Lawyer.
(b) Expects you to do all the work - I mean I understand the youngsters are supposed to do the grunt work, but if you are a partner, you ought to work bro, not expect everything on a silver platter, perfectly plated and served to you, so that you can just put your sign on the platter and serve it to the client. This is especially present in very young partners.
(c) Is a passive aggressive whiner - I had this one boss who used to be passive aggressive. He used to send long whiny texts on WhatsApp or an email at the end of the day for any mistake that I would make. These texts would be very hurtful, and sometimes he would make personal judgments, now I realise he was just projecting his insecurities. This sort of person is a pain to work with, because they will never accept any fault of theirs. Everything will be your fault. You will have to take the fall for many of their faults. He will tell the client, my associate XYZ fucked up. Mine did, when I was just 1 PQE.
(d) Has a target on someone's back in the office - If you notice that your boss targets one person in the team repeatedly. Like shout at them, berate them in person or email, just targets them for the smallest of things which are forgiven for others. Be on notice. They will come to target you eventually. It will happen. Until the day you quit, like the previous guy who was harassed. I don't understand the psychology behind it, but that's but I have seen this happen multiple times. I don't know if its a churn and burn strategy or just plain inability to regulate one's emotions.
(e) Absentee Boss - If you partner rarely comes to office or comes in very late - in the afternoon or evenings without good reason. Then yeah, summarily disqualify them from every becoming your boss. Because you will have to end up managing a lot of fires yourself, clients will harass you for deliverables. Which your boss hasn't properly reviewed, or reviewed at all, because they were sleeping in or doing something illicit or being a drunk or partaking in a hobby. Whatever maybe the reason, if your boss is absent when there are fires, or fires are caused due to their absence, client deliverables are delayed because they wanted to take a sudden unplanned trip. Say your goodbyes, because this will keep happening. And you will be thrown under the bus. Remember, this advice is for those between 1-5 PQE, of course this is subjective and depends on the context and matter. A 1 PQE can't be left to manage client expectations and deliverables when the Boss is AWOL. Similarly, a 5 PQE can't be left managing regulatory issues when the boss is unreachable for a silly reason.
(f) Lack of Mentorship - This is my biggest red flag in a boss for a junior. And lord knows I have faced this, and it caused me a lot of pain in terms of slow progress, exposure, training and knowledge. Any boss in this profession who sees a junior as a resource that does not need input, but like an AI bot that comes ready made with skills is not fit to lead others. These people forget that a person graduating from a law school is not a lawyer, he has just studied the law, not lawyering. It takes patience, training, nurturing and a whole fucking lot of mentoring to make a law graduate a lawyer, who has the skills of a lawyer.
When you are a graduate, you don't know what needs to be looked at in a contract, that comes with experience, which is very practice area specific, you don't know what the court does in practice. Some of these people need to marinate in this information, because, some even after 15-17 years in practice don't seem to understand it.
My then boss who used to think like this destroyed my confidence completely. It took me a while to gain it back. I realised what an incompetent fool that man was.
(g) Inability to handle and deflect pressure - If you are a boss, and a small unreasonable stinker or demand from a client comes in and you lose your shit or panic and move the deadline to 3 am in the morning from the day after, then fuck you. Really fuck you. Your job is to deal with the clients, and the senior partners and keep your juniors away from that pressure, if you can't do that, then why are you even in this position? Let the junior handle the client and the senior partners. While you're at it, please leave the building and the firm. This applies especially to Principal Associates, Counsels or whatever they are called nowadays.
(h) The Screaming Banshee - There are some bosses who like to scream and be mean for no particular reason, after doing all the above, they will scream at you as if you were the one at fault all the time. The Screaming Banshee boss is almost always accompanied by a junior minion who behaves in a similar manner. This junior most probably has been mentored to be a mean screaming banshee too. So that the load of the screaming doesn't completely fall on the senior banshee. Sometimes they will both gang up and scream at you. They are best ignored. I had the misfortune of having such a boss who was a combination of all the above bosses.
Sorry for the dirty typing, I typed on notepad on the phone and ctrl c + ctrl v ed it. Ciao.
All disputes teams across every firm have some niche or the other and in most cases they grow boring and repetitive. That’s how these teams can pay out so well because they can churn out a ton of work because of the nature of repeat games. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that any other team is better or for that matter worse. It’s all the same. Please leave these juvenile questions aside and ask yourself where you are placed socially and economically and then take a decision that gives you the best of both.
If money isn’t a concern
Assessing memos objectively ❌
Attention to citations and correct format ❌
Preference to friends and chelas ✅
Bonus marks for sucking up ✅
Preference to kids from elite backgrounds ✅
Preference to good-looking and fair junior girls ✅
Overlooking correctness of citations ✅
Yes, it's true.
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1 S&r
If yes, could you please tell which and what is the remuneration and how to get in?
I have a good cv and average academics.