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OP is asking about corp team delhi and not the funds team of bombay office. Reading writing and comprehension skills are the bare minimum required for practising law. Not sure how you made it till here.
SAM - Abhay’s team in Delhi
That’s it.
The IP practice is dominated by boutique firms based out of Delhi.
one in azb funds for obvious reasons
Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks!
In fact I would suggest all lawyers - save as much as you can until you become partner and then move in-house/independent. If you chose to become partner and continue, just be prepared to endless anxiety and loss of mental peace.
By that logic several/Former Union Minister/ Chief Ministers are NLU prods of being given Honorary PhD. and several Supreme Court Judges too are Honorary PhD from NLU
Adds to your credibility in the market.
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1301763/
Indeed, Suresh was not the only son of Amarchand who became partner; Ramesh (another son of Amarchand) also was a partner. https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=318591691000
I have absolutely no experience in corporate law and i will be graduating this year in may.
I have a litigation heavy CV, my concern for not not doing litigation is the pay.
The pay is extremely low and it demands like 5 years of your life to yield any financial gains.
how can i shift to corporate?
also are there any IP related corporate jobs that pay well as well.
Could really use some help thank you
I have absolutely no experience in corporate law and i will be graduating this year in may.
I have a litigation heavy CV, my concern for not not doing litigation is the pay.
The pay is extremely low and it demands like 5 years of your life to yield any financial gains.
how can i shift to corporate.
also are there any IP related corporate jobs that pay well as well.
I’m a fresher exploring roles in IP litigation / general IP teams at law firms in Delhi, and I wanted to get a realistic sense of compensation.
From what I’ve heard, salaries seem to vary quite a bit across firms, and even within the same firm depending on whether you’re in IP vs other teams.
If you’re currently working in IP (litigation or prosecution), or know someone who is, could you please share what freshers are being paid across different firms? Would be really helpful to understand the range and how it differs across teams and firms.
Thanks in advance!
Seems like Trilegal has finally 'caught up'
M.Sc. Nursing in Surgical/Oncology/Pediatrics
Very frankly. I'll not go into technical reasons why you won't get the job. I'll assume you cleared all hurdles and you land corporate law.
You have missed the bus 10 years back.
Assuming you got the job. This is how it'll be -
You will have bosses who will not mentor you properly, because of your age. Because of your age they will not be as frank and free in feedback. They will just slowly get you kicked out or sidelined to be someone else's problem.
At 44 you will still not make partner, because your 10+ years behind. At 50 they won't make you partner coz you too late. Given this, they will see no incentive to hire you, squeeze 20x profits out of you for many years to come. Because your careerpath will be over before it begins.
Secondly, given the stress and overworking and slaving hours, you will become in healthy and burnt out quick given your lack of built up endurance from the past and youth. It's simply a different beast.
My belief is, you will want nothing to do with corp law in about a year or 6 months. You will be exhausted af. Another reason why they may not hire or hire you as a sidelined bench warmer. You will then end up working as a sidelined paralegal, junior to kids 10 years younger than you. You may not admit it, but your ego will not like it and you will be depressed.
Instead do something that's meaningful instead of being amongst such sad creatures who delusional about their stature in society. And contribute to growth of society. Yeah money maybe good, but what's the use if your spouse is sleeping with someone else during gym, or you've never seen your child awake in months, or having missed your father's or mother's birthday or their hospitalisation.
It's a job with money, but family and you will all resent you..you won't have any friends left. Just some 30-50 year olds discussing the Office and Avengers, which is their whole personality.
In addition, Art 19(1)(a) guarantees the right to expression. "Expression" in this clause is not qualified or limited to any particular form of expression, so it would very well include gender expression too .
Best option.
Can tell you these things
It is not a Tier 1 in its culture or organisation. So teams that support legal such as secretarial and knowledge management are all absent and the lawyers are required to do everything.
I think it's better you also have a clear discussion about the bonus as well.
There may be a lot of pro bono work expected from lawyers.
Also check out about the specific partner and office that you are considering. A lot depends on that. Kolkata is the biggest office followed by Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm a first-generation lawyer and my family isn't very connected i.e they never “pulled any strings” for me.
I'm purely into litigation so my career graph has emerged that way only. I started with a random chamber in Delhi and made my way up to it. The “connections” I'm talking about is the boss and other people at workplace. Co-interns, very well-connected friends at my NLU. I've gotten their recommendations but I always had to burn the midnight oil. To be very honest its an endless cycle of grinding and getting recommended. First it began in chambers then the seniors started recommending to T1s.
On paper my internships might look 90% connections and 10% on my own (and even those are the by-product of my CV), but only I know three years ago I had absolutely no opportunities and I didn't know what I was supposed to do.
I believe networking is the bread-butter for a first-generation lawyer and if you're a competent person, connections will get you just the best opportunity. Grind yourself to the bone there and reap the rewards!
Bonus is 80-100% as same as corporate
Uncle, the person would have billed like 2 crores and received (2.5x12) + 14 = 44L total compensation. This is less than 1/4th of the billing. Please think a little who's really profiting from the labour arbitrage?
The firm has a good number of big ticket matters.