If your commenting style on this half-dead gossip blog is to be relied upon, your behaviour in person is likely to be brash, snobbish, stand-offish, arrogant, rude, abrasive, overwhelming and aggressive. (Cisgender, heterosexual male speaking here, no personal insecurities.) Have you ever considered working on that, first?

The university said they are delighted to share that PM Modi has sent a letter of appreciation, dated November 27, for dedication of world's largest moot court, 'Nyayabhyasa Mandapam' to the nation and inauguration of the International Mooting Academy for Advocacy, Negotiation, Dispute Adjudication, Arbitration and Resolution and an international convention to be held at here on November 29-30.

In the message, the PM also stated that the inauguration of a massive moot court alongside the conference, which sees the participation of eminent jurists worldwide, creates an opportunity for greater synergy.

https://www.edexlive.com/amp/story/news/op-jindal-university-receives-letter-of-appreciation-from-pm-modi-ahead-of-their-moot-court

Jindal is calling it the "World's largest moot court hall" on their social media handles. Pics in below links. Remaining part of the building will have rooms for research, mock mediation etc.

https://x.com/JindalGlobalUNI/status/1994300231517614114

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRUOUF3CYot/

https://www.facebook.com/JindalGlobalUNI/posts/jgu-is-preparing-to-introduce-imaandaar-the-international-mooting-academy-for-ad/1226926636147406/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/subarnobhattacharyya_imaandaar-dharma-legaleducation-activity-7391883296084787200-fSDu

Would I be right in concluding this? Or am I selectively looking at what the algorithm feeds me?

If the first is correct, my hypothesis would be this:

- NLSIU attracts views because NLSIU is NLSIU. It’s the #1 law school and the dream of all law aspirants. The same reason why people would be curious to look at content by Harvard students. It’s like a wonderland.

- JGLS reels are less about academics and more about the campus life: the impressive infrastructure and sports facilities, the kind of food served, parties, GRWM campus fashion reels by girls etc. There’s an element of curiosity from the masses who wish take a peek into the lives of uber-wealthy kids, a real-life version of the kind of college life one sees in movies.

Thoughts on this? Happy to be corrected if other NLUs also register high views.

Why are people on this site so much against individual liberty and for foisting their paternalistic, communitarian norms on everyone?

It should be my choice when and how I wish to end my life and exercise my bodily autonomy. I don’t wish to live like a vegetable just because some Bishop or Sadhu or Maulana says so. Or because some commie thinks that assisted dying somehow validates the Marxist view that one must be economically productive to live in a capitalist society. Rather, true capitalism means financial liberty and I should have the liberty to spend on assisted suicide rather than on a lifetime of having painful tubes inserted in my body, or spoonfed on a wheelchair with no cognition (in the case of Alzheimer’s).

Gawd this country needs libertarianism on steroids and we need to start with the education system!

This is what Legally India has come to. Lawyers not properly so-called using an emotional tribute to advance a certain agenda. No thought at all. No consideration of the implications. No evaluation of factors like coersion, being made to feel like a burden, capacity and best interests, disproportionate impact on the disabled if assisted dying measures are implemented/the chances of such impacts being felt as safeguards might be eroded, no conversations about observing patterns where this has already been introduced or is in the process of being introduced... did you not see how in the UK, the sponsor of a Private Member's Bill was initially promising such heavy safeguards, then decided to start eroding them? Why is that? Talking with zero knowledge, as I said before.

It’s not enough, because a 5% relaxation is too little and there is still discretion in the hands of the company, rather than guaranteed caste reservation. Also, it’s just for sporadic hiring. But it’s still an important start. We don’t ever see Microsoft or Adani or Ambani doing this.

Going forward, this may be what caste-based DEI in the private sector looks like: voluntary steps with slight marks relaxation, rather than blanket reservation irrespective of marks scored. Some form of DEI will be inevitable, if and when the Congress returns to power and Rahul Gandhi becomes PM. MNCs, Ambani and Adani will have to come on board, eventually law firms like CAM and SAM too.

Finally, an interesting thing to note is that the ad only mentions SCs and STs, not OBCs. So the more privileged land-owning agricultural middle castes are kept out and only those at the real bottom are targeted.

https://x.com/talk2anuradha/status/1994723385042162157/photo/1

I have 2 Year PQE with a financial services institution. In the past 6-8 months I got to do some capital markets work. I am currently in Mumbai but am shifting to Delhi due to personal reasons. Applied to T1 firms but they didn’t take me. Please suggest some good capital markets firms in Delhi that might be hiring. I am interested in equity work.

I've been seeing many posts on reddit and other forums about how JGLS's Cutoff is higher than expected , and may people are failing to get the 5 year programs and are instead being offered a 3+3 year program. I got admission (thank the lord) but I think its pretty fair how a 20 should be a cutoff at the very least

There is no such requirement. Dont worry unnecessarily . Most graduation certificates will not even list your parents names and even if they do, people are interested in your name and not your mother's. just ensure that your name has a consistent spelling across all your documents.

I recently got to know that because my mum is a govt. employee, my certificates 10th and 12th, eventually graduation certificates should list her name with her maiden name.(bcuz my sister is 10th class i got to know this)

for eg. my father's surname is K. My mum's maiden name is Ch. Usually mother surname also takes K but bcuz she is a govt. employee her name in my certificates should be Ch.

Is there any advice for this predicament or is the name change necessary? i have advised to look into gazette notification or such changes

Any suggestions/advices are appreciated!

You are a bit of a snowflake - read any good legal autobiography and you'll see that this is part of the game, but it's only for a finite time. There is sunshine if you wait long enough.

That aside, if finances are a concern, have you considered academic work? speak to your profs - salaries are not law firm level but still decent! You will probably have more satisfaction with the work.

I am a third year student in an NLU who has recently started interning with chambers as well as law firms. As someone who decided to do law because of a love for the law as a subject, I am deeply deeply disillusioned by the law as a profession. The work is crude and lacks sophistication or intellectual stimulation, atleast until you claw your way to a high level, and the work becomes more cranial. Also, the work at firms seems to be far more dull and boring when compared to litigation, atleast at the associate level. But litigation pays its associates like shit, and i have too many financial responsibilities to do that; the intellectual stimulation:salary ratio is not worth it. Irrespective of a firm or a chamber, the work environment is often toxic, and finally, the worst of all- the work hours.

Putting in 10-12 hour days is the bare minimum, and somehow the entire industry has normalised it. Feel free to tell me if I am a snowflake, or quintessentially Gen-Z, for wanting to have time in the day to myself. For living a LIFE that is not defined ONLY by my work, for not wanting to be under constant stress and pressure, and for wanting to be HEALTHY. Because lets face it- most lawyers are NOT healthy. Physically OR mentally. I am sure there are exceptions, and I have come across some myself, but most lawyers I have worked for/under are overweight, balding, overworked and overstressed. is this endemic to the legal industry in India, or is this the norm for lawyers all over the world? and also- is this only the case for law in India, or are other indian industries also like this? WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE 9 TO 5?!?!? This cant be the rest of my life, holy shit. How are ya'll okay with this?? Please tell me how reflective of reality this is. Does it get better? Are there any silver linings in these dark, gloomy clouds? Or should I expect to be met with only torrential downpour after I graduate.

I'm looking to intern somewhere, preferably with a M&A, PE/VC/GenCorp Team, I have decent internships in my belt, but nobody is replying to my internship applications.

I am more than willing to work with Boutique firms or T3-4 firms (anywhere in the country) where interns can get good exposure.

Unfortunately, there's no replies yet. I know this question may have been asked more than once in more than one way or version, but can somebody just recommend any firms who take in interns without contacts? Or at the very least, reply? Thanks!

In continuation of com men + my earlier → 3rd or 4th best place to practice law in India after, Delhi, number, and perhaps Chennais and bangle Hyderabad d ou or C (latter two are to m good for commercial matters, but lack an original side in their high court. Please pardon for ace smelling me mistakes. (Spelling mistakes). Whoever says that thereis nothing Calcutta, is partially tower but this place still has some best of lawyers in the country) and many young minds who talented are changing stay than leave

As for the original side practice, the work hours are hectic. You would be having about 4-6 hours of sleep in your first few years. Scope of work, though you may not work in the high profile matters, the issues involved would mostly e similar to any other run of the mill socalled high value matter somewhere else.. As for fees, it starts at 500 to 850 Rs per appearance in the hc. That, however, is the lower end as a raw junior almost always get briefs outside of the high court where the fees are Rs. 1500 pee appearance

Seniors here are amazing, many are barristers, or devilled in the chambers of barristers. Post when years, you perhaps want go independent to you would e earning enough to buy a 6- 10 L car on EMI. Seniors, of course don't pay youhowever, it is, bye as told by one with a a bout 10 years of practice charging about 7000 - 10,000 per appearance appearances daily on average, it is neither too bad nor too good.

Yes, for adjournments. I have often been shocked how hesitant and underconfident many T1 law partners (who otherwise end up on Top 100 lists) are when they are put on the spot in courts and tribunals. After a certain age, a solicitor would find it very difficult to build practice as arguing counsel.

Many are exceptional however, and owners / former owners of many IP firms come to mind as great arguing counsel at Delhi HC. As such, my suggestion would be to consider IP firms if you wish to improve your advocacy skills.