Hi there. I would 100% do some diligence on this :-)

Please speak to our ex-interns as well as folks who work with us currently. Most of them are on Linkedin. If you're not able to get through directly, feel free to write to me (shreya at sra dot law) and I'll have someone check and send you the contact details of folks who are willing to chat. We are pretty confident about what you'll hear, and believe that honest conversations are fundamental to a healthy work environment, which means: no unwelcome questions. It's also always good to do some homework on who you will be working with.

Some clarifications on the comments above:

- Work Environment: Our work environment is absolutely tough. We're an embarrassingly nerdy bunch and take standards very seriously. The projects are frequently complex and everyone including A0s regularly deal with multiple areas of law within tax & PCP. Not for folks who like routine; we think we'd be a good fit for people who enjoy the law and who are generalists at heart while still loving tax. What we can promise, is that ours is not a hostile environment. Everyone, at every level of seniority is held up to the same standards of mutual concern and respect, and supportive culture is an org level commitment and expectation.

- Attrition: We've only had two people leave till date. One left to do a masters in tax at Georgetown after spending a year with us (which is again something that we encourage - no subterfuge required if you're planning to do LLM applications). The other left during his probation since he wanted to spend more time on litigation in Delhi. We are still 1.5 years young, so we may yet see exits on bad terms, but to say "People leave in three four months" is misinformation steeped in ignorance or bad faith.

- Job Openings: We are still considering applications for 2026 intake. But, we are a small org, and selective, and only hire freshers through internships (no campus recruitment). If you would like more details about the internship process pls visit our Linkedin page or write to us (internships at sra dot law with a cc to shreya at sra dot law). Hope this helps!

LMAO. Why will students of a law school that has produced KCs, judges, Oxford professors, IFS diplomats, Magic Circle partners, TIME 100 honorees and Infosys Prize winners aspire to work as associates in CAM and SAM? 😄 Only a few looking to raise funds for study abroad (and with grades not high enough to get a scholarship) would do that.

Please don't compare NLSIU students with students of other colleges.

Let me break it to you, my friend:

Your career is majorly defined by you and not the college. You will see failures from NLS and success from MD University; the Courts treat all equally. Since you’ve already gotten into a fairly decent college, don’t leave it only because it isn’t an NLU. Also, your college being in Delhi already puts you a few steps ahead of many Tier 2/3 NLUs and that location advantage is huge for internships etc.

Please bear in mind that TIME is the most precious currency in this profession. Don’t waste a year, because five years down the line, that one “extra year” could be used for exploring a new practice area, LLM, work in a different chamber, or anything you can't calculate presently. Focus on building substance: internships, mentorships, court exposure, and consistent learning.

Needless to mention, none of this is applicable if you are some HNI's son/daughter.

Isn’t it so nice to say people lack nuance when they don’t qualify everything they’re saying with a thousand exceptions because you know someone who knows someone who isn’t a terrible student even though they were rich and pampered and went to private college?

Make a damn affirmative statement about what you’re seeing in our universities or let someone who can do.

The easiest thing in the world to do when someone points to a problem is to argue the edge exception case and say “ ah but what you say is not always happening”. It adds nothing to any conversation at all.

I didn’t say anything about NLU. Students going to state universities - government universities that make you kill everything you eat. Will be hard workers and hustlers- when they have to kill to eat. There’s a few of those students who might not be ambitious and might have connections so they typically put in less effort but over all that’s a verrrrry different demographic to Jgls.

In any case the trouble with state universities is that they have hungry students but the universities aren’t run properly enough to discipline guide and educate these students so they mostly don’t know as much about opportunities that are out there.

No one who is joining nalsar or nls is allowed to persist with the notion that they are owed anything by the world. Most of them are not geniuses , not are they very hardworking. But one of the first things your seniors and college profs and everyone else tells you in those places is - you better get ready to work because no one can promise you anything . You might have been big shot in school but everyone starts at zero in law school. That thing is beaten into you. And you internalise it. And it’s true for most of them- they don’t have parents promising them a job even if they don’t work. They’re just incentivised to work harder than your average Jgls student.

Obviously not every Jgls student is a pampered brat. What an idiotic thing to say- the point is trends, averages. Most of them just have no need to be hungry or to achieve- they’ve been promised the world and they will be given it whether or not they earn it. And they absolutely make life terrible for faculty and the handful of students who are motivated. What teenager who is put in that situation would behave differently?

Obviously not everything goes according to plan when you parent. But the point is to parent regardless. My mom deliberately made my brother live in a free hostel for destitute boys during his undergrad. She could have afforded fancy on campus hostel where he would have richer friends. She deliberately went the other way because she wanted her son to learn what it means to be hungry and to need to succeed- that and she saved the money for my education. And that worked for him. He’s doing very well now. Obviously at the time it caused some friction because he wanted to have the best and she felt the need to give her child the best too- but she realised at the time that more important than giving her son everything he wanted was to teach him values and keep him on the straight and narrow.

Isn’t it so curious that when we get in to law school it’s all merit and when our children fail you’ll say it’s all luck ? What a terrible way to delegitimise the achievements of other peoples children. Who in many cases did not grow up with lawyer parents and go to best schools but simply crammed and studied and scored better points. Of course you think all the kids you know deserved to go to nls. Why anyone should take your word for it is beyond me.

It’s not the worst thing in the world for parents to sometimes admit they’re children aren’t the best at everything. That’s got more to do with your ego than it has to do with the best for your kids. Your kid probably won’t be Sachin Tendulkar or Beethoven and they probably won’t be Alan dershowitz either. What they definitely have equal opportunity to be is someone who is grounded, who knows who they are, who is a pleasure to work with both because of behaviour and work ethic. You deny them those things when you don’t tell them the truth.

Then Trilegal needs to stop marketing themselves as anti-nepo merit-lovers who are not family run. Partners from TL once came to our colg to give a seminar about the firm and they kept talking about how they don’t let family members of existing employees join cuz they value a fair merit system.

Like bro

Dikhawa band kar

Two Oxford scholars point out how Foucault and Butler are overcited, how humanities publishing houses like Routledge don't publish books on human rights abuses by left-wing regimes. One of the oldest and most respected newspapers in the world publishes the article. Yet that is trollish for LI?

Credentials of the authors and the Times aside, does the moderator actually mean to say that elite academia is NOT dominated by the left? Has the moderator even seen an NLU/Jindal first-year syllabus these days?? Marx, Hobsbawm, Butler, Foucalt, Cornel West, Franz Fanon, Partha Chatterjee, Amartya Sen, Romila Thapar, even Kancha Ilaiah and Suraj Yengde... this is what is being fed to first years.

And what about Adam Smith, Burke, Locke, Nozick, Chesterton, Friedman, Hayek, Bhagwati, Palkhivala, Sowell, Shourie etc? ZERO coverage.

What does the salary hike look like when switching as a lateral from in-house to a T1? Considering the compensation of in-house lawyers is a lot less, does this affect the compensation offered to laterals? Will the compensation get a big correction to the relevant band's range?

Let's say a candidate is offered A2 level, will the compensation be in the range of the A2 band of the firm or would it depend on the last drawn salary.

I just want to put this out there. CAM is extremely extremely ▮▮▮. For any fresher planning to join, please literally join any other firm (can even be a tier 2) but do not join CAM. CAM had forced me to change my location and had promised to absorb me in a particular team in Delhi. I agreed and was alright with the decision. Now, they have given me a team that I have no interest or experience in, this is after changing my location on the pretext of getting a particular team. HR refuses to shift my team too.
CAM is completely ▮▮▮- don't believe anything that they say, they are hell bent on ▮▮▮. If you have an Offer from CAM (any office) ▮▮▮.

Just had our researcher test today. The prop is on governmental company owned by Niskandha state. Prepped well the advance contract and arbitration code. But apparently moot culture at NLUO is all time low because of TMS. Who asks criminal law questions in such test. C’mon get a life bruhh!

3L funds is▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮, with people leaving in large numbers every year. There is politics in the team, have heard that a ▮▮▮ yells, but in the end they have good quality work and excellent exposure.

ICUL leads the funds industry with the highest volume of fund setups, which translates into heavy workloads and pressure, though it remains less ▮▮▮ compared to 3L.

KCO is good in all aspects - working hours, culture and quality of work.

AZB Funds - they are building their practice again by hiring a new partner. But, one should altogether avoid joining azb as a firm.

CAM/ BLC typically have lighter workloads than the above, resulting in comparatively better working hours. BLC, in particular, is known for its supportive culture, though you do take a hit on pay compared to the Tier-1 firms. CAM’s funds practice is often criticised for being ▮▮▮.

Regarding pay - Trilegal/KCO/CAM/AZB - almost similar (there may be slight variation in terms of fixed and bonus). BLC pay- equivalent to a tier II firm.

exactly. seems like bro yapped on and on to flex how "rich" he claims to be. like bro if you're eton level rich, why are you crying on legallyindia. dont be a loser, go do some grass-touching rich family stuff like traveling to your private island in private jets or playing golf with CEOs.

I work in tier 1 capital markets team and have been here for last 10 years or more. I come from a traditional business family and my parents are HNIs and my friends come from ultra rich families. We work for one or more of the following reasons:

We don’t want to join family business or family profession

We still want to make our parents proud

We were taught to work hard no matter what and we have seen our parents slog as well

We want to be respected by society and not be seen as brats

We have skills and want to see those skills being applied

We enjoy the grind and hustle especially since we have otherwise very comfortable lifestyles

Our families may be asset rich and not cash rich and we need liquidity

We need liquidity and want to protect our self respect by not using family money

Some of us keep ourselves busy till we get married (mostly women)

Some of us keep ourselves busy so we don’t have to get married (mostly men)

We are married and want our spouse to respect us

We want to taste the corporate culture

Someone in our family is a lawyer and we look up to that relative

We may have chosen this profession for the same reason as everyone else but without the need to struggle for contacts or money

We feel our family contacts will give us an edge

We can network better

Some of us are required to prove ourselves especially since we haven’t joined family business or profession

Some families don’t prefer to have all kids in businesses and having someone with stable jobs allows for better risk allocation

Hi

I have been working at any Advocate's chamber since 2021

I am the only junior there

The senior is otherwise a very decent chap

Has never stopped me from pursuing independent matters etc

I want to change chambers only because I want experience in type of matters which this senior does not take

The notice period here is One Month

Is this too much?

Will it affect my moves to some other Chambers?

On a side note, should I accept offers from chambers not supporting independent matters of my own?

Mods, please publish

Thanks

Bro is living in 2015. No doubt Sid is very influential but the practice has gotten bigger with newer players taking up massive share in the market. There is no single partner that can be attributed as the best anymore. Trilegal has the likes of AJ, Sai and Pallabi who also have a huge chunk of top tier clientele now.