Why can't NLSIU retain so many of the good people they have hired in the recent years? What exactly are they doing wrong? I've been told by some of their faculty that the work pressure is insane and barely leaves them with any time for research. For mediocre people, that might not matter. But the more good people Sudhir hires, the more they will require these facilities.

We were at the same verge 4 months back, co-founder of Vaquill AI here, tried so hard to get customer in India, not a matured market, wasn't able to despite literally a clone of harvey in terms of features. Shut it down, moved to US, got some traction there and were profitable for a 2 person company, recently shifted to being a legal data company as 3rd pivot. It's a brutal market if you are bootstrapped, GPT and claude are getting accurate in citation and hallucinations have gone considerably down. other than lucio and jurisphere (which is doing human contract review in US market), other smaller indie legaltech startup in India are dying as well.

I'm entering my third year of law school and have found myself at a crossroads. Initially, my profile was more dispute resolution-oriented, but over the past few months I've deliberately shifted towards technology law and data privacy because that's where my genuine interest lies. I've been pursuing relevant certifications, writing on the DPDP Act, and applying for technology/privacy-focused internships.

However, many of my batchmates have already interned at firms like Dhir & Dhir, Dua Associates, Hammurabi, Khurana & Khurana, etc. While I know everyone's journey is different, it's made me wonder whether I'm putting myself at a disadvantage by not focusing on more traditional law firm internships.

My long-term goal is not to build a career at a law firm. I'm more interested in data privacy roles, particularly in-house or with organisations like EY, Deloitte, or similar consulting firms. My current plan is to gain one or two strong law firm internships (preferably in technology law/privacy) and then focus primarily on in-house or consulting internships aligned with data privacy.

For those working in technology law, data privacy, or in-house legal roles, does this seem like a coherent path? Or would you recommend spending more time building a traditional law firm profile first?

I'd really appreciate any insights from practitioners or those who have followed a similar path.

Buddy, stop living in denial. NUJS as an institution isn’t comparable to NLUD in any metric. A top 2 NLU in both the NIRF and QS, and definitely never going to be displaced by NUJS, but come placement season, Noojies flood this site with their top 3 claims. Unlike NUJS, NLUD hasn’t degraded academic standards and doesn’t allow students to intern all year round to get placed.

TLDR

- "Push yourself to be a better intern"

- We also want to know your hobbies

- Be honest about your faults

- Maybe there is burnout, but clients are demanding too

- Work ethic is important

Also, great work by GNLU to have this podcast series! Currently the best such initiative among all the law schools. The student hosts are also well chosen: smart and good communication skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqoOUHuAZtk

Here is the honest take: Most of them struggle to find a good job straight out of law school and starts preparing for govt exams. Some of them do end up clearing good exams, others end up in some chambers or small in house. However, in the long run, Grades stop mattering that much and the work experience is what dictates their growth.

The fact remains the only thing of value that another firm would “acquire” is the tax practice that is market leading built by RS & the brand ELP which is derived from the value of the tax practice.

Everything else trade, litigation, corporate etc you can just acquire-hire at higher salary.

Sad to see how Suhail messed it up with his need to control despite not being a top 3 biller. If he had just lets the economics reflect in the management and let Rohit take over as RS’ rightful heir none of this would have happened.

Less to do with the man and more to do with how the discipline of sociology has been reduced to a joke by woke identity politics.

Sociology was meant to complement economics by researching into issues like how government policies are working on the ground, what problems are faced by rural communities in areas like health, education etc. Instead, it’s become a farce. Instead of doing serious research, people write articles sitting in their desk lazily bashing capitalism and the non-left, calling them fascists etc. And of course non stop gender politics insisting that men can give birth etc.

As others have said, direct terminations are rare, but watch your back during probation. Few years back, confirmation was almost automatic, but now partners won't think twice about extending probation. Needless to say that's a strong signal that you are being eased out. After probation, it's a bit tougher to kick someone out, but they way it's often done is by making the person's life so miserable that they quit themselves. This could look as varied as reducing interaction and workload to make the individual feel redundant, overburdening them with work to set them up for failure, treating them with disdain and hostility on a daily basis, or a combination of any of these. Bottomline - T1s know how to show someone the door when they have to, more so in recent years than ever before.

It's fairly quick. You apply to some particular mail id, interview is scheduled within 2 days and you get to know within 3-4 days if you've got in. My interview did not go well so I didn't make it. Thankfully, just a day before, I had given an interview for an NLU and that went well.

I travelled all the way for the exam and interview of Infosys Protege. Not worth it if you are away from the exam and interview centers. Other Candidates were telling that there are 2000 or more applications for this job. And they will hardly take 5 to 10 candidates as Lawyers. Easier to individually apply somewhere because that has more chances of you getting in. You will end up wasting money and a lot of time. Wish some rounds were online or they reimbursed the travel expenses.

Actually this mindset would be the reason why the profession would be down in dumps. Cant comment on particular professor but if you dress up everywhere, you can't treat college differently. If you're so much fussed about your choices, would love to see you in shorts in your interviews, when there's no employment rules. Or why stop at job, why not defy court and then make all your points.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news/statement-about-professor-arday

Although they are promising a "fair" enquiry, such an enquiry looks tough as the case has become the ultimate academic culture war. Depending on whether you follow the right-wing or the left-wing, this man is either an intellectual giant being defamed by racists, or a woke fraudster. Nothing in between. My guess is that the enquiry committee will take some middle ground. Ask him to go on compulsory leave without pay for 1 year, but reinstate him thereafter.

Delhi office is not a good environment to work in. Lots of attrition, most who stay are in the good books of partners who prioritise office dynamics over work and productivity. That would be fine, if they didn't pay exactly on par with a T3. They also have a weird trend of pigeonholing associates and freshers as "paralegals", which makes you lose 6 months while peers go from A0 to A1. There, it's P to A0 to A1.

I feel dedicated hire can work great instead of ATP if you have a good team who's hired you and you use the first year to learn like a maniac. You get an edge over the ATP associate who'll only start at their permanent seat one year after you, and this works well for you in terms of competition with your peers for higher rating/pay/promotion etc. The downside is that if you get stuck in a bad team, or want to move for whatever reason, you can't.

What are you even talking about, it's a normal compliment given privately, and if someone is offended she could have blocked him, in a normal society it can't even be a issue. Only in country like India where there is a patriarchal concept of "izzat" is there,this can be a issue. The only thing patriarchal about this case is the man tieing his izzat with his daughter instagram DM replies

Whatever you said about corporate world, the fact remains that when the student is in that world, they would never dress like that. Why should an academic not believe that it is the standard required in his world too? He's taking the trouble to dress properly. As for this shifting the goalpost to academic performance or merit, one can have that and take the trouble of dressing if not formally, then at least the same that they would elsewhere when they are off doing anything serious. Do the students wear shorts while mooting or ADR competitions? Is that the corporate world?

Also, 'how does one think differently?' It should be obvious to someone teaching there. Your classmates are people from all over the world - the peer learning is incredible. And then a much higher percentage of your professors are researchers who excel in their field. Even if you think of Indian constitutional law, which one would think would be best learned in India. How many of its contemporary leading theorists (not empiricists) are in India right now?

Yeah this is dumb logic. The degree doesn't automatically take you to the other side of the rainbow. It does a few things to help you help yourself. There is nothing desperate about applying for jobs. It shows humility and a willingness to work which means they actually learned something from being outside their caste privilege and family support orbit.

This topic has been beaten to death, just search up past threads on this topic. This one in particular sums it up pretty well- https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/280739-after-extensive-research-i-think-i-know-how-nlsius-nickname-harvard-of-the-east-came-about

It is neither the students, nor the CJI who called it that - it got entrenched because of the continuous reporting surrounding NLS.

What big learning or phenomenon is there here that we haven't seen a hundred times before in many countries? A liberal sacrificing their values to maintain power? I myself have seen enough of such a thing to last me my entire life. I am a human rights lawyer by training in the United Kingdom, have seen Sir Keir Starmer (the former prime minister), a prominent human rights lawyer, go from a staunch defender of human rights and jury trials to attempting Enoch Powell-style rhetoric in order to maintain the right wing portion of the electoral base. We really don't need to see more of this stuff.

Hey man. I am a partner in a law firm and we recently interviewed a candidate who had his ELO rating on his CV (1600 if i remember correctly). The other interviewers looked at me for confirmation on whether this was something impressive. So I asked him if it was an OTB ELO rating and he confirmed. This lead to a bit of a discussion in the interview about chess, ratings, tournaments etc. Overall, it can work as an ice-breaker and demonstrate that you have some skills outside of work. But since your rating is a Chess.com rating rather than the FIDE Elo rating, you should be prepared to field that question, if someone asks. I personally dont think it's bad for you to put it under your extra-curricular section. Obviously, this isnt what gets you a job though, so work on the rest of the CV. All the best!

This is true. Tax is merging with an Indian ▮▮▮ tax firm, not even a Big 4. Suhail's trade law team might go independent. Partners are currently fighting over the brand name and identity of ELP. It is sad what these guys have made out of a firm which was once very promising. This is exactly why Rohan Shah and Nankani should have left with a succession plan

You know what? This is why India's law schools will have a lifelong problem of being down in the dumps. Having teachers like you who have nothing better to do in life than to impose outdated notions like this. Focussing on stupid issues like this instead of getting students to actually do the reading and think about the serious stuff.

Dear Trilegal,

Please stop with the TAE crap. Today, there was a session in which the instructor was repeatedly asking what debt and equity means, there were hundreds of people on the call and not one person answered. Do you really think we are listening? Do you think the pressure and timelines for our deliverables are such that we can listen? TAE is a waste of time and money for the firm.

Lukewarm regards,

Associate

She was the last sane member in team RHB, only one with her own book of interesting work and marquee clients, and genuine empathy for juniors. Also allowed juniors to diversify compared to the run-of-the-mill PE/VC deals the rest of the team keeps dying with. Very big loss for the team, in terms of books as well as team morale.

Tbh it is a gorgeous house and nothing wrong in it. People are just jealous. Gen Z is obviously wealthier than older the generations because the wealth has accumulated and passed on to them.

Nothing wrong at all if he lives in luxury. We don’t want our leader to be some Mahatma Gandhi fakir baba type, wearing a loincloth.

https://x.com/SauravDassss/status/2084928475769762073

https://x.com/Pamphlet_in/status/2084917108845293945

https://x.com/Pamphlet_in/status/2084868025472467044/

I had a great experience at my workplace. The practice size was small, but we had some really high flying real estate clients and our boss had some business dealings in Dubai. We worked till 7, late nights were a rarest of rare scenario, coming in was also not tight leashed. If I had a matter fixed for 12pm, Could directly go to court. The staff was really nice, had enough internal politics to keep me entertained.

Vey happy for Shaneen. She is simply amazing and a really nice person. No one worth their while deserves to be at that thankless hopeless place where loyalty is stepped over for the net lying kid who manages to eat out the ears of the power(s) that be. It is really sad how CAM has seen senior level exists from the start of the year. Their management should introspect and see what is wrong. But then they wont. Ostriches with their head in the sand.

I dress up for work, i love dresses, long skirts, fitted blazers and tailored pieces. Indian wear looks good only if its solids and well fitted. Printed kurtas give off too much of a DU vibe and to me the silhouette of Indian wear unless fitted looks frumpy . I keep it modest because men are creeps. Having said that, everyone around me dresses kinda shabbily and no one seems to have a problem with it. But to be real the better dressed you are the more seriously people take you, so grab your grandmas pearls and put on your best lip shade and get in there. Also dress for the body you have not the body you want. Cannot emphasize this enough.

they only pay to assessment interns and don't pay anything to interns even if they are doing major work than those assessment interns. also they take assessment interns after they are done from college. if you are still in your last year they won't take you as an assessment intern