A lot gets said about the partners at Bharucha (only talking about the disputes division), and absolutely nothing is positive. Trust me, our friends thank their stars for not working here. Most of my friends find their partners "not too bad" after hearing my stories from work.

Job satisfaction is a myth that snowflake Gen Z kids have been deluded into believing. Your motto should be to hustle and earn as much as you can and also to spend on expensive things. You may feel frustrated and tired, but you will look back later and be happy that you did it. You will be able to retire at 50 with a luxury flat, luxury car and kids in IB schools headed for Ivy League colleges. Your colleagues who opted for job satisfaction won’t be able to get even a fraction of this and will be full of regret.

Learn and look to move. At this salary, the firm would also know that people can/will move around. Lot of such firms have bulk work of financial institutions or corporates etc. You should try and learn the procedural aspect as it will be big plus point when you around.

On increment, don't fully agree that it will be based on current salary. You should be able to get A1 salary in other places or they may offer you their A0 salary and then move you up the ladder.

My CGPA is not something I am proud of and no matter how I try, I'm stuck at that rock bottom. I had a few diagnoses of a bad mental health too. I do well in internships generally but I think my fear of giving exams gets the better of me and despite great prep or not as good, it just gives off more or less the same result. I do not have publications or moots on my CV but I have a bunch of other extracurriculars. I will be interning at a tier 2 firm but I am too uncertain about the future and I need a ppo to keep me financially stable when my family is well off but not too well off either. My contacts are just okay.

I will be joining HNLU next month...wanted to gather information regarding the university. I hv read somewhere that students there are toxic.is it true? what is the condition of the hostel? what are the facilities? quality of the mess food? do freshers face ragging? Things I should do along with me semester 1 studies to improve me CV? How is the mooting culture over there? Also tell me the other relevant things which I should know.

Thankyou :)

Quality of life, living costs, expenses, career growth, work culture and social life - all factors, Delhi NCR thrashes Mumbai by a massive margin. The rentals, bigger houses at reasonable rents, general expenses, work culture and plenty of options for socializing makes Delhi a definite winner. As far as growth goes, Delhites by and large are happy to see others grow and are willing to help. Mumbaikars, on the other hand, are often jealous and do not like to see others grow, and try to curtail others who seek to grow. In addition, the general rudeness, good lord, Mumbai has got to be the most rude city on this planet. The rude curt way of talking to others, plus a dangerous willingness to readily indulge in violence to convey one's point (not just MNS, even normal Mumbaikars in the local trains or taxi queues), and the know it all condescending attitude, makes Mumbai a nightmare to live in.

PS: Expecting Mumbaikars to come all guns blazing with their usual volley of abuses, insults and remarks like "if you don't like this city which has been kind to people and helped them grow, then leave this city. Shitting upon the place which accepts everyone is pathetic". Go on Mumbaikars, you guys truly show where you come from.

Deuxmoi has forever ruined the way gossip columns are written now.

I work at a London MC. India entry is neither a priority nor a focus area for the firms. They will all make some form of entry as limited partnerships etc., but the move will be akin to shifting their respective India desks to India. Not a major shift in any form or manner. If Indian attorneys think foreign law firms are going to take out six floors in a building somewhere and bump up retainers big time, they're mistaken unfortunately.

Okay. I mean honestly I know what I’ve tried and what I haven’t. If you can sit online and say shame on me for not being “inspiring enough” and that it’s my fault this is how multiple educators across multiple institutions feel. That’s just a choice you have made.

While yes a small number of students were consistent in being hungry and wanting to learn when we were in college- it wasn’t 1. at least in my batch at law school there were ten solid people who were driven and motivated and consistent and competed with each other to become the best we could become and genuinely liked and wanted to learn the law. And that small number you could depend on. Now basically everyone thinks law is just a scam they can pull by chat gpting their way through it.

But nah. It’s just me. I’m just bad at being inspiring. Okay. Shame on me I guess. Don’t worry buddy I’ll leave soon.

90% of toppers study the day or two just before. The main difference with toppers is that they are usually attentive in classes and take notes. They know the prof and what they want. That gives these kids an edge. Usually, the kids who spend the whole semester studying in their hostel rooms have good grades, but you might notice alot of the kids dominating rank lists tend to be all rounds with studies and extra curriculars. Just listen in class. It helps more than you think.

Interesting to read that some are pretty affordable (1 lakh joining fee), some have memberships for under-27s and some people join these clubs for networking and also dating (e.g. Soho House). Glamorous Bandra girls are out of my league, but I’d certainly be interested in networking, drinking, gym, jacuzzi etc.

How common is it for law firm associates to join? How easy/difficult is the interview and screening process?

Any tea?

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/services/hotels-/-restaurants/right-clique-here-rise-of-indias-modern-luxury-private-clubs/amp_articleshow/121857728.cms

A few years ago, I attended some classes for an LLM module alongside an ILS graduate at one of the London law schools which people like to view as a backup option if admission to Oxbridge masters programmes don't work out for them. This gentleman and I were in a legal theory class together. Most of us agreed that his attempts to do the readings put in just about the minimum amount of effort required (and often less), his understanding of the readings was shallow at best and his contributions were, therefore, superficial and unhelpful (despite, per his own claims, him being among the top students at ILS).

His starting salvo in this legal theory seminar was rather unfortunate. He committed that most embarrassing faux pas - showing off to the teacher what he'd learned in his undergraduate jurisprudence class before the first seminar in this legal theory course had even started, speaking in the very vaguest of terms about the Hart-Fuller debate - vague enough to sound smart to the uninitiated from civil law jurisdictions, but also vague enough to leave his hearers (especially the more discerning ones) unsure if he actually knew what he was talking about. The teacher, an Israeli with the three juicy Oxford degrees of BCL, MPhil and DPhil under his belt and an enthusiastic proponent of Joseph Raz's ideas about how patiently to suffer fools in his class, was not amused (and showed it, with his usually cosmopolitan English pronunciation, which had only a hint of foreign accent, becoming much more gutteral for a few minutes). Over a period of 10 weeks, I think that would have ended up having an impact (how perceptable that might be is something we can discuss) (on a very small scale, in terms of sample size) on the perception of his uni, based on the fact that there were graduates from universities around the world, including two other Indians - one guy from DU (and me) - a Japanese who was on government scholarship from his country, an Albert Campion-style Brit (with many of the trappings, including the high voice, the ability to talk nonsense when he felt Like and the "piculiarly inoffensive countenance"), who liked to liked to pretend that his intelligence was 2/10 when it was more like 7 or 8/10, and a Mexican, all of whom did a lot better than our ILS friend (both in terms of classroom performance and, if my sources on the grapevine are to be relied upon, in the exam as well). Seeing as we exchanged LinkedIn profiles, I am pretty sure most of us saw the name of that guy's undergrad uni.

Does this represent the overall quality of ILS kids? Or was this guy an exception? What was he about - an unmotivated character who was hoping to achieve a job in the UK legal sector without doing the hard yards? Or someone who was having a year-long professional vacation after a few years of law firm life? Or maybe he just didn't like the legal theory class very much? Most of these questions I am not qualified to answer, because I didn't bother getting to know the guy beyond exchanging LinkedIn handles and a pleasantry once every couple of weeks. As for the last question, he did admit once that he regretted taking the legal theory class, that it was outside his chosen specialisation, that he'd taken it purely for fun and now found it a bit dull.

Take these observations as you will and please advise as you like.