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In Mumbai these 20 Firms hold about 3/4th of the high stakes dispute resolution work (in terms of billing size) -
1. CAM
2. Wadia Ghandy
3. Mulla & Mulla
4. Kanga & Co
5. KCO
6. JSA
7. Crawford Bayley
8. Argus Partners
9. Little & Co.
10. Bharucha & Partners
11. Hariani & Co.
12. Economic Laws Practice
13. Rashmikant & Partners
14. Naik Naik & Co.
15. Manilal Kher Ambalal & Co.
16. DSK Legal
17. MDP & Partners
18. MZM Legal
19. Solomon & Co.
20. Desai & Diwanji
Then there are highly regarded firms but with very narrow specializations, like W.S. Kane & Co., Jehangir Gulabbhai Bilimoria & Daruvala (IP Laws), Bose & Mitra & Co. & Brus Chambers (Shipping law), PDS Legal & ALMT Legal (Taxation law), and Dhaval Vussonji (Real Estate).
As you can see, only 3 to 4 of the nationally well known T1 firms even make it to the group. AZB, Trilegal, KCO, L&L and SAM do not even make the cut.
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Advice for OP will be to not get caught up with names too much at the start of one's litigation career.
A good thumb rule is to find out who are the biggest commercial litigants in a given location and then corelate it to who are among their most retained attorneys. In Mumbai the biggest commercial litigants are the Municipal Corporation, the State Government and its Undertakings, the various PSUs having a strong presence there (BARC, HPCL, ONGC, NHAI), the Tata Group, L&T Group and Aditya Birla Group companies, and the largest chunk, the RBI, the PSU Banks (led by SBI, BOB and Bank of Maharashtra), Private Banks and NBFCs (Mumbai is the financial capital). Then you have the two Stock Exchanges who are by default made party respondents in a large number of Writ Petitions/Arbitration matters/Appeals filed by investors and stockbrokers against each other.