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60 lakh is even unheard of as appearance fees . Gopal charges 25 lakh for single appearance and is charging 60 lakh for conference is not believable.
For ref, Gopal subramaniam charges ~60L per conference per hour or so (though this is from 2 years ago).
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
CAM: 5 (across locations)
AZB: 1 (mumbai)
LKS: 5 (tax) + 1 (Corp) (bangalore and delhi)
Trilegal: 1(mumbai)
These are all campus recruitment figures and not PPOs, apart from this I believe LKS and Tri also handed out assessment internships on day z
(Wanted to know how much firms are these firms hiring since day z at my NLU is next week)
Also, do not get carried away by a firm’s marketing machinery. We unfortunately live in a time where visibility is often mistaken for capability, and some people are better at selling the image of good work than actually doing it. So, ignore the noise and examine the content. Speak to former interns, juniors and people who have actually worked with the relevant partner (may be tier 1 firm or tier 3/4 firm - doesn't matter). Ask what work they received and whether the experience matched the public persona.
To avoid hiring, they give 2-3 offers to the top rankers, knowing they would reject and choose an amarchand or khaitan or azb. That way they keep their identity alive.
Infact its better they have backed out, because that genuinely saves the candidates’ time. Because saraf anyways doesn’t come with the intent to hire.
I do have a top 35 batch rank.
Please explain from batch rank, internships, publications, moots etc.
Especially the skills I need to cultivate for court work and internships I need to do.
So far I have thought to intern in high court and learn how to deal with stuff like drafting and then intern at a t1 disputes team in hopes to convert it to a PPO.
Please help a lost fella out.
Is Bombay to Bangalore a good switch?
For most of the lot that joined before the pay revision, they were promised during the interview that pay would be given at par with the other associates (that is the new pay) but bonus was forgone.
The firm thinks they're smart about their numbers and increment but they basically are just lying to you.
The increments, bonus and salary is not translucent, forget about transparency.
Good luck to the incoming batches!
IP litigation is the real money maker. DHC has a really well established IPD framework. Bombay, Madras and other HCs are catching up. However Bombay does not have a dedicated IPD yet. Bonus point is you get original side civil-commercial litigation exposure at the High Courts, so you can also lateral switch to other fields of litigation later in your career. On the contrary if u choose IP Prosecution it gets real hard to switch areas later cause of the limited exposure.
Now he is going to impose a $ 100,000 tax on foreign students who want to work in the US. If at all he relaxes it, it will probably only be for STEM grads.
So is this the end of Indian students applying to the US for LLM? The only demographic will be wealthy people who do not wish to work there and who want to come back home, after some exposure abroad. But wouldn’t this demographic rather apply to the UK, where the fees are less? Settle for Oxford/Cambridge instead of Harvard/Yale, or LSE instead of Columbia/Stanford, or KCL/UCL instead of NYU/Chicago? Would that be such a bad thing, given that our laws are closer to the UK? And the UK is a far more welcoming country.