T2 firms have no choice but to consolidate to remain scaled up and retain ability to compete with Tier 1s and probably pick merger route to knock the tier 1 status which otherwise may be a distant dream for them. IC Regfin taking over Burgeon, Obhan+Mason new merged firm is just the beginning of such consolidations with way more likely to happen in 2026.

Stick with your current team until your ongoing review cycle is concluded. Hoping that you’ll receive a good review, you can consider the following steps. Once your review is in place, approach HR and clearly communicate that you no longer wish to continue with the current team and are seeking a transfer to another team. Please identify the GC team you want to move to and ensure that they actually have vacancies. Be firm and unambiguous in your communication. Make it clear that your options are limited to either moving to another team within the firm or exploring opportunities outside the firm. The idea for you should be to leverage your positive feedback to demonstrate that, where a vacancy exists, the firm would be better served by absorbing a known, well-reviewed performer rather than taking a risk through lateral recruitment. Firms are generally reluctant to lose someone after having invested a year in training and integration.

TLDR:

- Increasing culture wars on campus. Left-wing and right-wing students have got into physical fights because of political disagreements. Sometimes the POLICE have been called. 😳

- Earlier TISS admissions were based on subjective criteria like GD and interviews, plus their own entrance exam. Now there is an objective, centralised exam. Professors say this is benefitting engineering students, who tend to have a RW bias. It’s also benefiting upper caste students. Professors are unhappy about this and want objective tests scrapped.

- Professors are also unhappy because objective tests have reduced regional diversity: mostly Hindi-speaking students are getting admission.

- The RW has spies among students, who are secretly recording LW professors and students smoking pot and supporting LW causes

- Kerala Files was screened by RW students

- Professors may ban mobile phones in class, over fears of being recorded.

NOTE: The report does not mention Jindal, but everyone knows that RW Jindal students are the ones have been secretly recording LW professors and sharing the videos on X and OpIndia. Obviously that’s where the fear comes from.

https://theprint.in/ground-reports/spies-on-campus-police-protests-the-uneasy-evolution-of-tiss-after-govt-takeover/2810175/

It is because law is not something which you can rote learn only. Alot of it more like 90% of it comes down to practice, the kind of deals youll work on from A0-A2 will shape how you think / which risks you pick up / which structure gives your company enough comfort as an A3 who's shifting laterally to in-house. There is absolutely no way that you can simple "teach" someone how to think like an GC without actually working towards it. The point of law school is to increase your "ability" to learn by giving you basic knowledge of every law there is; neither litigators nor GCs nor corporate lawyers are "made" in a law school

You only have one issue - that is thinkinh you are doing law or in college for getting a job in firms. Law firms are useless. People who work there should be ashamed of themselves for chosing such a clerical area of work where they do nothing. Their contribution is nothing. They are clerks. Dont be one. If you want to do something in life, get into litigation. It has both money and respect, and isnnot clerical or a place where self entitled people living in some sort of delulu do clerical work

If it's just about collecting degrees, then, shouldn't it be handed over to students without evening doing this convocation thing?

I mean everyone wants their parents to be their with them when they finally graduate AND get their degrees. It's not only the student's big day but also parents.

Good one. Messiah is Bang(ing)-a-Lore. Farishta working miracles in Patna.

NUJS is supposed to have a convocation after 5 years or so. Still a mystery why successive Chancellors after Lalit as CJI stayed away and also did not depute a rep while NKC was the VC.

But Farishta facing trouble? Isn't he God sent?

I’m from the graduating batch of 2026 and have always wanted to have a pet of my own. Unfortunately, my parents never allowed it, though I absolutely loving hanging out with my friends’ dogs. I’ve recently accepted a PPO from a top TMT team in bangalore, and I was wondering whether, as an A0, associates generally get the time and bandwidth to look after a pet, or if that would be too difficult to manage in the initial years of practice. Is it realistically tenable?

Do any of the associates have a pet of their own? Please do share your experiences.

Allegations couldn't be proved = Allegations are not real or hold no weight;
How is it hard to understand? There's a reason why the concept of "degree of proof" exists in evidentiary law and the new BSA.

Also, if you want to speak about perjury or malicious prosecution, look at the ground reality, people are rarely punished or have trial initiated against them for such offences, courts in fact are reluctant to prosecute or hear cases related to such matters.

if you can get into a higher NLU, be it nujs, or gnlu, go for it. the atmosphere, as well as the exposure is top tier. also, coming from a tier 2 NLU myself, (I ranked in the 500s) most tier 2 NLUs are rotting rom the inside, and private UNIs are worse off. lastly, the faculty, placement opportunities and the curriculum is largely same across all disciplines, be it bballb, ballb or bsc llb.

Few points that immediately come to mind, broadly-

For state of Maharashtra, you might also want to go through igrmaharashtra.gov.in.

In relation to incidence of stamp duty on mortgage deeds; hypothecation and pledge agreements; business agreements, computation of applicable stamp duty is pretty straightforward.

For computation of stamp duty on conveyancing, leases and licenses, several factors relating to the subject-matter property(ies) have to be considered at the outset.

Pertinently, it is advisable to get such deeds/instruments adjudicated at office of Collector of Stamps for many reasons which are required to be lodged for registration at concerned sub-Registrar of Assurances.

Hope this helps.

You sound like one of those CLAT aspirants who says NLS or bust lol. IIM L and K are genuinely decent, and qualify for tier 1.5 at the bare minimum, even if not in the league or ISB/IIM ABC. However for Indore, the less said the better. The point here was not to disparage IIMs either, just to point out that ISB is also on par, and more in tune with international standards and requirements. IIM's learn from ISB and vice versa, both help each other

Hi everyone!! I need your help. Please tell me which college I should choose: SLS Pune or Christ BLR for LLM?

(If any grads from these colleges, please feel free to share the info. I will be grateful)

Key points to keep in mind:

1. Market reputation (will this help in securing jobs)

2. Benefit of the curriculum taught in both schools

3. Faculty

4. Placements (if any)

5. Postgraduation opportunities in both cities (the central campus of Christ lies in the main city itself)

PS: I have done little due diligence as to which college is better and my parents are in favor of Sls pune but still seeking answers as I have not received convincing answers because they were very generic.

Proud to say I cleared CLAT with a high rank. I belong to the general category. Not eligible for any reservation and don’t want it either.

I believe in a world that rewards merit and merit alone. I want to migrate to a country that is a meritocracy and rewards hard work and talent, such as Singapore or countries in the West. Countries where opportunities are handed out on the basis of ability, rather than the fact that your ancestors may have been discriminated against 500 years ago. Countries where Indian immigrants from regular middle-class have achieved wealth and success that they could not have had they stayed in India. Countries where people don’t burn buses if they are not awarded quotas. Where the air is pure because politicians care about the environment.

SKB apparently was due to clock out in March 2026. But he just may stay on following the five yr rule. He was brought in when SKG became Associate Prof (a very controversial thing okayed by NKC then).

AG was brought in when NKC removed KS. He gave supporting arguments which were accepted by EC. But the same EC now wants KS back due to changed equations.