Internship Experiance at Solomon & Roy

Location: Mumbai, Andheri (E).

Tenure: 1 Month (1st September 2013 to 30th September 2014).

Position: Legal Intern.

Law Firm Type:  Intellectual Property Boutique (IPR Law firm)

Area of work: Patent; Design, Tardemark; Copyright (IPR Laws).

Stipend: Rs. 7,500/- per month

Student: Government Law College, Mumbai.

Working days:  6 days (Saturday-Half day)

Procedure to Apply: You can send your C.V. on "blaise.coutinho@slmnco.in" Mr. Blaise Coutinho is the one who takes care of internship slots. Kindly send your C.V. 6-7 months prior to your available month.

Solomon & Co., which is one of the top and leading law firm in India is situated at Fort, Churchgate (Mumbai) Basically the firm is full service law firm and it has three branches-

1) Solomon & Co.- Solomon & Co. is situated at Churchgate-Mumbai. It is a full service law firm and famous for its litigation practice and Merger Acquisition.

2) Solomon & Co.- This is the second brach of Solomon & Co. situated at Bandra (W)- Mumbai. This branch generally deals with Property related matters.

3)  Solomon & Roy. This is the third branch situated at Andheri (E) -Mumbai. This branch gnerally deals with Intellectual Property related matters. It is a Intellectual Property Boutique which advices their clients in matters related to Trademark, Copy Rights, Patents, Design etc.

I worked with Solomon & Roy for one month and indeed it was a great experience. The firm is tentatively composed of 10 Associates and headed by Mrs. Mahua Roy Chaodhary who is really an amazing personality. In inception I spent few days of my internship tenure without any work but after some days I got some work from Associates which was basically Legal research. During my internship tenure I also worked on some legal research presentation which was taken by the associates for their Bostan visit.

Disliking aspect: overall the firm is great where actually you can learn lots of things as an intern and which will definitely help you for your future. When you are working with them then it would be my suggestion to keep asking them some work again and again. As they all are pretty busy in their work so interns do not get proper attention by the Associates, so if you want to learn something from there then you should eat their brain so at least they will assign you some work. 


                                     I rate this firm 3/4 stars.

Internship Experiance at L&T Finance Limited

     Internship Experiance at L&T Finance Ltd.           

Location: Mumbai, Santacruz (E).

Tenure: 3 Months (January 2014 to March 2014).

Position: Legal Intern.

Department: Legal

Area of work: s/9 and s/17 of Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996.

Stipend: No (Internship at LTF is strictly without any consideration; only Internship certificate will be given to you after successfully completing your internship tenure)

Student: Government Law College, Mumbai.

Working days:  5 days for Interns (Saturday Off ;) )

Interview: on the day of my interview I was asked so many questions. Firstly, Manager asked my area of interest and I was a fourth year student so I was not aware of Arbitration Act, C.P.C., Cr.P.C. etc. etc. so they did not ask questions related to those subjects which I have not read during my semesters. It was almost 1 hour interview and in which Manager asked me questions related to Companies Act, Indian Constitution, Indian Penal Code (I.P.C.) and basic term of Law.    

Company overview :  

As we all know L&T is one of the prestigious name which was founded  by Mr.  Souren Kristian Toubro and Mr. Henning Holck-Larsen. L&T Finance is holding company of L&T Infotech and it is situated in Santacruz (E) . Their Legal department is full of intelligent and smart lawyers from whom you actually can learn something. I was assigned to Arbitration Team which was consist of almost 10 advocates but simultaneously I had given work of Cheque bouncing (u/s. 138 of Negotiable Instrument Act.) cases as well.

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How big company is??:. 

The strength of L&T Finance is almost of 20 to 30 lawyers which is including for Arbitration and Cheque Bouncing matters. During my Internship period I actually realised that if you want to work for any corporate then LTF is the best place where you can explore as much as you want. 

First day formality:

From 2nd of January, 2014 I joined this reputed company in its Legal Department as Legal Trainee. I had a meet to my manager under whom I supposed to work. My manager was a lady but she was down to earth woman and extremely cooperative, humble and intelligent woman whom I ever meet. It was a first time I was working for such a well known corporate so with excitement I was bit nervous as well. On first day of my internship I met the entire Legal team of LTF as it was new year so Head of the legal department also came at everyone's' desk to wish them Happy New Year and I was lucky enough to meet her on first day of my Internship. She is one of the ideal woman from whom any fresher can get inspire. After meeting her I really got inspired from her and it was a first time I felt how proud it feels when a woman handles such a big post. On first day of my internship I had to submit two reference letters and personal details with two passport size photographs.   

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Working Style: 

During 3 months of my internship tenure I had given lots of task including drafting, legal research and many other things which was available at that time. Previously I had interned with 3-4 law firms and I had noticed that corporate legal working style is totally different than law firms. As I had worked with law firms and in law firms advocates hardly use Microsoft Excel so I was totally new to Excel but staff was pretty helpful and really helped me to learn so many things.

Days at work place:

It was my first day and I was without work. Initially I hardly had given any work so it was being very bored for me to survive over there but after a week at last I got some work and that was a week I became even more busier than ever and till the last day I was busy only. I had to make demand notices, Section 9 petition, Affidavits, reference letters to Arbitrator and calculation related to dues/debts. It was almost a very essential phase of my life where I had seen so many things altogether. Indeed it was my best Internship and yes, the staff was extremely cooperative and supportive. I learnt M.S. Excel from their staff and they didn't hesitate at all to teach me from starting.  

For Fun, Chill out & Leisure:

I was the only youngest person in the entire LTF so I used to hesitate with other staff and I was not so friendly with them but as time passed I became cozy with all of them. Near the office campus hardly there is any place where you can chill out or relax after office hours and basically I was from Mumbai only so it was not so required for me and most of the time I preferred LTF canteen only. All sorts of food was available in the office campus in reasonable cost but yes if you are an outsider then you need to hunt some places to make your weekend cheerful.  

Good Thing:

LTF's Legal Department is indeed a great a place for a law student where they can have a great exposure of their learning phase. Students those wants to pursue their career in corporate then I would say LTF is the best place to work. 

Bad Thing:

There is nothing which I can say bad about LTF everything is just awesome but yeah if really I could say then I would say their "Stipend". Its such a big corporate but their Internship is without consideration so, it is bit costly to spend your own money for travelling and rickshaw which is extremely costly in the city like Mumbai. So over all its great place to work.    

Conclusion:

Over all my three months of internship was extremely great in terms of learning and having a name of L&T Finance in my Internship list. I was fortunate enough to had a nice exposure of such a leading corporate. In terms of  staff, senior staff, work everything was just amazing and worth to learn from LTF.
        

INTERNSHIP IN PANGEA3

                    INTERNSHIP AT PANGEA3

HOW TO APPLY:-

You can send your C.V. to the following Email address:-

P3career@thomsonreuters.com

INTERVIEW :-

  The interview process of Pangea3 is quite fast there are three rounds for the interview in first two rounds general written test we have to give and the last round is oral interview in which they will ask you something about pangea3. So all those who wish to apply should do little homework about pangea3 for eg. Firm profile, rank and the most important what LPO is all about... the entire process is not so tedious.   

STIPEND:- 
 The stipend amount is based on the pro-rata basis. The monthly stipend amount is 7500 and if you doing extra hours they will pay you extra money for your work.

OFFICE TIMING:-

Pangea3’s office timing is 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. however it varies everyday so we can say that it’s all depends on your work and performance. You should have speed with quality. Saturday and Sunday you will get holiday but they can cancel it as well if there is heavy workload.

FACILITIES:-

The best part about pangea3 is that they provide shuttle (bus) pick and drop from Andheri (E) station and from kurla station as well. Canteen facility is also pretty good. You will get food over there on reasonable rate. Pangea3 also provide rest room if your are ill or need rest. Gaming facility is also there.

WORK:-

The work environment is good. Staff is also pretty good and friendly. It is noteworthy that in pangea3 everyone calls their boss and colleagues by their name. So sir, madam restrictions and if still you calling they will interrupt you. The work type is totally based on computer software. So you should have good knowledge of computers otherwise it can create a problem. The entire system of pangea3 is IT related including attendance sheet to manner of work. So it is important to pay attention on training if you will miss it then it will be quite tough to understand those problems which will occur in future.

WHAT IS NOT GOOD ABOUT PANGEA3??

  Hmmmmmmmm everything is good in pangea3 but the work pressure is horrible without completing your work you cannot leave the office. They have high heavy work load you will not come to know about the day. While leaving the office dark night with horror traffic you will get to see in each & every day of your work. Your social life will become bit impossible if you doing internship in pangea3 but overall it is adventurous and something new work you will see over there which is totally different from Indian law firm. Before joining pangea3 be prepare with your all legal documents otherwise you might can lose your internship due to absence of single document.    

                “It is good to learn something new & different” that you will think on the last day of your internship

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