Interesting strategy but I doubt how effective it will be. Might have been more effective to target law students and focus on the lack of jobs.

https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/top-5/bjp-adopts-segmentation-strategy-to-tap-anti-trinamool-sentiments-170507/

https://x.com/PoliMarketer/status/2023633093081670065

Does the institution where one completes an undergraduate law degree in India significantly impact admission chances for top LLM programs abroad?

If a student maintains a strong academic record (top rank), secures quality internships, builds research exposure, and obtains strong faculty recommendations, how much weight does the college "tag" actually carry in the admissions process?

Does the institution where one completes an undergraduate law degree in India significantly impact admission chances for top LLM programs abroad (e.g., Oxford, Cambridge, NUS)?

If a student maintains a strong academic record (top rank), secures quality internships, builds research exposure, and obtains strong faculty recommendations, how much weight does the college “tag” actually carry in the admissions process?

not true, AI is not going to cull hiring, humans are the best at fear mongering, tech companies with ai wings themselves dont replace their workforce with AI, less than 3% of job loss worldwide last year was claimed as due to AI, 5% in the US and most of this is also just claim AI so your share price does not take a hit.

Most tech companies are rehiring their workforces so AI is not doing anything.

Waited enough to build a cash reserve. WLB is better, but still just as boring. Will probably do an MBA sometime soon, but even that seems a different kind of boring tbvh. Litigation might be interesting, but haven't really built that kind of a risk appetite yet.

My advice would be to pivot to litigation if you do really wanna do it - it becomes harder and harder as life goes on and you start a family. Can't let that money go for nothing.

While the above response paints quite a rosy picture, it ain’t all that.

The professors who made an attempt to understand the subject allocated to them and thereafter teach it to us, have all left. Most of the teachers half ass it out here coz manpower issues.

Placements are shit. At least they were for BO25. Opportunities for direct recruitment are few and far in between. Mostly you’re out on your own.

That being said, enjoy the city and moot as much as you can. Unless you’re into academia, chuck the papers. Bide your time doing something better / more productive.

~ graduate, employees at a T2

Earlier elite families from metro cities went to NLUs and other government colleges. Now they either go abroad or to Ashoka, Jindal, Shiv Nadar etc.

NLUs and other government colleges are today packed mostly with student from lower-middle class backgrounds and tier 2/3 cities.

This demographic change will is going to have enormous consequences.

I thought of applying for Army JAG but I imagined part of the work will be defending court martials for crimes against humanity and such. Even Air Force has sketchy record with bombing Aizwal and all. Sounded too harrowing for my stomach.

At least Navy that way has limited record and scope for CAH, in India at least.

Perhaps they're educating you on how good you have it, especially compared to them (very true if you're not in tier-1). The bonding when reminiscing about misery comes from many shared peer experiences at work where joking about / laughing at your situation together is the only accessible island when you're otherwise drowning in an ocean of work and toxicity.

Why does everyone always answer these type of threads with fresher numbers? Can someone do this at PQE level 5+? Some of us want to know how underpaid we are despite having experience - most of those without experience are likely grateful to land a job rather than caring about pay.

> has a dream

> achieves said dream

> isthisallthereis.jpeg

> dream looked better as dream not as everyday

> looking to chase a different dream next

> definitely won't end like last time

Some people need to realise that as much as they like the chaotic pursuit of success, it is the calm at the top that is the goal, not the adrenaline of the process.

You are thinking like a gambler.

Do not gamble with your future.

It does not pay.

@LegallyIndia / @mods

Why was the point on Admin redacted? It was a direct answer to what OP asked. I understand liability and the overall chilling effects produced by Indian law limit what you can reasonably be expected to publish, but I doubt the ENTIRETY of my response to Q5 was libellous without exception? It was quite a bit!

You can also consider qualifying why this is marked contested, i.e., which parts specifically you believe are contested and what the contestation specifically consists of.

Suddenly HNLU is showing great signs in mooting with recent Jessup India rounds win.

Earlier became FDI regional rounds winner.

Qualified for Oxford price media and Oxford IP moot world rounds!!

And have been continuously achieving winners and runner up position in national moots as well!!

As opposed to the Indiana Jones esque adventure filled life of the average litigation lawyers in dirty district courts? Atleast tier 1 folks have clean toilets to shit at and foreign trips to go to. What about your average lit bros mostly working for free and living off their parents till they're 35?

Hiring is good, lots of attrition so lots of vacancies. Work culture varies by partner but is average at best. Not as bad as it could be, but far from perfect.

Lots of telecom work for NN's team, otherwise data, e-commerce, AI mandates across all partners. JR has a focus on fintech and crypto too.

You do work across teams sometimes, but generally each team has clusters which manage mandates between themselves.

If you really enjoy TMT work, Trilegal TMT is your best bet, no other office gets this kinda work. But the amazing work is buried between bad hours, an average culture and way too much telecom.

EY GDS is one of the worst jobs- once can do after law school. Pay is bad- job is completely clerical. No lawyer worth their salt should ideally do this.

My suggestion is that you switch asap to a law firm/ company. However not sure how the breakthrough will happen as not much relevancy of work experience.

Hello everyone! I'm new to this platform and I'm here to seek advice from those already in the field. Pardon if I sound too informal at any instance. Heya everyone! I need real people opinions and not AI encouragement so here it is:

I have two choices.

1) I failed CLAT 25 and 26. I'll be 21 this September. Should I give CLAT? I'll leave if I get a T1 NLU but then, I'll be 21-22 when I start. Is my experience gonna suck in the classroom? Will I be alone or smth? Will people look down upon me? I live in an abusive household (won't go into details warna crime patrol hoga)...it will be both my passion and escape; but I want brutal reality.

2) I finish my BA and somehow hold myself together till 2028....and do a 3 year LLB. Too late and I'll have another trauma bundle but if it's better than the first one, okay.

I need suggestions and advice. Please help.

Good assessment. To add my two cents, I would say that the lower end of family income among Jindal students is 80 lakhs to 2 cr pa, the average is 2 cr to 10 cr pa, and the upper end is upwards of 10 cr pa. There are a few with income below 80 lakhs pa, but these are a small minority on loans and scholarships.

I have been working in a T1 for three years now. I'm mind-numbingly bored most of the time. I used to think that it would go away if I did big deals or contracts. Surprise, surprise! It didn't.

I love the people I work with, the team is generally very good, and the partner is very nice—even consciously giving me work from different streams so that I have new things to work on. I have a relatively good work-life balance, my bonus is good all year, and my rating is the third highest in the review band.

But I'm just bored. This job is very cushy, but it doesn't scratch that itch, you know? I just feel stuck and mentally done.

I'm planning on moving in-house within the next year, spending some time there, contemplating, and then moving to litigation if I still feel like it.

I never really thought that I'd feel so shitty because of the job I was so grateful for (still am).

I would appreciate experiences from others who have felt the same and made similar pivots. I would also appreciate tips on how to go about the next couple of years in preparation for moving to litigation.

Dear community can anyone shed light into Trilegal Bangalore's TMT practice? What are the prospects of hiring and how is the work culture?

1- What is the kind of work that they do?
2- How are the teams of Nikhil, Jyotsna and Jaideep distinct from each other? What to expect of each of them?

Can we take work from each other teams as well?

And anything else that I have to know?

Thank you in advance

Its a good college provided you avoid all the college cells (most important advice a decent senior can give you before you join), try to remain within the top 15 and you will be golden by the time you graduate. Don't give in to the PDI marks of the college (you will know once you get in), you can easily score more if you study sincerely. Your academics are far more in your control than you may initially believe.

Its a facade that college cells help you intern and get placed at good places, only a good gpa, quality papers and meaningful moot court competitions help you with that, those telling otherwise just want you to work for their cells so that they don't have to put in the hours.

College gives you a bunch of internship opportunities, time and academic exposure, however it is only for those who want to work for and take it. Nothing comes automatically.

Mooting culture is amazing, make the most of it (I regret not participating in more moots) you will get to experience mooting right from your first year with ample opportunities for national and international representations.

Ragging is not a problem here, strict rules in place and actually implemented.

Faculties will help getting your papers publish in good journals. Start writing from your first year onwards itself, even if they don't get published, you will get a better understanding on how to go about writing papers when the actual time comes, which is in and around your 3rd year with your elective subjects.

Good number of companies and firms come to the college for internships and placements, the college has a respectable name for you to not take a drop. Beyond academics, Pune is a beautiful city to spend half a decade of your life.

You will love Symbhav, no other college has a better fest, period.

Just sharing what I wish someone had told me when I first joined, all the very best!

Your fellow senior,

Cheers

When in India then?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/social-media-ban-for-under-16s-could-be-unveiled-in-months-starmer-5HjdSP6_2/

All publicity is good publicity. What looks like “cringe” to one person is often just another person refusing to be invisible. The truth is simple: if you don’t shout your message from the rooftops, the world won’t hear you, or remember you exist.

But broadcasting yourself is only half the game. The harder, more meaningful work is discovering your calling, defining your USP, and shaping a message that’s actually worth amplifying. And this isn’t just for lawyers. Even billionaires understand one basic rule: visibility is never left to chance. It’s engineered.

Now, go watch this and learn from the best, keyboard warrior!

1. https://youtu.be/5kYaisrTo5Q?t=232

2. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QrLWPQcs0EU

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2. Extracurricular support is mid, but not bad. Plenty of HNLU students do very well in moots nationally and sometimes internationally as well!

3. Peer groups are awful. This is due to how reserved seat ranks decrease exponentially as you go down colleges, and because HNLU is a T2 NLU arguably at #6 position overall. Further, the domicile pool (30-40% of batch) is ruinous because the domicile pool is rather low quality due to the state being more backwards than most (as compared to K'taka, Maharashtra, etc).

The All India reserved categories reach really bad ranks by HNLU, and the CG domicile hits even lower ones. ▮▮▮

However, the few all India General students who are in HNLU almost ALWAYS punch above their weight and are excellent chaps - especially seniors. These people are why HNLU gets recruitment, and if you surround yourself with the right crowd then you will be fine. After all, not everyone in the batch matters to you, only those whose company you keep!

4. Societies is an unimportant concern. You will find out as you spend some time at a university. They are all largely the same across NLUs and they do not per se matter as much as the other things.

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Out of all NLUs, MNLU Mumbai is easily the one which had immense potential but will never live upto it. I am writing this post so that everyone knows what kind of college this is. Most of this is because of the faculty and admin, highlighting a few things below:

1. It does not have a campus or hostel. The hostel is around 30 minutes away from the campus and we have a bus schedule. The rooms in the hostel are 3 or 6 sharing. We shifted there in 2024 due to the ceiling of the earlier hostel building falling, but even in this one (managed by YourSpace), we have had instances of fire, water logging and are not even provided meals. Despite assurances by the VC, absolutely nothing has changed (except that the fans are not catching fire again, for now)

2. The placements are non-existent. The Placement Cell of MNLU Mumbai dodges work and accountability. They mass quit because some students expressed dissatisfaction with how they were working. Now they have announced a combined Day Z for the 2026 and 27 batch, but they don’t have any dates or firms in place yet. The 2026 batch has only 13 placements so far, out of which only 4 were through college. This is the so called location advantage. You also cannot do running internships btw due to class timings, and the attendance policy is also going to become more stringent come next semester thanks to our dear HoD.

3. The majority of the students here are from reserved category, and the bar for the faculty is in hell. Most of them are Marathi and all the OG faculty (which was halfway decent) has left. More than anything, the HoD seems to be on a personal mission to ensure we do not get placements. Keeps trying to change the attendance policy to ensure students cannot intern mid-semester, constantly power trips students he does not like, has a talent for hiring the most incompetent faculty, and is extremely political with his leftist ideas. There are literally just 3 professors in this entire college who teach well and do not vilify students in the name of politics.

4. The safeguards for students are also non-existent. There is no internal complaints committee for sexual harassment despite it being an explicit demand in protests last semester, and the professors in it are openly misogynistic. The student bar council was disbanded last semester after protests related to casteism and sexual harassment, but has not been reconstituted.

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It's universally easier for men to make friends with other men. But male friendships do not offer pseudo-intimacy as female friendships can, although they can be judgement-free spaces subsequent to the passage of sufficient time. Male-male friendships overall are trivial to initiate and maintain, and grow rather quickly, as genuine bonhomie and brotherhood only exists there.

Its a good question to ask and I believe the answer isn't as straightforward. I graduated at the the height of global financial crisis and still managed to get to a tier 1 law firm and its a mental model that you can adopt too. If you would like to discuss this further, please feel free to reach through https://www.prashantroy.com/pivot-lab

Don’t believe this nonsense. The majority of the crowd is EXTREMELY RICHH folks- and it’s very in your fae. But that does not mean that people from other backgrounds aren’t there. You will find people from everywhere. I don’t know about business school, but I can speak for law school when I say that people are extremely chill and there’s no judgement or “bullying” of people on this basis. As long as you’re not silly to get an inferiority complex or feel lesser in any way you’ll be okay (because all the money in ur face all the time is a bit hard to digest). But I promise you, you will NOT be made to feel like an outsider by anyone. But having said that, I would not take a loan to study here horrible placement definitely not worth it.

Jindal, Ashoka, Shiv Nadar, BITS are the future.

NLUs except top 5 or top 10 are only worth considering.

Rest all useless and waste of money.

No NLU bigger than Jindal in law.

No Govt degree college bigger than Ashoka in liberal arts.

No govt science college better than Shiv Nadar.

If you can afford, go to private uni else save your time and money and go to your local college.

hello, as someone who’s been there before, there is no fucking up. NUJS has a better alumni network, there’s more foreign/TC opportunities. GNLU is better funded, and growing at an incredible pace. The truth of the matter is that it depends more on the student than anyway. All these unis provide incredible opportunities, and the proactive ones and the top ten percent of the batch will excel regardless of the uni. Stop worry so much about what you choose, and focus on how you will make the best of it. Stay driven for five years, throw yourself into everything the place has to offer head first, and make the best of it.

Your best odds might be in practice areas like Private Client Practice and Capital Markets. There is precedent of firms making last-minute hirings for these practice areas from graduating batches. Simultaneously, I would also suggest applying to various T2s and T3s so you atleast have your foot in the door in order to climb up later.

I don’t think you understand the odds - they have about a thousand students in a batch and 100-150 of them get jobs at graduation. Including connected people. It simply isn’t worth it when you can join local government college - GLC/ ILS/christ/symbi whatever and work your way into a firm. It is better to join any of those places and prep for flat again.

If you work yourself to bone is not a reliable metric so far. We don’t know what your potential is we only know what the track record is which is admittedly not great. It would be silly to take out loans and betting on everything radically changing in the next few years and that too to get into a college that cannot guarantee placement.

When I said gave up tax, never meant it to be 100%. However, the focus shifted to white collar and SEBI and other lit. Vikrambhai or Nareshbhai also never gave up tax completely. However, didn't see Jitu in much tax matters for a while. For porting, possible but a lot of his book came from legacy ELP clients, where Rohit and Nishant had pretty good stronghold. So it would remain to be seen how many new matters port. Though he would be helped by fact that ELP currently doesn't have someone decent to appear. Gopal is doing it but would need some more time.

1. Never take drugs. The path towards addiction is far too easy to go down. Very difficult to then go back.

2. Practice in front of a mirror first. Then practice around maybe a trusted friend, family member etc. Alternatively, if that's not available to you, practice recording yourself - both on audio and video.

3. Adding on from 2 above, repeatedly practice. Religiously. Every day. Make sure your tongue is accustomed to moving in the way it should to get out the specific words and phrases, combinations of words, and/or combinations of words and phrases you need to be saying. The tongue is very much like the fingers. I perform classical music on the piano regularly and give speeches regularly. Both fingers and tongue, from my experience, need no end of practice to make sure they are correctly doing what they are supposed to do on the big day.

4. Your fear is not unique by any means. It isn't that somehow others are magically not afraid. You have to do this despite your fear - that's what everybody is doing as well.

There are a couple of 'modest' or by JGLS standards 'poor' people in JGLS. These guys are LLM students who probably have an annual family income of 20 to 35 lakhs. These guys are poor by Jindal standards.

BA. LLB crowd in JGLS is really rich, when I tell rich they are actually rich. You are better of at another college. You would never be able mingle or make friends - it would be really hard.

Not only Jindal - Ashoka, Flame University, Fancy British Universities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar are also full of really rich folks.

While I was interning at Bangalore High Court - we had a JGLS Co intern. He would get picked up in a chauffeur driven Toyota Vellfire while we used to go to cheap pubs in BMTC buses. He had his own friends group, social circle and hobbies. Like him I have met many JGLS folks - nice people, but really rich and lives in another universe.

Cultural differences are huge. You would never be able to adjust or make genuine friendships. You would self pity yourself throughout college. Try joining maybe Symbi/Christ.

most T1s do informally stop "hiring" after a certain point, although there might be some last minute variants, for example, SAM had approached major T1 NLUs for a certain practice area towards the end, or JSA sometimes unexpectedly does multiple rounds. But I wouldn'

Jitendra gave up tax? Get your facts straight buddy. He is and always has been core tax. He was asked to take on responsibilities in SEBI and white collar which he did by building good teams. But he never gave up tax. More than 75% of his revenue came from tax which he has ported to Trilegal.

I'm sure your partner is a wonderful person, but this is something I've noticed too across most people at my NLU and workplace. For a huge chunk of them, law school and the corp law job that followed is the end-all-be-all of their lives. A lot of people peak in this way when they get their job offer, because they're completely satisfied with this being their life (not that I am in any position to judge what is right or wrong, just pointing out what I've noticed).

I do think the sensationalist discussion on sites such as LI and the mentorship (or lack thereof) seniors provide to their juniors in law school about paths other than corporate law contributes heavily to this culture. Nobody cares about this field except the few thousand that participate in it, but you'd think it is the most prestigious, competitive and handsomely paying career in the world based on how these conversations describe it.