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Have been with the best. He charges 5-6 L.
But all of those lawyers do have LLMs with them.
So, kindly pursue LLM after your LLB and use code LI420, wo that we can earn 5% out of your fees paid as our commission.
2. Every partner has their specific area.
3. Performance is largely measured by billing and recovery.
4. Role of a partner is to bring in clients and expand the practice.
5. There are matters with billable hours and there are also lump-sum mandates. Depends on matter to matter and in disputes it is pretty flexible.
If 2026 - Maybe boutique, maybe T1 (do a proper research on whether the team is really hiring after day z, etc),
If 2027 - All T1, no Boutique.
P.S. - Always give more context before posting next time. Good luck!
HNLU has been outperforming both
T1: NLS, Nalsar, NUJS, NLUD, Jindal (if fee affordable or you get scholarship)
T2: NLUJ, NLIU, GNLU, HNLU, MNLU Mumbai
T3: RMLNLU, NUALS, RGNUL, SLS Pune
T4: CNLU, DSNLU, TNNLU, MNLU Nagpur/Aurangabad
T5: NLU Assam, HPNLU, NLU Sonipat, DNLU Jabalpur, Nirma, Christ Bangalore, SLS Noida, etc.
Tried to include as many options looking at the OP
Do you think all of Harvard's law students stay in the same hostels/dorms? No. Most law students take up various kinds of housing options and many stay outside campus and travel. Do you think everyone who goes to Oxford for law stays in the same packed hostels? Some may stay in the colleges but many more people—often the most interesting people—stay outside with people they actually enjoy. Does this mean that Harvard alumni or Oxford alumni are unable to network or form bonds with each other? Of course not.
There are costs to increasing seats at NLS. And increasing seats at NLS is a good thing. We need more, not fewer, people to access quality legal education. There will obviously be growing pains and they will have to take in more fees to build more hostels. But I'm honestly a little tired of this whinging and clinging to the past.
If NLS had to remain the elite institution it once was, it should never have started the CLAT- they should have just accepted sons and daughters of important people in admissions and been done with it. But no one can seriously argue that a merit based admissions process was not a good thing or that increasing access to education wasnt a good thing. Thats what increasing seats does. That is what this whole thing is about. IITs have thousands of students- that expansion was a good thing. It means more and not less opportunity. Folks who want to stop that kind of expansion always assume theyll be on the in group. Never realising that if the university is made elite enough- if their arguments are taken to the logical conclusion- theyll actually be left out.
I started doing this by the end of 3rd year, and I got internships at 3 tier I firms and 3 tier II firms. Right before graduating, I started doing this for getting a job and landed an interview with 3 tier I firms and 1 tier II firm.
Who are the upcoming non designated senior advocates in bangalore who I can intern with/ apply to? Since language is a problem, please factor that in.
I am saying this assuming this question is asked in good faith. The only thing is, that this sounds awfully like Mishraji posting. We all know what his posts look like - the exclamation-points, in particular. If you are Mishraji, surely you don't need to advertise your W&C tie-ups on LI?
- Partner in a Tier - 1 law firm
Worked at a Tier 2 firm (no points for guessing, rhymes with ▮▮▮).
I cannot imagine I spend 2.5 years at a place where the person at the top genuinely believed shouting was a form of leadership. He’s known to blow up at junior associates — over asking for leave during a family emergency. Yes, that actually happened. The junior association was humiliated in front of the entire office!
Empathy? Zero. Emotional intelligence? Non-existent. His default mode is condescension. If you dare question a decision — or simply express that you’d like to understand what’s happening to your role or your future — you're branded “difficult.” There’s no space for questions, no room for conversation. Just one person’s ego, stretched across an entire org chart.
And the worst part? Everyone enables it. HR won't intervene. She's a puppet. Other partners stay silent. Juniors just try to survive and not get noticed.
This kind of leadership doesn’t build teams. It breaks people. To anyone entering the profession: observe how seniors treat the most junior person in the room. That will tell you more about a firm than its name ever will.