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If its a corp job that you are looking for, understand that the market is super shitty this year and its not your fault. Mostly everyone is looking for people with atleast PQE of 1 year. However, you can apply to startups or even consulting companies as a part of their M&A strategy team. You can try applying to investment banking firms as well if you have sufficient knowledge about VC funding and PE.
Connect with the partners you interned with for an LOR or a letter of referral and attach that to your CV while sending out your application. If you want to work with firms, apply to Lexygen, Boolean Legal, Anagram, ThinkLaw, these are boutique law firms and they might consider hiring. Wait for the end of the year and if things still dont work out, go for an MBA or inhouse jobs. Sending cold emails do help to an extent, however, receiving no or generic responses has been the trend this year. Try contacting the PA or secretary of the partner (my friend did that and now she is a paralegal at CAM). Lastly, keep following up once in every 2 weeks. Few firms you can apply to for corp jobs-
-Sirius Legal, Mumbai
-SPN legal Advisors, Delhi
-Manichengappa & Mathur,Bangalore (Send your application to Principal Associate, Meher)
-Rajaram Legal, Mumbai
-HS Law & Associates, Chennai
-JSA, Mumbai (DCM Team, particularly, Arko & Madhurima Mukherjee's team), even if you dont have internships in Cap Marks, read up on it, CAM has a primer on the same (2nd edition), v helpful for concept building for freshers.
(These are mostly boutique firms and do send out fairly consistent replies)
Hope this helps! Dont lose hope, something will come up eventually!
1. One firm ghosted me after the interview, only to later inform me—weeks later—that they couldn’t proceed since my enrollment wasn’t finalized.
2. Another firm simply stopped communicating mid-process.
3. The last one dragged the process out for two months without giving me a clear 'yes' or 'no' in the end.
I’ve also tried reaching out to partners on LinkedIn. Some don’t respond, while others do but only to say, “no vacancies at the moment” or to direct me to a generic email address.
Now, I’ve started applying again, but so far, no confirmations or interviews. I have decent internship experience—it’s not extraordinary, but enough that I’d hope my applications would at least warrant a response.
Given the situation, I’m considering a more direct approach: calling firms after submitting my application. From a professional standpoint, does this seem like a good strategy? Would love to hear your thoughts or any advice.