But how does the brand of the phd supervise matter when you don't even get to choose your phd supervisor?? Majority NLUs don't allow you to choose and they are chosen for you. I have many batchmates and seniors doing their PhDs in both NLUs and central universities, and none of them got to choose their PhD advisors. They were just forced upon them, hence getting shitty advisors. In this case, doesn't the brand of the universities and the publication record matter more ??

Join any university and complete your phd. The success ratio for a PhD is less than 50%. So they're not a lot of people who actually go on to complete their PhD. They usually pivot. So if you have a PhD you have a better chance. Don't worry about age, especially if you have publications and a PhD.

Apply at your old schools. Like wherever you did your grad or postgrad from. They would definitely let you in. And after 3-5 years you may switch after building a good CV. Academia doesn't care about internship and work experience. It's more about connections and research publications. Work on that.

Why would it be a downgrade? NLUs themselves are state universities. Just because they have a "national" tag doesn't mean they are. A downgrade would be if you went from a central university like JNU, IITkgp, DU, BHU to a state university. Even certain private universities like Jindal and symbiosis are better than tier 3 NLUs.

Repeat after me very slowly, very quietly, with 100% focus, please: brand of the PhD supervisor is the only "brand" thing about a PhD that matters on a CV. Institutional brand is important in the sense of how much does a particular university support you, how good that support is, how good are the research facilities, are you made to feel isolated or a part of a research community or isolated as a PhD student, but these considerations are for you, not for your prospective employer.

It is a little more strict now but there are easy ways to do it. If you separate social privilege from what is required then it is not that hard. Fancy degree types get extra benefits for sure but on the whole nothing special. Just find the UGC list, make sure you meet the requirements and network the VCs and senior profs and be pleasant to everyone. Most of the work is outside the classroom. Be smart and make sure those who make promotion decisions rely on you and know how much you do.

Do you only troll because you don't have a real job, and have gone crazy after reading Sushir's CV? Because in your every comment, you bring up the Rhodes scholarship and Paul Craig, neither has got any relevance whatsoever to Sudhir's performance as a VC. Craig didn't teach him how to run an institution. Nor did his BCL curriculum have a paper on that.

It's okay. No NLUD batch has had a better placement than any NUJS batch ever, but you keep dreaming otherwise. Not that NUJS is much good, almost all NLUs are plummeting down hard and fast. Academically, only NLSIU is worth going to these days, but their infra and placement scenes are bad too.

Here is an alternative ranking factoring in infrastructure, faculty quality, placements, opportunities to study abroad on exchange and reservation (fewer reserved seats the better).

1. NLSIU 2. JGLS
3. NLUD

5. NALSAR

6. GNLU

7. NLUJ

8. NLIU

9. RGNUL

10. RMLNLU/Symbiosis Pune/BITS/SNU

This incesstant CT obsession with ranks both batch or clat, and how people who have the higher ones pick abc colleges and xyz firms and therefore this hierarchical selection makes the latter the best choice; the notion that anyone who does not follow the same route wasn't competent enough to be giving gyan on LI in the first place... is deeply rooted not just in classism but borderline casteism - clat ranks and accessibility is a much larger off topic discussion.

Sometimes people don't want tags they just wish to have a wholesome college life with the same opportunities, decent academics and placements which colleges like NUJS NLUJ and GNLU amongst many others offer. NLS is not doing better in terms of corp placements and has not been able to break NUJS' record which was evident after bo26' numbers - employability here being a very fair and reasonable metric to judge the "quality of their graduates." Coming to litigation, GLC/CLC and other traditional law colleges have a far better alumni support system to boast off compared to all NLUs combined. I'm not even dealing with NLUD because they are just starting out and don't have comparable stats or placement records to evaluate them with NLS Nalsar NUJS etc. So please come down from your high horse, you're not superior to anyone.

I don't really get why people complain about the trimester system. I understand that it is overwhelming at the beginning but most people, including I, get used to it within a trimester or two. Hell, if you can manage your time well (just doing the readings on time and making some rudimentary notes during/before class) then NLS is fairly chill. Of course, this is coming from a position of privilege as not every first year student is proficient enough at English to deal with the complicated texts which are thrown their way. I would concede that perhaps the trimester system is not manageable for such people but even then the proper solution is not to scrap the trimester system but to instead ensure that proper assistance is available to them (through initiatives like the Writing Centre).

At the risk of inching dangerously close to an ad hominem, I would also like to point out that the people who usually complain about the trimester system are also those who don't do any readings or pay attention in class and study just a day or two before exams. If a person can get a degree at NLS just by doing this, then it is rather unfair to malign the trimester system as being too rigourous. You can't point to the continuous eval system for contributing to rigour either since most people are able to scrape by with at least a B/B+ even if they have submitted crappy AI-written papers.

Didn't know your VC was conservative on curfew timings etc... he's an Oxford man, isn't he? Should be more liberal on such issues. Students are old enough to make their own decisions. If they fuck up their lives by messing around and taking liberties with sleep etc, not the uni's headache. Impose the academic pressure 100%, and then let the students deal with how they navigate it.

My cousin sister did a BA from UCL and then studied law at KCL. I was once visiting London and she showed me around her law school. While we were chatting, a gentleman entered campus on a bicycle and waved at her. She said it was a Lord Justice who was a visiting prof. Later, we went to the cafeteria and I saw the same gentleman standing in line for coffee with the other students, like a regular person.

Courtroom decorum, originating from practices during the british era and for security reasons don't permitpeople to drink water inside courtroom. Now, does it not happen in british or american courts? We routinely see them drinking water even when arguing. So what about the british era practice? That the courtroom is like a temple and one ought not drink water. Security? I guess thats the primary concern. Barring maybe 2-3 court complexes in the country, every other court complex has such minimal security, one would be appalled. As such, bottle can contain anything, and can be thrown at the judge. That i believe is the reason. But again, if it can be done in britain, then why not india?

I know for a fact that when a delegation of Indian SC and HC judges went to Canada on a "learning trip" funded by the UN, they were very surprised to see Canadian judges cycling to office. No security entourage and the usual bells and whistles that judges in India consider birthright.

Similarly, the Canadian even South African judges didn't depend on a retinue of staff to get their water, tea, coffee etc and self service wasn't an odd thing to do. Can give many more examples but pointless.

Don't stop at cockroaches. Need more of insectkind.

BREAKING: Cabinet sworn in. Swapan Dasgupta is there (expected to get education) but NO Sanjeev Sanyal. Maybe Modi wants Sanyal to stay in Delhi in the larger national interest?

If Suvendu Adhikari holds Finance he will probably be represented by his Principal Secretary at NUJS.

Also, no sign of who the new law minister willl be. Kaustabh Bagchi excluded. Will Suvendu retain law as well?

The one big and influential development is the new AG. Wonder what he will do to NUJS?

I am a 2027 batch law student and have received a call-back internship opportunity from a Tier 1 law firm. However, from internal sources, there are currently no vacancies in the particular team, making a PPO conversion unlikely.

In such a situation, would you still recommend undertaking the call-back internship purely for the experience, exposure, networking opportunities, and to strengthen future lateral prospects? Or would it be more prudent to focus efforts elsewhere, given the impossibility of conversion?

I would be grateful to hear perspectives from associates, recruiters, and those who have faced a similar decision.

Buddy improve your comprehension if you want to succeed in the legal field. It's clearly written "northeast population" that means people who are from the northeast but unfortunately do not have opportunities to teach on northeast universities and are instead teaching in NUJS, NLUJAA or NLUO. NLU tripura and meghalaya have failed to attract northeast NLU faculty.

Connections, networking and a decent publication record. That's it. But majority focus is on connections. I know two unemployed fellows in their 40s who got into an NLU only based on their LLMs. They don't have a PhD or even a NET. They were preparing for judiciary and that's why didn't take up a job even at 40. Yet they had connections and got this job. Whereas they're people even with a PhD who aren't considered.

Thank you so much for this! I'm glad you made it!!! I'm starting a new internship today and will try to follow your tips on networking. Honestly, I don't have the best networking skills, but I need to get out of my introverted shell and be more confident; let's see how it goes.

My batch rank was in the bottom half of my batch, 0 publications, multiple competitions and wins, 0 family connections, tier 2 nlu.

I ended up getting offers from two tier 1 firms and one tier 2 firm in my 4th year.

Don't lose hope, try networking as much as possible, your placement cell is not the only place you can get internships from.

Also, these firms don't pay that much attention to your gpa once you get the internship, it's only a pre-requisite to get the internship (if applying via the cell or individually). try networking with people (ideally SA and above) and getting them to forward your CV to their company HRs. once you enter a firm, it's far easier as long as you can convince your team you deserve a place there.

Costs are not only a unitary financial factor in litigation. They also create a bad impression in the judge's mind. It's not only about the money. As pointed out by everyone here, please go talk to your partner, but got with a solution. It'll all be fine.

Have seen partners and counsels make mistakes. Everyone does. Relax.

NLU Delhi only at 10 with seemingly just 1-2 more in pipeline. It is a sight to behold given how so many of the top rankers have either nothing going on/are waiting for day zero and those who do, have been told by their employers to either wait till day zero or straight up 10th sem...
My concern with this is that SO many of these students have the same reason, it has started to feel...hard to believe, lets just say. But again, could be true as well considering the job market and numbers of other unis. I do sense a general change in hiring norms.
This ofc does not account the forthcoming assessment internships as they would not have converted by the time day zero happens. In fact, there's a chance someone doing an assessment in June/July will just get hired on day zero and end up having to reject the offer from said internships (our policy i believe is drafted this way)

No, please avoid. They don't have the minimum number of regular faculty for the programme. They desperately request people from outside to come and take classes to finish the syllabus for almost every paper. No decent library, no campus life, no placement opportunities except through individual initiative.

Simple exercise. You would know the partner's team for which the opening is through their LinkedIn post. There are not many people in the firm with the PQE they have asked for in the JD. Once you know the team and practice area, it shouldn't take you long to figure who the person is that is leaving.

As someone who knows a bit about them through an acquaintance, the vacancy arose because they are holding promotions. This person too worked at a T-1 and has a good amount of experience and a decent profile, yet their growth was stalled. Make of it what you will.

What are you on?
We have 16 PPOs, 21 day zero and about 20 post-day zero jobs for the 2026 batch...almost everyone who wanted one and got it, with a few unlucky exceptions who are quite capable and will find their feet in the profession easily in a few months or so
I'd say it was a pretty decent year, really

I am a 2026 grad from a T1 NLU and am set to join a well-known Delhi chamber with a strong mix of IBC and arbitration work. How difficult would it be to transition to a T1/T2 law firm in the same practice area after one or two years? Also, how should I approach the initial years of my chamber practice to maximize my prospects for such a switch?

The fact is those institutions coming for placements r very good. For freshers, getting first job is not easy. Hence ig unr getting placed even if at 7-10 lacs in NSE or Law firm or banks, u always will have the option to jump after 1-2 yrs with ex. NISM candidates do the same. That's what is important here.