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So far, I have not received any response. Can anyone tell me if sending cold e-mails like this works? Do partners bother opening their emails from students?
Is there a way I can score a decent internship in any other way? Help!
Although it depends and is purely up to chance so do take a shot.
Honest ans : will open a cold mail if and only if I have nothing else on my plate and it came at that exact time.
Best you can do is just draft thoughtful emails, because even if the partner ends up opening the email, it has to be a compelling one to stand out amongst the hundreds of applications. Try to make the email personalised in some way, whether it's some case they worked on, how it relates to something you probably published or did a moot regarding. Just think it through.
Once that's done, try to send it at a time when you would reasonably expect a law firm partner to entertain emails that do not concern work. Baaki bhagwaan bharose.