I agree with all the other fair criticisms of the CCI and how it’s being run currently but isn’t this a good thing? The concept of an authority both filing cases and adjudicating them always seemed absurd to me. If you look internationally even the FTC stopped filing cases before its administrative courts (even though they had independent judges there). More broadly this concept of quasi-judicial authorities with politically serving non-judicial members has made a mockery of the Indian judicial system (including most notably Indian competition law)

Is anyone here attending the Infosys Legal Executive Group Discussion tomorrow or sometime this week?

If you do attend, could you please come back and share how it went? It would be really helpful if you could mention:

- The GD topic(s) you got
- How the discussion was conducted
- The duration and number of participants
- Whether everyone got a chance to speak
- Any tips or observations about what the panel was looking for

It would really help those of us who are scheduled later. Thanks in advance, and all the best to everyone attending!

They won't help you in any significant way for most traditional career paths in the profession. Anybody who knows what an LLM course is actually like knows they aren't of any value. Perhaps the tag. If you can afford to spend that kind of money on it, that is.

Of course, there are two major exceptions to this. One, if you want to work in academia. Two, if you want to do specialized policy research that requires a specialized LLM area. This goes for any kind of job that requires particular specialization, not just policy, to be fair. But these kinds of jobs are extremely few in number.

So if you're thinking of pursuing corporate law/litigation, no, they are not of much use. However, there are some niche areas apart from academia where they may help, but I'd still say its worth is not even close to the amount of money you put in. Unless you get a scholarship, of course. In which case, enjoy your paid one-year vacation.

This advice is both helpful and unhelpful.

Helpful because it gives a good suggestion as to the direction you might want to take in your career. In fact, it gives you a pretty clear roadmap!

Unhelpful because it is a paradigmatic situation of doing the working correctly but still arriving at the wrong answer. Therefore, only 3/5 in my book, I am afraid. At the end of the day, all manner of skills, experiences and abilities can serve as helpful indicators as to how or why you may make a great commercial lawyer to a recruiter. Chess can equally be one of those skills. Indeed, one of my best friends is a trainee at Linklaters London office (also got a TC offer from Clifford Chance) who mentioned having played chess competitively representing her uni on her law firm applications and they were quite impressed by it.

So by all means: develop your skills in a practice area. But do and talk about other things that make you memorable. Loads of folks follow this exact roadmap which this response to which I am responding has suggested. If your application can be the one which follows this roadmap and adds to it by talking about your chess experience and if you have done well, then so much the better for you, I'd have thought... after all, that extra thing is what sets you apart from the others.

NB: I don't play chess so don't understand it and what you might have achieved in it. (Tried to play when I was younger but somehow couldn't take much interest in it.) Therefore, the only thing I'd add is to take this advice I have given with some caution if you haven't done awfully well in chess, and you don't see any prospect of yourself doing so in the future.

Are there any meaningful differences between the M&A, PE, and VC work handled by Mumbai and Delhi teams at top-tier law firms?

I'm particularly interested in differences in deal size, quality and complexity of work, cross-border matters, and overall learning.

If there are any differences between both does it show up more drastically as one becomes more senior, or does it largely even out over time?

Hello Everyone.

I am a Delhi based Lawyer and due to certain personal reasons, I have to switch to Pune.

Can anyone tell me how the Legal Job Market is in Pune?

I have heard there are various MNCs in Pune, but I don't know how to reach out to them about Legal Roles.

It's already happened recently, and yes it involved Prof. Nagaraj again - https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/law-university-students-show-up-in-shorts-after-v-c-says-women-shouldnt-wear-them

I am sorry but this no. of 60 lakh per hour of conference is not believable. Even Mukul Rohatgi only charges 5.5 lakh for half hour of conference. Kapil Sibal's fees includes one free conference. He only chages for extra confefences.

60 lakh is even unheard of as appearance fees . Gopal charges 25 lakh for single appearance and is charging 60 lakh for conference is not believable.

Someone from my batch failed in only 1 elective after writing repeat. Now they cant graduate just because of that one elective. All his batchmates graduated. Nls is asking to take him re admission and pay entire fees. He even asked for revaluation of his answer sheet no one is replying to his query. He's parent's cant afford to pay fees.

How ridiculous are you people? You’re fighting over whether it should be called a hunger strike or a protest fast? How does that matter? Focus on the core issue and give praise to NALSAR students for having the courage to protest. It takes a lot of courage to do these protests, because you may be persecuted.

Wondering whether it is useful to stay for some time in a disputes firm and then join a chamber instead of joining a chamber directly after graduating. Are there any tangible benefits to going down the former route? For context, money will not be a big concern for a few years after I get my degree and I am reasonably confident in my abilities regarding research, drafting, and framing of arguments.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Speaking only for compliance team- They usually take from campus placements and i would recommend looking for alternate/better opportunities as soon as possible and keep this as a backup. While the job is comfortable it will not give u the skills to move to a law firm or in house role. More importantly they will stick you to either client facing/compliance role basis the geographical location of your colleage and not ur skills/preference. Even within those teams there are sub-areas and switching is not easy. More importantly since there is such paucity for opportunities in this field you can only switch from big 4s-big 4s. At the end of the day it is a personal decision to have a comfortable career with significant wfh with smaller opportunities for growth or come to the other side.

afaik:

CAM: 5 (across locations)

AZB: 1 (mumbai)

LKS: 5 (tax) + 1 (Corp) (bangalore and delhi)

Trilegal: 1(mumbai)

These are all campus recruitment figures and not PPOs, apart from this I believe LKS and Tri also handed out assessment internships on day z

Choosing an internship purely on the basis of who pays, and how much, is a fairly shortsighted way to begin a legal career. At that stage, learning should be the currency. A genuinely good internship can give you far more value than a token stipend ever will.

Also, do not get carried away by a firm’s marketing machinery. We unfortunately live in a time where visibility is often mistaken for capability, and some people are better at selling the image of good work than actually doing it. So, ignore the noise and examine the content. Speak to former interns, juniors and people who have actually worked with the relevant partner (may be tier 1 firm or tier 3/4 firm - doesn't matter). Ask what work they received and whether the experience matched the public persona.

dont expect anything out of the internship unless you have a connection with the partner or the main guy (SS) will definitely interfere even after that, HR is pretty much useless and comes with shit all rules , the best associates and somewhat even the bad ones have left the GC team, also no stipend, you will have no team its a pooling mechanism yea pretty much and don't even think of working with the ▮▮▮ (ifykyk) no matter what.