Its question of scale. Earlier, there were few good firms and the firm sizes were small. So five good clients could sustain entire firm. Then say a senior partner wanted a larger share of pie, then he walked out with one of big clients. Now he would have still sustained with that one client, but after a point, the people who joined him can't grow because how much can you milk the major client? So from the same pie, you need to feed more, with consequent stress on mid level folks, who now need to take this whole stress for their own future (since the senior partner is still sitting pretty with his major client plus whatever he gets by virtue of being in the profession for a while). Thats the problem of T3 and T4. Replace the one senior partner in example with say, 3/4, and it's T2 issue. And for T1, same issue, that firm becomes large but obviously without adding proportionate clients so all new partners, who wouldn't have their books for obvious reasons, would struggle. That's the issue in nutshell. Then once you start getting execution pressure, you poach trained people from smaller firms by throwing money at them, and after few years, you'll be senior partner and they'll be fresh partners looking for sustaining themselves. And circle goes on.

The evaluation system has undergone considerable modifications for the NIRF 2025 rankings. A brand-new sustainability-focused category has been added, and institutions will be evaluated according to how well they follow the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The introduction of a negative marking system for research article retractions is another noteworthy modification.

Institutions will now pay a fine under the "research and professional practices" criterion. A new formula that takes into account the quantity or proportion of retracted publications will be used to determine the score. These modifications are intended to encourage research integrity and sustainable practices in India's higher education establishments.

In response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) brought by C. Chellamuthu, the Madras High Court temporarily halted the release of the NIRF 2025 rankings. The plea claimed that without any independent verification, universities were falsifying information about research funding, teacher salaries, and student strength in order to obtain higher rankings.

The NIRF only uses self-reported data from the institutions, according to the court's ruling, in contrast to the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), which evaluates data through expert committees. The petitioner contended that this lack of verification would have a detrimental effect on educational quality by enabling institutions with poor standards to deceptively advertise themselves.

https://www.jagranjosh.com/news/nirf-ranking-2025-new-category-and-negative-marking-introduced-key-highlights-changes-here-180695

Look people are terrible here in general - everybody look down upon everyone and nobody is happy for each other. The batch rankers who have very apparently not been able to get a job despite the RCC push, inflated grades and internal faculty references; have all the reasons to whine on an anonymous platform like this. Folks who are genuinely smart will gradually (if not today) do better than those spineless bell curve heroes.

As far as law firms and not the shitty inhouse/ research/ public policy/ think tanks are concerned, the updated break-up as of now is as follows:

Job Offers

AZB, Mumbai - 4 [3 Call back - PPO; 1 Campus/RCC]AZB, Bangalore - 1 [Campus/RCC]
Trilegal, Mumbai - 1 [Campus/RCC]

CAM, Mumbai - 1 [Call back - PPO]

Argus (Mumbai and BLR) - 2 [Campus/RCC]

LKS, Delhi - 3 [Campus/RCC]

Long Term Trainees

AZB, Pune - 2 [Individual Application]

KCO, Bangalore - 1 [Campus/RCC]

DSK, Mumbai - 1 [Call back - Trainee offer]

ELP, Mumbai - 1 [Individual Application]

Ongoing Callbacks

Trilegal, Delhi - 2 [Individual Application]

JSA, Gurgaon - 2 [Individual Application]

JSA, Mumbai - 2 [Individual Application]

Indus, Gurgaon - 1 [Individual Application]

Bharucha, Mumbai - 1 [Individual Application]

[In a batch of 400 odd people, the numbers for 2026 are disappointing - less than 5% stacking law firm positions is unlike anything that has been witnessed before. Despite our extremely strong alumni base, if we compare this with the lower rung NLUs as well as Jindal for that matter - we have got to do better]

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Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MfsZFAeNO8

My Lords, we are not denying the problem of some stray dogs biting people. But this cannot be the solution. We all know how the Indian bureaucracy works. They have no common sense or empathy. Also, my Lords, to punish all dogs because some dogs have bitten people is like punishing all humans because some humans are bad.

Requesting all counsels to please share this video and sensitise your fellow counsels and respected judges.

💔🙏

https://x.com/YuvrajAror12577/status/1956585091594940481

Genuinely curious here. Many of these reels show them taking business class flights, staying at five-star hotels abroad, etc. Many of the captions say that they are self-funding with their first internship stipend, first salary, first moot court prize money etc. But such trips will cost 4 to 5 lakhs at least. Isn't that a bit much, even if you are a CAM or AZB associate? Are these funded by credit card debts then?

Hello, gentlemen! Please do keep abusing pickleballers and discouraging people from playing the game. Because it helps us pickleballers in SoBo keep our spaces exclusive and keep the masses away. We do not want proletarian LI readers polluting our privileged spaces. 🧐 The other day, I was horrified to see a bloke from some local law college enter the Willingdon pickleball courts, wearing attire that seemed to be bought from Pantaloons rather than Saks Fifth Avenue What’s more, he was pronouncing it “pikkul-bowl”. I was so traumatised, that I was in therapy for a week.

So yes, I agree that pickleball sucks and is a horrible game! Please don’t play it! 🙏

#sarcasm

Frankly, if you’re considering joining their team, think it through multiple times. I genuinely don’t believe you’ll gain much under her as a managing partner/principal associate. As for how she speaks to juniors—I’ll refrain from saying much; there’s already plenty written about it on Legally India.

Look up "PM Vidya Laxmi Scheme". then check this list: https://dashboard.aishe.gov.in/hedirectory/#/institutionDirectory/vidhyaLakshmi/All

If your NLU is on the list, don't worry. you will get a loan without any problem. NLSIU, NALSAR, GNLU, all the big NLUs are there.

PM Vidya Laxmi website has details about the application process.

Please do not worry or panic. Focus on getting into a good NLU, preferably the top 8. Loan will not be a problem in that case. Banks like SBI will provide it readily. You need a guarantor, which can be your parents. The admission proof will be needed, their income proof and IT returns. The guarantor may not be needed if you get into NLSIU, NALSAR or NUJS. These three NLUs are marked by SBI as priority institutions. Other NLUs may also be in the list, I know for sure about these three. Approach your local SBI branch or once you get into an NLU, then the branch closest to that. In case of the NLUs named, SBI personnel usually visit the campus during the admission days anyway.

There are numerous threads on this.

However, dont let it demotivate you at this stage, its a well paying practice at a good team and there are a ton of vacancies, also mobility to move to the UK MC firms. The problems are low margin, extremely boring dry due diligence + backup work, and kinda inefficient seniors making timelines feel like hell. Possibly the worst practice wrt timelines.

This has to be CAM, considering I got at SAM with an SA referral.

"Could you please consider this?” actually asks the HR to follow proper procedure to offer the position, based on merit alone.

I would advice you to apply elsewhere, and not repeat the same with the firm.

We must thank President Trump. By lowering our GDP growth through tariffs, he has forced Modi to undertake pro-middle class reforms that will boost consumption.

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/modis-next-gen-gst-reform-to-see-rates-of-5-18-40-tax-on-7-items-including-tobacco-3682830

I am commenting in this thread only to inform people that JGLS will represent that they don't need UGC permission to do any of these things because they are an IOE, but if you ask them whether the rest of the Indian institutions which are not JGLS will recognise these practices, then you won't be getting a straight answer from them. That's why they had to change their online LLM certificate unethically, which created opposition from even their own regular LLM students.

I’m currently an A0 working in a commercial litigation firm in Delhi. I wanted to know whether it’s possible to move to a general corporate team after 6 months or 1 year of experience in my current role. If that’s not possible, what are some other practice areas or teams (other than core disputes) that I can realistically move into from commercial litigation? Would appreciate any guidance from people who have made similar switches