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Equity Partner at a Tier 1 firm in Bombay, been at the Corp grind for a while now, slinging it in M&A.
I remember the earliest days of LI when folks would comment under their real names, fond memories.
Glad to see this being revived :)
Spouse and kids good so far.
I am practising under a civil lawyer in district court. I am completed my L.LB (3 years) from evening college and college did not have any events, or internship cells.
I am graduate from batch of 2020. I have been working since then.
I m frustrated with low/no pay under a litigating senior and also in litigation in general. Cases are pending for really long time. Our judiciary is also not very well read and brilliant.
Hence, for financial reasons and to save my soul (and life) I want to jump into Gen Corp and M&A.
Could you kindly take sometime to guide & write down a plan to scale our careers in your field for candidates/professionals like me and similary situated in life? Do cold messaging on linkedin works? I have had no success. Could you write out an actionable plan please? Is there a way to contact you and speak for few minutes?
Best wishes,
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above post pls
Good evening
Happy sunday
Will you kindly please check my above post and provide some information
Let me be honest. Most people doing corporate law are in it for financial reasons, so there's nothing wrong with that.
Given that I've now reached the managerial side of things, I have seen how it works from this side:
1. There are far too many young lawyers chasing corporate jobs, so the Tier 1 firms hold the upper hand.
2. LinkedIn cold-call is poor form, avoid it.
3. Top firms use some things as basic screeners - college reputation, grades, internships, and extracurriculars (in that order). Informally, favourable recommendations from the legal fraternity (lawyers/judges), clients etc may help improve an applicants chances.
Therefore my suggestion is that you work on some of these parameters. District litigation can expose you to good matters. Develop a favourable reputation among clients. We have taken on disputes associates who have 3-4 years of credible trial work.
Best of luck.
1) Sir how can I tackle problem of college reputation, internships and extra curricular at this stage ? I am supremely stressed that the damage is irrepairable. My classmates and I were too focused on judicial services.
Another question is that:-
2) i want to avoid disputes team like the plague! I have started to hate incompetent and lethargic judiciary !
Thanking you
Sorry to put it bluntly, but it is on you to demonstrate drive and ambition. Maybe do an internship at a smaller firm or a boutique firm. Financially, it might be a strain but you want to break into corporate law so you need to show initiative at some level (since you say your college/grades/internships/extracurriculars are not going to cut it).
Further, it may not be my place, but your dismissive attitude towards trial litigation is disappointing. Maybe it's not for you, but it's unfair to paint the entire bar and bench as "not brilliant". The key to being a professional is to seek out excellence wherever you find yourself. You'll find enough people who want to complain, but those that do well work hard and make the most of every opportunity.
Best of luck.
Have been visiting this site for about 10 years.
I don't think there are many independent practitioners on this website.
Would love to know about your experiences in litigation.
It's a tough field. But consistent efforts, even if small, pay off. A lot of people say the key to litigation is hardwork. That's true for every field. What's possibly unique to litigation is the pressing need to network. You need to network HARD.
Would be happy to answer any specific questions that you may have.
Received a callback offer or reference (to a better firm) at every internship I pursued.
Multiple firms - including T1s & T2s - expressed interest in offering PPOs, I accepted an offer from a team of my choice at a T1.
Open to learning new things & helping others.
My suggestion to young graduates is this - don't write off litigation too early, it great once you get going, and be patient. The money will come, and then it will be a flood.
It's frustrating for the lot of us who leave our families to slog it out at seniors' chambers, spend our nights staying up past 3 AM, and lose our hair in our mid-20s. I'm just wondering if the legacy kids have any of the same anxieties that is shared by first-gen lawyers while they go for macarons and coffee with their uncles and relations in the profession at 5 PM.
A joke about sexual harassment per se is not bad. It depends on what the underlying premise in a joke is.