Senior Trilegal partner saying clients are reducing scope of mandates because AI is helping them crack legal issues.

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Hi, Can anyone please guide me I want to do corporate law but I am confused with two electives should I opt for-

1. Mergers and Acquisitions

2. Banking Law

3. Competition Law

4. IPR

I am confused and want to make the best combo. Would be glad if I hear different perspectives

It is indeed the norm. However, they have a system (which only a very small number of people use) via which you work in a law firm for six years alongside taking evening classes at a university with which the law firm has a tie-up for the sake of that particular solicitor apprenticeship offer. Most good universities don't participate in solicitor apprenticeships right now. Essentially, it's like doing the four years (3+1) part time over six years, instead.

I am not insulting him for his background. I am insulting him for the fact that he played truant while at university, and that, being from a privileged background, he felt secure enough to do so while the rest of us actually have to put in some work in life. He could have been from any "law college" as far as I care. But glorifying laziness and lack of hard work, whether coming from somebody at Oxford or at GLC, is totally unacceptable.

Haha. I didn't even attend an NLU for my undergrad. It's you guys who are getting your nickers in a twist over this stuff.

What the post is saying is very simple: there are certain objective, proven, ingredients that make up a good legal education (whether in India, or outside). These are aspects that help to build the foundations of a good lawyer - and reading Dworkin or using Lexis/Westlaw is among them, Dworkin being one of the common law world's foremost legal philosophers and Westlaw/Lexis being some of the foremost legal databases of the world. I am really sorry, but I don't know how we are even having an argument over this. Even other old men consider the learning of tech properly at an early stage to be essential. I attended - that is to say, physically attended - a lecture that Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, gave at an event conducted a few years ago by the Legal Services Board, which is the oversight regulator holding the SRA and BSB (the regulators for solicitors and barristers) to account. You would imagine that such a one as he would advocate for getting dusty in libraries or old archives to find law reports, etc. No. Instead, he warned that not being up to scratch with developing technologies would mean that lawyers weren't useful. In Sir Geoffrey's worldview, anyone whose acquaintance with legal tech is confined to good usage of Lexis and Westlaw would be what the British tend to call a luddite (i.e., one opposed to change). (And BTW, Vos is older than B.R. Gavai.) Is agreeing with luddites really the school of thought you want to be associated with? Is going in the opposite direction to the (sensible and perfectly valid) advice of one who has responsibility for one of the world's most highly regarded systems of commercial dispute resolution what you are arguing for?

Of course the post is expressed in a childish way. It assumes that Gavai is incapable in this regard. For all you know, he can use Lexis and Westlaw better than the post author. He may even be better at using Chatgpt or Perplexity than most of us are. We cannot tell without further enquiry. But considering Gavai's really disappointing remarks, the post raises valid concerns.

I say take this response with EXTREME caution. Neither Fiverr nor Upwork (nor any other similar platform) should be used by lawyers to solicit work/advertise their services for very obvious reasons.

It would also impact your image among your peers. Short term gains (if any at all) versus long term.

If you were to say that you don't have the money for their visa process, they would even offer you to pay in installments. However, they will definitely collect all the money upfront before they start your visa process. In the agreement, they tell they do not promise job or visa. They may vaguely talk about either job or visa interview.

They have ready made intimidating, defamation notices ready. I have seen almost everybody receives the legal notice with the same kind of accusations and language.

Spot on. In fact, as everyone knows NKC was this environmental law professor’s external PhD thesis supervisor and had rejected the thesis. These thesis was totally plagiarised and substandard. Then another external was assigned and passed it.

This information (barring NKC’s name) is officially documented. Pre-Covid, when students went on protest and forced the university to disclose minutes of previous years under RTI, one of the disclosed minutes had this.

Go back to LI archives, and you may come across the RTI archives. Else I will dig it out and share if you can’t.

Also, the famous PhD is accessible online, on the UGC Shodhganga database of North Bengal University. It is plagiarised from a now-defunct digital encyclopaedia called Microsoft Encarta plus various websites. Encarta was the Wikipedia of the 90s and early 2000s.

For what? Better exposure and better clients? Yes, you'll get that. But guess what? The work is routine. I've interned and practiced (for about 2 years in Delhi and 5 in Calcutta), and I can tell you - Calcutta is far better for any person from here. No expenses for home and all, and while pay and exposure may be less, you would be earning not less than 70% of your Delhi counterparts. Now why would I say Calcutta is better? Because you'll realise, after 5-6 months, or max 1 year, its the routine same work. Anywhere.

DeaR Team LI,

I wish to seek guidance on how to start working in a dispites team or a litigation team at a firm. I passed out this year from a T-3 college and have very little litigation experience. hoping for it to be a firm for a decent pay instead of counsel or chamber.

pls guide. thanks you

No, your feelings are completely valid and rational. A person cannot survive without a work-life balance but at the same time, I believe that since it has only been two months since you joined, you need to give this profession a chance and wait for some weeks/months and if this problem persists, switching could be option but the truth be told, this profession demands long hours.