Hey! I’ll be interning with KCO for a month under the Noida office, but the internship will be virtual. Since I’m hoping for a PPO, I’m wondering if I should switch to another KCO office where I can be physically present. Which KCO office would you suggest I switch to for better chances of getting a PPO....Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, or another office?

Could anyone please guide me on the colleges one could consider for part time PhD in law? Ones that wouldn’t have a strict on-campus stay requirement? RGNUL and NLU-D have strict on campus requirements. NLS does not have the concept of part time PhDs. I came across NALSAR which divides its compulsory classes across weekends, etc.so working professionals can be easily accommodated. But I haven’t been reading very positive reviews about NALSAR inasmuch as there are alleged administrative delays, high attrition among professors and delayed completion of PhD. GNLU offers part time PhD as well, is it good? Jindal seems like a good option too. Is anyone here pursuing/ has pursued part time PhD and can please guide?

It is a niche field, yes; but the situation is not as dire as it has been made out to be.

TMT is a broad bucket (abbreviation for Telecom, Media, Tech). The term was created when there was growing sectoral regulation due to advancements in these industries, and existing laws were not sufficient to fully address the issues arising therefrom.

Over a period of time, and in particular, more recently, TMT has been used to cover any upcoming area of law - Fintech, Media and Entertainment, Gaming - essentially anything that may have an interplay with either the T, M, or T. As pointed out above, this primarily includes data privacy, telecom, media, and tech regulations.

Certain TMT teams have specialised focuses - for instance, Harsh Walia at Khaitan & Co specialises in Telecom. Jaideep Reddy from Trilegal and Smita Jha from Khaitan & Co focus on Fintech and Crypto. This does not, however, mean that they do not advise on other areas of law that form part of the broader TMT bucket.

IPR, being a separate field of its own, has separate specialised partners that work in the industry. It is very rare to now see an IP team also advise on general TMT laws. You could argue that the AZB IP teams do broader work than just core IP, and therefore, are TMT teams. However, they continue to be characterized as an IP practice (whose core focus would be trademarks, copyrights, and design prosecution work, along with transactional support to their corporate and M&A teams).

The opportunities are fewer given that the number of partners in the industry are limited. However, if you make it to a Tier 1 practice, the pay is often at par with other corporate teams. Your bonus will directly depend on the amount of work your partner brings, and a function of how well you bill (or appease to your partners). There is differential pay in certain "IP" teams but the pay still exceeds what is paid by pure boutiques.

Lots of issues with Sheela Rai. She does not even share the teaching plan that is supposed to be shared at the start of semester. How are students even suppose to know the syllabus? Makes personal comments on students for silliest of reasons. Should be shown the door for betterment of everyone.

Is it true that T1 firms don’t hire freshers in the disputes team? I am from the batch of 2028 in T2 NLU and want to pursue only disputes and was looking at options to apply for an internship so that I can land a job. Need advice. PS: Suggestions on boutique firms or chambers that pay decent and hire freshers.

I wasted few years in Neet drop than had no idea of clat and other career and did bpt (physiotherapy). Now physiotherapy though from Top college still aged and sad as it has very less scope not much jobs plus pay like 15k to 20k max. Also not many professor or academic jobs so pg and phd may go waste too.

Main goal is government job but getting afraid seeing so much competition and so much people giving every single exam and unpredictable pattern and all of exams.

Just started prep almost at zero want to be someone or something soon as arranged marriage age and all ending soon and got no luck at love as weirdo shy though ok looking. No model maybe just average looking.

Pls help each day is hard as no job.

My school people are in law got into top nlu now in tier 1 firm other got in iim and now in bcg and McKenzie etc. Sorry for spelling idk. They were all commeerce.

Few science ones got into iit and one even did upsc other in ssc dentist doctor mbbs etc.

And I failed though was smart and ended up a physiotherapist.

No money for business or anything. Not even for iim would like to get fms or tiss as poor.

NLSIU won't support it, because they are way ahead and don't want benefits for others. Also, the fact that Sudhir had pulled out of CLAT and conducted his own entrance shows his disdain for other NLUs. It was also contended by them (via Vikramjit Banerjee) in the domicile reservation case that NLSIU is a national law university and others are state university because CJI is Chancellor of NLSIU.

I've heard of people interning at SAM as well, aside from t1's they are a lot less stringent, Wadia is infamous for bulking up primarily through assessment interns from June/July after you graduate so they get 3 months of free labour from you.

I don't have a proper list, just going off what I've heard from friends who have been through the process.

Preparing for an upcoming interview.

I know it's commonly advised to read the law well.

Just curious to know if there's anything that one should be mindful of while making decision about the next boss - like the internet is full of 100s of advice on how to crack the interview but no one tells you what to look for in the prospective boss. How to judge the interviewer as a boss? Especially when this factor is most crucial in deciding where one may land in the future.

My interview is for a mid level position (SA/PA) bracket.

Remember this guy? Smirking on TV?

https://lawbeat.in/top-stories/large-amount-of-cash-reportedly-found-in-london-criminal-lawyer-vijay-aggarwal-detained-1623649

Analyses things like? As someone who was part of the placement cell, they shortlisted as per practice area preference and ranks and then took a 15mins/candidate interview with hardly any technical questions. I don't know what big analysis they have done or what kind of real talent they could discover in those 15mins of interview + a mechanical shortlist.

Boston University’s own College of Communication published an article about Abhijeet Dipke and identified him as a BU graduate. Other independent reports also confirm that he completed his master’s at Boston University. What more proof exactly do you want?

https://www.bu.edu/com/articles/com-grad-turns-cockroach-insult-of-india-youth-into-massive-online-movement/

Now your turn: show us the official academic record or course documentation establishing Modi’s “Entire Political Science” degree from Gujarat University. Not a press conference, not a certificate displayed by the BJP, but the university record showing that “Entire Political Science” was actually the name of an academic programme.

If you’re asking for proof from the other side, the same standard should apply to you.

The NIRF 3 top NLUs have now spoken out.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcLzs-dgsat/

Someone is lying. Either the VC or the students. Who is it?

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nlsiu-v-c-denies-claims-of-meeting-student-delegation-amid-convocation-row/article71360939.ece

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

The smart play is to take it. Chuck the embarassment because when you get confirmed as an associate next year, you will be making more than what an A3/SA would typically make at an unknown boutique - not to mention working on matters that would be far, far more valuable on your CV. All the best on the new beginnings.

1. No work in entire term.

2. Delay in decision so much that students don’t remember they asked for it

3. Handle student protest sleeping in VC bungalow waiting for students to get tired and leave

4. Boot lick judges and chief justice to keep the post safe and get second term

5. Small coterie of admin and faculty surround him/her. No system or process for anything

You guys can add more.

As someone interested in arbitration, I thought of taking up the nlsiu post graduation diploma for it but unsure of what exactly it'll help me achieve - is it valued in CVs for arbitration based roles (at arbitration centres)? Or is it purely academic with not much practical use? Suppose I wanna shift to a different country (Singapore/Dubai) in an arbitration based role, I'm wondering if this course will carry any relevant weightage/influence in getting me selected. If anyone has undertaken this course previously, kindly provide reviews as well (it costs almost 2 months of my earnings as a fresher but I'm considering this as an investment - hence, want to know if its a good one or not worth it)

Would love suggestions for firms where interns get to actually work on matters and learn through research, drafting, and other substantive work, rather than just doing routine/administrative tasks.

Also open to recommendations for other boutique firms or practice areas that offer good learning exposure.

Kannad-A-, not Kannad please. And yes, while Christ and other Bangalore college graduates dominate, it’s not “just South Indians” there. North Indians in Christ also get placed. It’s mostly because those from Delhi Mumbai stick for 1 year in Bangalore and go back to their home cities. Also very rarely do no Bangalore kids intern or afford to intern in Bangalore - and most jobs in Blr are internship based. You take Khaitan Bangalore - 80 percent of partners are North Indian. Like wise, Trilegal’s big corp partners as Kosturi Ghosh and Arjun Ghose. Sound South Indian? It’s not bias.

The campaign caught steam around 2018, but seems like it's been abandoned since; the sheer number of protests across all NLUs in recent times has clearly exposed the structural issues with how NLUs work. If NLUs hope to become even a fraction of IITs, IIMs or AIIMs, then nationalisation seems to be the need of the hour.

Hi, a few weeks ago, I (~2 year PQE) gave a technical interview for an in-house position to the company's GC-led panel. The round was very intense, with a lot of granular, procedural, as well as conceptual questions on subject/practise areas I have never worked on (and had admitted it so to the panel as well, but still decided to take a crack at them).

I am wondering what does this read as? How important are questions in such high-level technical rounds? Should I hold out hopes?

Would love to hear thoughts on this.

Thanks!

:)

Per se, it did not look like a face-off and more like both lawyers kowtowing to each other - GSanks more so. And honestly, GSanks looked a bit out of place in the debate, and understandably so, since the Hindutva debate and the brouhaha around it are not his forte either. In any case, it was an ideal model of how debates are meant to happen and not the ones they show on Prime Time.

I would still say that you should apply anywhere you can get an opportunity - by hook or crook. For each law firm TMT vacancy you apply for, there will be 20 candidates with relevant practical experience - and more often than not - from T1 law schools. To be brutally honest, an LLM in IPR from anywhere in India is seen more as a minus than a plus in T1/T2 law firm circles (since people will assume that you couldn't get a foreign LLM).

Just apply to any and every opportunity you find by tailoring your experience to whatever the vacancy is for. It will be slightly difficult to explain why you're doing an IPR LLM and still applying for a gen corp vacancy, but it'll be ten times harder to even land an interview for a TMT team at any decently paying law firm team with an Indian LLM.

If you're dead set on IPR, then yes, realistically, your best shot is boutique firms and litigation chambers that pay less than 40-50k per month, and hope to work your way upwards from there. It's not an easy journey, but I earnestly wish you the best of luck.

I completed three rounds of the interview at Trilegal Delhi Office, first one being with the Partner, drafting test and the Senior Partner round. It has been 6 weeks since then, I haven't heard back, the HR is saying they are still internally deciding the candidates. They are not rejecting me also, saying that they will come back to me. I am actually very confused, what is this supposed to mean, as the feedback was positive after my last round with the Senior Partner. Would appreciate any help regarding this

Such a poor attempt to garner attention from anons. The dashes scream ChatGPT-assisted post, and yet the typos scream poor command of the English language, despite being the scion of a hotshot in the corporate world. And the fact that the Prince has to go online to ask for help rather than seek counsel from within his family is an idea I find very hard to digest.

I am Bo'27 and recently got a PPO at the KCO Mumbai office

I wanted to know when will KCO send out offer letters and can anyone explain what does 'retainer basis' mean?

Also do we have to do a mandatory internship or will we be directly posted as an A0?

Any insights shall be appreciated!

How can a competition lawyer transition into GC / M&A teams without discount of experience?

Which T-2 firms can be considered who are more likely to not discount the experience but will give a pay cut which is better than a discount of experience?

Should T-1 firms in non-T1 cities also be considered?