Someone ahoukd ask Cyril Shroff whether academic excellent didn't matter while hiring his daughter Parifhi Shrof who sent a firm wide mail to get her homework done?Why single out rich JGLS kids and retract their offers for "academic excellence" when he doesn't keep that standard while hiring his daughters.

From LIs archives -

https://www.legallyindia.com/analysis/amarchand-mangaldas-past-present-future-20100727-1142

For instance, On Wednesday, April 24, 2008, at 6:02 p.m., the Mumbai lawyers of Amarchand, the country’s supreme corporate legal minds who routinely dispense advice to clients worth billions of dollars, received an unusual email in their inbox. Paridhi Shroff, at the time the 18-year-old daughter of managing partners Cyril Shroff and his wife Vandana, had put out a firm-wide alert, a desperate plea for help from the lawyers who worked for her father. Paridhi was looking for someone to do her homework.

That's how CAM is. You'll soon realise that they won't even honour team preferences during rotations. They make promises of competition, TMT, disputes etc but you'll end up rotating in the most toxic teams with high attrition like project finance, m&a etc because they're the only ones who have vacancies and ATPs are easy targets to exploit for 6 months.

Cyril bhai spoke of academic excellence? There is a very famous saying that comes to mind, “kabhi toh apne giribaan mein jhaank lo Cyril bhai”.

Someone (perhaps the CAM HR Rep reading this thread) should ask him what academic excellence did his partners like Rishabh Shroff sir, Paridhi Shroff ma’am and Abhinav Kumar sir, exhibit during their respective pursuits of law degrees.

And the only reason this came to mind was due to a possible rumour being propagated by his own employees (albeit drunk) from the projects and banking practice regarding Rishabh Shroff sirs (failed) stint in NY.

Best if Cyril bhai can actually clarify the actual facts to his own employees from the projects and banking practice so that they propagate the truth in place of defamatory lies.

PS: apart from the personalities named above, various other partners lack the kind of academic excellence that he expects first-gen law grads with limited resources to exhibit.

This was a subject wise option, not a choice between standard and non-standard. So people could opt for it subject wise, after each semester. If someone let's say gets a 5/8 grade in exams, that will bring their GPA down by a lot. So many people opted for a P/F grade in one or couple of subjects they didn't perform well in during their entire 5 years. The PFA policy was in place from 2020 April-2022 May.

I opted for 2 P/F grades in 55 odd subjects, however, some people opted for 8-10, that means that 15-20% of their subjects are not being used to calculate GPA and the true GPA is being masked. These people essentially decided to opt for P/F in all subjects in which they get grades which bring their GPA down (even is it is minute or negligible).

Second that opinion, in fact I was in talks for an internship last month with them through a CAM partner and they till suggested a slot available only after 5 months. Never seen such behaviour in any other T1 until now. Can only imagine how hard it must be for people with 0 sources

Yes CAM retracted offers and this happens at CAM.This is better than the brutal way in which they fire freshers when its their own faulty toxic workplace with unrealistic expectations and training unfriendly seniors.Its stupid to expect a fresher to be able to draft replies but yet the job of big cleints is literally put onto shoulders of fresher and when things go wrongly,as expected the fresher is fired,not the partner.

This is true. During the pandemic, JGLS offered students to opt for a Pass/Fail grade instead of the standard GPA grade. Certain peeps who got offers on zero day from CAM had too many P/Fs which essentially manipulated their true GPA. CAM only reviewed the transcripts after giving out offers, and ended up retracting few of them. Don’t know the exact number though.

They keep delaying it. I think joining is currently in September. Who knows, if you wait long enough, people might find some other opportunities out of desperation. Each month of not working is one month's income not being used to pay off Student Loans. This way CAM wouldn't have to formally revoke the offer.

I heard that offers were retracted, I did not hear that offers to JGLS had been retracted....don't know if true....I also heard something else thats unbelievable,one is CAM is having financial troubles (thats the context that offers retracted and apparent oh a lot of clients are ending their retainers) And the are news(or rumour) at some SILF meetings against foreign law firms bade bhaiya SAM (or specifically some family person but not Shardul himself) and chhote bhaiya Cyril were hatching up some plan.......i guess to stop foreign law firm's.....common dish man(foreign firm), bhaiyaon ka patch up