Most partners in this field are difficult people to work with, which leads to slow growth, alot of dissatisfaction. Lets say you are starting your career today, in GC, lit, you can expect you reach partner/counsel level (with consistent hard work of course) in about approximately 11-12years. But if you pick competition, you will be forced to make a compromise when you hit the 9-10 year mark in your career. The opportunities are limited and the toxicity is only multiplying.

Hi, I have been practising in Guwahati for last 7½ years in civil courts, JMFCs, District and Sessions Court and Gauhati High Court. My income is very less even though I am independent. I want to move on and earn huge like a constant income being a retainer or like working under a top tier law firm in India. If anyone can help me how to go ahead step by step I will be grateful.

Congratulations!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

Points to note:

- Only lawyers on the list

- The jury was top notch: Uday Kotak, Nita Ambani, Harish Salve, AM Singhvi etc etc.

- Both Symbi grads, which shows that you don't need to be an NLU grad to be successful. Also, in comparison to many of the others on the list (e.g. children from the Jindal and Birla families) they are both non-nepo kids. Thus, sheer hard work and merit counts.

- One partner writes her pronouns on her LinkedIn bio, which shows that one can maintain progressive beliefs even in neoliberal capitalist organisations like law firms

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https://et40under40.in/site/et-40-under-40/1916

https://www.khaitanco.com/people/anisha-chand

https://trilegal.com/people/nitesh-jain/

Key point: please learn to write English properly.

1. Thread title: 'Advise needed'. The correct way of writing this would be 'Advice needed'.

2. It is 'decent', not 'descent'.

Maybe start by learning how to write decent English, and things might improve.

I blew away the whole thing: dinner at the Taj with family + clothes + perfumes + another dinner and gift for then girlfriend (who was then in 5th year law of law school and who sadly left me for a senior associate once she graduated and started working).

What I should have done: just dinner at the Taj with family and rest in the bank.

This video looks super cringe. Everyone is packed into a tight space and staring at Kim Kardashian like she is some goddess. She is a C-grade celebrity who originally became famous only after a sex tape of hers was leaked. And then for her marriage to Kanye and her plastic surgeries.🤮🤮🤮🤮

Yes, it’s not a good look. There is no need for lawyers to be so servile to Mukesh Ambani. He may be India’s richest man and a sought after client for law firms, but we as lawyers too command a lot of respect in society and Khaitan is a tier 1 gold standard law firm. If it wasn’t for lawyers many big industrialists would be bankrupt.

You are right – – that is Haigreve Khaitan! Great detective work! Well done! Moderator, please give this comment featured status. You can see HK in grey, close to KM Birla and a girl who looks like Suhana Khan. He is struggling within the crowd and trying to do namaste to Mukesh Ambani (the crowd is fighting to get a glimpse of Kim Kardashian 😂).

BTW funny to see Birla’s reaction to Kim. Least interested. 😂

I mean. Hes going to win. Biden is basically senile. I dont think the labour win and the left win in france are the victories you think they are. Labour basically won because of long time anti incumbency and fatigue with tories. Marine le Pen made significant gains in france and it could keep going that way.

good news- you wont be affected by most of it really. Who is the president in america is of little consequence to law students in india.

No. I barely had anything going for me. I graduated with a BA in political science, got caught up in the vicious competitive exams cycle. Age limit. Realise I will soon be 30 with no job, no work experience. I had only two options MBA or LLB. I was so broken down that I didn't think I'd crack CAT. So went for LLB. Didn't intern under anyone till my last year, as I had a fear of rejection. Somehow got the courage to join a chamber. Worked my ass off for one month, the advocate saw that, appreciated it and asked if I want to work in his chambers. I didn't have anything going for me. So I joined. The pay was barely 10K, even that depended on how work was in chambers. Still managed somehow. Finally after 3 years, got my experience certificate and all the knowledge I had and applied in a tier 2. Worked there for 2 years. So 3+2 years of experience and entered a tier 1. Finally got through. In the end ageism definitely exists especially in India which is bound by the social construct of time. However, it's just one or two questions about you age. Be honest with them and they'll move on to other questions. In the end experience matters. My colleagues were fresh out of college and to be honest were very immature and unwise to handle life and profession together..more so that majority of them had never practiced in a court. So I had that advantage. The benefit of today is that people are looking for skills and not degrees. If you can upskill and get experience. You're good to go. Also, I would always tell myself this...don't see the 30 years you've wasted, work today for the 30 that still await ! All the best !

To learn drafting you need to repeatedly draft and have a senior who knows his shit correct your draftings.

Its repeated practice that improves your drafting thinking.

You can either find such a senior person willing to teach you

Also an edtech company in India has a program where you get to draft a lot and have someone check your drafts and tell you how to improve. I will not name the company but do your own research.

It’s not always about money. Just for the record - senior partners in CAM make a lot of money. Like really lot and that is one reason why juniors in the firm gets less compared to other firms. This said, Shishir isn’t leaving for money, he is leaving for more power, recognition and autonomy.