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Category Archives: Anecdotes

No piece of Cake

Cracks are inevitable when the layers get heavy… when work, marriage, family turns into one heady, demanding, mix. If you’re a working woman, you know. ๐Ÿ˜€

Posted bymidlawcrisisNovember 6, 2020Posted inAnecdotesTags:#delhilawyers, #genderdiversity, #glassceiling, #indianlawyer, #womeninlaw, #womenlawyers, #worklifebalanceLeave a comment on No piece of Cake

Party Vibes

Dear Office Parties, you are deeply missed. Get out of the kennel soon, we are running out of stories to tell!

Posted bymidlawcrisisOctober 7, 2020October 7, 2020Posted inAnecdotesTags:#bar&bench, #barandbench, #delhilawyers, #highpaidassociate, #indianlawfirms, #lawfirm, #lawyerparties, #obitertruth, #officepartiesLeave a comment on Party Vibes

Dear Miss. Star Client

Dear clients, we love you, and love to hate you. Love, all-lawyers-everywhere

Posted bymidlawcrisisJuly 28, 2020Posted inAnecdotesTags:#alldayallnight, #bar&bench, #burnout, #client, #difficult, #India, #lawyerlife, #legal, #overwork, #starclientsLeave a comment on Dear Miss. Star Client

21st Century Fox

What if Gen Zen succeeds? If the kids figure out a way to get things done without being reverential to the pastโ€ฆ where will that leave our generation and those before us?

Posted bymidlawcrisisJune 24, 2020June 24, 2020Posted inAnecdotesTags:#arbitration, #bravenewworld, #generationX, #genzen, #glassceilings, #startupsinlaw, #younglawyersLeave a comment on 21st Century Fox

The Pursuit… of Happyness?

Why are they rushed? Why are you rushed? What’s bothering you?

Court mornings for all juniors have a peculiar source of anxiety. ๐Ÿ˜€

Posted bymidlawcrisisMay 18, 2020Posted inAnecdotesTags:#bar&bench, #courtclerks, #delhihighcourt, #independentpractice, #lawyerlife, #obitertruth, #seniorlawyersLeave a comment on The Pursuit… of Happyness?

The Office Favourite

I have a theory that in another world, there is an induction programme for all the Office Favourites on earth which trains them in very special skills… This is the story of my very first encounter with one such mutant.

Posted bymidlawcrisisApril 27, 2020April 27, 2020Posted inAnecdotes2 Comments on The Office Favourite

The Grounded Independent

Why are independent lawyers particularly anxious in these days of the coronavirus lockdown? Is it a de ja vu from our early days of “independence”?

Posted bymidlawcrisisApril 8, 2020Posted inAnecdotes4 Comments on The Grounded Independent

Aggressive Mimicry

Sometimes you come into your own… and other times you be what people want you to be!

Posted bymidlawcrisisMarch 22, 2020Posted inAnecdotes1 Comment on Aggressive Mimicry

The international Indian

It is time we claimed our place in the world as qualified, cultured, equals. Let foreign environments adapt to us for a change, and not the other way around.

Posted bymidlawcrisisDecember 10, 2019December 25, 2019Posted inAnecdotesTags:#foreignoffice, #internationalindian, #workingabroad2 Comments on The international Indian

The big lawyer, the small lawyer and the crowd

Every day in the court room in the life of a junior lawyer. Losing the battle and loosing the war.

Posted bymidlawcrisisDecember 2, 2019December 24, 2019Posted inAnecdotesTags:#delhihighcourt, #glassceiling, #seniorcounsel, lawyerlife3 Comments on The big lawyer, the small lawyer and the crowd

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