I think everyone should switch from Cap Marks to other areas. I did that midway and It has been the best decision of my career. Now I am a Partner at a T1 not having to deal with the monotonous, mechanical work that Cap Marks involves. Too many students these days want to do Cap Marks for god knows what reason

ucas application is a common application for all UG degrees in the UK. There is an essay that you need to write where you have to say why you want to pursue this particular course. Then they give you 6 choices for unis. Each uni will assess your essay, your school leaving scores, any exam (like lnat, bmat etc.) scores and offer you conditional or unconditional offer

for oxbridge you will also have an interview for all ug discipline, most other unis only take interviews for medicine and allied subjects, although lse did take interviews for ug law a few years back

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/jun/14/18-bjp-rajya-sabha-mps-including-10-union-ministerslikely-to-contest-2024-elections-2584828.html

Reportedly being considered for the Anandpur Sahib Ludhiana seat. Historical if it happens. He will become the ever NLU grad to get a Lok Sabha ticket and that too from the biggest party. All the more impressive is that he is a non-nepo kid (unlike the girl from NLSIU who recently won in Karnataka). Winning will be very difficult, but he may have an outside chance if BJP ties up with Akali Dal again and if Congress and AAP split the anti-BJP/anti-Akali vote. In fact, this happened in 2014. AAP and Congress each got around 29% vote share and Akali Dal (with BJP support) won with 31% vote share.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi donated 2 cr to Jindal, but it’s peanuts if you think about his net worth.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/nandan-nilekani-donates-rs-315-crore-to-his-alma-mater-iit-bombay-infosys-4136114#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scconline.com/blog/post/2021/08/13/tnnlu-kicks-off-2022-batch-placement-drive-with-trilegal-offering-positions-to-11-students/amp/

The picture at TNNLU does seems to be decent considering this is a bonafide post. Can equate TNNLU to the range of NLU-O and NUALS.

MNLU Nagpur is the only MNLU that is consistently getting space in State Government's Annual Budget every year.

Most Prominent people in the State Government come from Nagpur.

Nagpur has support from the Biggest Politicians in the State and the Centre.

The Bias is justified because Nagpur has been neglected for too long (since years of previous governments which focused only on Mumbai and Pune.)

Since, Nagpur now remains the hotbed of development in Central India, Opportunities are bound to come by someway or the other.

Nagpur now has almost every institution of national importance.

Trolls here may spit venom saying no law firms want your grads. Chill.

Our Ministers have successfully tied up with Investors from Dubai and overseas to create a new business ecosystem in Nagpur (Read more about SEZ MIHAN). Their expansion plans scale higher than budgets of Tier 2-3 cities.

MNLU Nagpur is expected to find employment in the new projects that are coming from Overseas in MIHAN SEZ.

I don't think MNLU will have to remain dependent on 'marquee' traditional law firms; Nagpur is changing; The economy is blooming and Trolls on Legally India are sleeping in their sweet dreams thinking that MNLU is shit.

In essence, MNLU Nagpur is surely an exceptional case if external economical factors are considered. Surely there is fertile ground for growth there too.

It now depends on the Administration, how they maneuver through the opportunities and sail their way. Possibilities of them failing in this job aren't eliminated still, but given the factors hope, of growth is clearly visible.

Again, people who are not from Maharashtra, needn't make hue and cry on the internet by simply reading articles and posts on Legally India (This platform can no longer be trusted). Dude, wake up to reality. We are Maharashtra The biggest economy as a state in the entire country. Mumbai is our City and you know the rest. Unlike other states, we are already in the biggest economy (as a state) in the country.

Dividing on the basis of States isn't my job. I too love my Nation more than Maharashtra but the Trolls on this platform won't listen the other way.

Imagine NLU Nagpur's ranking when it gets its campus ready and fully functional. Go find images of the prospective campus on Abin Studio website. NIRF significantly considers campus and infrastructure in their ranking. (NIRF being good or bad is a different debate.) FYI : JNU comes 2nd in India even when they feature no great placements. Campus is the reason (1000+ acres) !

PS: MNLU Nagpur has been closely working with SAM. Go check LinkedIn. SAM partners are judging their in house competitions and are giving lectures there. Ask me for links. You'll find MNLU Nagpur's post on both SAM's and NLU's LI page.

Jay Shree Ram 🙏

HNLU has released its placement report for Batch 2023 (Recruitment-Report-Batch-2018-2023.pdf (hnlu.ac.in)

Detailed breakup:
S&R Associates: 4 offers
Trilegal: 6 offers
AZB: 5 offers
Indus: 6 offers
Khaitan: 1 offer
SAM: 1 offer
L&L: 1 offer
Spice Route Legal: 3 offers
Veritas: 1 offer
Wadia Ghandy: 4 offers
LKS: 2 offers
ICICI: 2 offers
EY: 4 offers

I don't know about that. Especially the comparison with NLUJ and GNLU. In terms of percentage of the batch placed, it's on par, if not ahead, of most older NLUs except NLS. In absolute numbers, it's behind and that's because it has always had a smaller batch. Only 80 kids every year till 2020.

Hi, I have written there for internship twice in different semesters. They have an automatic generated reply which is verbatim the same while rejecting an applicant without providing any reason what so ever. Lexygen seems to act like an inclusive organisation on paper and on web, while in reality, just an exclusive club looking for Tier 1 NLU students. They have not given me an interview despite interning at multiple Tier 1 Firms and under in house counsels, probably on the basis that I was not from a Tier 1 NLU. But yeah, their loss.

M7/T15 don't get preferential treatment in India. Won't make sense to go to an expensive school just to get a job in India and earn the same amount as an IIM graduate. Perceived value won't make a difference in India while getting a job.

The only reason for getting a foreign MBA is either to settle outside, or wanting a foreign degree, or having flexibility later in life to work in a foreign country. Foreign degree in India fetches you the same compensation as an IIM degree/diploma. Even with a foreign MBA you will be hired for the same position as an IIM grad. The only difference will be that you'll have spent more than 5x amount as an IIM grad.

There might be some outliers but this is the general trend.

Do not get a foreign MBA if your main priority is working in India.

It is a very toxic place to work at. Especially someone early into their career. Do not believe a single monetary commitment until it is written and confirmed on paper. They underpay a lot at junior level and there is a lot of backstabbing and groupism. The work is enriching and you will learn a lot, good place to learn but everything else is a shitshow.

The law school ranking quotient for corporate placements are as follows:

NLSIU>NALSAR>NUJS>NLU-D>NLUJ>GNLU>SLSP>JGLS>NLUO>NLIU

Barring these top 10, go for: GLC, ILS, HNLU, RMLNLU, NUALS or TNLU.

Please avoid: NMIMS, Amity and its counterparts.

Yes very true. But I will like to point out that a 3 year gap amounts to someone graduating at the age of 25 as well , if he/she graduates high school when the person is 17. Doesn’t matter at all. Year gaps or drops don’t matter. If one is graduating within the age bracket of 24-25 , it’s perfectly fine

There people here who were initially hired as Trainee at law firms but weren't hired, though they liked your work and attitude
I have a story where the student was initially given an assessment after graduation but was not hired due to no vacancy, this was intimated during the last week of the assessment period. Thereafter, due to the student's work performance, a Traineeship for 6 months was given till there is any vacancy. But the said traineeship was cut short to three months (intimated 20-25 days prior) due to not being able to meet their branch financials. Now, the firm has hired someone else.

Hey there,

Thank you so much for your inputs. I am cent percent sure that I want to pursue a career in corp law. It's just that, at the moment, I'm not able to gauge/chalk out whether I'll have good or at-least reasonable outcomes at the end of my 3 year LLB. As far as NLS 3 year LLB is concerned, well, it started just a year back in 2022, which means no data is available insofar as the placements are concerned because the pioneer batch will graduate in 2025. I have other career avenues which I can explore, but I really really want to go for this program. It's really disheartening to learn that I won't be getting the same opportunities as the folks at 5 year LLB programs. Since this is a new program no one can say for sure how things will pan out. I just want to make a well informed decision because 3 years is a long time and I'll have to take into account the opportunity cost associated with this direction if I chose to go ahead. Thank you for helping me out tho. Really appreciate your help.

Universities and College Admissions Service is a private company altogether. However this is the generally most preferred application by almost all UK university which acts as a gateway for international applicants to breakthrough. It will put you forward and universities always check UCAS applications first. They are always preferred over individual applications which are usually very hectic.

https://www.ucas.com/

https://www.studyin-uk.in/uk-study-info/ucas/

Remember taking the lnat is always preferred along with your UCAS application. Pay the fee at a requisite time. Previous year it was very reasonable for me. So that won’t cost a lot.

Coming to your question - the CLT exam which was required for Cambridge has been waived off by the university itself. They accept LNAT only. So don’t worry about it.

I mean , just mention that you want to be an esteemed leader in the field of policy-making and that may include ministerial positions. You want to blend power and honesty to enhance productivity. Don’t go directly mentioning that you want to become ‘prime minister’ or ‘CJI’. It sounds childish. Your ambition will make your destiny , true. Don’t be too direct about the designation.

Even if you are from Mumbai and feel that KPMSOL/Navi Mumbai is more lucrative than JGLS/SLSP, please rethink law as a career for gods sake. Professors are not experienced, attendance is very strict, placements are nil and the common perception of our college for the tier 1 as well as tier 2 law firms is very bad (you can check the other thread to be better informed):

https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/204235-honest-opinionreview-about-nmims

More than half of the batch regrets taking up this mess of an institution without considering all the factors in light of the same. The Navi Mumbai campus is worse and the same cannot be argued for very obvious reasons.

This will surely be an advantage. If you are at NLS and can do reasonably well in academics then you have a good chance of getting hired as you have work ex as a CS. Try publishing papers/blogs in good reputed places as well. That will help!

If you are not at NLS then focus more on getting internships, which would be tough tho!

In the first 10 batches of NUJS, majority have always been non-Bengalis. That's a fact.

None of the other reasons you mentioned yo justify AILET is convincing or objective. As for NLSIU, they didn't hold NLAT after that, right? All NLUs are free to exit CLAT now, but they didn't. Only NLUD remains outside. That's because of greed, simple.

So sad for my Oppas i will miss them so much Saranghae, but they are so brave to enlist in army while being the top global celebrities currently that too in their prime, imagine anyone else enlisting in army while at the prime of global superstardom, and many guys (mostly Indian men) still hate on them for being too damn handsome and all the girls fawning over them, (like literally every single girl), while stanning Salman Bhoi the road rager, While BTS are UN ambassadors spreading world peace

Let’s not keep randomly equating NLS and Nalsar. In the past, this may have been true, because both the places were considered equally rigorous and prestigious, but with NLUD’s rise and NALSAR’s stagnation under FM, NLS is way ahead now under Messiah.

Topping at a place like NLS is a whole different ball game to doing well at NALSAR. Even more so now since NLS will have a massive 300-odd batch in the BA LLB course. The toppers in such a course could destroy other toppers from NALSAR/NLUD/NUJS any day.

Sorry, but NALSAR hardly has much better faculty than its rivals NLUD and NUJS. You clearly don’t seem to know much about the faculty at these places if you’re just passing such random comments. The funds did help in infrastructure creation though, allowed them to set up the new business school and what-not. And half of NALSAR’s 6 Rhodes were during the RS era, and the last one was way back in 2015. NUJS has already caught up with 5, 3 in the last 5 years or so.

Sorry, but Noojies and Nalsarites are experts at living in the past. NLUD is pretty much a solid second and the honestly, third and fourth are interchangeable with the other 2. You can shout NIRF data issues all you like, that doesn’t take away the merit and achievements of students at NLUD.

Joining Projects team as an A0 at a T1 firm, what should I expect in terms of work, future scope, transferability between firms, growth prospects, etc.?

Also, any recommendations on how to prepare for it beforehand (I’ve not interned with a Projects team before).

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

As a Nalsarite who's known him on multiple levels and had the opportunity to sit in his classes too, I can confirm that he's possibly the best professor that nalsar has had the pleasure of having, in recent years atleast. After the departure of Prof Dhanda, there were very few brilliant academicians left at nalsar anyway. Now, it's all going down the drain.

While most partners are nice, some would benefit from learning to delegate better.

Among the nicest ones is Deepak Jodhani. Extremely considerate and appreciates good work — but doesn't tolerate nonsense. Similarly, if you can maintain hectic deadlines, Purti is a brilliant person to learn from!

Otherwise, in general, I've heard great reviews of GC5 & GC2, too.

This individual sounds like a serial molester. If this is actually true, I'm pretty sure there will be others out there who have faced something similar or even worse.

The OP can atleast make an anonymous Twitter ID and post the sensitive information under #MeToo, and then the link can be shared to this thread too. I don't think it'll really affect LI's policy adversely. Is that doable @LegallyIndia_Mod?

I mean, there has to be further inspection on this, right?

someone posted this

This article shows that Luthra and Luthra’s profit margin were almost 30%

https://www.legallyindia.com/lawfirms/saraf-warned-luthra-corp-profits-might-drop-from-rs-43-cr-post-covid-arcelor-loss-of-rs-42-cr-partner-books-20201106-11753

If SAM and CAM make revenues of around 1000 crores and most of the equity is owned by the
Shroffs as mentioned in the court filings of Shardul Vs Cyril Shroff wouldn’t they each be making close to 300 crores