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Press release:
> CMS has announced that INDUSLAW, one of India’s top full-service law firms, has become a CMS member firm. CMS INDUSLAW expects to complete on-boarding by the end of 2025.
> This represents a natural evolution for CMS and INDUSLAW, combining complementary strengths and working styles. It will enable CMS to deliver seamlessly coordinated, complex cross-border legal services. It marks a significant milestone in CMS’s global growth strategy, enhancing its capabilities in one of the world’s most dynamic and rapidly expanding legal markets.
> INDUSLAW lawyers will support multinational CMS clients looking to enter and operate in the Indian market, while the more than 6,800 CMS lawyers in over 45 countries around the world will support clients wanting to expand internationally from India.
> INDUSLAW has a presence across India’s principal commercial hubs, including Bengaluru, Delhi & NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai. With 60 partners and more than 400 lawyers, INDUSLAW advises many of India’s leading corporates including over 50% of the country’s unicorns established in the last decade.
> CMS is an international organisation of independent law firms, with each of the firms respecting the legal and regulatory requirements of its jurisdiction, combining deep local market understanding with a global mindset. In line with the CMS model, INDUSLAW remains an independent law firm under the CMS brand.
> India has become the world’s fourth-largest economy and is projected to become the third-largest by 2027. Its increasingly globalised economy creates a growing need for international legal advisers with deep local insight. CMS’s global reach combined with INDUSLAW’s domestic expertise will enable clients to benefit from integrated support across corporate transactions, regulatory matters, disputes, capital markets, technology, intellectual property and more.
> This announcement also comes at a pivotal moment, as recent regulatory developments are expected to significantly open up the Indian legal market to foreign firms. This puts CMS in an advantageous position to establish a robust, locally rooted yet internationally connected offering.
> Duncan Weston, Executive Partner at CMS, said: “This is a significant step in CMS’s expansion across Asia and globally. With India’s economy being increasingly integrated into the global economic system, the need for agile, forward-thinking legal advisers capable of bridging local and international jurisdictions has never been more critical. With INDUSLAW now a CMS member firm, we can offer clients a coordinated, full-service legal platform in India, one of the fastest growing and most strategically important markets in the world.”
> In a joint statement, Avimukt Dar, Gaurav Dani, Kartik Ganapathy and Suneeth Katarki, the Founding Partners of INDUSLAW added: “This is another milestone in the history of our firm. Joining CMS not only aligns with our strategic goals but enhances the value that we offer to our clients as well as our fee earners. This reflects our shared vision to offer effective and world class legal solutions with global perspectives. While we will continue on our journey as a leading full-service Indian law firm delivering exceptional client service and thought leadership, we now also enjoy the support of CMS to bring to the table the ability to offer a coordinated global offering for our clients. We look forward to driving growth, innovation and collaboration across borders.”
Attrition otherwise takes place only for shifts to T1, which is usual for any other T2 firm.
L’université Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, King's, Warwick, SOAS, Edinborough and Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculties of law combined together.
1. fail CLAT and not get into NLS (despite the "insanely large batch sizes"); or
2. get into NLS but failed to get the magic circle training contract or Rhodes Scholarship you so clearly wanted?
You just seem so terribly bitter!
https://www.news18.com/world/us-visa-us-student-visa-news-donald-trump-immigration-social-media-posts-visa-9355962.html
Q) “Good Evening, Miss USA. If I gave you $1 million, what is the first thing you would do?”
A) “I will build an orphanage and work for world peace.”
Yeah, right….
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I am reminded of 2 Rhodes scholars. One ended up becoming a sophisticated proponent for Modi and another ended up working for Big Tech. 😂
Can’t comment about science and commerce students, but almost every arts student is left-leaning and pro-Palestine. A good chunk of law students too. What happens now?
https://www.news18.com/world/us-halts-student-visa-interviews-as-trump-administration-mulls-tighter-social-media-checks-report-ws-ekl-9355367.html
Take the Batch of ’28, for instance. They're doing great, literally everywhere you look, there's someone from their batch winning a moot, getting published, grabbing top internships. Their batch rank list is impressive, and collectively, they're a solid, high-performing bunch.
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Then comes Batch of ’26. A great batch, really. They’ve got PPOs, solid competition wins, and actual depth when you talk to them. You don’t walk away thinking, “Wow, that’s a law student?”
But zooming out a bit, HNLU is definitely on the rise. People crib about the campus, but let’s be fair, we get single rooms from second year onwards, which is a blessing. Privacy, space, and everything you need to actually get things done if you want to.
The campus itself is massive, perfect for nighttime walks when the semester’s getting to you. Infrastructure is picking up. There’s a cafe now. Cultural events are happening almost every week. If you can set aside the usual dose of toxicity, which, let’s be honest, exists everywhere, life at HNLU is actually pretty great.
And now, when you scroll through LiveLaw or Bar & Bench, HNLU is there. Organizing events, getting noticed.
Comeback? No question. HNLU is the comeback kid.
In any case you should not think about it much, because it tends to directly affect your confidence and your performance during the internship and presentation. You should just focus on taking each day at a time and making it go perfectly. Most days will, some won't and that's okay.
The silver lining is you must be above average already to have gotten a call back, and someone must have seen some potential in you. Build on that and best of luck.
We can discuss this in more detail through the appropriate opportunity
Any input is appreciated. Thanks!
I have tried cold emailing, reaching out to partners on LinkedIn even calling HR's extension number at certain places to get confirmation. sometimes it has worked, but most of the time it hasn't. I do fairly well in studies and have received good feedback from my internships (no, there is no chance of getting a callback there, they are notorious for making you work like dogs for 6-10 months only to "let you go"). What are my options? Doing an LLM even from NLS or any tier 1 would not be enough. I have read enough posts about it. I am interested in transactions. Open to recollecting as long as I get good exposure.
If anyone could shed some light or guide me, even in the smallest way possible, I would be grateful.
BERIWALA AND CO
RUNGTA MINES
MARSHALL INDUSTRIES
Intend to stick it out for 2 years.