First of all there are no jobs in this profession - and so under an advocate/sr advocate's chamber. Now, should you wish to join someone's chamber- you must appreciate the fact that they don't work as a formal organisation, and hence there won't be any proper recruitment process. (Atleast for a good majority of them). Now, to answer your question - how do you approach? Well, 3 ways:

1. Email with CV and all -only if you have the mail id and don't know them. Follow up after 2/3 weeks once or twice and then leave.

2. Text message/call - ditto as above.

3. Approaching in person - works the best, regardless of whether you know them or not - but please keep in mind never to ask for a juniorship right away - say that you observed their proceedings and all, and would like to be their chamber junior.

Glad that you chose to do litigation than some clerical law firm job. All the best

It really just depends on the chamber in question. If you are already acquainted with the advocate in question just call or message them regarding your desire to join their chamber. They will inform you about their process, if any. However, if you don't know the lawyer, then cold mailing would be best. You can message or call them if you don't get a reply despite following up. Also try to see if you have any common connection who can introduce you to the lawyer in such cases.

Hi. "Richest firm" commentwala here. US firms prefer candidates who have JD degrees from T14 US law schools. Maybe a prestigious Tax LLM may also help breaking into US market. However without it I haven't seen any India born Indian getting into these firms.

On LinkedIn I have seen one person I think, an India born Indian from an NLU , who has worked with a magic Circle law firm and then managed to get into Latham and Watkins. But still not an equity partner. It takes significally longer to make equity partner and much less if you are India qualified

Ashish Gupta , very good mentor with a sound knowledge has a lot of work in arbitration, NCLT, APTEL. Team is great and no one was any Attitude problems, a very welcoming team.

If not Ashish, then Ajoy , great guy but has his quirks. Team is solid, good knowledgable seniors , great mentors and great human beings.

Shashank is a very sweet partner but team is ▮▮▮. Same for Swati, excellent human being but team is cut throat ▮▮▮. The downside to these teams are that no one will guide you, but everyone will throw you under the bus, more like survival of the fittest and also very narrow and repetitive work. If you going there be ready for the worst.

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VP - no idea since have no contacts there.

Shailaja - V good team to learn but again ▮▮▮ cut throat

Anup rawat - great guy and even more great if you’re a cricket lover. Jokes apart, good team and man gets very solid work in IBC, CHECK out latest reported judgments on IBC, you’ll know.

Dave Robinson - good jollly guy but not seen his team much, so can’t comment but one partner muzzamil he’s v good

So my top 3 (not necessarily in order) - Ajoy, Ashish and Anup.

All the best

So if one wants to learn and not earn , which is the best team to join, pls help me. A team which has a lot of good work where one can just keep his head down and work, keeping the toxicity in mind and also which individual partner will guide and groo, amd focus on preparation. Thanks a Ton.

Recently learnt from a friend that they identify as “corporate/ M&A”. From what I have been told, this team does not have any M&A work. Far from it. It’s mostly general advisory which is fine. Apparently, they mostly advise on ancillary laws like BIS, misleading advertisements, etc. in addition to labour law. This self-description cannot get any more misleading than that. If you are looking to do labour work or commercial laws work, this is a good team.

Hello everyone.

I was wondering if anyone has any input regarding the Disputes team at Touchstone Partners Delhi? I’ve tried looking for information online (including LI) but all conversation seems to be regarding the transaction teams.

It’d be great if someone has any insight about the work that they do, pay, culture, etc. Thank you!

Not sure how this can be done, because the SC has stated that CLAT has to be the exam for law entrance. Breaking away by these three will mean a separate exam and they will probably charge higher fees.

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I tend to miss work most days. But I actually don’t. I go to work. Should I be penalised when I go to work because of my tendency to miss it ? The dictionary definition of “tends to “ is to be likely to behave in some way- we don’t punish people in criminal law because they’re likely to do something. We punish them for something that they have actually done that is blameworthy.

This language isn’t used in any other criminal provision. Repeat offenders don’t have their sentence mitigated and some times have repeat offences be punished with a heavier sentence- but this provision doesn’t do that. It doesn’t ask for previous convictions.

We don’t punish people in criminal law for other crimes they’ve committed other than the indictment before the court. This is called the doctrine of full proof.

Tends to cause emotional abuse is what exactly ? Misgendering? Tends to do financial abuse is what ? An employer being late with the check? Borrowing money and being late to give it back?

In any case the original point still stands. Gross misstatement to say the 2019 enactment or the 2026 enactment criminalises rape or that it awards a lesser punishment for it. The section criminalises tendency to do a number of things (this shouldn’t be a crime) and then awards an outsized punishment for that tendency.

If you genuinely are skeptical of pursuing law not because of job but your lack of interest. I would say please leave immediately since it won't get better. If it's job related, you will get one soon, don't worry. But if you have no interest in law anymore then please leave. I hated law by the 5th year and started preparing for CA. Took me 3 years more but now I'm 10 years into the profession and I'm much happier doing the job of a CA than a lawyer. Remember that the next 20-30 years of your life will be spent working atleast a minimum of 50% your day. So you may not love but if you atleast like the work, it will do. Litigation, judiciary, corporate nothing gets better if you don't atleast like things.