Projects is a low billing, high volume work. Unless its Projects M&A, and even then most clients I have seen are utter misers who want bucketloads of work and pay lesser effective per hour rates. What that translates into is a high volume workload and you can kiss your life goodbye. But otherwise, depending on your personality, the work is sort of interesting. And given the stage that our country is in, Projects work will only grow and there is a lot of headroom in the market, lot of demand for lawyers who can put up with the BS that comes with working in this vertical. The reason getting a PPO is easy is because Projects teams bleed associates like the battleground of Kalinga. Very few people have the mental strength to put up with the work, and I do not mean it is a compliment.

kiddo you know nothing about the scene - Projects is by far one of those practices where openings for freshers is bare minimum across all the tier 1s; which look typically look out for A0s with 2-3 years of PQE in hardcore projects transactions/disputes from Tier 2 firms or inhouse infrastructure companies.

Also, its getting highly specialized with infrastructure - M&A, financing and disputes operating within specialist silos of people who are also now doing sector driven work in the renewable energy segment alongside old school oil and gas and government sector clients. The margins in transactions (both M&A and project finance) as well as disputes is so sleek that its difficult to make it rain regardless of you being at Tier 1 or a boutique, on top of which there is attrition and the whole junior-senior crunch.

Now coming to Trilegal - I would rank the whole infrastructure and projects vertical top 3 in India (would still put CAM - Project Finance Trilegal - M&A/Project Development and JSA - Electricity Litigation; in that order) given how specialized and top heavy the partnership pool is with very cream and complex mandates. However, as a fresher joining such a firm straight out of college (albeit as a campus hire or a PPO) would be a nightmare given how much time it takes to grasp the complexity of both the practice and the kind of work the firm does.

Lastly, rethink Projects as a practice because post 2030 - the RE push is likely to slow down, financing will ease out and fewer M&A deals shall take place. And across tier 1s - the M&A teams have started doing the Projects DD, the B&F teams have started picking up project finance mandates, the Real Estate team picks up the land DD and other miscellaneous issues and Disputes teams have been specializing in electricity litigation.

Hope this helps, best of luck!