https://imgur.com/a/7UILH3S

https://www.reddit.com/r/mumbai/s/Zdp3T0pTs0

According to this reddit post a Senior Advocate has made his Juniors install a location tracking software on their phones to see how much break they're taking after attending court matters.

Maybe next he'll want a GoPro in the toilet.

My 2 cents, it’s not like project finance, B&F or gen-corp are that different from capital markets. There’s always an element of drudgery to the whole due diligence process.

A huge selling point for capital markets is that it is very client-facing at an early stage of your career during kickoff meetings. Apart from that, you culminate an understanding of businesses and industries in and out, as a result of all the documents you diligence. Lastly, and this might not align with what most people say about cap marks, but there is immense potential for cap marks lawyers to move in-house to start-ups that are planning on going public.

While I understand that the ICDR is the end-all-be-all for cap markets lawyers, it’s not as if the field has zero prospects or advantages whatsoever. Stick with it for a year, and you being able to switch to another team should depend entirely on how you sell yourself.

Waiting for 1 year won’t help. Recruiters will push you to another capital markets team, even after 1 year. They don’t help with practice area switch.

That you’ll have to do on your own. So while you have a job, use that leverage to reach out to folks and ask for an opening in their team in different practice area.

I am an A0 in the capital markets team. I am not liking the work and thinking of switching practice areas. However, I only have 3 months of experience.

Seniors tell me if I want to switch, I should now only because 1 year down I will be too deep into my current work. However others suggest that I spend at least 1 year at the firm to make myself more marketable to say recruiters etc.

What advice is actually good? I am looking to switch IMMEDIATELY.

Not an immediate step but I have been contemplating moving cities. I want to continue working at a Tier-1 law firm. For people who have worked in multiple cities- have you felt a major shift in attitudes/ work or even stereotypes (nothing derogatory) of corp lawyers in Bengaluru v. Mumbai v. NCR. Do you have a preference? Why?

Not to be pessimistic OP. But if the whole point of mailing HR is to get their direct attention on you CV, then it should be done discreetly. Now, if everyone uses the same tactics to mail HRs, they will eventually stop paying attention or in worst case block you.

Hence this won't serve the purpose. It was helpful till it was discrete and limited.

Professionally PM is a good boss, but the team reeks of favouritism and toxicity thanks to one of the Partner under him (luthraite knows what I am talking about ;) ), pay wise also very good, however work wise I had never seen a day where his teammates weren't panicking and drowning under pressure and frequent incidents of senior shouting at junior infront of everyone. Also mind you before venturing in this team, because everyone here knows he did to his associates, which as an outsider scares me, let alone being in his team.

In my case, I am assuming a bearish trend, as I see the BJP losing in Haryana and Maharashtra, which means a shift to populist, welfarist policies across the board and stagnant growth. Though the US economy might look up if Trump wins, I don't see much of an impact on India and Trump may actually impose import tariffs and hurt India.

give her a warning that, i am psycho, when I gets on my nerve, I will not think about my own career, leave about yours, the next time you repeat this, I am grabbing you with that shit looking hairs of your and give you nice little swirl, and will bring you mind to right senses, after that you want press for the offence of battery, I don't care.
just speak it, she wont repeat it next time.

I have a different theory. NLSIU and NALSAR are in Karnataka and Telangana, which are among India's more prosperous states. In contrast, NUJS, NLUJ and NLIU located in India's poorer states. In an economically backward state, there tends to be a lack of culture of taking risks and looking at the long-term. People look at short-term gains. Hence, the craze for stable jobs rather than a career as a court litigator.

But then they started charging 2+ LPA as fees and not everyone was rich enough to afford that. People took loan to fund fees and to repay them, they unfortunately have to become paper pushers as litigators don't get enough to sustain themselves in initial years let alone to repay loans but banks don't understand this.

-A victim A0 who got no choice but to become a paper pusher at office of younger Cyril brother. :) (if you can help me find a litigator who can give 50% of my current salary, I will put in my papers to join them.)

Don't think Manan or his team ever needed CAM, SAM or KCO's brand to get the work. Getting CAMs' brand is a bonus.

Having said that, it would be interesting how to multiple leaders in CM practice, in addition to the TOP BOSS, work in tandem. Somehow this takes me back to the Greg Chappel - Ganguly Era. Everyone felt that its a match made in heaven but it turned out to be,,..!

Rubbish.

Its all precedent based work, some call it as 'glorified clerks'. You get paid to not use your brains, just focus on connecting one dot to another and ensure that you don't miss out on any dots, the work is done. GC/PE/M&A Associates / SA can work in Capital Markets but not vice-versa.

In simple terms, much like a factory setup. The Managing Director (MD) / Partner (in our case) sources the work (nowadays, even they are working on the document), and then associates (the laborers), along with senior associates and principal associates (the supervisors), are tasked with executing it in a systematic, consistent, and mechanical manner. This process follows a predefined structure, with no room for deviation from the standard, typical of the Capital Markets

If there is any deviation, Bankers will have to get an internal approval from their compliance or an informal dialogue with SEBI, as the case may be. Therefore, the work is mundane, laborious, clerical and mechanical.

Not sure why this has heading as civil war at Nalsar. Naming Civil war for the protest by IPM/MBA students or having differences in opinion among students on student bar council of Nalsar is exaggeration. Has UGC granted permission to Nalsar to introduce management academia as ancillary to law courses to support the funding? With the limited knowledge or visibility that I have, I don’t think anywhere it was mentioned management courses in Nalsar. Nalsar administration or UGC may have to clarify or publish if they are ancillary courses. Why protests for the equality in student body election is radical demand? Some management or law courses may end in two years / one year that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t have representation in my opinion unless the constitution clearly calls it out student body representation is only for long term academia . Totally agree that the conflict could have avoided by having continuous communication, collaboration from both the sides having their representation but not exchanging hateful emails or conversation from either side. Also agree that NLUs DEMAND RECOGNITION AS INSTITUTES OF EMINENCE AND MORE FUNDINGS.