You are disillusioned if you think corporate lawyers will get away with their “subjective judgment calls”. The example you cited of assesment of focc at 49% is child’s play for AI !

Forget in house counsels, I am privy to live cases where clients (without any in house legal) have used Chat GPT to generate legal notices for claims. The notices seemed more meticulous and slicker than any which would have been drafted by a lawyer !

Members appointed as the club’s lawyers and paid a total of Rs 1.95 crore, including Rs 77 lakh to Arun Kathpalia, Rs 28.76 lakh to Gaurav Mohan Liberhan, and Rs 20 lakh to Harish Salve.

The new governing body stopped hiring club members as lawyers after it took charge in April 2022. But, records show, that did not bring down the club’s legal bill — from Rs 1.84 crore in 2021-22 to Rs 2.09 crore in 2022-23. From 2018-19 to 2022-23, records show, the club spent Rs 8.22 crore on litigation.

Noting that “legal costs have become a material cost incurred by the Club”, the 2022-23 auditor’s report repeatedly highlighted legal expenses as an area where verification was difficult because of incomplete records, unavailable legal files, and lack of information regarding the duration and status of litigation matters.

This happens in foreign firms too - let's not get critical of how firms function in India without any idea of how it works overseas. The racism is both overt and covert. It's impossible to have survived AZB for so long but then cut it at BnM - probably got mistreated for skin tone or accent. As for credit - there is none given willingly, unless the client does first. However given the current climate, most clients partake rather than recognize.

The movements in law firms happen so quick. Any insights. Thoughts on this development? CAM gains, JSA’s loss !

https://www.barandbench.com/news/corporate/exclusive-jsa-senior-partner-amit-kapur-to-join-cyril-amarchand-mangaldas-as-head-of-delhi-office

Ex TL lawyer here. Some good things about TL from my time there:

It is better organised and managed than other law firms of its size. The finance, HR and the Admin / IT teams definitely seem to have a better grip of things and are impressive at what they do. This does NOT mean they are nice folks but they perform their functions reasonably well.

The 'up or out' culture is actually a good thing. The chances of dealing with a clogged up higher management on crucial matters and developing client relationships is low and there is not as much dead weight sitting at the top as there is in other firms. Dead weight is not unique to Indian law firms btw. And as you try and expand your client base as a young Partner or Counsel, not having to deal with deadweight BS is a giant blessing (believe me!).

Some of their functional teams (at least when I was there) are genuinely good at their work. The Competition / employment / Secretarial teams were pretty spot on in their observations during complex diligences. At least I never saw a major screwup on their part. These functions can be a nightmarish prospect to navigate in most big firms. The Tri experience was a lot better. Not sure if this still holds true but I did get a chance to work with some smart and professional folks when I was there.

(This one may no longer be true but let me say it anyway). The office spacing and seating is a lot better than most big firms. The old One Indiabulls office (above KCo) was well lit up, reasonably well spaced and didn't have a drab, cave-like feeling that a lot of big firms put you through. I am told their new office is superbly designed and good on the management to keep that facet of the firm working experience alive. When you are working away at your desk over the weekend, it helps in knowing that you have a comfortable place to sit (& bawl, I guess).

The random office party they would throw now and then were generally good. If you have some good friends in the office, it is nice to have the chance to party with them in an office setting. This does not apply to the offsites though. I found those to be rather sad and boring (too much emphasis on random academic talks and too little partying). Maybe that has changed now, who knows?

It makes a lot of sense to go there early in your career, so you have a better chance of absorbing the culture and 'fitting in' better with the firm's ethos. They (the firm's management) are a brilliant lot, without a doubt.

I wrote CUET UG this year and expecting enough to get into BHU BALLB comfortably. My other option would be to join DU south campus for BA hons and maybe go for a partial drop for CLAT (Not very inclined towards this, as I'm already 19 and starting college at 20 feels depressing).

I'm unable to make a decision here, as both the options come with their own cons. I can opt for a non professional degree in Delhi and stay closer to my home, or go for a professional course in a tier 2 town which doesn't really have many opportunities (correct me fi I'm wrong here).

Please share details about BHU BALLB program and what should I go for based on my options.

Find another Rhodes Scholar + Oxford DPhil who has been taught/supervised by Paul Craig, because if there is one thing that guy teaches very well, it is how to make sure you aren't forced to suffer fools. An Indian uni VC needs to be able to do that, because she will be dealing with ministers and so on who are just about fifth class passes. Therefore, the one taking on the responsibility of doing what you are suggesting needs to first start by having the skill to put fools in their place. Hope this helps. All the best.

NLU alumni don't prefer NLSIU only because the VC is an NLU alumnus himself. It is also because NLSIU is the only NLU to have regularly and frequently held recruitment drives during Sudhir's time. They routinely recruit once a year, at times twice and release the results relatively within reasonable time after the interviews. No other NLU does all of that at present.

This is actually such a good post that won't be well-received by the modern day slaves of T1 law firms. Any workplace worth spending time at promotes physical and mental wellbeing, and this is true for the leading law firms outside India as well. Yet I consistently see the unhealthiest, most depressed individuals at law firms; the irony is that it'll be these same people who reject this idea.

Hope this discussion makes it past LI and has some real impact tho.

I've been working a couple of years at my current gig, looking to move on. I'm financially comfortable enough to quit my litigation job, and look for a job in a few months. People around me are discouraging me on various grounds: it will be hard to negotiate a new salary, I will fall out of the network, it might look like I was kicked out, etc. I work at a firm in Mumbai.

I'm wondering if there's truth to this, have other people done it? I want to do it just because I'd like a nice break for a couple of months and focus on hobbies. This is normal in most other industries, so I think it should be okay here?

Y'all are really naive if you didn't understand the agenda. 😅 See these articles from Vice and Time:

"Running Clubs Are the New Dating Apps" https://www.vice.com/en/article/running-clubs-are-the-new-dating-apps/

"Running Clubs Are a Horrible Place to Date" https://time.com/article/2026/05/10/running-clubs-are-a-horrible-place-to-date/

Everyone knows that these run clubs are nothing but a facade for dating. They are trying to copy this American fad and import it to India, where most streets and parks are horrible for running anyway, plus the weather is too hot. The Time article says: "It’s clear everyone is here for only one goal: women are whispering about who their type is, while the men are hitting on the newest girl to join the club. " But in India, unlike in there West, 90% of the crowd will be sex-starved guys. It will be like that even in lawyer groups.

So try alternatives where the ratio will be better and you have a statistically higher chance!! Run clubs are just too hackneyed now.

Hello, LI Moderators. You’ve marked my comment as “Contested.” Fair enough. But surely such a designation implies that some factual claim is either inaccurate or misleading. Could you identify exactly which part of my comment fails that test? If the objection is ideological rather than factual, it would be more honest to say so. Otherwise, I’d appreciate a clear explanation of what, specifically, is untrue.

I personally think your idea is stupid since NRI quota subsidies the education of all other students, but you can't file a PIL against it unless you want to overturn the affirming precedents that have recognized it's constitutionality. Plus it was clarified that colleges can choose to enforce or restrict NRI/Management Quota as they please, you're better off convincing the consortium or individual colleges/State Edu Dept. to amend their structure of NRI Quota.

You're missing the point here. If you go to a senior, his opinion overrides T1s opinion. Hence, the firm would always say go with seniors view, if you've gone to a senior, else what even is logic of going to a senior? The firm can have its own view and senior may have different view, that's entirely possible. Just because they've different view, doesn't make firm's view wrong one. I've a personal experience, we went to a senior for a matter (because there was a straight adverse judgment against us, which was incorrect in our view). The senior was categorical in his view that no point in litigating but we still briefed him, went ahead with the litigation and ultimately won. So, no. A blanket statement is not correct.

Again this.

No - we are sitting and defending our profession before clients you lot disappoint. To be honest - we are disappointed too. My boss even spoke to some partners who quietly acknowledge the rot.

Client is now using investors foreign firm to vet every advise after provisions cited are wrong. That foreign firm must be now shopping from every lit team they know. Great job guys.

We still have our mandate and are due in court.

The idea that firms will continue to employ 500, 1,000 or 2,000 lawyers at current levels feels increasingly optimistic.

If AI can handle first drafts, DD reviews, research, summaries and markups in minutes, the leverage model changes.

I also know of Tier 1 firms charging clients fees that barely make economic sense simply to preserve strategic relationships and market share. When pricing pressure and AI collide, the traditional pyramid becomes even harder to justify.

My prediction: law firms and in house legal teams will operate with 30 to 40% fewer lawyers within the next two years while delivering similar output.

The bigger question is not whether lawyers survive its whether the traditional law firm model does.

so I have done 10+ good internships, have tier 1 and 2 on my CV, whenever i apply to Indus Law, their hr, khushboo just reject within a day without any reason.
i'd understand if it would be lack of slot issue but I dont think its that, its like her only job is to reject, i have tried apply 3-4 times all at different times in my career and she just rejects. i really wanna intern there, does anyone have any idea how to crack it

Bar & Bench: 70% of content is now paid PR. LiveLaw has a lot of tacky promotional content and the quality of writing/analysis is poor. Can’t believe these sites have the audacity to paywall their content, after making so much money from advertising and PR! Both sites are also politically biased in favour of the left-liberal ecosystem and one can see the ideology of their staff on their X accounts. Then there is LawBeat: Just a BJP mouthpiece and that Sanya Talwar is totally RW.

Contrast that with how LI used to be back in the day, when the present Gen Z were barely born. It had excellent crowdsourced news on law firms and law schools. Ran a campaign against Manan Mishra of the Bar Council, as well as many corrupt NLU VCs. In fact, a lot of protests, leading to the resignation of these people, took place after exposes by LI: Veer Singh of NALSAR, Ishwar Bhat of NUJS, Bimal Patel of GNLU, SS Singh of NLIU, Sukhpal Singh of HNLU… lots.

Now these sites do puja of NLU VCs and glorify then.