TMPL Consultants which is run by Bhargava sisters are the Best Recruiters.Most of the candidates are placed by them and they are Top Legal Recruiters.

Other Recruiters are ghosting the candidates and dont even respond to them.

Bhargava sisters are available for their candidates on the weekends as well. They are very helpful and are always there to guide and support their candidates.

Enroute Law is actually very good. They are a team of lawyers, so it’s easier to make them understand what exactly you are looking for. They are also very well informed about the law firm market and definitely more ethical about the whole process. Went to them after getting their reference from a couple of peers who had a very good experience with them. In the interview process right now, hoping the shift will materialise soon.

As someone who been a partner in a Tier-1 and a GC with a venture backed co, I've been on both sides of the table. My 2 cents:

Avimukta and Vahura are decent for law firm roles. Although it's a hit or miss with both of them. Depends more on the recruiter than the firm tbh. Neha (Avimukta) and Lee, Suren (Vahura) are some great folks to speak to from a Mumbai hiring perspective.

Michael Page - global brand, professional folks but yet to find a footing in the legal industry. Great folks but don't have the best law firm roles. They have some great in-house legal roles, as does Vahura.

Adept, Yellow Wire - absolutely horrendous, arrogant, avoid at all costs. CVs get sent to firms without candidate's consent.

Legal League was decent back in the day when Bithika was more hands on - the current set of people are just not up to the mark professionally.

A lot has already been said about the TMPL folks although I haven't interacted with them personally.

Firms and candidates both should not take their services. For candidates, they mostly have hiring mandates for toxic teams so it becomes pointless because you’re going to leave the team in 6 months anyway. Therefore, just reach to people in good teams or write tailored emails yo partners - that is how I got a new job in tier 1!

For firms, why can’t you have your HR reach out to potential candidates? AZB HR approached me for a role, it ultimately didn’t work out post interview but much better prospect than having to go through a recruiter. Build those capabilities in-house and save costs.

I will highly recommend Crewt consulting. I once randomly messaged Anagh asking about how to switch from company to law firm and he helped me alot. Not even once did he ever sounded irritated or polite. Literally he told me different practise area since I was not aware of the same. Banda genuine hai, sote2 bhi baat kar leta hai yaar. Mai toh apni nind kisi k liye na kharab karu.

They are very rude, ngl.

Yellow Wire is not good too, had very bad experience with them. They made an offer to me for x location then started pressuring me to move to y location [which is close to 1500km across the country]. I refused and then they started giving me backhanded threats (we handle HR for a lot of firms, we conduct background checks bla bla).

▮▮▮ just make you feel useless and kill your confidence

Same bro i was approached by them for a defence colony firm that firm was also shit to be honest. The recruiters had themselves shifted my interview date and at last said "ana hai toh aoo warna kat lo"( though they literally didn't say this but the connotation of conversion was similar to this)