Hey all, I hope you all are doing well.

I am a fifth-year student at some NLU. I have been building my profile in dispute resolution through arbitration-focused internships and I am now looking to apply for assessment internships at dispute resolution-oriented law firms, whether full-service firms or specialised boutiques.

At present, my main challenge is identifying firms with strong dispute resolution practices that actually have vacancies. It would be extremely helpful if you guys could share a list of such firms or guide me on how to identify and shortlist dispute resolution-focused firms for internship applications.

Hi, I will not recommend another drop year. If you really feel keen about studying law, join a 3 year course (private or govt) and start the process.

Thereafter, if you’re not satisfied with the law college, prepare for CUET on the side, and try again for DU next year. This way, you won’t be at a risk. I find Jindal, SLS, and Christ to be good private colleges.

23 is not late to pursue law but I feel you should take admission this year because the way exams go in this country, another drop year just increases the pressure and uncertainty.

Also, if you are satisfied with your law college, then you need not prepare for CUET. You can use your additional time to build your CV with internships and/or prepare for govt exams. Since you already have a B.Sc, if you are eligible to sit for govt exams and if you clear, then nothing like it. Just start, you’ll find that this is not an either/or situation :) All the best!

You really only need to do one thing right now: JOIN A CHAMBER. Immediately start applying to commercial/civil chambers which argue matters before the Delhi HC, NCLT/NCLAT, and ITAT. If you are not a junior in some chamber, you are not a litigating lawyer. Start cold mailing any and all good chambers that you may know of. Try to get in touch with alumni or your friends who are litigating since it is easier to join a chamber if you have people to vouch for you. During the first two years of law school did you intern with any lawyers? You would be surprised how easy it is to remember good interns due to which you could reach out to the chambers you have interned at earlier as well.

Before you start working, just read up on the basics of civil procedure (would recommend Mulla's Key to Civil Practice) and substantive law such as IBC, Companies Act etc and you will be fine. Remember that you cannot know everything about the law due to which it is alright to have broad strokes knowledge (so long as it is not too broad strokes).

Hello all! I am a recent graduate from a T-2 Nlu and I was unable to secure a PPO from any of the firms while in law school. I have been applying since past 2 months as well but have got no response and even an interview from any of the firms in my practice area. I am now considering to start into litigation in Delhi but I don't know how to move into it, foremostly? and secondly, if I even will be considered by any of the advocates directly since, for the last 3 years in my law school, I had only pursued internships in the General Corporate and Capital Markets team and am now totally out of touch of basics of litigation like drafting, filings, etc. I desperately need some guidance from the seniors over here to understand what can I do to get into it? My preferences for litigation are primarily either Tax litigation or Commercial Litigation such as IBC or other NCLT matters.

They require managerial competence from their leaders. They require academic quality and not merely "rigour" in their policies. Those two are not mutually exclusive. And who is a bigger fool than one who does not know how much to bite so as to chew properly? Who is a bigger fool than one who had to be chastised for not knowing his own institutional regulations time and again?

You have not shown any indication of you having such brains either. All you keep saying is that a VC who has good foreign education can do no wrong as an administrator. Which is the mark of idiocy. Forget about global player, just to retain its national edge, NLSIU should not have tried to expand in this foolhardy manner. Any VC who signed up for that clearly does not care what will happen to the quality of education after he is no longer around in another three years. You tell me what world class education is being offered at NLSIU after 7 years of Sudhir's reign. Its graduates are good, but hardly any better than they used to be even under Venky or before. So what good has Sudhir done really? How long can one harp about his educational qualifications when that has got very little bearing with his duties as an administrator? Forget about anything else, have your seen the quality of the work that the PhD students under him have been producing? Fairly average. He lacks empathy to students according to students. He does not give his faculty enough time to do quality research according to the same faculty. He does recruit regularly, which is a plus point, but hardly in enough numbers to handle his ever growing student population. Nor are those faculty given much in terms of job security or career progression. The placement scene is growing worse, students are not getting enough infra even after paying the highest fees among all NLUs, scholarship opportunities are getting rarer, alumni are grumbling about student quality, faculty publications are nowhere close to what it should have been given Sudhir's own aspirations. You take ad hominem to another extreme. You will never address Sudhir's failures as an administrator, but rather everyone worships him because of his educational achievements two decades back. That's blind loyalty, not mark of education or intelligence. People with far less educational achievements have been leaders of NLSIU and made it what it is. Sudhir contributed very little to that and that's a fact.

How many of these private universities are offering the goods though? BITS is charging more than half a crore for a degree, but hardly pays more than public universities to its faculty, so how can it attract these world class faculty? Jindal tried its model, but eventually had to take in almost anyone with a foreign LLM so that its huge batch can be managed. So, no. The private universities are putting up an external good show but not really offering any better quality education than the top NLUs are doing at a much lesser cost.

How does an individual's academic prowess translate into a general sense of academic rigour on campus? Only if that individual is competent enough to implement the necessary policies and institutional changes, informed by their own extensive academic experience, to cultivate such rigour. A VC who is a great academic but a poor administrator will produce speeches, not results.

Those ₹100 crores that he spoke about in a news interview over 10 years ago surely didn’t come from public interest litigation… unless he was serving George Soros and other anti-India vested interests. My comment is actually doing PB a favour by giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming that the entire amount came from the late SB’s thriving legal practice.

Anyone agree with this hypothesis?

1. The older generation of LI readers (Gen Y) had a dominant percentage of people who were upper-middle class, forward castes, from elite law schools, right-wing and pro free-market reforms.

2 The present generation of LI readers (Gen Z) has a dominant percentage of people who are lower-middle class (many first or second-generation learners), backward castes, from non-elite law schools, left-wing and socialist.

3. The change in demographics is because:

- law entrance coaching centres have spread across India, plus one can take online classes

- initiatives like Shamnad Basheer’s IDIA have spread legal education among previously excluded sections

- reservation quotas have increased across law schools, plus socialist philosophy is the dominant strain of ideological thought among Gen Z

- the elites now head abroad, or to Jindal, for their LLB. Previously, Indians headed abroad mostly for LLMs. Now the numbers for LLBs are huge.

GC is above EC. It’s the state government that will take the call. Meanwhile, it will be extremely shameful if pro-TMC people on the EC attend the meeting. Even though they may be technically still a part of the EC, they have a moral responsibility to wait until the new EC is constituted.

Sure, but it is the law of the land that changes to the basic structure require a popular referendum of some kind. Article 368 is impotent when it comes to changing the basic structure. Normal constitutional amendments passed by Parliament, whether ratified by the states or not, will not be enough.

The bigger tragedy is how readily people buy into the Opposition’s spiel without bothering to read the constitutional provision at the heart of the issue.

The 52nd Amendment, enacted by Congress itself, was specifically designed to address the “Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram” farce. In doing so, it expressly recognized that where two-thirds of a legislative party decide to move together, they are not liable to disqualification.

So what we’re witnessing is not some constitutional aberration. It is a scenario expressly contemplated by the Constitution.

Yet, if one spends enough time consuming the propaganda being rushed out by Newslaundry, The Wire, and the weekly sermon circuit of Kapil Sibal’s liberal baithaks, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Constitution says the exact opposite of what it actually does.

You may dislike the politics. That’s entirely fair. But presenting a constitutionally recognised mechanism as some great ethical outrage is not constitutional analysis. It’s partisan disappointment masquerading as principle.

Hi, I am currently a prospective first-year going to HNLU. While I was enquiring about choosing between HNLU versus other contenders, I came across a handful of people saying that I should just take a partial drop because the chances of getting a T1 job in such a college are bleak, to say the least. While I do acknowledge that the connections and reliability of the student outflow in T1 NLUs differentiate them from T2s and T3s, however I can't help but wonder whether there was any truth to their claims. Is the ground reality actually that dire in colleges just after T1s, you are left with the conclusion of either the top 6 or nothing?

It would mean a lot if some of you could guide me with regards to this dilemma of sticking there and giving my best or to go for a partial drop, if landing a corp job is the final goal (I say that knowing it might change later on, but still won't hurt keeping all doors open). Thank you!

P.S. - Please excuse my naïveté regarding the question posed. I have no intentions to downplay others' efforts who have made it to T1s from a plethora of colleges. It's actually my individual insecurity that's making me seek out an answer for such a question.

Have the mods ever heard of the intermediary safe harbour protection? They would make everyone's life easier by just not actively "publishing" content on this platform, but rather letting everything float and censor/moderate (I doubt that brain of theirs understands what this term means) only content that is flagged to violate the platform's guidelines/is illegitimate. They are such softies now that even implicit jokes or trivial trolling gets censored, let alone any sensual whistleblowing post.

NLU stans here may ignore Symbi and Jindal at their own risk. Just remember that the shrinking merit list at NLUs means that many high-quality non-reserved candidates head to Symbi, Jindal and other colleges. Many of them also prefer them over lower tier NLUs.

The fact is that NLSIU is a class apart, but after that the field is wide open.

https://www.barandbench.com/Law-School/vaishnavi-ramalingam-wins-oxfords-clarendon-scholarship-for-law

Don't listen to the people below. Yes, NLUs are stressful, and the legal profession is demanding and requires hard work. So do most other competitive fields. Consider the pressures faced by medical residents during training. That said, many neurodivergent children benefit from structure. Structure does not mean a rigid timetable or giving up everything enjoyable in life; it means having a clear goal and a clear process for getting there. Sit down with your child and make a realistic plan. Start small.
P.S: My comments assume that their condition is not severely debilitating.

As a neurodivergent person who went to a tier 1 NLU, a lot of people here are neurodivergent and can thrive here as well. Let's not reinforce negative stereotypes, the journey and experience in an NLU might be different for a neurodivergent person but doesn't mean that a lot of opportunities are inaccessible.

Every draw back mentioned here is something neurotypical and neurodivergent is going to have to deal with. That said not every NLU is going to provide the same level of mental health support, and it would be wise to inquire with alumni and students to understand the level of support your child might get there.

I've heard that publications can add value to a CV when applying to corporate law firms. I'm currently in my fourth year at a Tier 1 law school, rank among the top students in my batch, and have completed a few Tier 2 internships. I was wondering how much weight firms actually place on blogs and publications compared to factors like grades and internships.

I also want to start writing more regularly. I've submitted pieces to SCC Online, Bar & Bench, LiveLaw, IndiaCorpLaw, and IRCCL, but either received rejections or never heard back. Could you share any insights on what I might be doing wrong and how I can improve my chances of getting published?

For now, I'm planning to focus on blogs rather than academic papers, given the time commitment involved. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I'll soon be interning with DSA Legal and wanted to understand the kind of work interns are typically exposed to there.

I've come across mixed reviews. Some people mentioned that the firm has a dedicated corporate team and offers relevant corporate law exposure. However, a few former interns shared that despite joining with an interest in corporate law, much of their work involved matters under the NI Act, and related litigation work.

If anyone has interned with DSA Legal recently, could you please share your experience regarding the nature of work assigned to interns, particularly those interested in corporate law?

My primary goal is to build a strong foundation in corporate law, so any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

As an intern who actually interned there, here are the answers the OP is looking for:

1) the interns get to work across the board on all live matters, so the exposure can be diverse.

2) yes, the firm only has one office in Blr. There are no other offices anywhere.

3) there are a few very small investments (mostly 1 Cr), but most of the work in general are agreements (however, across different sectors so that was fun)

4) dispute resolution is not that much. There was one Dubai arbitration 4 years ago they talk about all the time. And one in Singapore recently. Otherwise, there are one or two small arbitrations going on locally but not much to do here.

All in all, it is mostly a general corporate firm with little bit of investment and disputes related work here and there