Cost of living is also high in USA. I mean this of course does not completely justify our Indian law firms' salaries but still should be considered.
They will realize it when they actually get to see young grads pursuing other things like litigation/Judiciary/UPSC/Academia or the like. As low as the salary may be many young people still join those firm because academia does not look very lucrative, litigation is only for the exceptional first-gens/people who have family as their backing (I am not undermining the talent of these graduates but believe me an average child of a Judge/Advocate can surpass talented people with just average work. Only the 'creative wonders' in Justice Chagla's words can make it.) and they do not want to be posted in some rural area for their life.
As long as the 'supply' (forgive for my word but this is the reality) does not go down they won't. Another thing that can happen is that people in mass resign so the management is forced to quell this problem with increased wages.( again forgive for my word but this is the reality.)

They have a powerful lobby. Dharna deke kuch nhi hona.

If the discussion is about bigLaw and big tech Then yes the comparison is always between T1 lawyers and cushy software jobs of FAANG. Only they are comparable. Not all software jobs are from big tech parks of Bangalore and Hyderabad, there are obscure software companies in Tier 2 and 3 Indian cities also and their engineers do not get paid that much. On an average it is true that there are much more better paying engineering vacancies than legal vacancies and it is not even a question that tech is a more cushy and well paying job if we consider overall aggregate and averages. But when it comes to legally india discussions which are dominated by LLB kids of NLUs the comparison is only between Tier 1 legal jobs and other top jobs of other fields. So the rest of lawyers with the rest of engineers is not even on table.

If you are talking about IIT placements and NLS/NALSAR level placements than law schools have it better, as there are top IIT students who end up working for TCS at 30k per month. Not all IIT grads get 6 figure jobs. The disparity between TCS and Trilegal starts after say 7 to 10 years of work ex.

Again, which NGO pays you to preach to others all day? You do this noble work na, let other people worry about fending for themselves.

And just fyi, an NGO is structurally incapable of affecting real change. Socioeconomic justice is still largely dependent on the whims of the state. Organisations that do meaningful work in the arena of labour rights get into serious trouble with the government. A majority of the UAPA cases in west India are for attempted unionisation. Ffs an entire class of electrical workers were in prison without bail or trial for THREE years for trying to unionise against Reliance.

There is absolutely no reason for anybody to have hope or expect to make any sort of real difference, and you should be ashamed of yourself for pretending that there is.

You are really shallow, my friend. Your assumption that I would do something only if I am paid for it, shows your cheap capitalist mentality. Stop thinking about money all the time.

Now that we are on the subject:
What does a lawfirm job really get you? 1-2 BHK, drinking on weekends, 1 vacation per year? that's bloody it. So stop making it sound like you are the king of the world if you run after money.

Now, consider if you do something that gives true satisfaction and makes a difference. For your information, you will never know till you try. There are so many social workers making a huge difference to our society. It pathetic that you tried to trivialise their contribution on a public forum.

Live under your false reality. You will never know true happiness and satisfaction. And yes, there is no harm in preaching to see a better india, to see your fellow lawyers happier.

What a weird take. Law firms in the US aren't doing charity. They bill around USD 1-1.2k per hour for matters at an A0 level. They can very easily afford a 200k salary and still have plenty of profits to retain.

Correct

Hey can you please tell how you got a biglaw job in the US? Career path?

says the fat lazy partner who shouts orders all the time, does no work, doesn't know a shit about the law (and wont bother to learn it and when there is mess blames the juniors) and then guzzles away the maximum bonus come march.this is what happens whenyou have have families running"law firms" and a bunch of sycophants controlling day to day management.Doesn't look like foreign forms will get to practice in India any time soon, better to run abroad.

Listened to your cheap and cringy sermons without killing you. That should be worth a lot.

Why is it crap? People post stuff about companies and firms from other industries, ever seen them hire from low tier places, no? The fact that the starting salaries are so much, makes people work hard to get into top colleges. Now, if through personal connections or otherwise, these lower tier or private law college people get the same jobs, whats the point of putting in effort to do anything?

It's nothing against the people from low tier colleges, its simple genetics, a lottery. But that does not mean that these low tier college people do not even acknowledge it.

It really isn’t. I too went to possibly the best US law school. You out performed the class average but you are not representative of the average Indian student. People who get into graduate programmes in these institutions are drawn from a pool of toppers in other countries.

I also surprised myself at being able to keep up and put perform the JD students, but when I compared the average JD students work ethic and commitment , work experience. And just plain skill with the law to the average NLU student in a T1, the difference really is night and day. A good quarter of my class basically had no skills to speak of when they graduated- they got hired by firms and such mostly because the firms expected that the NLU tag meant they could keep up and learn when they needed to- and that’s true enough- but I have no doubt that they wouldn’t last a day in world class universities.

I’ve also had Indian students intern with me- that quality is slipping- fast. Interns nowadays seem unable to do the bare minimum and show basically no initiative. The focus is all on scamming a job out of you rather than build any skills or actually contribute to the work we do together.

If anything I think NLU graduates are in a happy bubble about their recruitment scenes and the pay they can expect. I think it’s very possible that that bubble will burst in the near future.

Lol what a clown. Modi ji responsible for your empty pockets now.

Woh sab thik hai yeh batao PA 62L kahan milta hai? (except top performers ofc)