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Recently CAM hired a few former regulators-heads, but none of them are going to work in the lawyer capacity, except for maybe lobbying and some 1 day work in a month, they won't be spending much time working as a lawyer-doing regular law firm work.
In some big law firm teams in Big Law in US & China, former Government Employees (Lawyers) shift and play an active role.
For example,
White Collar Crime - In India, big law's (7) WCC teams are mainly staffed with law school grads who haven't even stepped into PMLA- ED/SFIO/CBI Courts - yes they don't know anything about how a Criminal investigation (atleast Financial/Corporate Matters) works from an insiders perspective.
Even India's Botique White Collar Crime law firms (Panag & Babu, MZM) don't have a single lawyer with previous Government experience.
They do all the advisory work without any significant Government experience - without knowing what goes inside or how and when it happens.
They even do FCPA (Due Diligence) Investigations without having a single experience in the same - not even a US LLM or even interning at a US Prosecutors/Big Law Firms Office.
I haven't seen a single former SFIO/ED/CBI Lawyer on a biglaw firms WCC team in India.
Some of Special Public Prosecutors (who are also not aware of internal workings of any agency - as they are appointed for a single matter) go back to Chambers and deal with regular criminal cases.
In China, Japan & US White Collar Crime Teams at Big Law Firms are mainly staffed by Former Federal Prosecutors who have real life experience - it adds value to the client also as they get someone who knows more than superficial book knowledge.
Eg. Joon H Kim, Preet Bharara, Sidhartha Kamaraju - prominent White Collar Crime Advisors at Big US Law Firms have all worked at Prosecutors Offices. They are not "esteemed advisors or lobbyists" they are Partners and Counsels at these firms.
In US also Big Laws WCC Teams don't regularly go to court. But does some advisory work on every deal.
Even in China if you have an investigation to do at your subsidiary/target company the local Chinese Big Law Firm will tell you that they are assigning a partner who is a former Chinese Prosecutor to look into your matter - apart from other + that he has a Foreign LLM and knows English. Infact they bill you $3K extra per hour telling that the Partner they are allotting is a former Prosecutor just for doing an internal investigation.
Capital Markets Teams-
Abroad it's very common to see former SEC/FCA/CSRC Employees in PA/Partner roles in Big Law Firms.
There a saying that if anyone from a T14 Law School in US is going to SEC after law school, they plan to get out in 5 years and make even more money at big law firms than thier peers with the SEC Experience.
And like in white collar teams, Big Law Firms in US Charge a premium for an associates previous SEC Work experience. No matter how useless it is.
In India a few former SEBI Law Officers have started some one person law firms (Regstreet, Finsec) but haven't really seen anyone going into Big Laws Capital Markets or Financial Regulatory Teams. Atleast as regular lawyers.
There are many other foreign law firm teams which advertise that 'our lawyers have a decade or Government experience'. Haven't seen anything like that in India.
Is there any particular reason why this Government to Law Firm shift doesn't exist in India.
Not asking whether it's good or not -
it's obviously not good (Government Employees regularly going to Big Law Firms) as it leads to a dangerous revolving door - to the extent of criminal conflict of interests. The foreign model is bad.
But why such shifts are not happening in India (From a Government Law Officer to Law Firms)?