Gopal S grandfather = one of the first SC judges (P Govinda Menon)==> Former Madras HC barrister and then judge (pre independence King of the Bar) who then gives all his practice to MK Nambiar (father of find out who). Go read any material about PGM

Yes his father was in the services. But generational privilege is not some linear phenomena!!

Case in point;:

- An NLSIU alum academic who retains his post

- Two Ambedkarite activists (from NLSIU and NLUD) named on social media by various people (one legally changed his name after that, but hasn’t really faced any action: the other got a human rights scholarship abroad)

- Various elite people across all NLUs who were named on social media: a CLAT topper, some star debaters and mooters, etc.

- The incident currently being talked about, which has yet to elicit a reaction from the high and mighty (although Senior Advocate Sanjoy Ghose has now tweeted and distanced himself from the person, saying that he helps all young people looking for career guidance and did the same here).

Sorry to burst your bubble, but NLSIU faculty do not have any outstanding Scopus publication history compared to other top NLUs. Data speaks otherwise. In fact, NLSIU does not even have the highest research score as per NIRF among all the NLUs now. Among JGLS faculty, less than 20% have more than one Scopus publication, despite so much incentives provided to them for such publications.

As of 2025, several leading Indian law firms have initiated or are in the process of scheduling internship opportunities for the LL.B. Class of 2026, primarily aimed at students entering their final year. These internships often serve as a pre-placement evaluation stage, though not all are officially designated as assessment internships in public notices.

Top-tier firms such as Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM), AZB & Partners, Khaitan & Co., and Trilegal continue to offer structured internship programmes throughout the year. Performance during these internships is frequently considered when extending Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs), but the firms’ official websites do not uniformly label these programmes as “assessment internships.” Instead, selection and conversion to PPOs depend on internal evaluations, performance reviews, and firm-specific timelines.

From the corporate and in-house legal perspective, a few multinational corporations and domestic conglomerates have begun shortlisting final-year students and fresh graduates for legal trainee or junior associate positions. However, corporate hiring remains selective and generally occurs closer to graduation, often through campus placements, referral networks, or targeted recruitment drives rather than open calls for freshers.

Summary

Internship opportunities for the LL.B. Class of 2026 are active across leading Indian law firms.

Formal “assessment internship” announcements (with a guaranteed pre-placement pathway) are not uniformly confirmed for all firms.

Corporate legal teams are selectively onboarding freshers, primarily through trainee or internship-to-hire models.

Application cycles for most law firms open 6–9 months before the intended internship period, and early networking with HR and alumni is strongly advised.

Professional Advice for the Class of 2026

1. Apply proactively—ideally one semester in advance of the preferred internship period.

2. Maintain an updated CV, cover letter, and writing sample highlighting core legal skills.

3. Focus on internships aligned with your intended practice area (corporate, disputes, or regulatory).

4. Engage actively on LinkedIn, Bar & Bench, and law school placement cells for verified openings and PPO conversion updates.

pay is same as any other team, work hours are similar to a normal gc team.

Shruti is a genius, as anyone at SAT would tell you and anyone in this space would.

Whether she is strict or not all i'd say is the rumours are overblown but she is like any other partner, reasonably strict but nothing you would not accept from someone that smart.

Prof. Chimini is perhaps the foremost legal scholar that India has ever produced. I cant think of anyone else in India who has made the kind of contributions that he has made to international law scholarship. It reflects so poorly on our law schools that we have not been able to put him to use.

Tweet from Ragahvi:

Some Takeaways (more to follow later): 30+ is the number of survivors who’ve shared their individual experiences of harassment at the hands of Rohin. They include students, colleagues, friends, lawyers, men, women, and fellow trans-queer people.

https://x.com/Lawyer_Saheba/status/1977069589751382157

Raghavi literally has a trans flag and a Palestine flag on her X handle. Surely the left will stand up for her??

Guys, keep an eye on the SIR developments in Bengal. By hook or by crook, Modi and Shah will try to remove Muslim voters in swing constituencies, whether they are illegal Bangladeshi Muslims or legal Indian Muslims. If they succeed, then Bengal and NUJS will be under a saffron regime, because the TMC cannot win enough seats without Muslim votes.

By Jan-Feb, we will get to know which way the wind will be blowing at NUJS. Of course, some will simply switch affiliations.

LKS is like the best place to start for tax. If your interest lies in Tax then go for LKS.

Now enough of the sugar words.

For tax LKS Delhi is the best. They handout frequent internship extensions and callbacks.

So LKS has many sub-departments within the tax team as a whole - it can be DT or IDT (Advisory) or DT or IDT (Litigation).

And LKS aggressively looks out for Tax Associates at all levels.

Getting a PPO would be easy, if you can show to the team that you worth the risk. I have seen teams within Tax going an extra step to make sure their interns get the right opportunity - be it extentions or call backs. But for that to happen give your best shot first.

Note: this is not for BLR but Delhi (NCR)

Good luck.

All the best.

if you have an US passport why worry about relocating there? take a partner along with you, too many people in India.

just hop on a plane and go, nujs is fine but you have to do an LLM in NYU <https://www.law.nyu.edu/graduateaffairs/handbook/new-york-bar-eligibility> and then pass bar there <https://www.nybarexam.org/eligible/eligibility.htm> or you can work at a tuck shop and do JD from any of the state unis there, tuition fee is minimal if you can show some residency, esp in mid west, and pass bar and open an immigration shop, lots of business I hear.

I hear NLUD introduced a brilliant legal writing course for 1st and 2nd year students taught. So is it a credit course or a part of core ? Wanted to pitch it at our uni so wanted more details. Any review and curriculum details would be useful. I have some writing plans so scouting for such courses. Other leads will also be useful from other universities.

Give it, you are eligible. You will be able to devote more time to it now than later. Further, you'll get a permanet licence at the time of enrollment. People who end up in law firms are not per se employees, they are rather there as retainerships. So having a license is not an issue, even if you, while working in a law firm, not end up going to court because say you work in a clerical sector like mergers and accquisitiona

I regularly ask my seniors for feedback, ask them to share their drafts with me so that I know where I am going wrong. They never do. I wonder what they get out of gatekeeping this because if I get access, I won't repeat the same mistakes, but alas. I always get berated for the simplest of things.

The truancy by many teach including some recently promoted professors has provoked the EC to direct that biometric attendance options for faculty and staff should be explored.

But it is also a great way to dish out a juicy tender to WEBEL, which just like the PWD is merely a front for ... Has always been so here and in many other states as well.

Apa acolytes were in Morocco too.

Isn't it strange that despite all the hoopla ever since this SH issue came up or actually from the time NKC took over, all inquiries have been stymied?

VPa had ridiculed the then SJA for raising the issue that univ lacked GST registration and the distance education courses lacking UGC approval had service tax and later GST implications. They even produced an internal document as proof. Later NKC was forced to get the GST registration done.

More recently as with municipal corporation property tax notice, the univ was initially sent a Rs 5 lac or so service tax demand for pre GST violations. Then the univ went to have the same withdrawn and ended up paying Rs 11 lac+.

Why is NKC do reluctant to conduct or allow inquiries and why does the SJA quietly connive with him on this issue as well?

After OpIndia now another pro-BJP website is targeting Indira Jaising over this. Almost as if she is responsible! Very cheap behaviour by the right wing to take potshots at a 85 year old lady who is honest and respected for her work. How could she have known???

But I also think that people need to be careful of endorsing anyone and everyone who criticises Modi on social media. The truly genuine activists are those working in villages and slums, without seeking publicity or social media engagement.

https://thecommunemag.com/rohin-bhatt-indira-jaisings-superstar-junior-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-transgender-colleague-no-response-from-jaising/

Please don’t try to misuse this as a forum to make the tired argument that Scopus doesn’t matter (to indirectly flog NLSIU and Jindal profs, and justify non-publications by other law school profs).

Scopus does matter because QS rankings and several internal assessments by universities look at it. Scopus is like Duckworth Lewis in cricket: imperfect but the most feasible objective standard and the most widely followed one.

And this standard confirms that BS Chimni is a star!

Also, you are deliberately misquoting Chimni. His criticism is against American law journals that refused to publish articles by TWAIL scholars in the early years. It was a different time then and things are gradually changing. American academia is becoming more diverse. Also, US law journals are student-edited, which creates this problem. Even many US professors have commented that the editors of Harvard Law review etc do not appreciate articles on non-US legal systems.

“So how does one analyse a tenure like this? There seems to be no clear answer, and a range of people have categorised him differently. I prefer here, to adopt, Prof. Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s analysis of the man, for I find it most appropriate – “The scorecard approach in relation to Justice Chandrachud rests on a category mistake. It goes something like “X number of good judgments, Y number of dubious ones.” Justice Chandrachud was more artful than this kind of arithmetic would suggest. Like the Prime Minister, he could throw a dollop of glossy paint on a building while letting the foundations rot with judicial termite. In retrospect, the good judgments performed exactly that function: They keep the veneer and the form alive, to allow us to pretend that we might still get justice from the Chief Justice of India.”

Ultimately, we must look at Justice Chandrachud’s tenure as one that has damaged rights overall, leaving our judiciary poorer in the eyes of its citizens.”

https://forum.nls.ac.in/nlsir-online-blog/a-quixotic-quest-for-justice-chandrachuds-legacy-on-queer-rights/

You have ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ it appears. Can't you see the connection between nepotism and caste? Caste system is the longest running nepotism scheme in the whole damn world.

More than half or infact even more wealth is concentrated in the hands of the UC aka Savarnas. So in a society like India, nepotism and caste are deeply interlinked and inseparable.

Re Government jobs, I don't want to do a government job, nor do I have the aptitude for it. I work in a top T1 Team and they all think I'm UC, because of my UC aesthetics lol.

do you even know how much percent of the jobs in India is reserved? What is the size of the economy and in that what miniscule fraction is reserved? not that reservation is a poverty alleviation scheme. I doubt with your available thinking resources you'd know that. If you feel called out, it's because you enjoy the privileges of caste even now, while publically claiming or even not believing in it.

Till 1970s our family couldn't own the land we worked, we didn't have title. In 1945, the local landlord who is a UC, gave a feast to the village, people of my family had to eat from a hole in the ground.
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So you can ▮▮▮ and sit this one out boy. You guys are just up there now on flimsy flimsy grounds, you guys are all ▮▮▮.

So a guy who got ppo in jsa told me that you have to dod hk assessment first and they screen application via that. I have already completed the assessment and the comments have been great! but it is not moving forward. its been more than a 2 months now. What to do? tried cold texting partners on linkedin but no response

Ok grown up boy, maybe you are worth your salt (which may describe your hair as much as it does your abilities), but a surprising number of EPs aren't. And if you think strategising, building relationships and trust can only be done by EPs then shed your woke mask because clients (yes then ones longing for an EP to woo their trust) are not going to be convinced by Linkedin posts about how you've embraced AI and are now competing for world domination.

The email sent by Raj outlining Professor (Dr.) Chimni's achievement needs to contain a disclaimer. Professor Chimni has been denouncing the Stanford-Elsevier 2% list and does not believe that exclusively looking at SCOPUS-indexed journals merits any distinction. He has authored for all kinds of forums and regularly authors for OUP/CUP/HUP, with some of these publications not being counted in SCOPUS indexes and thus not being considered in Stanford-Elsevier. Ultimately, Elsevier has nearly monopolized the publication market by forcing almost all institutions in the third-world to focus on SCOPUS publications for QS World, THE and other rankings. One must bear in mind that there are more than one way to know a great scholar and teacher. In Professor Chimni's case, his name precedes his reputation: everyone knows that he is an outstanding scholar, an outstanding ex-administrator, and above all, an outstanding teacher, mentor and inspiration.

There is a podcast called the Bombay Bar Association podcast. In one of the videos where Soli Dastur was interviewed, he said that having an independent practice has many advantages, and the first few years of struggle are worth it since it pays in the long run, and pays far more than what any law firm or company can offer. I believe from what you stated you can see where you're going wrong

Quite an unfair assessment. I am ex-ALG too. I do not agree with the firm on quite a few things, but one thing is for sure, I wholeheartedly disagree with the review. I have sat in the basement which this ex attorney is talking about, and let me tell you, it's perfectly fine. The washroom on the ground floor is kept clean. What I don't understand is that why is the management [with whom I strongly disagree on a lot of things] responsible to upgrade its infra - which is fine by most firms' standards? Where does this entitlement of having an infrastructure to your liking come from? If the infra is a concern, may be then, one should have the capability to join a tier 1 firm like Khaitan or Amarchand. Why come to a tier 2 firm? It's rich that in a field that people do not get jobs easily, you get to complain about a firm that does quality work, just because you don't like their discipline and infra. Btw, my friend who is still there tells me that the attorneys have access to the washroom on the upper floor too.

Every good lawyer should know how to do and excel at even GRUNT work, particularly if you ever decide to venture out and start your own practice. If you're smart enough, you'll learn something even from GRUNT work or something what may seem as mundane like submitting weekly Court Case Bulletins.

The tendency of kids these days to be entitled about the work that they "should get" and the infrastructure that they are entitled to, is utterly rich and misguided. Start a firm of your own and you'll know.

Despite my disagreements, I am thankful to the firm for the quality work that they taught me in a span of 5 years. All of my ex colleagues and I stand apart when it comes to the work we do cause of the training we have gotten at the firm. No shit, that I have done a more variety of work after leaving, but the quality of mandates have been excellent while I was there. That has helped me to go head to head with giants in our industry. I of course, don't believe the firm is perfect, I would have wished for things to be different at my time at the firm too, but credit where credit is due. It's a good place to learn the ropes if someone is interested in IP. They have a good set of clients. You have to have a thick skin for sure, though - but that's true for any firm. I am not commenting about the top management because I don't know what the person who posted experienced at the firm, but objectively from an infra + work point of view - the place is definitely good for starting a career in the field of IP. It will be hard for anyone to find a firm that checks all boxes. If however you are young, driven and have a thick skin, it's definitely worth getting a job at he firm. Despite having left the firm years ago, I still tell young ones to apply there.

When you write that the "entire firm is poisonous" - it clearly shows how biased your opinion is. Why do kids these days use so much hyperboles, btw?

hi, ik it feels like hell rn, and it's like looking at a mirror. i'm almost in the same situation as you with acads even worse (i failed one subject my first year and seems like second year is going worse). i tried to participate in comps - none worked out and costed me the few friendships i had. i still want to work hard and achieve the said dream and i still feel like it might happen. i hope you feel better, this is just the beginning (im assuming you're in the second year too). there are ways you could turn it around, at least academically. i'm fully convinced i'll not recover socially though. i hope it gets better man

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The Left is filled with sexual harassers. Remember Raya Sarkar's LOSHA list?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/meet-raya-sarkar-the-south-asian-student-who-made-a-list-of-predatory-academics/2018/03/02/1d7691e8-168d-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_video.html

IIULER Goa is not an NLU. It is not owned or funded by Central/State Government. It is a Private University under Section 2(f) of UGC Act. Moreover, IIULER Goa illegally joins CLAT Consortium by violating the Bye-Laws of the Consortium itself (Full Bye-Laws is accessible in CLAT Website). Only "NLU" can join Consortium but IIULER Goa somehow illegally joins it. If we enquire about that to Consortium or even if we file RTI Applications, no one is responding. They are just deceiving people and CLAT Aspirants by misbranding IIULER as an NLU!

I am very sorry for what you are going through. This excuse of "performance related issues" is more often than not bullshit, especially when it comes from these Tier 1's. Many actual "non-performers" are tolerated in Tier 1's merely becuase they suck up to the partner, tolerate being treated like a doormat, and some of them have compromising material / are aware of the dirty secrets of the higher-ups in the firm hierarchy. I know of someone who was similarly kind of let go - in their case, the firm made it clear that they did not want this person to continue for other reasons, and they cited performance as a reason to let them go. The person was rejected in several interviews and was jobless for a year, and they later got to know it is because of negative feedback that was given by the firm which let them go (during background verification). Then finally, they got into a Tier 3 and worked their way up, and now, they are a Senior Associate in a Tier 3.

All I can tell you is never give up. You may not get into a Tier 1 immediately, but you can definitely try Tier 2 and 3 firms, brush up on your knowledge thoroughly (not saying you have not done it yet), come across as confident (I know this is difficult, but can be done), and please do not give up hope.

Pull out all stops, including, but not limited to, reaching out to all possible contacts (anyone in the Tier 1 which let you go with whom you are on good terms / whom you can trust), legal recruiters, any big contacts you may have in the judiciary, try everything possible. There are many kind partners out there (at least in Tier 3 firms) who like to give people a second chance. Good things happen to those who do not give up.

NKC will definitely continue with EC support. Despite the South Kolkata Law College fiasco no meaningful action was initiated against the college Principal and the management committee members who bent rules to allow that monster and his gang to run amok for years. No action against police officers who did nothing about FIRs lodged earlier. Leave alone opposition, even the regime members were not spared. At least two honchos involved there are also present in our AC and GC.

No real action against the Cal U law dean who did nothing bfr and after the monstrous acts got exposed this time. Instead he even tried to detail the inquiry. Sure he was removed from the inquiry but what else? What about his role in dodgy entrance tests and admissions and the BCI affiliation delay? And that man has the gall to personally come to NUJS and hand in application for the VC position. It takes a certain amount of confidence born of tacit political backing to do all this.

NKC stays on or goes, it's gloomy days for NUJS. Either we will get someone like NKC or worse or some messianic fellow who will do the same damage under the cover of discipline, quality and similar chicanery.

He thinks firing people will solve the issues. The problem is with his perspective. Instead of acknowledging the genuine issues with this firm and taking steps to correct it, he tries to create fear.

That was the difference between RKL and MS. RKL earned respect of the associates by actually listening to their issues. MS on the other hand tries to create fear and force respect.

If he was about to host a "Townhall" on Sunday, he could have actually waited before firing the poor associate. But his aim with the Townhall is not to resolve at all. All he wants is to create fear and force people to respect him as if all of us (including senior partners) are his slaves.

Today you will fire one associate, tomorrow 50 others will rise. And there are better ways to post on Legally India without getting caught or traced and everyone is smart enough to do that. Instead try being a good person. Try addressing the issues which lead people to resort to such means so that people don't feel the need to do it.

There isn't much students can do with this divide and conquer thing. And why blame students only. Just look at how even the faculty treats BScLLB folks. Despite the politeness of the few, they all agree that BScLLB stock have lower CLAT scores etc. Many faculty members even question their access to campus recruitment since their focus should only be in Crime and Forensic tracks and not corporate jobs (going by the actual nomenclature of the BSc track)

Apart from BBA, another track on BA LLB with focus on use of AI for court management and litigation is also in the offing. This is likely the Adjudication track that some judges in the EC and elsewhere want.

It will sort itself out. If it gets to be too much - then take a break. BUT the work gets easier every time you do the same thing again. Your first SHA is the toughest - as is your first DD.

Just remember that all those who now seem confident also had to struggle with what you are struggling with before they got comfortable with the process.

If it gets to be too much, talk to your partner / SA. Everyone remembers their struggles and most will sympathise.

Mukesh is legit big shot. While haven't seen him much active (and that's why did not name them in firm list), there are some partners also, who are there. Please do your verification because there were some comments here on people who possibly interned or worked there that the work is lot of articles writing etc. But having said that, Mukesh is someone who is extremely respected in tax field, by clients, practioners, Government and internationally as well. So just need to do your verification.