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Your queried are incoherent and wide-ranging.
Each contract is different.
Associates don't get PF oe gratuity.
It appears that an actual "equity" partner is inly a member of the family and the rest of them are only partners nominally and not a part of the partnership agreement. Is that an accurate characterisation? Are they merely employees? Is there a difference between equity partners and the rest?
Also, how do "employees" (i.e., associates, for instance) pay Income Tax? Do they pay tax as professionals and do they have to do the whole advance tax rigmarole? So are they not then employees per se? Will non-legal roles like HR in a law firm be on a different pedestal where they will be employees instead?
Do Corp law firm associates thrn file tax in exactly the same way that an advocate would? Would they get PF?