🤔 An ideal way to seek placement in office of a reputed lawyer, is to go through parent’s contacts or through some person upon whom this reputed lawyer may have trust.

Sending CV or applying relentlessly by emails may not be a good idea for a junior who may be seeking placement in office of some reputed lawyer.

Merit is good. But it is not the only thing that counts.

Questions which may come up in mind of a reputed lawyer on seeing CV of a junior lawyer could be something like these:

1) Is this junior trustable? In my office, there are cases involving crores of rupees. Is this junior likely to betray me or my clients? And if he betrays or if he or she does something unworthy, to whom should I tell or complain? Who is guaranteeing me ethics of this junior lawyer? From what kind of family he or she is coming? What kind of income they have? Is he or she likely to fell prey to opponent side lawyers?

2) Is he or she likely to be threat to me in future? Is he likely to impress my clients so much that my clients will turn away from me in future? Is he likely to snatch away my clients in future?

In earlier times, there was a system that reputed lawyers will accept only those whose parents they knew personally. Now, you are right, times have changed.

A Junior lawyer (searching for a senior) need to ask himself, “What do I want.. Exactly?.Do I want to earn or do I want to learn?”

2 years ago, a law student, working as intern under a senior, in Sydney, complained that his senior was harsh and cruel. He did not pay but on the other hand, took work from him for many hours. Now and then he would ask him to go to do different tasks. He would not pay him conveyance charges. The junior had to bear these expanses from his own pocket. The work assigned to him was also mundane and boring.

After two years, the junior has now got a job directly under a Minister. Because the stern and hard training given to him by his senior paid him very well.

I am in touch of this junior since the day he got admission in his law course.

Perhaps, I want to remind you about how an iron object is shaped. First it is heated too much. Then it is hammered. And then shape of a sword emerges.

I think that perhaps those juniors are lucky whose seniors keep them in harsh conditions and ask them to do a lot of work and do not pay conveyance charges.

My senior Vasant Desai said, the juniors should be starved so that they open their wings and learn to fly ! I am grateful that he did not pay me anything when I was junior to him.🙏