If you genuinely are skeptical of pursuing law not because of job but your lack of interest. I would say please leave immediately since it won't get better. If it's job related, you will get one soon, don't worry. But if you have no interest in law anymore then please leave. I hated law by the 5th year and started preparing for CA. Took me 3 years more but now I'm 10 years into the profession and I'm much happier doing the job of a CA than a lawyer. Remember that the next 20-30 years of your life will be spent working atleast a minimum of 50% your day. So you may not love but if you atleast like the work, it will do. Litigation, judiciary, corporate nothing gets better if you don't atleast like things.

I may very well be wrong here, but to be the devil's advocate, the partner is not going to work on the transaction document and instead is going to spend his energy getting work for the team and vetting the documents before it goes out to the client. The client actually pays for this. Also, the partner was also an associate once, and I believe has done his share of grinding. You (right now in your griding phase) will also become a partner, and your role will then be to delegate and vet the work that your associates do.

That said, the bonus policy is just arbitrary and unfair, and that cannot be disputed. Work can get very intense, and the team should try to be as accommodating as possible until the work gets done.

Just a question, is this only for a certain team or is it a firm wide poicy?

Have had an opportunity to work with them over some of my earlier years at AZB, and I vehemently disagree with a lot that is said about them personally -

first, the bad - comments are correct to the extent that primary work is WC & L&E (which btw are the biggest pain points for MNCs to navigate in India); They have a very big client that is at the forefront of a lot of issues in e-commerce, so the understanding that this team has (especially Sumit Ghoshal and Rachit) regarding that sector of the law is unmatched.

The good - both Rachit and Rohan are extremely nice people, super accessible and easy to approach. Rachit has low patience for ill-thought out research, but is uber receptive to well-done work. Rohan is one of the nicest people I've met in this industry, and has tracked data privacy from the get-go.

Tech practice in India itself is largely championed by MNC issues. A lot of criticism levied here can as easily be said about a lot of other people.

This year they have crossed all limits. Bonus payouts have been measly. Only those partners who have sucked up to the max have gotten good bonuses. Teams that have done good work throughout the year to bring accolades to the firm have been screwed. April is going to be brutal. The greed of those on top sees no end.

I mainly want to do MBA because my personal experiences in this industry have been bad. I don't know how things were like back in your time but the hiring practices have also become increasingly opaque. Nevertheless, thank you so much for the detailed reply. I will try connecting with folks from our college on LinkedIn. Thank you so much, senior!!❤️

saw a similar post on LinkedIn from a wanna be influencer. Bhaiya how can you compare salaries offered in the same sector in different countries without accounting for PPP. That way all your peers from the same industry or sector paid more in western countries than in India. Amazon, Google, Nvidia, IBM, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, each of these pay different in different countries, despite the same job profile. Do you not understand that they get paid more there because it costs more to live there?

Isn’t it obvious? There will be total paralysis until the election results are declared. Although the social media armchair experts are saying that the TMC will win again, it won’t be so easy this time. The SIR has deleted many voters in marginal seats. Doesn’t matter if they were illegal Bangladeshis, legal Indians, false voters, genuine voters etc. They are gone. That’s what matters. No one can predict how this will affect the outcome.

Most of the the people running NUJS are political weathercocks. They will align with whichever party is in power. That’s why nothing is happening now.

Overall I had a decent college life (no ragging, no confrontations, etc). However I always feel I could never reach my potential I could have if I had focussed on CLAT. I only attempted it 1 time and got only around 2K rank. I joined a state govt college after acing their entrance exam. I could have given CLAT TWICE next year but I ignored the opportunity because of the silly reason that it could cause a gap year.

I have recurring regrets deep inside my mind which would surface at random moments. That I could never secure a Rhodes scholarship, I could never attempt a Vis Moot or a Jessup, I could never get a vacation scheme with a Magic Circle law firm, I could never know the feeling of campus placements.

The only silver lining now is that I have an assessment internship with a T1 law firm, and a ton of backup plans I have actively putting effort into , so I know that despite my shortcomings , me apni life ke sath kuch na kuch dhang ka toh kar hi lunga..

You've bundled a lot of partners here who don't really do core disputes work. For instance, Dev is the IPR head - his teams do both contentious as well as non-contentious IPR matters. Same can be said for Anoop (for insolvency) and Shailaja (for insurance).

Partners, like Shashank, though technically counted as disputes, do mostly advisory work for an IT sector client. Same can be said about Swati, although she does more litigation work, however, it's the same type of intermediary liability matters. Varun also primarily does these type of matters, and he doesn't even do much advisory work, ▮▮▮. Shally is the EP overseeing the Varun, Swati, Shashank vertical and has a small litigation team of her own too. Shally is more more rounded litigator and AoR. Her core team does a wider array of matters. Basically, Shally took over the vertical from TK after his elevation.

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Consider Ajoy's team for a broader range of core disputes work.

Trust me, its actually better that he has a council of deans taking decisions instead of taking all decisions by himself. NLS is suffering because only one man takes all the decisions and no one else has any power. Earlier it was the VC, now its the Destroyer of Campus and Residence Life (DCRL)

He did it to save the students from further police harassment and prosecution. That is obvious to both the bystanders as well as any reasonable person upon hearing about the incident. That is the reason why the CNLU students held a GB meeting and apologized to him for letting matters go to such an extent and requested him not to leave the university on such grounds.

Hard agree. They're so unprofessional as to scold and laugh at 20 year olds running through the internship process, never stand up to the bullying partners for their abusive behaviour and mostly unprofessional and clueless about everything like pay and bonus delays or earned leaves. I have so many names to take but they'll get moderated

Have a PPO and the luxury to cherry pick my team thanks to my contacts, now can someone guide me which amongst the following is the best and worst Dispute team at SAM, criteria obviously no toxicity bs and good work

1. Mr. Ajoy Roy

2. Mr. Ashish Gupta.

3. Mr. Aditya Mukherjee

4. Mr. Varun Pathak

5. Mr. Shashank Mishra

6. Ms Swati Agarwal

7. Mr. Dave Robinson

8. Ms Shally Bhasin

9. Ms Shalija Lal

10. Mr.. Anup Rawat

Not a single Dean's council decision or dean's decision should be accepted or obeyed, since the university statute itself does not recognise any dean. The people occupying those posts and other profs currently in EC and other places who are eyeing those posts are so desparate to get a spoonful of power that it is quite pathetic.

No one in this thread is arguing that people shouldnt be able to live as they choose. they are arguing that welfare benefits from the state should go to people who need them. what do you think 2019 act required of people who wanted to enjoy benefits? did it require surgery? hormones? living as the opposite sex for any period of time? NO. all it required was to file an affidavit to get reservations and free access to surgeries and jobs and all that- are you really saying in a country like india people who literally have to do no more than file an affidavit and fill out a form to get all sorts of advantages wouldnt?

Pray tell what does A 141 say? does it say that the judiciary gets to decide social policy for the country? does it say that the judiciary gets to read whatever it wants into Article 21? or does it say that orders passed by the supreme court will be binding on all courts in the country?
Some courts have landed on some living document constitutional interpretation- that does not have to be the case. Judges are persuadable and can change their mind. Its about time they exercised some restraint and followed the law instead of making it up.

This is a straight lie. I'm shocked to read this ill informed stuff on a legal forum. The enactment does not have a section criminalising rape of trans individual. 18(d) is a messed up vague provision that says whoever.. tends to do.. emotional, sexual, financial abuse of transgender person will be punishable with 2 years. Tends to do- we're punishing inclination not even really a crime. Male on Male rape was criminalised under s.377 until that had to be thrown out.

Try looking up folks from LinkedIn, there is one guy from Batch of 2024 in IIM Calcutta. Similarly, there are 2-3 guys in IIMs from in 2020-2023 batches. One guy in IIM Ahmadabad who briefly worked with McKinsey as well. Connect with these guys.

Few things to consider, I am myself considering moving out of law due to WLB issues. From my brief interaction with folks these are the things that I found

1. Lawyers are at a disadvantage due to non quant background when it comes to granting jobs

2. Consulting is most preferred area and that is as bad as law firm when it comes to WLB

3. Be very sure whether you want to do MBA or not unless money is not an issue. No point spending lakhs again to do similar kind of job

All the best

For getting a call back, if you do a decent job during your first internship you will definitely get a call back, nothing exceptional is required. Getting a PPO is slightly more trickier than that and depends on whether you’re in disputes or transactions.

For disputes, just do your work well, build a good rapport with the team and keep following up after you’re done with your internship. For transactions you’ll be expected to intern with 3 different partners (2 if you’re offered a PPO during your second internship) and all 3/2 partners should recommend you for the position.

Please give us the name of one reputable "UK-based law review" which operates on the stupid model of student-run law journals that we have copied from the Americans? Let's not misguide here, unless the OP is the equivalent of the next Tarunabh Khaitan or Conor Gearty, they ain't getting published in typical (above average to well reputed) UK law journals. The only caveat to what I have said is if OP has a substantial piece of work under the belt already, by the time application time is coming around.

OP, does your law school have the option of doing an undergraduate dissertation? A 10000 to 15000-word piece of writing for which you receive supervision. If so, are you planning to take it up? That of course depends on factors like your current university's capacity to supervise the project of your interest. If you do a really good UG dissertation, maybe you can start working on getting that published. But in a peer review system like that of most typical (read: reputable) UK law journals, that will take a lot of time. I know OP has asked about Cambridge, but if you are thinking about Oxford BCL, doing a UG dissertation may be useful, as you can send an extract of it as writing sample as part of your application.

If you really want to achieve some realistic writing goals for your LLM application, concentrate on blogs like UK Human Rights Blog, UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA) etc. If you are a public law person, maybe read Mark Elliott's blog publiclawforeveryone.com (Elliott BTW teaches at Cambridge), write something substantive if you haven't already and check with him if maybe you can contribute it as a guest piece to publiclawforeveryone.com. Of course, it would in your situation likely have to be a comparative piece, dealing with an aspect of constitutional law or theory of interest to both Indian and British lawyers. Which is why you might just do better to work with Indian law blogs itself.

Re: The other aspects of your advice, no dispute at all. OP, follow that completely.

My colleagues and I were discussing how at some point, each of us has turned down an opportunity (be it an internship during law school or a job after we graduated) at specific firms because how painful it was to deal with the HR in the conversation stages. Unprofessional, rude and opaque communication was the biggest issue all of us have faced.

Compared to the hiring processes for firms abroad, Indian law firm HR seems to be far below the standard for an industry like corporate law. While it's hard to measure the impact, I am sure many firms have suffered in the long run in terms of talent because of their HR. Not sure if anything can even change in this though, maybe a conversation here is a start?