If you don’t enjoy being a litigation lawyer (or a lawyer in general), see law only as a means of livelihood (which is completely ok) and want to prioritise work life balance in the long run - try joining the litigation practice of a tier 1/2 law firm for now. Do this for 3-4 years at least and then switch to an in-house role. You are young and can hustle through for some more time. The years you will spend at a lawfirm will put you on an accelerated career path in an in-house role. If you join an in-house position right now, you are likely to be hired at a junior role and will have to spend a lot more years to reach the same position which you can reach by spending about 3-4 years more in a tier 1 law firm.

Expected by whom?

Between managing professional commitments (i.e. matters, client retention and business development) and personal life a vast majority of partners (paid and equity) don’t really have the time or inclination to “expect” anything other than good work product from their teams. The same holds true for principal associates and to an extent senior associates.

It almost appears that you have a rather self inflated sense of self worth i.e. you feel that professionals at work have a lot of time to spare to track your lifestyle and dictate the choices that you must make. From your post, it is rather clear that you are rather dismissive about what you perceive to be lifestyles your colleagues may have. When pointing fingers, remember that three point back at you.

My sincere advice to you, focus on the work and not judging others.

I assume you are working with some IT/BIG4CA firm (TCS/Wipro/KPMG likes) In house to law firm transition won't be easy. Your weekends, somewhat fixed hours - forget it, kiss it goodbye. But if you are desperate to join a law firm, want that extra money then it's a good opportunity.

Join, get experience of 1 year and switch within the firm (Atul, Veena or if newly promoted partners - parvathy or maggon have a team of their own at the first place/any vacancy) or leave. Parvathy and Maggon both of them are really good to work with, sweet peeps as PAs. Trilegal emp law practice is stellar.

▮▮▮ Join. Don't loose the opportunity. Negotiate for an A0 role instead of being a trainee associate.

It’s an insult to offer someone with PQE a trainee associate position, as the pay is considerably less compared to that of an associate while the work load being similar. Also, considering the reputation this team has, I would not even consider responding to the mail. Cut your losses and look elsewhere where they actually value you.

Don’t stress this much bro I was also in a similar situation from the third of my college. Always felt stressed thinking about getting a job, had sleepless nights, constant anxiety and stress but finally landed a job and after sometime also got cancer due to all the stress. So just keep working but don’t get too stressed and discouraged. You’re still young there’s you will get the job you want you will get the career you want but just take it easy on yourself.

It is a good place to begin your career. For sure, it is not easy to be there, tough seniors, difficult management, but you will learn a lot. Partners are smart, smarter than a lot of T-1 partners. However, they do not invest a lot of time in training their associates. If you are not getting any offer from T-3 firms, please go ahead with Amicus.

Comparison is the theft of joy.

Previous generation were did not know how less they were earning compared to their peers in West. AC in home was considered a luxury(a want) and not a necessity(a need) as it is today. As for sexual repression, my opinion maybe unpopular but they did not have much sexual feelings compared to Westernized generation today.

YES. Because Gen Z peeps have great expectations that arise from an unfounded sense of entitlement. They want everything without having to do the hard work that is expected. Also, mental health is now the go to excuse to cover every level of professional incompetence. The proof would lie in the number of downvotes that this post is going to garner simply because Gen Z does not want anyone to show them the mirror of reality.

In my experience, some (not all mind you) products of Gen Z are very confused and clueless. Blaming failures and affectations on mental health is an easy cop out and method to disavow responsibility. Most of these so called mental health issues can be cured by discipline, exercise, eating correct food, and most importantly, wanting to be happy.

Sharma Jee team is not so comfortable with this culture and OG Group is not happy with functionality of Sharma Jee team. Obviously, OG Group has huge legacy and no one can beat them. Also Sharma Jee can not leave just now.

Naya Ghar, Nayi Job, Nayi Gadi, Nayi..... Badhiyan Hai Sharma Jee.

UPSI: Since Sharma Jee can not leave, so his close associates are leaving one by one and lastly Sharma Jee will join them.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bus-jodhpur-law-university-students-overturns-nagaur-dead-9880428/

Students were coming back to NLUJ from RGNUL's sports fest. The bus collided with a truck and overturned.

If that is so, you must be having a problem with teaching in English. You should go in some Marathi college. And while highlighting the struggle to revive Marathi Mandal, you yourself highlighted the problems you faced even to get a single signature, and that’s the same we are talking about. We genuinely feel all languages and cultures are important, but what we highlighted was favouritism towards CC & Marathi Mandal.

Well for your kind information, it is the students who have maintained the high image of college on their own, with their hard work and achieving substantial success in the field. So don’t blame students. Whatever image is left is only because of hardworking students of gLC and not the lazy, arrogant, egotistic Principal, Professor & staff.

There's no need for any lobbying. J&K NLU is already confirmed.

https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2025/03/07/jammu-and-kashmir-to-set-up-national-law-university-jksa-welcomes-move.html

The proliferation (and brand dilution) of state NLUs continue unabated.

I I have had the opportunity to work at the firm, and I write only for those joining the firm. I benefited from the firm and hope you can too, but sometimes the sheer negativity prevents you from thinking rationally.

The team shares a unique camaraderie, and the selfless mentorship provided by NDA is quite rare to find. That helps, and helps tremendously in unleashing your true potential + client facing opportunities for which you might have to wait for long years in other firms.

Having said that, it would be unwise to join NDA solely for financial gain. If money is your primary motivation, other firms might be a better fit. Each one to his own.

Lastly, there is no need to worry about the firm’s stability and revenues. It’s making good money - better than outsiders can imagine. It has a brand, and if you are smart, you can become a brand too. The firm supports this. If you just want to execute, get paid and go home - not the right place for you. If you are entrepreneurial, then this is the right place to hone your skills.

Btw, those who have left NDA, especially senior leadership folks, seldom speak negatively of the firm and thank the firm for shaping them. You won’t hear that of other firms. So there might be merit in joining, but only if your goals are beyond money.

Just wanted to clear the air! Decide intelligently.

Best of luck!

My current situation is that all my investments are either negative, or just a little above the FD rate, or a little above the savings rate.

In other words, I would probably have been better off if I had put the whole amount in an FD.

I presume many of you are in the same boat. How has it affected your life and how are you coping? Are you putting off major expenditures? Or just spending on luxuries as usual?

Many analysts are saying it will continue this way till 2030. The fact is that the Modi govt is in a state of paralysis and not enacting reforms that will encourage the markets. Only busy doling out freebies.

Interesting one.

Lot of it involve having a strong mindset. Clients are even more demanding when they know that the lawyer is young/not part of a law firm/new law firm etc.

Try and cultivate contacts and relationships. You will come across that there is a lot of work which your law firm colleagues can pass on due to pricing issue, subject matter knowledge, low end but repetitive work etc. These contacts will be more than happy to refer you work without any expectation (some may have monetary or non-monetary expectations).

You need to be a generalist since you will have to answer to varied client quries, but try to have some strong domain knowledge to differentiate yourself from junta!

Pricing - This is where it gets even more interesting. While you will be under tremendous pressure to start taking up work, but do hold your prices. It will be extremely difficult for you to increase your prices on annual basis or otherwise. There will be various tempting offers such as if you got 100, someone says that they only offer 80, you will say no, but if someone says 97, you may accept. Thereby you have anyways lowered your charge out rates and have left an impression in client's mind that they can downward negotiate fees. This will be very delicate, but do work on this.

On other jurisdictions, you will have to cultivate contacts of freelancers and work with each other in a collaborative manner.