I’m a fresher and have two job offers. One is from a well-known firm with a strong brand. The other is from a small boutique company.

The big firm may have better long-term opportunities and name value, but the working hours are 10 to 11 hours a day. On top of that, I have a 2-hour one-way commute, so I’d be out for around 14 to 15 hours daily.

The boutique firm is less known but has a 10 to 6 schedule. Same commute, but overall it feels more manageable and healthier.

I’m seriously considering the smaller firm for better work-life balance, but I’m worried I might be making a mistake early in my career.

Suggestions please

Step 1: Create an emergency fund (ideally 6 months of your expenses)
Step 2: get insurance (you will end up paying significantly more premium if you delay it)
Step 3: Divide your savings in two halves: 50 percent goes in equities (mutual funds + direct investing) and the other 50 percent in debt. Keep your eye on a few stocks (get professional advice as well) and double down on those stocks when the market crashes by taking out some of the funds from your debt portfolio.

I graduated in May 2025 from a Tier 2 NLU. Want to get into corp but haven't been able to find a job due to the shit market so now I'm looking into paralegal/traineeships. Which firms are best for that? Considering I can't spend my time and money doing underpaid work just for them to tell me they have no vacancies. Alternatively, what firms have a practice of offering traineeships just to let go of you at the time of confirming retainership?

Left that life for a WFH gig. Getting paid half, but working just 1-2 hours a day, That’s ALL. Almost the whole day free. Spend my days playing golf, reading and with family. Have made good investments, wife also earns well running a home business with light hours. Might make a baby one of these days. 😂

If the evidence of wrong doing, inaction and suppression is strong email to everyone in the faculty and media. SJA has been dead ever since it was (allowed) to be hollowed out. The powers that be feared strong student body/unity and COVID gap killed off whatever spine the students could develop. Also many students underestimated the VC and his acolytes as also did their individual deals with manipulative faculty members.

I got B.E. Comp Science and Engineering from India, M.Sc. from a reputable university in Europe, worked for few years. Been wanting to do law mainly due to interest. Idea is to get into litigation but I'm afraid this would change during studies. In mid 30s unmarried. Wondering if I am shooting myself in the foot.

what practice areas are number/math heavy? batch rank 5, tier 1 nlu, but my head spins when i see numbers, i just cannot.

applying to tier 1s for internships, what areas should i avoid? do popular practices such as m&a, project finance, capital markets have it? because i wont be left with many choices

pls help

I'm working in a capital markets team of a boutique law firm. Due to filing pressure last month, I missed out on a lot of opportunities, and now hiring is closed for most places. My colleagues got out earlier and they got good opportunities. I have put in my papers at my current firm, however, there are not a lot of opportunities at the moment. Is looking out for a few months while sitting idle a good option. I have got a few opportunities a few merchant banks but i am not very much inclined towards the same. Can anyone suggest what is to be done in this situation?

“When Zohran Mamdani opens his mouth, Pakistan’s PR team takes the day off. India doesn’t need enemies with ‘allies’ like him shouting fiction from New York.”

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Misery in later life, a gradual (but crippling) sense of mental and intellectual impoverishment and lack of fulfilment, wasted potential (as courtroom advocates, judges, academics, legal philosophers etc), gradually increasing difficulty in engaging in anything remotely resembling serious or organised intellectual thought, declining interest in all cultural pursutes (except to the extent that showing off these are required for social clout purposes), a life devoid of meaningful human relationships, cerebral atrophy and a brain in which one can forever hear the sentence Sir P.G. Wodehouse rightly declares to be the saddest of all, ringing out as if in perpetual mockery of our foolishness: "It might have been".

I am in a private law school. When I was admitted my father was a government lawyer but shortly after he was removed from service. Previously we thought that we would be able to cover my expenses with a bit of loan and the rest ourselves. However, after he was removed from service we barely had any income. The education loan which I could get was only 750000. I am in my third year of law school. I cannot leave this college in this year after investing so much. Please guide me. Please

In other words, is living in Mumbai just as good as living in cities like NY, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Dubai, Singapore etc?

If not, then how about cities like Istanbul, Rio, Mexico City, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Cairo etc? Does Mumbai fall in this category?

In your replies, do say whether you've visited or lived in the above cities!

imbecile? thats a little harsh. Do you really go around real life talking like that? I have taught law at the best universities in the country and studied it at the best universities in the world. Literally read the second sentence of what I wrote. Study well impress professors. You dont need connections in the sense that you dont need a relative the way you might in say litigation. You obviously still need to be pro social and be friendly with people you work with and meet expectations with your boss and find a way to work collaboratively. Maybe you should learn some of that pro-sociality while youre here.

But ten years of being in academia not one person has asked me who my parents were or what my caste is or anything like that. This aspect of the profession is more open to first generation folks than any other.

Cute rant with the right feminist buzzwords, but dissociated from reality. Let me tell you some real stories I have seen:

1. A successful woman partner in a law firm sank into depression and alcoholism because she couldn’t get married. She only wanted someone who was her financial and intellectual equal, but such guys were taken. So she waited and waited until it was too late.

2. Another such person was divorced and childless. Her husband dumped her for someone younger and more attractive. She was hugely successful, but very depressed for lack of companionship and family. She eventually chose to adopt a child and raise the child as a single mom.

3. Another lady adopted cats and her life revolves around them.

Please don’t dismiss the womanly need for child-rearing and companionship because of what you come across in feminist textbooks and TikTok reels.

Hi, I have received offers for internships under several senior advocates, and I am confused about whom to choose. I would like to intern with someone who is more likely to accept freshers, as I am in my final year and want to maximize my chances.

1. Harin Raval

2. Chambers of Mr. Sanjiv Sen, Senior Advocate

3. Office of Mr. Basant R., Senior Advocate

4. Anand Padmanabhan

5. Parthiv Goswami

6. Office of Mr. Sudhir K. Makkar, Senior Advocate

7. Mrs. Anjana Prakash, Senior Advocate & Former Judge

8. Sunil Malhotra & Associates Law Chamber

9. Rana Mukherjee, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Any advice on whom I should consider interning with? Thank you!

So you want to “hire and pay” a “pick up artist”? That basically means hiring a gigolo to fulfil your sexual needs, right? Sure, it’s your choice but does that really make women happy, instead of marrying someone, having a child and experiencing genuine love and affection? Is this the supposed goal of a feminist, capitalistic society?

It depends. CAM usually gives callback with a different team. If that's the case, please utilise your slot somewhere else. However, if you have a good rapport with your team, you can request them for a callback in the same team. But you should confirm with the team whether they are looking to expand.

Pros and Cons. You can’t switch out of the team. Bombay 4th floor is more professional than Noida’s green cluster. If you get Noida PF. I’m so sorry. HR won’t be able to make you an ATP. IPR etc take dedicated team hires at lower costs than ATPs. But on the plus side, your PQE stays as is. You won’t be able to jump ship to another team in 6 months if this does not work though.

NLUO may have more jobs, HNLU boasts a much higher quality of jobs. Acad structure is not all that bad, don't let silly considerations lead you choosing the college with a much more robust alumni base and established name in the corp law world. NLUO has hardly 10 t1 jobs each year, (no, saraf is not a t1).

It’s true that JGLS has cornered a chunk of the premium legal jobs, to the detriment of NLUs. But let’s also remember that JGLS doesn’t have the obligation of admitting students from caste and EWS quotas. All their students are from privileged backgrounds and metro cities. Such people clearly have an edge in the job market, because of good contacts and social skills. On the other hand, NLUs admit hundreds of caste quota and EWS students from small towns and villages, because they have a social obligation as government universities.

Women in law have more choices because they have financial independence. You can either choose to find that scary and judge yourself by the same metrics, or the more ladies in your life who depend on men use. Or you can come up with new ways to evaluate what a good life is. Bas ye beech ka bullshit chhodo. Do you want to grow or not? Growth is scary. May be you will want and get a family. May be you won't. The main thing is you actually have a choice, so first think about what your priorities are. Most people on this platform are scared of change, and it is very important to them to look down on successful single women. They are living the life they want. You live the life you want. The law degree just gives you a choice.

As someone actively navigating Hinge and Bumble in Delhi, let me say it plainly: a significant number of prospects in the demographic OP describes are, quite honestly, undateable. And no — it’s not because they’re “too accomplished” or “intimidating.” The reasons are far more grounded.

Reason 1: Lifestyle Neglect.

The Instagram optics are carefully curated — Euro trips, brunches, designer hauls. But behind the filters lies visible burnout. Erratic routines, stress-lined faces, and the unmistakable toll of an overextended, undernourished life. A Pilates reel doesn’t cancel out cortisol.

Reason 2: Emotional Intelligence? Missing in Action.

Some of the lowest EQ I’ve encountered has come wrapped in the gloss of professional achievement. Reading cues, taking “no” with grace, knowing when to exit a dead conversation — basic stuff. You think Delhi boys struggle with rejection? Try saying “no thanks” to a 30-something litigator. Suddenly, you’re the clueless peasant who dared to turn down royalty. Believe me — I have the receipts.

Reason 3: No Off-Switch.

Especially in corporate law — where work and identity have fused into a single, exhausting persona. Dates often feel like diligence calls. Legalese over linguine. At some point, I started wondering if I’d accidentally walked into a strategy meeting.

Reason 4: Hypergamy — and the Fallout.

Yes, it exists. Let’s stop pretending it doesn’t. It’s a wrecking ball that no one has the courage to ackno- until it’s too late.

Reason 5: Misandry Dressed as Empowerment.

Independence is great. Strength is magnetic. But there’s a growing trend of casual man-bashing being passed off as feminist sass. It’s not edgy. It’s not evolved. It’s just… tired.

And here’s the part no one wants to say out loud: many of these women don’t actually want a partner — or certainly not a male one. What they’re seeking isn’t intimacy, but affirmation. That they’re smarter, sharper, more enlightened than whoever sits across the table. And if he won’t flatter, submit, or play along — he’s swiftly labelled “insecure,” “misogynist,” or “just not enough.”

The truth? Some of them would be far happier if everyone — including their well-meaning friends and family — stopped trying to match them up. Let them own their solo arc. It’s perfectly fine to be a cat mom, dog mom, or cause crusader — provided you actually have the time, energy, and emotional bandwidth to care. It’s not a failure. It’s just a choice.

What about PPO guys? We won’t get ATP? If we are a dedicated resource, is it beneficial in any way than being an ATP resource?

Please shed some light on. Should I request the HR to give me ATP.

Team- Energy, mostly did M&A internships and liked it but got a PPO in energy cause I interned with the energy team once. The practice area is fine but I am still confused because energy and M&A

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Surely one of the biggest ever endowments received by an Indian university!

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Recent law graduate (2025) from a reputed law school, seeking an Associate role (0–1 PQE) in Corporate Governance, M&A, Transactions, or Startup Advisory. Interned at Tier 1 and boutique firms, with hands-on experience in due diligence, drafting, and client communication. Open to opportunities in Bengaluru, Delhi, or Mumbai. Grateful for any leads on firms that are currently hiring or if there are any openings. Thanks guys!

Just want to ask this one thing- is person life that bad for women in law? I've been a little depressed after getting my PPO and things like these leave me gloomier. Can most of us not make families? Coz law is the only degree I've done, and I'm in no mood to pursue any other career. Can anyone really and genuinely elaborate and tell me how do women manage?