By reading the comments you agree that they are the (often anonymous) personal views and opinions of readers, which may be biased and unreliable, and for which Legally India therefore has no liability. If you believe a comment is inappropriate, please click 'Report to LI' below the comment and we will review it as soon as practicable.
Increase in senior Associate migration to London law firms
threads most popular
thread most upvoted
comment newest
first oldest
first
One more advantage of doing a TC is the 'T' in TC. It's not just legal training that I'm referring to here, go and look up the kind of training that their trainees get during the TC. Essentially, as a lateral hire you miss most of that and are expected to be at par with the rest of the cohort when you join as a lateral.
TC is the way to go despite the long winded qualification process. When you study the PGDL and the SQE courses with the rest of your trainee cohort, it is, IMO, far better than doing an LLM that has 0 real life value other than the signalling effect which only stupid fellas fall for. Just look at how the PGDL and the SQE prep forces you to think like a lawyer even while you are at university.
All in all, make up your mind. CAM SAM karna hai to vo bhi sahi hai but ANGREZO ki dukaan karni hai to shuru se karlo, beech me mat ghuso.
Counsel hero partner hero lala hero
Hum toh gulam hi hai sab yaha
Obviously this answer will be downvoted by rich privileged guys who can go to London tomorrow without worrying about anything but as a middle class person hailing from Nagpur and now working in London, I can assure you that this is something else of a city.
Cons:
- No maids to cook and do housework
Pros:
- Better work culture (versus working like a slave in India)
- Fair bosses (versus baniyas in India)
- Free NHS healthcare and no fleecing by hospitals (versus expensive hospitals giving shoddy treatment in India)
- Clean environment (versus breathing poison in India)
- Safer for women (versus people on the road staring and groping at women wearing anything other than a burkha)
- Civil liberties (versus moral policing and police harassment in India)
- Excellent public transport (versus glorified bullock carts in India)
- Zero reservation in jobs and education, so better life for children (versus children being forced to go to Ashoka and Jindal in India, then effectively forced out of govt jobs)
- Good cultural, entertainment and sports scene (versus trashy Bollywood and crap IPL in India)
- High educated politicians who are actually held accountable (versus corrupt and murderer politicians in India)
- For people who are single, an excellent dating pool (versus judgemental people in India obsessed with status and money, also culturally and racially limited dating pool)
On balance, pros>>>>>>cons
Atrocious understanding of reservations.
Ye sab school mein seekh lena tha
cost of living in london will be as following:
flatshare with 1/2 colleagues or friends in zone 1/2 - £1k-2.5k pm (bills included at higher end if not then add another 0.3k pm) www.rollonfriday.com/accommodation-offered
food - £1k pm (if you rely on takeouts for 50% of time, on average costs a min of £12 per meal on a deliveroo takeout)
drinks - £0.5k pm if you go to mid level pub 2/3 times a week
public transport - £90pm
entertainment - £0.5k pm (varies a lot from person to person)
in general £3k pm can be reduced to £2k pm (if you go out rarely and can cook)
if you are planning to stay for at least 3 years buy a house
rightmove.co.uk/.../...
mortgage is calculated at 4.5x the yearly salary, so with a salary of £150k pa you will get a mortgage of £675k, you would need to stump up 10% so 60k, so your budget can be around £650k, its possible to get a good house in zone 2, sell the house at a profit after 3 years if you want to return to India
finally my advice would be to talk to someone who is working in the UK and who is from a similar background to yours, before deciding
And somehow the biggest con has not even popped up here - no family around. Plus if you join as a lateral - no friends either. These guys are hiring you because of a labour shortage in the UK market. As soon as things ease up - they will let you go. The same cycle happened around 2009.
This thread feels like it’s from 20 years ago. Look at the engineering folks - yes some go abroad but a bunch stay on and make a name for themselves here. So maybe if you don’t like the Lala firms - strike it out on your own.
Ultimately to each his own but please do cool it with india is a dump London is the best.
I am pretty sure I heard that, could someone please confirm that I did not mishear it.
threads most popular
thread most upvoted
comment newest
first oldest
first