Based on what I’ve seen in the past 1 year, I can safely say that the below are the approximate numbers for partners compensation who are not founders. All the figures below are pre-tax.

1. Fresh Salaried Junior Partner: 80L - 1.2 crores PA.

2. Salaried Partner with experience: 1.5 - 2.5 crores PA. (Yes, salaried partners working in teams with high volume deals make upwards of 2.5 crores)

3. Fresh equity partner: 3 crores (Minimum) upto 4.5 crores.

4. Senior Partners: 5 - 8 crores.

5. Practice Heads: 8-10 crores PA.

6. Rainmakers: 15 crores + (Remember that this bracket constitutes a minuscule percentage of lawyers)

Hello everyone. I am a former legal practitioner with over 15 years of experience in the legal field. I can say partner make anywhere from the range of 1 CR to 8 CR basis their senorita, you also have to understand the fact that even a sum of 100 cr is nothing for the legal kings and queens, work hard, gossip harder.

There are many law firms and lawyers who don’t criticize for mistakes but instead teach these skills upfront - like proofreading, capitalization, numbering, formatting, logical thinking, common sense, work ethics and diligence. You should consider leaving the toxic environment and joining such firms or working with those kinds of lawyers.

Interned at a famous law firm's Bangalore office in my 4th year. I was in the M & A team and there was a new group of fifth year girls interning with the disputes team. The 40 year old bald and married partner had his eye on one of them right from the very beginning and was making very lewd jokes with them ryt from the start. By the end of my internship he got into some sort of tacit understanding with the girl, they came to office together and left together and had insane chemistry (tbvh) and I overheard insane rumours. When I went back there for my callback few months later, she had a job there, and I overheard a few seniors mumbling and complaining that she was untrained. Still continues to work there and I heard that the partner has basically seperated from his wife and not divorcing only to avoid hurting his reputation among parents/relatives.

The eligibility criteria says that one has to have 4 years of practice before the one-year training with AOR.

I got enrolled in 2017.

2017-18: No Appearances [corporate law team]

2018-19: No Appearances [corporate law team]

2019-20: Appearances [Arbitration team and a bit of litigation]

2020-21: Appearances [Arbitration team and a bit of litigation]

2021-22: No appearances [did only arbitration]

2022-23: Appearances [Litigation team]

2023-24: No appearances [Career break]

2024-25: Still on a career break- plan to join somewhere this December

If I work under an AOR now for 1 year, will I be eligible to write the 2026 exam?

Very true. I have heard the worst of their projects team. Nobody in their right mind should be joining their team. If somebody has joined, they should ideally (for their physical and mental health), leave the offer.

However, IBC team is great. But comes with longer working hours. But still better than others

If everyone has a similar opinion "corp lawyers aren't actually lawyers/advocates" how is it unpopular?

There's a difference between controversial and unpopular.

Ronaldo>Messi = Controversial

Football was better with tricky wingers than it is with Goal scoring strikers. = unpopular

Not every controversial opinion is unpopular but almost every unpopular opinion is controversial.

My unpopular opinion is : Lawyers that pick a random aspect of a conversation just to add something constitute the majority of profession.

People use "the non nlu" tag more than the NLU tag.

It feels like people have made a conceptual victim out of the "non nlu" thing. You'd see conversations where people think that they deserve jobs because they are from an non nlu.

They make it seem like that the only thing stopping them from becoming a big time lawyer is their college. However most Senior Advocates, Partners, GCs are from Non nlus.

People mask their failures by blaming NLUs whereas the fact is most people from all colleges are largely just stupid

Just read this discussion: 🤣🤣🤣

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Asian_News_International_vs._Wikimedia_Foundation#More_from_the_court

What kind of person thinks that a lawyer can be arrested for contempt of court instead if his client, the actual contemnor???

When we have so many bright NLU students in India, why are such people editing legal articles on Wikipedia?

It's disturbing to see these lowly law firm coolies to be recommended for judgeship. No way some disputes lawyer would be able to do justice with the judgeship, they don't have the merit to become a judge. Hopefully government will reject his nomination. Chandrachud in order to further advance his son's practice has recommended way too many pathetic law firm coolies for judgeship. One has to see how many briefs have been forwarded towards Abhinav chandrachud by these law firms to secure such appointments. Such a sad state of affairs.

I recommend sending a brief message the day prior to the meeting. A simple “hi, look forward to meeting you tomorrow at 2 pm”, sets a positive tone for the meeting.

If already not connected, connect on WhatsApp and LinkedIn.

After the meeting, review the identified action points.

During the meeting, try to take something tangible – cards, firm profile, practice profile etc.

Extend an invitation that you’d like them to introduce the client to other partners in the firm.

Lastly, based on their interests and area, try to introduce them to relevant service providers - such as investors, investment bankers, sponsors etc.

Private colleges cannot use Indian-Bhartiya-National for their competitions. I am from a NLU but this seems a wierd discussion to have for BCI let alone make a finding

Link: http://t.ly/vFq_0

South Delhi flats are a mess. I’m past living like a bachelor, in a room barely 15 sq. m. I’ll save rent in Faridabad. I know that the commute will be a butch but hopefully the new Faridabad bypass will be a game changer. I think many senior advocates, partners travel from Gurgaon to DHC every day? Is their commute 1+ hour as well? How long of a commute are you okay with?

"For starters support your seniors in LLM, PhD and AP, that's your Gen Y. Yet you continue to mock them. Why would they have any sympathy towards you ?"

Although I disagree with the general tone of your whole comment, this part is exceptionally true. One will only reap what one sows

https://www.barandbench.com/news/bci-suggests-20k-stipend-junior-advocates-urban-15k-juniors-in-rural-areas

Just trying to do the math. I googled and saw that the average Zomato delivery boy earns 20K a month. So I guess the standard of living for a junior lawyer with that stipend will be similar to that of a Zomato delivery boy? I would calculate that as follows:

- living in a shared room in a PG or slum at Rs 11K a month, including price for gas and filtered water

- Rs 4K a month on bread, milk, vegetables and Parle G biscuits: maybe chicken/meat/fish once a month

- Rs 500 a month on bathing and toiletries (can bathe on alternate days to save costs)

- Rs 1,000 to 2,000 a month on transport, depending on location

- Rest on mobile bills, emergencies etc.

Works?

1- monthly salary which can be decent if they are well funded; and

2. - selling their shares and amassing a good sum in one go if people are interested in buying the shares at those valuations

that's it?

so they basically draw a normal salary till they can exit fully or partially? if they don't want to exit, they take loans against their shares and spend that money?

Format -- Income after tax: car/watch/perfume /shoe (e.g. 20 lakhs Dzire/Tissot/CK/Woodland)

So can you help me with these income levels:

Rs 20 lakhs: Which car/watch/perfume/shoe?

Rs 30 lakhs: Which car/watch/perfume/shoe?

Just trying to understand what brands one should use to fit in better with the crowd. Thanks.

Apologizes in advance for this rant, but I had to vent this out somewhere. In 10th and 12th I had very good grades and was among top 5 of my batch. Due to various reasons including Covid-19 and online classes I became very complacent, and treated my first CLAT attempt as a joke. Then got into a state uni by acing state law entrance. Was not concerned about my future or higher studies, so did not retake CLAT again.

Currently I am on the brink of entering my 4th year and I have realized that I have no hopes in this sea of mediocrity. Whether it's for BCL or LLM from a prestigious university you need to have a good CGPA in your undergrad. My mediocrity when combined with horseshit valuation which rarely give marks about 70 to any student, means that max I can get even if I improve is around 6.4/10 CGPA.

Even my CV is mediocre with internships being with 4 goverment orgs + 2 Tier law firms, 1 publication in a mid journal and tons of free certifcate courses.

To make matters worse I am a first gen lawyer with no close relatives in law. Even the contacts I have are at SA level and at most can only arrange me an internship.

How I wish I could turn back 3 years into 2021...Or can I?....I have registered for CLAT 2025 this December. Here I require your opinions, what do you think I should do in the bleak scenario where I get NLSIU or NALSAR? Should I go? Also another question, this time to recruiters and law firms proffesionals, will my age at passing (26) be a problem during Day Zero?