She is not hiring or even interviewing people is what I hear. Her hirings are frozen for the year. If you are seeking a job, pointless exercise.

If you are an intern - don’t worry. There is work and you will get work. Hours will be long and associates are friendly. You will learn work if that’s your objective. Associates don’t shout or are not misbehaved in her team.

Hope this helps.

Interned there a few months ago. Its a small litigation firm with one partner and 3 associates. The work is almost completely research-based and you might occasionally get to visit arbitration proceedings and courts. There is almost no scope of learning drafting tho so I'd suggest against it if you want to learn the proper nitty gritties of court practice since 99% of the time you'll be doing research.

GPT Lawyers and GPT judges are precisely how regular people are going to get any semblance of justice. No matter how powerful the horse-cart lobby became, it wasn't going to stop the automobile.

I'm glad that AI can upend the entrenched / regressive power structures of one of the most corrupt legal systems in the world. Let's actually do what is right for the country this one time. It will only create greater opportunity for young tech-savvy lawyers.

I have worked as a legal intern in Namita's team for a long period of time and I desperately wanted to work there as an associate but it couldn't happen. Working hours are a bit longer but you will get to learn a lot while working with this team. The team deals in queries related to Aviation, Infrastructure, Insolvency and general corporate advisory. All the associates and senior associates in the team are very welcoming. Sydrah ma'am, Shubham sir and Prakriti ma'am are the most approachable people I have ever met in my life. At the end, I would say that this is "the opportunity" where you will actually learn and get to explore various area of practice. Hope this helps :) and all the best.

@gautambhatia88

is one of the finest human beings. India and the world are a better place with him in it, doing what he does--fighting for justice everywhere.

https://twitter.com/tarunkhaitan/status/1710234622196637829

When was Arghya ever left-leaning? Yes, he was certainly close to Jaitley and Vidhi helped with Jaitley's speeches and research, but Jaitley was never left-leaning. Jaitley was to the left of Modi no doubt, but he was centre-right to liberal-conservative. Arghya too falls in that category.

What is happening is this: after Jaitley's death, only the far-right remains in the BJP. Those who are liberal-conservative are either sitting quiet, or shifting to the left-liberal side, or hardening their image and moving to the far-right to become like Vikramjit Banerjee and J Sai Deepak. Arghya has chosen the third path, but tentatively and subtly, in contrast to JSD's very aggressive decolonisation arguments.

Bucerius Law School in Hamburg has an English-language LLM/MLB which a few Indians have studied. But from what I can see, they have either come back to India (a few NLSIU alum among them) or joined organisations in Germany in non-law roles. For a law role, I guess you will need a German LLB and you will have to leave the bar exam.

Fairly long at the Bar. First generation lawyer and not from Delhi but practising in Delhi like many others. Yes, it is difficult to sustain, but trust me, every month, either at the start, or in the middle or towards the end, you will get that one case or fee that will sustain you. That's how we survive. That's how many before us have survived and went onto survive for the rest of their respective lives without realising that that one case eventually became two, three, four and many for few and few more for most. But our struggles are the same. Some will openly acknowledge it and some will not, but everyone knows that that's how it is.

My advice, as our friend above has said - stay grounded, work hard, fee or no fee - do your best in all your cases - as that you owe to your client and live each day as it happens. Make a monthly budget and stick to it. Always try to save first for the current month/ week and if there is still something extra - save it for the next. Splurge only and only if you have saved for the monthly allocation for the next 2-3 months. The theory of comparative advantage is valid for us lawyers as well. No two persons, even if coming from similar backgrounds, will have the same journey. There are many factors that come into play. So never compare yourself with someone else. You are the only standard for you to compare. If you are better than what you were earlier - you are growing.

Lastly, relax. we all survive and there is nothing better than litigation - that moment when you stand at the dias and argue - it compensates for every hardship one may have faced to reach there. We are performers thats why we are litigators.

https://www.barandbench.com/news/newsclick-arrests-what-the-fir-says

https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/10/06/newsclick-fir-says-gautam-bhatia-is-key-person-who-legally-defended-vivo-xiaomi

https://thewire.in/rights/delhi-police-terror-fir-against-newsclick-names-chinese-firms-xiaomi-vivo-puts-lawyers-in-crosshairses.

Bar & Bench: "The FIR names the following persons as shareholders of NewsClick - Prabir Purkayastha, Amit Sengupta, Doraeeswami Raghunandan, Bappaditya Sinha, Gautam Navlakha, Geeta Hariharan and Amit Chakraborty. Notably, the FIR mentions that Purkayastha, Neville Roy Singham, Geeta Hariharan and Gautam 'Bhatia' conspired to create a legal community networkto campaign for and put up spirited defense in cases against these companies."

Newslaundry: "The FIR alleges that “Shri Gautam Bhatia (key person) conspired to create a Legal Community Network in India to campaign for and put up spirited defence of legal cases against aforementioned Chinese telecom companies in return for benefits by these telecom companies”

The Wire: "The best known and most visible lawyer carrying that name is the author of widely acclaimed books on the constitution and free speech, and his court practice has tended to be narrowly focused on human rights related cases. He is not known to have had any dealings with telecom firms, let alone Chinese ones."

Incidentally, the page of Neville Roy Singham's company names Geeta Hariharan's son (another NLSIU alum) as working with NRS (Rishabh Bailey). But Rishabh Bailey has not been named in the FIR, only his mother and Gautam Bhatia.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-in/profiles/r/rishab-bailey-1

Returning to Gautam Bhatia, the Newsclick website has featured him a few times, but nothing very glaring. I also cannot find any links between him and Xiaomi and Vivo.

https://www.newsclick.in/author/gautam-bhatia

It will be useful for the whole country.

Odisha will also release its statistics.

Now we definitely know upper caste are just 15 percent of india but have almost all the wealth of india.

After Indian caste census reservation will obviously be 85 percent, we need to bring reservation in 85 percent of all department of state including parliament and state assemblies, Supreme Court and High Court.

Eventually the biggest things we have to di is wealth and land distribution, we need to take wealth and land of UC and distribute between OBC and SC/ST.

We need to realize that Upper Caste hegemony needs to be crushed effectively so we become democracy in real sense. We also need some soft quota and incentive for diversity hiring in Private hiring.its biggest sector and we dont have kuch representation of 85 percent of population here.

Graduation in 2021, masters in 2022. None of them from a tier 1 college. After a year of district court and 3 Months of HC litigation, i’ve decided to finally put all my chips in one place and join the rat race to become a Babu (foreign service vala) since it has always been in the back of my mind. Parents are supporting so thats a good thing. While i’m hoping my law knowledge will provide me an edge in the optional paper, i want to know if anyone here is preparing for the same and if they have any advice regarding law, GS or the whole preparation process in general. I’m ready to face one more failure but i do not want to look back in a decade and think “what if”. Or as Dostoevsky said, “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing”. Thank you!

By the way, @Dalal Street - if you like, you can create an anonymous account (no email required), and post from it next time and we could then upgrade it for you to where you can post without needing to go through moderation. Because we should be letting you cook, of course :)

The IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Law) is organising its 6th edition of the IDIA Football League (IFL) – an annual charity football tournament that brings together legal professionals for a thrilling display of sportsmanship and goodwill.

The event is scheduled to take place on October 7th and 8th, 2023, at the Astro Park, St. Stanislaus Sports Complex in Bandra, Mumbai.

If you don't have a PhD yet, and your undergrad and Masters degree are both from India, then the first step would be to apply for a fully funded PhD fellowship in the country where you wish to teach eventually. While working on your PhD, your Fellowship will allow you to take the occasional class, help senior faculty do research and also focus on publications. Focus on quality rather than quantity. At your level, even 3 quality international publications would be good. Try to focus on learning dissemination of research, creating impact of your study and how to draft effective project funding proposals. These are skills valued in academics abroad, but barely taught in India otherwise. On finishing your PhD, you would get access to lecturer positions (UK, Germany, Canada, Scandinavian countries), especially if you manage to obtain decent recos from your supervisor. In the USA, it's difficult, people struggle a lot to get entry level teaching positions on a contract, let alone become tenure track. Contacts would play a large role.

If you have already got your PhD from here, then you should start by applying for the various post-doc fellowships abroad. If you have got regulatory experiences (SEBI, CCI, TRAI etc.), scholarships and fellowships are easier to get. Also start participating in international conferences for both exposure and networking purposes. Several foreign law journals issue open calls for guest editors, visiting editors etc. Try applying for those too. It's an incremental process.

This was probably the right call as the thread was veering off into trollish territory as a whole. While we might always get things right as a team of moderators but are experimenting with stricter moderation to make LI a nicer place... We will float some new rules soon for discussion.

Ayatollah's reaction: "How dare you?!" 😡

Thoughts???

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/activist-narges-mohammadi-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for-her-fight-against-the-oppression-of-women-in-iran-4455840

He may be 'saffronizing' his image because his supposed left-leaning tendencies may have become apparent to the BJP government. His policy and legislative drafting mandates at Vidhi might take or might already have taken a hit because of this. He apparently had a lot of access due to his supposed closeness to Arun Jaitley. But that supposed access was speculated to have closed off after his untimely death. The competition may be slowly tightening its grip on the neck of his business.

Hi.

Good you want to start saving from now. But bad idea if you want financial advice from strangers online.

Anyway, since you don’t have to pay rent, you can skip the 50-30-20 rule. (Look it up on Google)

Ideally, categorise your money into different buckets -

1. Investment for future

2. Fund to buy a gift for yourself (holidays with friends/ bike/ car)

3. Funds for wants (Swiggy/ Shopping/ Impromptu cafe trip)

For number 1, you can consider starting SIP. Meaning you contribute a regular amount - let’s say 5k from your account to this fund. This will be cut every single month from your account and it will compound.

For number 2, keep a target amount - let’s say 60k for Goa trip. So every month if you save 10k, over 6 months you’ll have enough for your trip

For number 3, keep a budget of 10k - miscellaneous unplanned expenses. Occasionally you will want to buy yourself something nice to deal with the stress of work.

All the best lol

Hi, you can make the switch by applying on positions which is for litigation management. Since you have first hand knowledge, you will be required to draft, review the pleadings on behalf of the companies. Additionally, you will also review agreements, contracts for the company. I am presuming that your fairly young, so you should also apply for contract management jobs for freshers. There are companies like nexdigm, integreon which takes fresher for contracts position. You will face issues initially, but if you apply actively and stay active on websites, you will surely land at some place. All the best.

(P.S.: Delhi law graduate having 4+ years of experience, worked in lit, companies, tier-2 law firms)

Given the salary that average public university professors get in India currently, there are two sets of people who come to legal academia, those who lack other options because of ability or other extraneous factors like health or proximity to family, and those who return out of a sense of idealism and treat it as a vocation rather than a mere profession and/or really want to do research. The second category is still very much a minority. There is no proper law teacher training programme that exists in India and the one year LLM here is a joke. So if you want the best brains to come to academia, you have to offer them competitive salary, working conditions and training facilities, or drastically lower the cost of quality legal education. Until you do that, you will remain stuck with the people mentioned above. No use exhorting people to accept relatively worse career prospect after spending huge sums of money and time on their education.

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TBpgZ0Jws

Excerpts:

Rangan Banerjee, Director of IIT Delhi:

- We assign practical problems to our students as part of the curriculum, e.g. a group of students worked on designing a biosensor

- We focus on "learning by doing"

- We are against "chalk and talk"

- We are getting our alumni in industry involved

Simrit Kaur, Principal of SRCC:

- It's very important for us to be connected with industry

- We need to bridge the industry-academia gap

Maniska Kinnu, Director of NIFT Delhi:

- We do a lot of classroom projects for industry

- Recently our students were involved in designing work for the G2 Summit

Sudhir Krishnaswamy:

- The discussion is "completely wrong"

- "We don't try to do any of this"

- "We teach foundational first principles"

- "We don't teach people a shallow version of craft"

- We would be making a "huge mistake" by building the curriculum around the needs of "professional practitioners and firms"

- "Beyond a point I don't care what they need"

- "I know my field and I know that my duty to my students is to teach them the foundational first principles of that field"

- "The market will come to us"

- "The best universities in the world do not do skill-based, craft training"

- "That's the view of education that we take and we have no intention of changing it"

I just want to make one point. He says that the best universities in the world don't focus on skills, but isn't clinical legal education a big deal abroad? The website of Harvard Law School has a whole page on it and they say as follows:

"Clinics give students hands-on legal experience under the supervision of attorneys. With clinical placements in-house and at organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS students participate in more clinical placements than any law school in the world."

https://hls.harvard.edu/clinics/

I think you should stick to quartz models then, since you'll have to replace the battery only once every 2-ish years for an analog watch. I really like the look of the Tissot PRX, but bear in mind it's no Gshock.

You can also consider a stealth mode (all black) Gshock GA-2100B but its not really formal but maybe you can get away with it. It has tough solar so you won't need a battery replacement and it can take a tumble.

Hi, I recently transitioned from a T1 to ITC. Not sure if the interview is similar, but they are really sweet and check basic knowledge - Contracts/Constitution/CPC. If you're from T1 NLU and have the basics clear, pretty high probability that you'll sail through. Additionally, their interview process is a bit hectic, with 3-4 stages, but definitely worth giving a try. My work life balance is pretty much better now, day ends at 6-7PM, salary + perks much better than T1s. No one is toxic, they respect your personal life, it's more sort of a government office. So anyone who is not that interested in the T1 law firm mark, should definitely give a try.

I was part of the team before I decided to move out for better growth prospects. Yes, it is true that the Patents practice is expanding rapidly. However, there is high attrition as well especially from the IIT KGP Law ones who are brought into with sugary words on the quality of the work (read patents contentious and advisory matter), but they never get to get a slice of the pie - you can easily confirm the exit ration data on LinkedIn or seek information from IIT - KGP law folks. Also, if you are inclined to join, have a clear discussions on the specifics of bonus component and career progression (they tend to provide vague responses often) as the team is heavy on the top unless you do not want to stay for long and looking at as a stop gap solution.

Lagta hai college mae rehke general studies and awarness bhul gye. The economics in thsi country sepcically macro is not independent it is dependent upon various factors like foreign investement ( FDI), world recessionary trends, doemestic inflation, our counrty GDP's growth rate etc. If we see current economic growth rate our country is the only country which postive gdp growth rate all major economic like USA, UK, france, germany are in recession had very or no growth rate due to the f russioan ukriane war due that fact all major economie shad recession and this eventually turned foreign investor to do less funding resulting into less m&a, ipos etcof our couuntry companies due that fact less hiring in law firm. Thoda college bhaar nikal dekho

Gopal Sankaranarayanan criticised Menaka Guruswamy over her article last week in Indian Express where she opined that it would be shameful to watch India-Pak match in the wake of killing of four Indian army personnel in Pak-sponsored terror attacks.

Today Sankarnarayanan rebuked her in strong words.

Views?

Fugly design, tacky photos, cringe sarkari-style writing that is often grammatically incorrect. More space devoted to photos of VCs with judges and government officials, than of achievements by students. The only exception is the NLSIU website, which Sudhir revamped after he joined. I'm guessing Sudhir must have hired a good content design company. So why can't other NLUs do the same? They spend so much shit on rubbish events. Why not this?

Hi, there is a pattern in my college's placements (not PPOs) where even if one has a CV tailored towards M&A, the only available option is Gen Corp (not Gen Corp and M&A). Now this is true not only for one batch, but every batch that has graduated. Is this normal for all NLUs? Or am I just stupid to think that M&A and Gen Corp are separate teams?

Please bear in mind that I'm only talking about Tier 1 law firms. Firms like IndusLaw have just the transactions team, so no confusion there.

Greetings to all budding legal minds out there!

While many of you might be chasing the dream of hefty paychecks and prestigious positions, it's crucial to pause and consider the future of our profession in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The legal landscape is rapidly evolving, and AI is poised to play a significant role in reshaping how we practice law.

I recently came across an enlightening article on TIME titled "What the Luddites Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence". The piece delves into the history of the Luddites, often misunderstood as technophobes, and draws parallels with today's workers grappling with the rise of AI and automation in various industries, including law. https://time.com/6317437/luddites-ai-blood-in-the-machine-merchant/

The Luddites weren't against technology; they were against the misuse of technology that threatened their livelihoods. Similarly, as future lawyers, we must be proactive in understanding how AI might impact our roles and ensure that technology is used to enhance, not replace, our expertise. And most importantly, rally together before the law firms change the narrative about our roles in the legal profession.

Here's a brief summary of the article:

The Luddites, often mischaracterized as anti-technology, were actually against the misuse of machinery that threatened their jobs during the dawn of the industrial revolution. Brian Merchant, in his book "Blood in the Machine," emphasizes the relevance of the Luddites' stance in today's context, where AI and automation are transforming workplaces. Merchant argues that just as the Luddites weren't against machinery but its misuse, today's workers should be wary of how technology might be used to degrade their livelihoods and reduce wages. The key takeaway is that technology's impact on jobs is a result of political choices by its owners, not an inevitable outcome.

To all young lawyers and law students: Let's be informed, adaptive, and proactive. Embrace technology, but also advocate for its ethical and beneficial use in our profession.

Rally together sisters and brothers for the time is now! While you are thinking about your future as a lawyer as you witness today, the managing partners of all law firms are investing in AI to make you redundant! Rally together and Rise up! The time is now! Things will need to change if you want things to stay the same!

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Absolutely agree. Trilegal is completely overlooking and ignoring homegrown talent and promoting people who have joined 6 months-1 year ago. (ref 2023 October partner promotions)

Got to know that some of the partners in the last batch were promoted solely on the basis of favouritism. Someone’s partnership pitch was purposely sabotaged to get a lateral partner hire from another firm.

Does anyone within Trilegal have more info on this? Is it true?

A simple guest lecture is easy if you are good at your work. Seminar/ guest visits will become possible with seniority, good networks and a good international reputation. More than that is very difficult. You'll have to plan a very good PhD and publication path and hope for the best. Some countries are easier than others.

Geniune advise... If you don't want to litigate in court or become a Judge, leave ASAP and pursue an MBA, preferably abroad. I said this a decade ago, law firms and corporate culture is not for advocates. It's a bubble that will burst one day, and it's happening now. In the hierarchy of corporate culture, lawyers are expensive expendables, they come and go, for companies. Paid less, work more and will always be below the CAs and MBAs of a corporate structure. Watching Suits, Boston Legal and rise of NLUs has given a wrong perception to the naive average middle class Indian kids, that law firms are the best. They're not. In our culture being a politician, bureaucrat, judges, top businessman etc will remain the immovable powerhouses. Especially with the fact that the family backed advocacy nepotism will always prevail.

A part of me dies everytime I see my engineer grad friends from average colleges making 30LPA 2 years PQE, while I'm in my 4th year of lawschool begging people writing cold mails for internships, unpaid. How do I even cope man? It's so over. Why did no one tell me this stream was so shit?

Hi everyone, I am an A0 from batch of 23 working at an tier-1. How does the probation period work for A0s? Do firms normally confirm the probation period? Can associates switch to another team within the same firm after probation is confirmed? Under what circumstances will probation not be confirmed?

Most of us have probation period of 6 months so so ideally ends in Jan/Fev 2024. From what I heard for the previous batch probation was largely confirmed unless an A0 messes real bad on a transaction/client matter.

Any inputs on this would be greatly helpful. I know a lot of us A0s are in the same boat. Will the Partner take into consideration the number of billable matters or the quality of billable matters done? Do non-billable matters get any consideration?

Thanks!

LOL.....this is exactly the reason that 15 years down the line someone like you will be whining about not having good faculty in some law school. Where will the next generation of good law faculty come from? Another planet.....? Everyone wants good faculty, but no one (especially the top rankers) wants to go for further studies. Higher degree (LLM and Ph.D) students are ridiculed in law schools by the UG students.

Hi banking enthusiasts/ interns,

Have you ever interned at a firm for 4 weeks, but wondered what is it that you actually did?

Like you know you researched on several legal issues, but apparently that’s not what most transactional lawyers do.

Well, it’s not completely your fault. This is partly done on purpose by law firms because they are dealing with confidential information and they don’t want to involve interns too much. So, if as an intern you felt confused and you want to know where your work fits in, this post is for you.

For A0s, this is going to be a very basic post. The reason I’m writing this post is because our first brush with the banking team often happens as an intern. Internships are supposed to give you a flavour of what work you will be doing in the future. But unfortunately, most interns never get a proper understanding of how transactions happen as they are usually assigned some research work with no visibility about the transaction. Even if interns have been involved in due diligence, the scope may be restricted to only doing clerical work like summarising a contract or preparing list of documents. This can lead to a very skewed idea for someone trying to make a decision about their career basis just their banking law internship.

DISCLAIMER: This post doesn’t cover the work done in litigation related or capital markets team. Also, since this post is just about the process, this will be slightly boring, so I recommend you play the song “Perfect Day” by the Constellations while you read this.

Alright, so first - an overview. Broadly, the work we do in law firms can be classified as:

1. Advisory work (around 10%)
2. Due diligence (around 50%)
3. Transactions (around 40%) - with due diligence often being part of this

ADVISORY WORK:

This is the most interesting kind of work because it’s heavily researched based. It can be as simple as getting a mandate from a foreign client who wants to incorporate a company in India but isn’t aware of the laws. The client has approached your firm and sent 10 questions - what laws and processes are involved to incorporate a company in India.

Basis the questions, you research each question and prepare a memo and send it to the client.

Most lawyers find this interesting because it is:

1) Research based

2) Scope of work is limited

3) Timelines to submit this aren’t crazy as it’s just one document/ memo

Intern Overview: It’s like getting a question paper from your college teacher and filling out the paper, but it’s an open book exam.

So, here is where the work of an intern fits in:

An associate might call up an intern and give them 2-3 questions to research out of 12 questions in the memo and then incorporate the intern’s research in the memo. However advisory work is rare to come by in banking teams and slightly more common in general corporate teams.

DUE DILIGENCE:

This is the work mostly assigned to interns and younger associates. Sometimes it can be very mind numbing because all you are doing is preparing a List of Documents (explained below). Working on a DD gets overwhelming because you have to go through and review hundreds of documents. Since you’ve just switched from college, this can be jarring as you were never used to consuming so much information at one go.

To think about it another way, remember that iconic scene in Suits when Mike Ross meets Harvey for the first time? That scene where Mike is escaping the cops in a hotel and stumbles into the Harvard law interview?

Harvey is so impressed with Mike he says he’d hire Mike if he were from Harvard, but he can’t as Mike hasn’t even passed the bar. That’s when Mike tells him -

“What if I told you I consume knowledge like no one you’ve ever met and I’ve actually passed the bar.”

Well, you have to become Mike Ross. You have to be able to go through 50 different contracts of 200 pages each and be able to note down what red flags need to be highlighted to the client. If your partner randomly calls you into her office and asks you what issues you have noted in the contracts, you have to be able to say that from memory and also tell her which page the problematic clause is located (well not exactly, but you get the drift).

While reviewing the documents, you will have to simultaneously prepare a report called the Due Diligence Report or DDR - the final report is sent to the client.

Basically what happens is - one company uploads various internal documents in a one drive folder, and we lawyers are given access to review the documents. These documents can range from MoA, AoA, statutory forms required to be filed under Companies Act, SEBI, etc. to various registers required to be maintained under Companies Act, to various loan agreements, security agreements, shareholders agreements, any other ‘material agreement’ like insurance contract, lease agreement etc. to even things like pending litigation against the company. If there are items like 200 page annual report, financial statements in the DDR, then it gets tricky to figure out what to review, but ideally your senior should tell you what to review and what to skip.

As a lawyer you have to check that:

1. Whether all documents are in order,
2. If any form has to be filed, has it been filed within the required deadline,
3. What other forms/ licenses had to be filed.
4. If there is any pending litigation against the company, does it involve a huge sum of money, or is it under (let’s say 5 lakhs) a limit and can be ignored
5. Any onerous clauses mentioned in the contracts
6. Any other deal specific legal issues

List of documents: While all this happening, you also have to maintain a list of documents you have received from the company and reviewed, and also a list of pending documents that you have requested the target company but not received. (BORING WORK ALERT!)

Intern overview: Unless you are very deeply involved in the DD, you will either be involved in:

1. Research - Let’s say the associate needs to know the check if some contract is adequately stamped so they ask you to research stamp duty of Deed of Hypothecation in Karnataka
2. Review and Record - Maybe you’ve been given 4-5 contracts and asked to check dispute resolution clause and just fill the ‘seat of arbitration’ in some Word document in a table format. Now, this standalone document you are working on is going to form a part of the 200-500 page Due Diligence Report which is compiled by the team later.
3. Mind numbing work - As an intern, you’ve been asked to just download 40 documents from one drive folder or only prepare a list of documents to the documents in the one drive folder.

Hope this has been helpful for some of you interning/ working at law firms. I know even though it’s a great opportunity to work in big law firms, initially it can be very intimidating to work in such settings and we often don’t ask questions because we think it’s too basic. But it’s important to understand where the work fits in because your work matters.

Since this post has already become too long, I’ll explain the deal flow and the documents involved in a banking transaction in the next post.

One more thing - just to get an idea of my audience, would really appreciate if you could list down in the comments - what year of college/ law firm you’re in, and what kind of firm you worked/ are working in. This will help me frame my future posts better.

Dalal Street Attorney,

XOXO