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Spare us your spew on "equality feels like oppression". The reality is the current generation of men is eating the dirt for the past generations sins as we force a remedy on work force participation rates in white collar jobs with some power and prestige.
We also know why it suits management to hire women (for various financial and better left unsaid reasons). Just like why Indians are preferred in management roles in the US and why white woman control client facing roles.
They are more "manageable" and "predictable". They keep clients on "hook". Thats all skill too, no doubt. Wish more people admitted it rather than play into sociological semantics and culture wars. Men worth their salt negotiate hard and take more risks - so there is a cost associated to having them.
AI is making people lazy. I see people at my first using it for basic take like drafting an email just shows the level of underconfidence.
Unethical to charge your client if your draft is nothing but a humanized version of an AI output.
Just the other day, I was able to put together the first draft of an entire complex agreement using AI. I had to burn about 15K worth of credits, but it was well worth it in that the quality of output was very much worth paying 15K for - and it did that job in about 4 hours - while even a very good PA / SA would have taken atleast a day with no guarantee of quality.
So what does this mean for you and anyone else who is starting out in the profession:
(a) Judgment / understanding context beyond the written text / being able to think deeper and more comprehensively - those will be skills people will look for in the future. So focus on understanding commercial context, understanding different approaches to solving complex problems, understanding why something is the way it is. In my time, you had no way of accessing this knowledge or even knowing what to ask. Today AI can take you quite deep and act as a thought partner.
(b) A natural caveat to that is that lots of juniors and lawyers in training are using AI as a substitute for thinking and understanding, simply because its easy to get answers from AI and then repeat it. This will be the biggest cause of down-fall for young folks coming through. If I ask you for your thought on something and you just repeat what AI told you without understanding (and trust me - we know), then why do I need you - I can just train an AI to respond to me in those situations. So that is what you will need to avoid.
All of the above, notwithstanding, there will always be space for human lawyers - its just that drafting has gotten a lot easier - so I guess that's something. But again - like (a) and (b) above, you have to draft ground-up before you can use AI to do the drafting - so keep in mind as well.
Hope this helps. Happy to answer more questions.
Work is infinite, so I don't think hiring will be a problem.
Listening to AI doom trollers cost many people a guranteed job in the US earning 6 crores a year on average.
88 hours it solved a mathematics problem? they stole the answer and then blackmailed the HUMANs who actually solved it.
AI will kill mind numbing work, now the sad reality is most corporate jobs were mind numbing work, if you were possessing the skill set of having sophisticated language while doing nothing more challenging than a white collar employee, you will get swallowed alive, if you have a brain that functions, you are good.
the recent doom troll about AI killing humans was something these AI bros were spewing in the 1980s saying its a few years away since then, they will say it in 2070s too and your grandchildren will be hearing the same nonsense, its just IPO hype.
The twitter post that kicked this off came 7 minutes after an article from WSJ quoting the guy leaving anthropic, he said the CEOs downplay the AI risk? Bruh those AI bimbos have been going on and on about how AI will kill all of us for ages, this year both dario and sam have said in podcasts how AI will kill all humans but they're downplaying risk.
everyone in AI is incentivised to make AI seem better cause all their employees got paid in stock options which only have value if their ipo next month is going to go well.
Further another aschenbrenner who runs a famous trending doom troll and then decides to start a company with billions in funding is also likely in fact most probable.
Look at guys who have left big AI wings like Yann Lecun who won a turing award btw, who says AI cant compete with cats let alone humans in terms of reasoning and rationale.
Thoughts, folks?
You have labour law partners openly saying POSH is being misused. You have courts saying dowry laws are being misused. Even in the US title ix kangaroo courts are being recognized and sued. The weapons against men are slander and manipulation damaging reputation. So please stop treating women oppression historically and worldwide as currency for you to spend.
Writing a random comment here is definitely to ruin someones reputation and low tier power games. You havr options and resources - use them. Other pleae stop your whisper campaigns. I dont even know who I am defending but try having a half decent conversation with men - they take everything you lot say with some salt. ▮▮▮
I felt the same during my law school (Tier 2 NLU), and I really hope my advice may be helpful to you.
If you are truly interested in the intersection of law or any other field, then yes, please go for it. Having said that, I am sure you are putting in all the hard work; just in case you are not, I feel the truth is that studying law is, at its core, not so enjoyable for everyone. But the fact that you are where students dream maybe you can put in your efforts and graduate with good grades, as that is a must for venturing out to any profession. You must have worked hard already, so you know that studying does increase confidence,, not just marks. My core idea is, enjoy, but please acknowledge that law is essentially mundane.
I might be wrong, but the intersection of law and a creative field or any field, can be mundane. Marketing is equally stressful to pursuing law. I do not know if you are interested in them genuinely or because law seems tough, so you are looking for a way out. If it is a latter case, yes, law is tough, way tougher than clearing CLAT. But it is a series of subjects only, which are completely doable. Look for ways to make it simple for you, there are YouTube videos explaining each law subject and yes, YOU are SMART & COMPETENT , THAT IS WHY YOU ARE THERE. PERIOD.
perhaps focus on getting enjoying, good grades, interning at different courts, firms ( but do not build your cv look too haphazard, someone consistency should be there). I fell in love with law way too late, but more than loving or enjoying it, treat studying as your KARMA , which has to be done ( NOT AT ALL THE COST OF YOUR MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH).
You got him.
Now, N'joy.
we as an ibc team just not do only IBC and related stuff (some lit , some procedural).
but many of it comes from either other teams
IBC as a practice is good but not suggested to make a carrer just soley based on this trust me
as far as lucrative part is concerned you will see what all those shing things things has been shown that RP this IRP that is all bshit.
for earning 10 s you have to literally giving work or time for 100 hours as its too procedural and lit side used to be good earlier but now its just stagnant ( vohi same repeated orders)
i will myself switch to Arb or IRP
Anyone got the masala chai, dhokla and khandvi?
Warm regards.
the paralegal position exists as well, its for graduates and pays 65k a month, it's just almost never given out but some teams chose to take associates if an urgent vacancy arises through this route as it is a reduced cost and helps them assess the individual prior to confirming them.