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I am from the 2027 batch at a Tier-2 NLU, have completed 3–4 solid internships, and while I am academically average, I have done well in debates and moots at both national and international levels. I would appreciate any advice on how to make my CV stand out in the projects and infrastructure field. I have a strong understanding of the projects field, but apart from my internships, I don’t have anything on my CV that reflects this knowledge. Do you have any suggestions on how I can bridge this gap?
At least lawyers out of this programme would be great at White Collar!?
The management ▮▮▮. This post seems that their ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ is desperate for some footage and the replies are made by their own committee members. The day CAM, SAM & KCo go to IIM R for Day 0, then we can talk about the quality of students and curriculum. ▮▮▮
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indias-1-8-million-a-year-us-lobbyist-jason-miller-meets-trump-amid-tariff-row-9234915
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19860915-lobbyists-the-growing-tribe-of-hidden-persuaders-who-prowl-the-parlours-of-power-801243-1986-09-14
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/letters/story/19861031-hats-off-to-pt-usha-the-countrys-track-star-for-snatching-away-four-gold-medals-801368-1986-10-30
I would suggest you go for it
Will help in establishing corporate, tax, cross border transaction, M & A , related law practice
Here are webpages from (1) the regulator, explaining the basics of how it works; and (2) two law firms, showing how they have implemented the scheme.
NB: Under the SRA page, look at the text under the 'Trailblazer apprenticeship' heading.
https://www.sra.org.uk/become-solicitor/sqe/solicitor-apprenticeships/
https://ukearlycareers.hoganlovells.com/what-we-offer/solicitor-apprenticeships
https://careers.linklaters.com/en/early-careers/school-opportunities#main
NB: Under the SRA page, look at the text under the 'Trailblazer apprenticeship' heading.
https://www.sra.org.uk/become-solicitor/sqe/solicitor-apprenticeships/
https://ukearlycareers.hoganlovells.com/what-we-offer/solicitor-apprenticeships
https://careers.linklaters.com/en/early-careers/school-opportunities#main
No Dean, No HOD in law. No faculty member appointed ever as even assistant professor.
So no single full professor or associate or assistant professor in entire law department. Only management people got faculty positions, those teaching law are just lecturers on temporary/ contractual basis.
All the faculty members displayed in the brochure above are visiting people. Some of them given just one talk. No fulltime lecturer who actually taught these kids even mentioned in entire brochure▮▮▮.
In IIM Rohtak, director sharma himself fighting legal dispute about his eligibility to become a director of IIM. Many news reports already available. ▮▮ Just Google and read reports.
Our full sympathy should be with the students and we should support them in getting internships and jobs. But such a dubious way of running law program must be criticised rather closed.
My own view on the the next tier would be:
4. NUJS
5. GNLU
6. JGLS
7. NLUJ
8. NLIU
9. Symbiosis Pune
10. RGNUL
I just don't see how this can be implemented in colleges without the admin really cracking down.
Is it like this everywhere or is my university an exception?
Thoughts on this?
This reads like one matter being listed every week in the last year.
Here's to all here. The law education landscape is transforming at a very quick pace, and NLUs are not part of this new paradigm. They are mere onlookers in a perpetual state of denial.
no one knows your uni, extracurriculars, publications, field of law for masters, LORs, batch rank, work-ex, etc – impossible to determine without details.
I have applied to Mulla and Mulla and Crawford Bayley & Co. in Mumbai and in Pune I have applied to legalogic (wonderful people, really kind HR), SRB Ojas, Reddy and Reddy and Nehru & Co. (their internship email was not existing ;-;).
Kindly give me suggestions on where to apply, how to explore and how to apply to the places that you might be suggesting.
I really wish to learn and enjoy the work while I am learning. I am a workaholic (self-proclaimed, ofc ;-), but , yeah, as a young law student with a lack of exposure, I really wish to grow.
Thank you in advance for any advice, any suggestions and any help at all (=
Note - I have prior experience in working on insolvency, CPC, Tax, Data (policy research) and criminal matters (interned under a pp)
I am open to any and all suggestions that you might have, as my seniors and I would appreciate if you could tell me how to apply to the internship opportunities that you are suggesting.
TYSM to all that reply positively (=
I have experimented with a variety of AI and I am a bit disappointed with homegrown Legal AIs...
This is not about Harvey etc. which firms are buying but for individual use. I liked Jurisphere when I used the 1-day pass a few times but tbh the price tag is way too much now! (it's Rs. 2500 per month) They keep increasing price without improving the product! Not worth for an AI that is not 'perfect', far from it and very frustating at times and not surprising that the Tier-1 firms are not using it (No idea about Lucio however. Any reviews welcome)
ChatGPT Go is Rs. 400 per month (and most people are using ChatGPT for other things in their life aswell) and it does seem like a much better bargain. Some problem is present with EXTREMELY large attachments like paperbooks but apart from that it's working super well for drafting, summarizing, etc. Indian caselaw research is a bit weak but tbh that is solved with databases. Not like you can fully rely on any AI output.
Thoughts ?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/04/bank-robber-scholar-knoxville-change-addiction?
unfortunately, they are only interested in enjoying their power trip or clicking photos with judges.
▮▮▮. Actually do some hard work on your own. Apply your brains yourself. Don't rely on anybody. The kinds of people whose help you want are largely con artists or scammers. They are no more than glorified paper pushers. Often, you get wrong advice from them or they give you false hope to try something which you'll regret later. I'm giving you this advice to save you time because, if you are remotely intelligent, you'd be able to figure this out yourself and would realise when you sat in front of somebody like this that they are no help at all and just glorified people with nothing better to do in life. Therefore, I hope this is helpful in saving you time. Just do the hard yards yourself. Trust me, if you are genuinely good, it works and you get to go to that good foreign uni.
PS: I understand this post may have been written in a hurry and therefore may have not been thought out very well, resulting in the poor wording, but there is a chance it could be something much worse. That is why I ask: moderators, seriously!? You are publishing a post which asks if people can be recommended who can "draft their SOPs and application essays"? So you are effectively publishing something that might be, I say might be, a carelessly worded request for help with something standard, but again might be a request to help with something dishonest and unethical? Have you spent half a second to think how this would look to a non-lawyer coming to this website? What happened to upholding the public's confidence in the legal profession? Even if the post had been poorly worded because of poor thinking, doesn't the public interest in not publishing this nonsense (or at least in applying a troll tag to it) far outweigh anything else? Even if this had been poorly worded due to inadequate thought, the average Stella or James on the street will wonder, "What kind of law graduate doesn't know the difference between 'draft their SoPs and application essays' and 'advise students on improving the quality of their writing by looking at drafts of SoPs and application essays'?".
- Poor SC: ✅ (SC/EWS quota)
- Rich SC: ✅ (SC quota)
- Poor ST: ✅ (ST/EWS quota)
- Rich ST: ✅ (ST quota)
- Poor OBC: ✅ (OBC/EWS quota)
- Rich OBC: ❌ (no quota)
- Poor general category: ✅ (EWS quota)
- Rich general category: ❌ (no quota)
This is especially true for IAS
There's a reason why places like Bombay and Delhi are filled litigating counsels
Also any insight on Binsy or Smarika's team along the same lines would also be appreciated.
I could really use the help and input: vangoghlorified@gmail.com
2. Certain models, when they've been proven to work, need to be adapted rather than changed from the ground up or abandoned. Oxford, for example, has been using the tutorial system for hundreds of years (Cambridge uses the same thing, just that they call it 'supervision'). We know that that works. The markets continue to go to them. Similarly, the market continues to come to the NLUs. Employers remain enthusiastic to recruit from those universities. Therefore, why should we listen to you, of all people!?
3. This last part of your comment is very concerning and disappointing. It is the reason why I have always said many Indian universities should shut down (or if push comes to shove be forced to shut down) their law departments.
You are confusing issues. What has the quality of education got to do (or judgments about what you are doing with your education) with positions that people may choose to take (or not to take) on various issues?
There is an organisation called UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI). It counts amongst its members some of the best legal brains the British have at their disposal (and that's saying something, as you should know). You might not like the positions they advocate for, but would you dare to question the quality of their education!? Would you really say that these top-notch lawyers are somehow less top-notch because they have a different worldview from your own?
You wanna make sure this is not a double standard? UKLFI is not happy at the stated intention of the Labour administration of Sir Kerr Starmer, the current prime minister of the UK, to recognise a Palestinian state at the UNGA if Israel doesn't comply with certain conditions. They have even written to the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, to indicate that, in their view, recognition of a Palestinian state under such circumstances and in the way the government has been proposing to do it, might in and of itself be a violation of international law. Again, we may or may not agree with that position of UKLFI. But if their people go shooting their mouths off, questioning the quality of the education of Starmer or David Lammy (foreign secretary) or Hermer, is that justified? Are you really claiming that whether you are making the most of your education depends on what positions you adopt?
Your idea of education is really poor. The point of education isn't to enforce (or reinforce) ideological dogma. It is to help people think and argue better. Oscar Wilde put it best, when he said that the point of an Oxford degree was that it taught you to 'play with ideas'. I know enough about the way education works at many of the good NLUs (especially NLSIU) to confidently say that they are meeting Wilde's benchmark. Had Wilde been born now and attended, for example, NLSIU rather than Oxford, and had he had the same inner wisdom that no university can give but is topped up by what a good university education can give, he would have made the same wise statement about NLSIU. Sadly, it seems as though he could not have said the same about whatever university you attended; or, if you had indeed attended a good university, he would have reproached you for not having learned to 'play with ideas'.
My grandmother (my mum's aunt) used to say this beautifully. She used to say, regarding the JEE exam, "You failed Joint now? [the usual time people give it, when they are almost ready to be school leavers/are already so and are competing for places at universities] Very well, you'll be giving joint for the rest of your life because the toughness of life by virtue of failing joint is like going through, for the rest of your life, what it took to prepare for joint in one year". Her statement is equally applicable to CLAT, I feel. Sadly, we lost her to COVID-19. Sad not just for us as a family, but for the world, for losing someone with such great moral vision and clarity.
Any individuals who do freelancing as well would help.
Thank you!
My tier 1 NLU is infamous for how open you can be with substances, and it's led to the shared infrastructure of the campus becoming so gross that it's hard to describe it. People share the same bongs across a floor, and clean the bongs on the washroom floor. There's always a rotten stench wherever you go. Moreover, you can tell who abuses it from their face and body - they look half dead to be very blunt.
I don't care about the pros and cons of marijuana or whatever, but do feel a discussion on its moderation and some stricter enforcement is necessary. We're already in an odd time with the industry being more competitive than ever and AI just on the horizon, having the next generation of lawyers be degenerate junkies is sad.
Yes, I'm talking of trains/metros.
Wishing them the best.
For law scopus is quite patchy and skewed towards international and interdisciplinary research. Many of the good core legal doctrinal journals - the ones that publish doctrinal analysis or case commentaries are absent or underrepresented. And then there are plenty of really low quality legal articles that get published in scopus listed journals which has nothing to do with law. They merely help inflate the citation counts without reflecting the scholarly value of that article.
https://app.mergerlinks.com/autocomplete?searchTerm=Shardul%20Amarchand%20
Pretty chill course, good one for the right.