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https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2026/03/2026031688.pdf

This means:

- NIRF heirarchy of NLSIU>NLUD>NALSAR is reinforced.

- Tier 2 status of NUJS, NLUJ, GNLU and NLIU confirmed.

The tier 2 colleges can either throw a tantrum about this, or critically introspect why they are behind. In the case of GNLU, financial help from the Modi government has not translated into faculty quality. In case of NUJS, successive corrupt admins and apathy by the TMC government have downgraded the college from tier 1 to tier 2. In the case of NLIU, one corrupt VC is all it took to sink the college, along with a stupid government decision to open a second NLU in Jabalpur and spending funds there instead of helping the present one.

Finally, the problem of TLC-educated VCs not hiring good NLU alumni faculty remains a problem across the board. Sudhir Krishnaswamy and C Raj Kumar are the only contrary examples. In SK’s case, he has in fact systematically weeded out the TLC deadwood.

My guess is that the survey is sent to HR managers. For IIT KGP or Symbiosis, an HR manager at Microsoft or HSBC may upvote all departments and take a holistic view, but for NLSIU or NLUD, he or she will only upvote law.

That said, Symbiosis has a large alumni base with many Senior Advocates, lawyers at foreign law firms etc. So good reputation on its own.

- Jindal: #1 in India for 7 years in a row, but a big jump from #78 in the world to #35 in the world.

- NLSIU: Again ranked. Also a big jump in global ranking, from #201-250 band to #101-150 band

- NLUD: Debuts at 201-250 (where NLSIU was previously).

- NALSAR: Debuts at 351-400

- IITKGP, DU and Symbiosis also feature

Here's a detailed analysis of parameters:

- JGLS scores well in H-Index in citations and a good rating in academic reputation. Jindal pushes profs to publish in Scopus journals and they get good feedback from QS surveys sent to foreign universities, because of their tie-ups. This is their hack.

- NLSIU is ranking solely on the strength on employer reputation. Possibly good feedback from foreign law firms and MNCs, who were sent the QS survey.

- Ditto for NLUD and NALSAR.

Thus, faculty research at Jindal and alumni accomplishments at the top 3 NLUs are doing the trick.

Coming to DU, Symbiosis and IITKGP: once again, it is employer feedback that is pulling them through. What's less clear is if the people who filled up the survey were referring to the universities as a whole, or just the law school.

https://www.livelaw.in/lawschool/news/jgu-ranked-35-globally-law-qs-world-university-rankings-527826

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/law-legal-studies

Listen.

You're going to get hit by rampage of folks who talk about "merit". Truth is law firms are nepotistic and generally like their own kind. It makes sense commercially too as it aligns with who their clients are. In effect this means there are caste barriers. Expect people who drink the cool-aid to say no.

Diversity even for progressive firms is limited to gender or LGBTQ. This aligns them with foreign firms and some foreign firms had hard vendor codes on diversity which extended to the Indian law firms they worked with. This means indian firms adopted DEI on a very American and British understanding of it.

Speak about caste or even religion, prepare to see raised eyebrows. Dont think this forum will help you get the botton of your question.

This post will get drowned out.

I gather that it is standard for the T1 and some T2 law firms to discount experience when an experienced candidate is moving from another firm. How many years do they normally discount? How does the compensation aspect translate? Do candidates find it embarassing when they are taken on at a lower designation than their peers?

Ultimately, we're a lot of people competing for too little. Another problem is the sheer neglect en masse, despite being a large population.

You'll have to compete with these multi-gen faces, who already have aplenty and are positioned to take away more. But you seem like a wise old-ish(?) Chap with a creative legal brain. You'll fight bigger battles. Hope you win.

Alongside, one makes peace with what they want and have, in the materialistic sense. This is the greatest struggle. And it seems like the coming waves might not sustain all lives.

Thanks for clarifying, no offense was intended.

Unfortunately AI rarely just proofreads and has a tendency to embellish and bullshit and sensationalise, which makes readers attuned to it doubt the perhaps authentic experience behind the post. Most would surely be happier to see an unproofread post than the sloppy AI writing that seems to have flooded the entire internet (and we generally aim to moderate responses criticising posts' spelling or English level as trollish).

Not really as most have that one ragging or failed attempt of which’s story. And it’s fun and laughter thus not becoming antithetical. With my batch passing this year, this sentiment is mostly phasing out.

Essential thing is, there is no malice and there is no force used. The first question asked by the roughest looking person would be “bhai tu comfortable hai? nahi hai toh chale ja koi zaruri nahi.”

About the za, there used be a time when it was like the Wild West. But these days, especially being new student, be careful as Telangana’s drug law enforcement is on steroids.

11y PQE with a mix of inhouse roles (MNC + PSU) and law firms (boutique + T1). Started actively saving since 2017, have reached around 60lacs plus approx 50g gold. This is solid heard earned money, started from a T4 town with no financial support from family. Currently a PA1 in T1, planning to move inhouse again. It's not worth the pain!

Why not, I’ll do this, it is an anonymous forum and I can’t talk about this with others in my life, except parents and spouse.

Lawyer (corporate transactions) for 20 years. 60 crores networth. From profession + investment returns. No family money included. Feels pretty good. I expect a few of my peers are around the same or even higher net worth.

Won’t be giving any more details or answering any questions.

https://www.livemint.com/market/ipo/ipo-sebi-deadline-equity-market-11774330660689.html

Any views on the same?

if the law did allow it, which it did with management seats until 2011, we would have auctioned the seats

unfortunately, it does not allow so we take the NRI Spon route

have a look at the financial statement of your uni, its usually available on their website, take a look at the precarious nature of the financial balance, NLUs are self financing institutions, most NLUs dont have any buffer, some of them came perliously close to accounting bankruptcy during covid. IIMs also work on simial rmodel, but they have much better financial reserve.

check out NALSAR in FM time, see how the reserves changed, that is a model case, unfortunately others (except a very few) do not follow a simialr path, so most NLUs are living hand to mouth. just cust off one semster fees and the entire edifice collapses

the same people saying "CLAT rank doesn't really measure merit" are also saying "NRI kids turned down merit seats at NLIU, RMLNLU etc", but wait, those merit seats are also allocated by CLAT rank? so which is it? either the rank means something or it doesn't. one can't use it as a badge of honour when it suits you and dismiss it when it doesn't. and the "NRI is better than caste quota" point is just whataboutism. one bad system existing doesn't justify another. that's not an argument, that's a deflection.

also someone above already suggested just auctioning the seats with a minimum rank cutoff. if it's purely a revenue mechanism, which everyone in this thread has basically admitted, then at least do it transparently. the current setup is just a polite fiction