What are the typical fees charged by an advocate appearing on behalf of the main counsel before District Courts, Sessions Courts, High Courts, or the Supreme Court, including charges for adjournments or similar routine matters? Additionally, how do these fees differ for junior advocates compared to more experienced or senior advocates?

Who says nujs gives break from mid April to mid June?

Have been here for two years; Winter end sem starts in Mid April and ends around 28-30th for all batches and we start interning from 1st to 3rd May onwards.

As for mid June thing, you only need to come back if you have failed a paper and need to sit for repeats. Else our new year begins around 2nd week of July. As such, we can intern the entirety of June. Please cross verify info before spilling it.

At NUJS, students get to intern during the whole of May and June. Again most of December. In addition, a student gets a total of 30 days while the semester is going on to intern. The last one can be available in full or in part anytime during third, fourth, or fifth year. No other NLU provides that much time for internship at present. The last one is of course against BCI rules, but who is checking?

Some UNI(s) give proper internship breaks like that from 1st of the month to 30th/31st of the month. While some like NUJS give breaks from mid of April to Mid of June.
Do firms care if you join from middle of the month for 1 month or they necessarily insist upon joining from the first of month ?

As someone who used to be at Trilegal, I can't help but think this post might be one of my colleagues unnecessarily praising their employer under the guise of a discussion.

Trilegal is definitely a step ahead of the la la firms in terms of profit sharing, but that's about it. "Governance philosophy" and "institutional culture" are only buzzwords at the firm, as it follows the same model as every other firm where the team's partner controls everything within their team. The associate sitting at the desk next to me faced a very different governance philosophy and culture (much better to be honest – they used to leave on time everyday) solely because they were in a different team.

Yes, Trilegal does spend the most on its associates compared to every other firm, and the difference in office quality is palpable. But Trilegal's primary benefits are felt at the partner level (and might be a disadvantage for rainmakers in fact - see NKU), and associate life is not very different from other firms.

I will admit one thing Trilegal has done well is adopt great enterprise tech. The Lucio investment is a bit of a flop within the firm, but our Microsoft system kicks Citrix's ass every day of the week

In many ways, yes. Trilegal’s rise has been notable not only because of its scale, reputation, and practice strength, but because of the way it chose to organise itself. In a legal market where concentrated ownership and hierarchical partnership structures were long the norm, Trilegal built itself around a broader equity-sharing approach and a more institutional model of growth. That gave it a distinct identity in the Indian market.

Its success suggests that building a leading law firm is not just about assembling star lawyers or landing marquee mandates. It is also about creating a structure that supports collaboration, rewards performance, and sustains long-term growth. Trilegal’s lockstep-oriented and broad-based equity model has often been seen as central to its culture and internal cohesion.

The firm’s journey also reflects a larger shift in the Indian legal sector: from founder-centric practices to more system-driven institutions. In that sense, Trilegal did not just become successful within the existing framework, it helped demonstrate that there could be a different framework altogether.

Whether that template can be replicated at other firms is a separate question. But Trilegal has certainly shown that ownership design, governance philosophy, and institutional culture can be as important as legal capability in building an elite Indian law firm.

Hi. I’m a student at CLC, DU. I feel like everyone on here is from an NLU and I couldn’t really find any threads that answered my concerns. I interned at SAM (Delhi office) in March in the Capital Markets team (was only 1 week so I couldn’t really gauge how much I like or hate it). Did mostly research, updating internal documents and making summaries of business agreements for an upcoming IPO. I got a callback and I will be interning with the same team again in October. I wasn’t really expecting a callback because I was with a different team in the first week, and then I had switched to CM.

I know I’m thinking way ahead, but before I get into something I don’t enjoy, I really want to get an idea of the entire picture. I know it’s SAM and everything, but I would really rather not waste a month doing something that is not going to add any value to my career. Being from the 3 year course, I anyways have 2 less years to intern and figure things out. I’m going to be in my final year, and again, very limited time to intern, virtually no campus placements or assistance from college, and not many firms who take interns/hire from DU.

I have always been interested in litigation, and all my internships other than this one have been with advocates. But since this is a really good opportunity, I really do want to explore if I want to work in a corporate setup.

I’m sorry for the long ass explanation - basically just want to know, why does everyone seem to hate Capital Markets? Other than the fact that it is repetitive work, is there anything else? Is CM hated just in SAM or most firms? Is it easy to transition into GC after working in this area? Or M&A? Would I be boxing myself in this area? (Future problem, I know). But is there anyone who can just give general advice on this?

TL;DR 2nd year student at CLC, majorly focused on litigation, will be a callback intern at SAM in October (in my final year) in the Capital Markets team, need general advice, why is Capital Markets so disliked

I potentially have the opportunity to join the Corp team at the Mumbai office. Please inform me on what to except, the team, the growth opportunities and whether it is worth considering. I have seen other threads, but most are blunt without any rationale. Please help a lad out!

Why is ideological consistence so important to you? Are [eople not allowed to change their minds? This would cause people to hold onto harmful and outdated ideologies at just for the sake of some imaginary commitment to conisistency. If nobody changed their minds and political orientation only one ideology would be the paramount majority for all of human history.

A certain lawyer with hardly four years’ experience was placed on the Union of India A Panel and given 5,904 cases. As a BJP voter, I am rather disappointed. I got no work when the Congress was in power. I assumed: coalition government = patronage of a certain few. I don't stand a chance. I voted for change and hoped the purported Modi effect would resonate across the board. I hoped the Ministry of Law and Justice under the BJP would support my career, and give me a fair opportunity with panel work. It didn’t. I never got in!

I am an independent lawyer. I have earned every Tier 1 law firm role I secured and every client referral. I even graduated from a Tier 1 university. How is it that when I apply for any government panel, I get zilch, whereas people with no prior experience or credentials get empanelled, and receive sarkar work worth crores of rupees?

I have no love or sympathy for Arvind Kejriwal. I have voted for him only twice, and I don’t see myself ever voting for him again after seeing videos of his Sheeshmahal in Civil Lines - https://youtu.be/czEBDNRYHBg

It is under these circumstances that his demand for recusal, which tbh stands on flimsy grounds (legally speaking), resonates with me - https://youtu.be/BMBPoqkfzWc

Am I alone here?

Initial days are bad, yes, but thats till year 5. Thereafter you go independent and by year 10, become successful enough to outearn your law firm counterparts - post which you-'ll only be outearning them.

An average successful senior advocate earns faf far far more than their equally successful law firm counterpart

Why should advocates pay their juniors? Do the juniors bring in any skills? The issue is not about advocates not paying juniors, its the issue of law schools or the state of legal education not allowing practical training. Once the graduates have such training, they can charge clients on their own, need not rely on chamber senior for payment. That delhi systwm of seniors paying their chamber jinior is awful and wrong

Lmao. Even a non designated advocate who is equally successful as a law firm clerk makes more money than theirlaw fifm counterpart. Compare the earning of any level of lawyer, from litigation v law firm, after 10-15PQE at the same level of success - your liti lawyer outearns the partner. The cream of SC lawyers earn in excess of 100cr a year. Few top firm partners make that much. Even the average senior advocate at around 40-50 would ve earning in excess of 4-5cd a year if not 10cr. Your law firm partner? Meh. Add to that, you get senior designation, chances of being elevated, people know you more, than being a partner at a firm where no one knows you and thats the only achievement you'll ever have - a partner at a law firm which is not your own.

Depends on your college, selected area to intern in and vacancies of the teams you interned in, and your work performance. Also, publications have little to do with getting a T-1 job, but it’s good you have them.

If you want a T-1 job, maybe shift practice areas. If you want to get into a specific practice area only, maybe try for T-2s and T-3s and work your way up. If you haven’t been able to convert 9-10 experiences (not sure if this also includes callbacks, but if not then this applies even more) indicates that your work performance is probably not up to the mark. If possible, ask your mentors from easier internships for feedback and work on it.

I hope it works out for you, the markets haven’t been kind to us and don’t think will be for a while going forward!

Insane, how come none of those 10 internships converted to a callback/assessment man? Or have you also done and lost on multiple callback/assessment Internships? Because only in the second case would I attribute it to shitty luck

In any case, stay strong and hold on, keep trying

Diligent and hard working people are always to figure it out

Experience was lovely, the associate and nice and chill in most offices (heard from co interns), a fresher gets about 10LPA (don't know how accurate it is), the firm has a relatively chiller wlb as compared to a t1, most associates ik or at least the senior ones are ex t1 associates, good place to grow and have a stable life, however growth wise and challenges wise im not too sure (I personally found my experience challenging cause this was my first corp internship + a practice area I had never done before, I never got the practise area I applied for so I didn't know how to properly do the work). otherwise your mentors are usually nice and patient and look out for you. Stipend is about 6K, which is pretty good ig.

You can consider a few things. First, the 22 July 2021 notification from the MHA that says an OCI holder has parity with NRI's for the purpose of pursuing the practice of law. Second, the proviso to Section 24(a) of the Advocates Act, which says that you can enroll as long as the country of which you are a national allowes Indian's to practice. So if you are a citizen of UK or the US, you should be fine.

Based on this, I think what is determinative is which country are you a citizen of actually.

Finally I sometimes wonder about Harish Salve. I have my doubts that he has retained an Indian passport.

I was on a 5-month career break for some serious personal reasons after 4 years of working at 2 different (tier-I, Mumbai) law firms with their M&A teams. Now that I am looking to join law firms again, it has been 2 months and I am not getting any response from any of the recruiters, HRs or even a couple of the partners (I personally know) I have reached out to. I am really surprised and also quite concerned now, and I am not sure if I am doing something wrong. I am also worried that the 5 months have now extended to 7 months and might go beyond.

If anybody has any idea about this and can help me out, that would be really helpful.

Are the law firms not hiring laterals right now for some reason? And if anybody knows any team that is looking for SA, can you please mention that in this thread?

What an absurd post. Quoting from the HC order itself:

> 16. This Court has gone through the tweets. In the opinion of this Court, the tweets are communally provocative, profane and vulgar in nature which affects the dignity and personal lives of the Plaintiffs. The content of the tweets are extremely derogatory and no human being with dignity and selfrespect can live peacefully and with head held high if such scandalous, vulgar posts are circulated against them amongst the public at large.

> 17. A perusal of the tweets reveals that a substantial amount of content includes statements that can be construed as communally inflammatory. References have been made to the personal lives of the Plaintiffs in the context of their political inclinations, which indicates a brewing campaign by those who have opposing political inclinations.

>18. What particularly worries this Court is a perusal of Document No. 5, which contains a compilation of comments, some of which contain threats of physical and sexual violence. All of these posts have been gathering widespread attention from the general public, which is also attributable to the language used in the impugned content, which in the prima facie opinion of this Court, have been written in a way to garner more and more attention.