On this subject, a post today by lawyer

Zeba Zoraiah, a Jindal grad and influencer:

As someone who studied at Jindal, I’ll say this upfront: I had some phenomenal teachers - scholars who were rigorous, centrist or left-leaning, and genuinely invested in shaping how we analyse law and state power. I owe a lot to them. But parallel to that, there was a strand of pedagogy that treated ideology as fact where being Hindu or male or Indian was framed as inherently oppressive, and classroom discourse felt imported straight from American campus activism. Academic critique is essential. Academic absolutism is dangerous.

https://x.com/ZZoariah/status/1998624336769659054

If someone has a long-term goal of building a career in litigation, where is the best place to begin? Should one start with a Senior Advocate, a chamber practice, an Advocate-on-Record’s office, or with a disputes team in a law firm? Which of these offers the strongest exposure and learning in the early years?

Can't believe the capital markets lobby in law firms will allow SEBI to get away with this. Law firms will lose a great source of revenue if this practice area is taken away. Is SEBI overstepping it's jurisdiction by barring outsourcing? Across all jurisdictions like U.S, U.K historically law firms have always been part of the issue process through due diligence and drafting.

One of the worst places to intern. They will make you work for months without offering a position. They prefer lateral hires and do not even participate in Day Z. The firm is extremely top heavy, and at the associate level there is essentially no scope for growth. If I were an intern I would not expect much from there.

I have absolutely no regrets about choosing to stay at my home instead of opting for hostel accommodation. While the men from my own batch at least made some effort to maintain a veneer of civility in public, the junior batches seem to have abandoned even the most basic standards of decency. It’s disheartening to witness such demeanour, and frankly, it reinforces my view that most Indian men ARE the problem. Top law schools would be off with much stricter checks on the intake and conduct of cis-het males

Unlike in the West, our roads are terrible and unsafe. That's why all wealthy people have drivers. Even if you live in a city with good roads, it's still worth it keeping a driver. No rich person self-drives. So why buy a two-seater sports car? Because you will have to either drive yourself or sit next to the driver (the second option kind of disrupts the class hierarchy).

The media has reported one case of a non-law student with a 1 crore scholarship at Columbia being denied a visa. He holds left-wing views and has criticised Israel on X. But we only know of this case because he went public about it and spoke to the media. Perhaps there are many other cases we don’t know about, because the students didn’t go to the media?

Which then begs the question about NLU/Jindal students with US LLM admits. Many of them espouse left-wing views on social media: anti-Israel, anti-Trump, pro-Zohran, pro-AOC, pro-LGBTQIA+ rights etc. What’s been happening to them?

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indian-student-kaushik-raj-denied-us-visa-despite-rs-89-lakh-scholarship-at-columbia-university-101759761592899-amp.html

5th year intern at a Sr Advocate's chamber - have no college classes rn, so with him.

I reach court around 10am, and am with sir till 4:30pm when court gets over. Would again sit in his chamber for an hour perhaps till 5:30/6ish, for any conference/work given and then go home, and again back to his chamber at 8/9pm - and there till the conferences are there, usually till 12. Thereafter, back home, and work again maybe for an hour max.

Repeat again. Weekends are slightly relaxing.

Salary/stipend? oh none. But i am getting to work and learn, and also get used to the lifestyle of what is coming to be.

Over time, people always recognise the difference. Teams & clients naturally gravitate towards those who can actually add value, and the self-appointed “bosses” eventually expose themselves through their own work (or lack of it). In law firms, courts, or anywhere else, substance always outlives bluster.

It is worth it if you focus purely on the academics and networking part of college, moving around to do other things on campus including college societies will take up enough of your time and sanity thereby excluding you from the top 10% (conservative figures). College offers good opportunities to grow and learn along the way and eventually get yourself in a good spot at the end of your final year depending on whether you want to pursue law firm jobs, practice or go for masters (abroad or domestic) provided you remain focused on your goals, there are many things on campus that can distract a person.

That being said, if you have got admission in any other college at equivalent levels, you should go for them, placements have not been the strongest suits of SLSP as of now. Wishing you the best of luck!

I was from the very first batch of the LLM-IBL Course, you will not be getting much assistance in placements and internships, it would be something that the students of the batch work for, on their own.

IICA also caters PGIP much better than the LLM-IBL batches and their placement methodology is also geared towards PGIP (opportunities being mostly from ARCs and IPEs). Hence, it does not work for LLM students who wish to pursue profession of Law in the Commercial/ Corporate fields.

Fee wise also the 14L which were paid by 1st batch could not be redeemed due to lackluster management and non existent placement drive. I don't know the situation about the second batch though and a third batch has also started.

Both the institutes are not inclined to make much efforts for the long term success of the course, which is evident by the course covered by IICA which is not beneficial for LLM scholars and will be better for someone who wishes not be a Lawyer but a compliance professional.

This is despite the constant feedback the student body has given to the institutes for providing a competitive course structure which can actually be beneficial for post graduates.

See if you can get into the LLM in Insolvency course introduced by NLU Delhi as it also gives you a PGIP certification (although its first batch is yet to be completed and their results are yet to be seen).

You are better off avoiding the NNL-IBL offered by NALSAR and IICA.

Hello LI, I'm a final-year law student at a T3 NLU, needed some advice. Received an offer from CAM recently, and am leaning towards disputes. Which location would be better - Noida office or Bombay office? Metrics of consideration: Matters, People and overall potential for growth. Please no trolling, genuine advice needed

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These are people who spent their teens watching Andrew Tate. Social media has radicalised them into misogynistic and violent creatures, in the same way it has radicalised ISIS terrorists.

We need to identify them and send them to rehabilitation programmes, because their misogyny is a DISEASE that needs to be CURED. No placements for them until they complete a de-radicalisation treatment and get a fitness certificate from a psychologist.

Look at their business structure, OP Jindal made cross holding in each other's business, no brother can burn other brother without burning himself, also a decent stake in all business is with Savitri Jindal who will not let brothers spar with each other. OP Jindal was wise beyond his years, he used game theory to its best and made a structure where they are incentivised to work with each other and suffer actual losses if they decide to cut off each other while still being able to maintain healthy competition. Look at Jindal Group structure and you will see how well it is executed, really hats off to whoever came up with it.

I’d say Day 3 interviews were not even based on personality, they just asked us “we’ve read your CV, what else is there apart from that which would interest us” and “why did you choose these practice areas?” Apart from that, they weren’t interested in asking any questions whatsoever, so in my opinion, it completely depends on the counsel who’s taking your interview. (The interview only lasted 5 -7 mins at the end because, the counsel was not interested in taking more time and, there was no HR round. So, I guess, choose some points about yourself that would impress them in that short amount of time.) This is as far as Trilegal Interview goes. Khaitan’s shortlist is yet to come out, so can’t speak for that.

Fresher recruitment for the batch of 2027, along with a MAJORITY of PPOs and Campus Placements will be given in and towards the end of 2026, not 2025.

At least let your seniors secure a job first :(

Don't be impatient, the Tea will be hot next year!

Oh yes, your grades are everything. Realised in a hard way that unless you're from a privileged background, don't involve yourself or show yourself openly aligned to a political ideology.

The Jindal wedding and even examples from the legal profession is an example. I mean some politicians from a certain party abuse industrialists day and night but when they wear a senior advocate's robe they're the one burning the midnight oil to get relief for them in SC and HC's of the country.

And the example of people fighting in NLU for politicians damn. Education isn't equal to wisdom and this example proves that, Indians whether highly educated or uneducated are emotional fools who can easily be exploited by the system and they would rather die rather than acknowledging the same.

A basic education in economics will tell you that a falling local currency against the global currency is not only a problem, but an economic catastrophe. We are a net importer of oil and gas, paid for, mostly, in dollars. Therefore a falling rupee against the dollar makes oil expensive and therefore everything expensive (as the entire modern civilization is built on usage of oil). Separately, India doesn't have much to export. It doesn't have a tech stack unlike US, EU or China, and nobody is spending a time om Indian body shopping IT services companies anymore. Further, a falling local currency makes foreign investors exit, as they cannot make dollar gains, even if the market does well. This has been demonstrated by incessant FII sellings. The Indian markets have been one of the worst performing markets this year, massively underperforming even other emerging markets.

Reddit will comply with Australia’s under-16s social media ban, due to begin on Wednesday, but says it is “legally erroneous” and “arbitrary” in its effect.

The company argued to the eSafety commissioner that its platform was a source of information, not primarily social media.

Documents obtained by Guardian Australia reveal the company said it was “not centred around real-time social networking among young people”, but rather a “pseudonymous platform organised around sharing information”.

Reddit announced on Tuesday, one day before the ban was due to commence, that it would comply with the law. But in a post on the platform that confirmed the decision it also outlined its objections.

New users in Australia will be required to provide their birth date on signup, and existing account holders will go through an age-prediction model, Reddit said.

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In the letter the company argued it was not a social media platform as defined in the law.

“The sole or significant purpose of our platform is to provide knowledge-sharing in timely, context-rich conversations; interaction between end-users is simply an incidental step to enabling this primary purpose,” Reddit said in the letter.

Reddit is a “pseudonymous platform organised around sharing information in topic-based communities rather than personal profiles or social networks,” the platform said.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/reddit-to-comply-with-australias-legally-erroneous-under-16-social-media-ban

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/reddit-says-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-legally-erroneous/articleshow/125858240.cms

How is the work culture and general atmosphere in the b'lore office (team dynamics, hours, work–life balance)?

Insights on international disputes team?

How is the pay at the junior and mid‑level associates?

I see a lot of hiring, does that reflect high attrition?

S&R fails to provide definite career progress. They use junior lawyers and then toss them out when convenient, because the organisation fails to make space for them at the top. Stop hiring juniors and messing with their futures when you already know that few years down the line you won’t be able to offer them the seniority they deserve (and have worked for) - at that point they will toss out this lawyer and hire a fresher, use them for few years and then repeat the same cycle.

She convicted Pulsar Suni, a petty criminal, and five others for kidnapping and sexually assaulting the actor. She, however, acquitted prominent Malayalam actor Dileep of charges of hatching the criminal conspiracy, a verdict that will now raise questions on the fairness of the trial.

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Now that the verdict is out, it is important to revisit the controversies around Judge Honey, including accusations of political bias and the long dispute in the actor assault case over her concealing a 2020 forensic report that showed that the memory card with the assault visuals had been illegally accessed.

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Honey Varghese is the daughter of MM Varghese, the former Thrissur district secretary of the CPI(M). She began her career as a junior to Advocate KB Mohandas in Thrissur, practised in the district till 2012, after which she was appointed as a District and Sessions Judge through direct recruitment.

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On December 1, 2022, Malayalam news channels aired a brief clip from a speech that Judge Honey delivered at an event organised by the Kerala Social Welfare Department. The judge is heard saying, “We have a notion that a prosecutor’s job is to secure convictions for all the accused. Conviction is not their responsibility – their responsibility is to society.”

The comment, on its own, was not extraordinary. But it made headlines, because until just a few months earlier Judge Honey had been facing allegations of acting against the prosecution in the Kerala actor assault case.

https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/the-judge-behind-dileeps-acquittal-who-is-honey-varghese

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/judge-honey-varghese-dileep-case-actress-sexual-assault-qlo5anyi

Shashi Tharoor left the Congress-I leadership red-faced by attending the presidential banquet hosted for President Vladimir Putin, despite Rahul Gandhi ji’s non-invitation—an omission widely read within the Congress-I as undermining his political relevance. Congress-I spokesperson Pawan Khera resorted to mild expressions like ‘hairani’ and ‘kamaal’, rhetorically suggesting that Tharoor’s attendance betrayed the ‘antaratma ki awaaz’ supposedly residing within every Congress-I party member.

Which brings me to the big question: Is Shashi Tharoor now a free agent on borrowed time within the Congress-I? Or does he, in fact, enjoy the quiet blessings of a parallel family faction within the proprietary folds of the Congress-I—allowing him to proceed undeterred? A part of me is tempted to believe that he does enjoy the blessings of Sonia Gandhi, who finds herself, understandably, caught between a rock and a hard place.

Lets discuss this - https://youtu.be/PReFgT393hI

See if capital markets is supposed to be easily replaced by AI why hasn't it happened yet? I am sorry you don't understand the amount of money and pull capital markets practice partners have. Most of them manage teams with high numbers, and bring in huge revenues. You think they will just allow AI to seep in? For example SEBI proposed to revise

ICDR regulations, and now even the revised ones are minor changes. Drafting of IPO, QIP documents itself is a art, if AI can do it, why do clients approach firms. The work may seem mundane but it is very intersectional once you go up in the long run!