before some dummies come here and say that this is paper wealth, know that if others are willing to buy perplexity's shares at the current price, it isn't paper wealth anymore and can turn liquid any time arvind wants. he probably foresees becoming richer down the line so he wont sell right now i guess but even without selling today, he can take a loan against these shares and enjoy a crazy ass lifestyle.

Begin by negotiating for a 25% increase over your current compensation. This will help position your salary at a level that is typically 1.5 to 2 years ahead of your current pay trajectory within the firm. When discussing your rationale for the increase, emphasize the transition from a consultancy (retainer) arrangement to a full-time employee (FTE) position. Highlight that this change may limit your ability to optimize your tax structure and could impact your eligibility for performance-based bonuses. To strengthen your case, present data on your bonus payouts over the past three years—especially if you are with a top-tier organization—to illustrate the potential loss in variable compensation.

There are three main problems I see with it:

- No focus on communicative English, improving writing skills

- Bias towards the left in subjects like history and socio

- Stereotypical Western view of legal history. Not looking at ancient legal regimes in different Indian kingdoms.

Thank you so much :), and very sorry for the late reply. Adjusting to this new city and culture (nls/blr) has been overwhelming. I will be revisiting this thread in later years of my college and work hard to achieve the said standards.

(I assume the chances of you revisiting this thread are slim btw my bad)

Hi- has anyone interned, or knows someone who has interned, at the Chambers of Sr. Adv. Soli Cooper. What is the work envronment like, and the workload for interns? Does Sir, or his associates, give serious research work to the interns, or is it the type of an internship where you just follow the advocate from court to court (or arbitration to arbitration)?

The specific answer to your question: can't say, really depends on university admission statistics. However, there is one thing that these schools certainly won't do. They won't be as successful as people think they will at inducting kids who go to them into those global elite networks. The logic is obvious, so let's address it point by point - here's the stuff all those people quoted in the article won't tell you, from an Indian who actually lives in the UK.

1. Key point: they are the outposts, "offshoots", not the real thing. They aren't Harrow. Or Charterhouse. No Salopian, Harovian or Carthusians are going to treat these graduates as one of their own. This is because these schools would be viewed by them as fundamentally different. Their "catering to the local environment", operating on a different calendar, adapting of the curriculum... all that makes these guys second-class. For god's sake! George Malory went to Charterhouse - the guy who might have been the first one to climb Everest - we don't know. Obviously, great flex for a Carthusian. You think any Carthusian with even the smallest amount of common sense will allow some Indian interloper to claim that legacy, too? Of course he won't - especially if he is an Indian Carthusian (ie, one who went to the original Charterhouse in the UK)!

2. Culturally, these guys might be brought up to be similar, but they're certainly not the same. Working on Indian dramas in your acting class? Sorry. Unless you're doing the British cannon, you're different in their eyes - doesn't matter if you went to one of these schools, one of the local international schools, or an Indian board school.

3. That ▮▮▮ woman in the article says they "don't care about exams"? Damn it, the British are a society who are very unforgiving of academic failure! If this is true, then these schools are fundamentally un-British in their way of educating people. At Eton, for example, they used to (not sure if they do anymore) have a custom where if you performed badly in a test, the teacher would return it with the paper ripped in a corner to you. Eton publishes statistics about its GCSE (10th grade board exam) results on its website. The universities in Britain don't have this culture of allowing students to make up for failing an exam without severe mitigating circumstances by repeating it, taking the repeat seriously and then performing well in the repeat. You get only two attempts at an exam or assessment in any module/course you take - the first, and if you fail that, a "resit". And the resit is really not much of an attempt anyway, because the universities restrict how much you can achieve in that attempt to and give you the minimum pass mark only, not the full grade. That's unless you have evidenced mitigating circumstances (like death in the family), in which case the "resit" is treated as a first attempt, and there are no caps imposed. I personally saw this happen to a friend of mine while studying at university in Britain and went through the uni's academic regulations (and those of comparable unis), so am not bullshitting. Do you really think a culture like that will be suitable for students who went to a school that "doesn't care about exams"??

4. The comforts described are also fundamentally un-British. Read up on Nehru's writings about his school experiences. Cold showers, for example. One of the bonding factors for British school and university alumni is to talk over those kinds of things: being forced to take a cold shower (because the water heating system was out of order) on a winter's day, for example.

Therefore, from an Indian in Britain (and educated there after school): Parents, either send your kids to the original versions of those boarding schools (12 hour flights away) or send them to a typical international school in India, if you are sure you want them to migrate abroad. Or even just send them to local schools and save loads more money at that stage. If the kids are clever enough and you (and they) play your cards right, as that person said about the hypothetical ISC and IB candidates, they'll manage to get through the British unis nevertheless, and might even secure a job afterwards - there are plentyful examples of such in the legal sector in the UK (Indians who were schooled in the local schooling system, went to unis in the west and are working at high-paying law firms). Because I'd certainly not send any kid of mine to these places.

I don't know much about NUJS but having spent 5 years at GNLU, I can attest to the fact that the quality of professors at GNLU is simply nowhere near NUJS. We have at best 2-3 professors who are actually knowledgeable in their subject and know how to teach. The rest are horrendous.

Competition law practice has no future in India. It’s 90% merger filings, most of which are routine and now reducible to templates and hence threatened by AI. Enforcement is weak.. The field attracts some of the worst lawyers, arrogant, petty, and impossible to learn from. No firm has decent mentors. Freelancers make it worse, poisoning the space beyond imagination. Unless you pair it with another practice, you are setting yourself up for a dead end.

pls guide how the hell do i get it i need this!

what’s the procedure like? or should i cold mail? i’m ready to do anything atp i just want to know what works. are they looking for merit/ academics? do connections work? i have interned at a tier 1 before. i want the noida office, either disputes or tmt. HELP A BROTHEr and dump any info you have pls, any insight is appreciated. thanks

Why is the point they are trying to make so hard to understand? They have realised, based on their previous data about the LI activity of the one whose comment was marked as 'trollish', that s/he is not interested in engaging in constructive conversation. The contribution of this person to this thread continues the same trend! Now let's see if you have the brains to actually try disagreeing with that view, or if you'll just go away grumbling and continue with the agenda of what Sir Keir Starmer KC, the British prime minister, called 'a competition of victimhood'.

No clue what that means. I am only putting across my perspective, and not debating or trying to win a point. Clearly the quality of managers is so bad that they are not even clear about their expectations and therefore all they do is shout back and blame the juniors by saying that the juniors are not capable of learning. They are happy to tell the juniors that law firm is not a school and the juniors should act in a professional manner. However, most of the times these seniors behave like school masters who expect the juniors professionals to ask for their leave before leaving office everyday even if you have no work. They even write off juniors for BO. That is the brand of professionalism they are professing.

a) publish high quality research articles only in scopus journals

b) present at conferences and network with profs who mighe be your post doc host/supervisor

c) look for post-doc opportunities in your second year, if targeting EU/UK focus on funding like Marie curie, BA etc.

d) write to professors in the US, as their system is a bit different, they have uni based funding

e) shadow people who have taken the path that you want to take, find out what they did and try to better them

Context: https://theprint.in/ground-reports/new-british-boarding-schools-latest-accessory-indias-rich/2753964/

Sure. IITD, IIMA, NLSIU, Campion will always be at the top. But these are just the top 1%. What about the 99% others? Gradually losing out to expensive, international-style private schools and colleges?

I am a junior law student and have been called ugly by mostly everyone in my batch and noone talks to me really. This is an NLU. Does being objectively unattractive create bias and issues when considering hiring prospects in litigation or corporate law firms? I have faces issued with project presentations where i am always scored a 0 regardless of my performance and get rebuked by classmates and professors for no reason on the regular.

I recently cam across this blog post [ https://annas-archive.org/blog/ai-copyright.html ]

It argues for shorter terms of copyright protection from the existing ones which extend to decades beyond the authors death. Some of the points they raised were interesting and thought provoking. I was wondering what thoughts other lawyers had on this subject. I might not agree with the national security issue, but generally considering that internet in the present form did not exist when these terms were agreed upon do you guys feels there is a need to change the length of the protections (at least going forward).

I am currently in my third year, and have done pretty decent internships till now alongside being semi-finalist in a decent moot court competition. I have worked with dispute lawyers mostly, and I am confused as to which field of law should I choose as my career. I dont have any strong financial backup with me, and I had took an ed loan of 8 Lakhs, please suggest me how can I choose a field of law to practice in, so that I can plan my internships accordingly.

Not required. In case you want to do Litigation, a LLM from Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Columbia, NYU or Berkeley would be more suitable. Oxford and Yale are strictly academic masters and unlike the others mentioned here - which are suitable for both practitioners, aspiring academics, or an individual who wants to dabble around both, Oxford's BCL is supremely rigid. The BCL does, however, have value in Barrister Chambers in U.K. alongside a LLM from Cambridge or LSE.

MS is not only not paying bonus / increment on time but is also ▮▮▮. There was a PA in disputes at 24 lacs pa and a SA with 8 years of work experience at 23 lacs pa. He has also hired associates at 12 lacs pa in capital markets and competition teams and thereafter hired A0s under them at 18.5 lacs pa. ▮▮▮

Somehow MoGo, FM could paper over all the evidence that SJA had presented before them during their time in the NUJS Review Commission. Maybe that's what gave PIB and gang the confidence because they stumbled on that very evidence when it came before the EC subsequently.

Btw, you may want to check how MoGo got and lost the chair at NLS.

SJA protested this time apparently at the instigation of some faculty members of allegations by NKC in BB interview hold true. And what have those protests achieved, that included a farcical gherao? The VC had a chummy all nighter with his own. He turned it around to his advantage ( just wait for the new SC order) and will be waltzing in the EC meeting on Oct 16. SJA ultimatum of Oct 31 and other juvenile plans will come and go. The SJA deliberately ceded the vantage positions its predecessors had eked out. It needn't be fixed in a sniping position. But remain vigilant and not become a willing tool of a corrupt admin. The SJA must go now for failing to lead with evidence against NKC.

AC composition is set by the Act, which was conceived and drafted by Dr M. Ofc he should have known from his NLS experience that Prof numbers will go up and flood the AC but he probably knew he wouldn't stick around till then.

Two things must change. The SJA and far reaching changes in WBNUJS Act. The latter is structured to be VC centric while students get treated like lambs ready for.....

Noojies should be a little humble about their arrogance. Let's not forget how 10 years back they were shouting that NLUD would never compare to them and today, NLUD is absolutely a far superior institution to NUJS and is ranked higher by literally every law aspirant and nearly everyone else with even an inkling of knowledge about NLUs.

Direct your questions to the search committee, the EC and then the CJI. You could do the same for PIB as well. The point isn't about a contested past (NKC apparently won a case in Cal HC and his lawyer then was a former law minister and father of JA). The reason NKC could send the univ down a corrupt path is because SJA wasn't vigilant and instead cutting deals. But why blame SJA? What did we do when SJA was being complicit and even now? Has SJA suffered any meaningful consequences?

Why not RTI for a copy of the inquiry report? And while you are at it and mining the web, why not RTI the univ for copies of Procurement, Work, Building, IT committees minutes and agenda notes.? Also the univ hasn't been honest with uploads of FC, EC, AC records. The links draw blank on several FC minutes. And agenda notes are missing for the entire NKC period. Our alums had extracted 19 years of agenda notes and minutes of all EC, FC and GC minutes. What stopped our dear SJA folks to continue down that road and noy become conniving fellow travellers of NKC.

Let me point out a genuine and fundamental issue with this firm. MS wants all the communication routed through him. He wants to approve the sabbaticals, he wants to approve promotions, he wants to approve the bonus amounts and increment amounts, he wants to approve even if somebody takes WFH.

WHY DOES HE WANT TO APPROVE EVERYTHING ON HIS OWN. DO THE PARTNERS TAKE APPROVAL OF MS WHILE GIVING WORK AT 11 PM IN THE NIGHT? DO THE PARTNERS TAKE APPROVAL OF MS FOR MAKING ASSOCIATES WORK ON A WEEKDAY? DO THE PARTNERS TAKE APPROVAL OF MS FOR REJECTING LEAVES OF AN ASSOCIATE? NO RIGHT. THEN FOR WHAT GOOD REASON MS WANTS APPROVE IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO TAKE WFH?

MS needs to understand that he is not individualy working with each associate. He is not aware of working hours, mental condition, IQ, bandwidth, work history of each of the associate. In most situations, it is the reporting partner, who knows this information. Yet MS wants to have a final say on each and every important decision in respect of each individual associate's. THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE.

Give more freedom to partners. Let the partners choose who should get the well-deserved WFH, and who should not. Let the partners decide who should get the bonus and what percentage. Let the partners decide the increments.

What's happening is - Reporting partners suck the blood out of associate's life. But when associates ask for bonus, increments, wfh, or any leeway, etc, the reporting partners point towards MS' cabin and tell them to approach him instead. That's wrong.

Think it's gonna happen for sure.

https://www.businesstoday.in/amp/india/story/well-bring-down-50-reservation-wall-ahead-of-bihar-elections-2025-rahul-gandhi-makes-big-reservation-promise-495538-2025-09-24

Agree. I think the argument is that the matter proceeded in a pre-determined manner, given a judge saying something in a interview something different than judgment (which he allegedly wrote). Ergo, does this become ground of his recusal and if yes, rehear the case. The point you need to remember is Arun Mishra's judgment, where he led a CB constituted to hear a reference from his own bench, and despite a very strong ask from one side, he didn't recuse (probably even passed an order to that effect, if memory serves me right). So recusal was within judge's own assessment. For other grounds of pre-meditation, including incorrect understanding of facts, not sure it would work since the review had also been dismissed. Lastly, if you do file curative and manage to admit it and also, win, do you really think a Court would now order to raze the temple constructed now? So it would only serve to be a moral victory. Just PoV. But would really like someone to tell me if I'm right or not (student here).

Difference between failing upwards, Indian and western styles:

India (NKC): A guy fakes his CV but becomes the leader of the equivalent (in law terms, for India) of an ivy league university, decreasing the university's relevancy on the global stage from a status of "rising star with potential to give the best in class a hard time" to "local college that can be dismissed out of hand".

Western style: Minouche Shafik, a person who, despite lots of privilege, has many genuine accomplishments to her name, becomes VC of LSE (after a stint as a Deputy Governor of the British central bank, the Bank of England). Makes a right little mess of handling teachers' strikes at LSE and fails upwards (or perhaps sideways? difficult to say) to Columbia, where she messes up handling of protests in such a way as to make both the pro-Israel and anti-Israel camps angry.

I rest my case.

No. Not unless you want to do that litigating in the UK or to go into academia. And then, it has to be only a part of your CV, because the expectations on that regard are so high now that a BCL in isolation won't cut it, has to be topped up with an MPhil and DPhil or other good PhD (see the profiles of people with Indian law degrees who have followed the barrister pathway in England). Hell, I know a guy (Singaporean, not Indian to be clear) who did LLB at Durham (and was highly ranked there) and BCL from Oxford, who still had trouble getting pupillage in barristers' chambers specialising in public law, until he did an MPhil topping up the BCL. That degree is so theoretical and on such a high level of abstraction... that it would be really weird for an Indian litigator to do it. If you were to go back to India as a litigator with just a BCL under your belt, it'd be like you couldn't get into academia (ie, failed to get into the MPhil/DPhil) and came back to pursue your backup career choice.

All this is obvious. Repeating this is unhelpful and a waste of time. I've had enough of it, I have. I'm fighting fire with fire (online, when I am overseas and sometimes in person, when I am in India) when I come across it. I am hitting back with substance rather than ad hominem when I can. Recently was delighted to see, for example, a kid from our part of the world (from Bangladesh, not India, to be perfectly accurate) educated in Britain and the U.S. calling out a prominent NLU "human rights person" from talking nonsense about Jurisprudence (with actual logic and substance, attacking the argument rather than the guy posting it) and that NLU prof having to shut down his LinkedIn account for a while. Just shows the counter to the rhetoric about people going abroad being unserious, partying types. Sure, there are such people (Jindal students being paradigmatic examples), but people, for their own reasons, like to conflate everyone with Jindal.

The parameters are very real, you're just mad that GNLU can't crack any of those. Impact from research papers works the same way all over the world. Places where those get published, citations etc. If you are coming up with random ways to judge quality of research, then that's what is arbitrary. As for faculty quality, I have met with most of the faculty from both the places and there is not a single good quality teacher that GNLU has. The relevance of non-law firm placement is beyond you, because you don't even have a clue what alternate career law grads can have. You need better education to be aware of such things. In law firm placements too, NUJS has always been ahead of GNLU anyway. Newer NLUs working their way up? GNLU has been around for almost 2 decades now. Never has it come close to NUJS in any of the parameters related to education. So cope and seethe.