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The dilemma arises here - I can either take up a job at a boutique or t3 for a while and switch over to BAZ, or (I've recently found out that I have a strong contact at BAZ) I can join another office of the firm. I got offered the job through the contact but I said I'd have to think about it.
The pros are very evident, but the cons for me are that I'll probably always have imposter syndrome, and it won't feel right to me to get the job this way. But then again who plays fair in the corp world, and I know this is probably a decent start for my career as well.
Just wanted to know your thoughts because I have to let the contact know ASAP.
Thanks!
Mods please mod fast thank you.
Are MBA people placed in a different hostel, or is it shared with Law people?
If it's shared, are the floors different, or that too is shared?
And lastly, do MBA people get single rooms, or do they share as well?
TIA
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Please help me as to how can i proceed further. do i apply for associate positions, paralegalships, assessments?
"The following are the protocols that you have to follow for quite sometime.
Golden Rule - Seniors are Always Right.
1) Always Greet your Seniors. Begin and End every Statement with 'SIR'. Every Single Sentence.
Example : SIR my name is XYZ SIR
2) Don't smile in front of seniors.NO MATTER WHAT
If you do , immediately wipe the smile and shove it up your ass and scream 'Aaah' ( It's called the Smile Wipe.)
3) Wear only Plain T Shirts , and Full Pants.
4) Don't walk on Lawns or take Short Cuts. Always use the road to go anywhere.
5) Don't sit in the gazebo. Those sitting area in the campus.
6) Don't visit Tafri etc. And any other place where you can get booze or cigarettes ( Including the city ) Except if the seniors ask you to.
7) This is the hierarchy of respect to be given to people:
1) 5th years
2) 4th years
3) 3rd years
4) 2nd years
5) Workers and non Teaching staff
6) Grass
7) 50 piles of shit
8) Dogs
9) 1st Years
10) PG students
11) Chief Warden.
( Applies to girls also )
Protocols for all those who didn't know.
The protocols are not followed in academic block,
Library."
I have one year of PQE in criminal litigation, ranging from matrimonial, white-collar, and blue-collar work, with civil and arbitration experience as well. Please suggest chambers/advocates/senior advocates in Delhi who exclusively deal in criminal litigation and related fields. It is a good office, pays well, and has good experience and a good team.
Thank you.
Urgently required.
That man truly made me confident about research in law. Understanding the ins and out of corporate litigation and didnt treat me like a dumb intern. Showed and took us to courts for hearings and showed us what happens. a nice mentor. He'll always have my respect.
He has held multiple administrative posts and for sure will do well at NUALS. He may be from a TLC but he is a good administrator. I sincerely hope he is able to do good at NUALS.
Surely this must be very unique, or am I mistaken?
I know firms have seen regular Partners / Founding partners be designated as Senior Advocates, but both firms, ELP / Poovayya & Co are very much still seen as Rohan's / Sajjan's firms, respectively.
Any genuine advice is welcome. I have to give an answer soon so please help.
Thanks a lot! My best wishes to you.
Another facet which is important here is that you may suddenly get lot of work so keep an eye out for a junior or two even if it means paying them during a lean phase.
I have got enough marks in CUET to get 3 year LLB at CLC Delhi. Given my physical limitations should I consider law, especially litigation?
Ps - I don’t have any family background in law. Also, I can’t go for the judiciary exams due to personal reasons.
Same LI commenter at age 50: My son’s going to Jindal and then abroad for an LLM. Much preferable to an NLU. Please don’t tell me how to spend my money. Be kind, do better. 🙂
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and if yes then just for law school or even 10th 12th grade?
ALC Pune is a wannabe AIL. Don't go there. No history, no recognition and no placements.
Nothing even comes close
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There is no need to spend money on any books, you'll find everything on these two websites, and if you don't on either of these two then your college library will definitely have. Chill out, don't panic spend, most of us have graduated without touching a book in five years
sincerely,
first-gen lawyer who works hard and knows how to adapt.
1. Yes
2. Its easily available. However, not everyone tries it. You can choose to have or not have it.
3. No
4. Yes
Within offices/colleges as well, Kannadigas do not welcome outsiders within their friends circle and will always try to dominate the spaces. I have worked in Delhi NCR as well, and the situation is much better. For context, my mother tongue is neither Hindi nor Kannada. I can speak broken Hindi and can mostly understand it while I can't speak or understand Kannada.
Please use your God given hands to search the World Wide Web.
2. Again, classic sign of people who suffer from the afliction of envy: Of course some of the responses are classist - take the IB school one or the lower socioeconomic background ones, for example. If they (and/or their kids) believe that, they are in for a big surprise. Western kids from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds are often as hungry for success (in a good way) as their Indian counterparts. Even the accommodation at foreign unis is not necessarily great. As for grades/placement? Don't get me started! Your typical London universities' law schools kids (KCL/UCL/LSE/QM/SOAS types) are so obssessed with magic circle/biglaw jobs that a few months there and you would want to throw yourself off a building just to get a chance to avoid hearing the names Links and Kirkland. Plus, those unis can be stingy as fuck when it comes to grading students' academic performance. So total misunderstanding and idiocy in the case of such people. Why do you allow such people to live rent free in your head? Are you really equating all NLS alumni who think this way to such people? And why so restrictive? If NLSIU or other NLU alumni want their kids doing something other than law, what's your problem? And frankly, why is it any of your damn business?
3. Regarding that Ashoka + law abroad after that. Alright, a law degree from many universities abroad is a great thing to be doing. And yes, there are genuinely good arguments to be made about why a non-law degree might be a good thing to do first, before going in for law. Arguments which have been made quite forcefully by Lord Sumption, the former judge on the UK Supreme Court (as an example). However, I don't think Ashoka is the best thing to be doing in such cases. Do a St. Stephens or something like that. People who give this response or the socioeconomic background one have, it is true, been led astray by the trappings of elitism and lost to some extent an ability to detect bullshit.
4. Have you ever thought that they might have pride in their NLU tag for the thing that it gave them - what they needed to fulfil the ambition of making better lives for their kids than what their parents gave them? Pride in an institution or tag doesn't necessarily mean slavish loyalty to it. It is a social construct, like anything else. Alright: does pride in an Eton or Harrow tag mean that an Eton or Harrow alumni is almost bound to send his son there? (Don't jump on me for the gendered language, they are exclusively boys schools in England.) Yes, it probably does. Does that mean the NLU tag has to be like that? That's a question on which you can have your opinions. But my question would be: why necessarily does this uniquely Indian tag have to be like an Eton/Harrow or Oxbridge tag? Why can't it be a tag celebrating higher social mobility - people taking a degree at university which helps them move up the income bracket? Why can't we celebrate that tag in its own right? If we are to be different and unique from the rest of the world, why can't we embrace our tag for what it is, instead of letting our envy guide us into the trap of thinking that what we have should be constructed/designed in the way other countries have their stuff?
Essentially, most of my questions can be summarised in three: why are you putting people down? Why do you care so much? And why are you letting the idiots among such people live rent-free in your head?
2. Why do you have to be such a terrible person?
3. You do know that trauma is blind? It doesn't discriminate based on privilege of any sort? Or are you so determined to put others down to advance your victim complex that you have yourself become blind to this truth to which your eyes were previously open?
Great for rich people like us.
But you need to have LLM for that.
you wear some fuckall kurta, dance on the dj night, see batchmates performing/do shitty performances yourself, and go back to your room
i hate you for even asking this question, you have too much power over me
Source: Spoken to SB about this.
I was allotted NLUO initially during clat and then got HNLU later. So here’s my 2 cents.
On location: I don’t think either place really makes a difference. I would say arguably raipur is a better place to go since it a state capital and you have directe flights to pretty much any part of the country available. Cuttack does not offer the same. Neither are metro cities so the bar remains low.
On mooting: Students from both colleges have thrived in moots on the national and international level.
On Domicile: Lots of people are critical of HNLU’s 50% domicile saying that it dilutes competition. It really doesn’t, people are still super competitive and the kids from domicile often dominate rank lists and placements.
On Alumni: HNLU being an older institution has a much more robust almuni base with several T1 partners, magic circle associates, a few partners at international firms. We have several oxbridge, ivy league and t-20 LLMs too.
Placements: HNLU includes only corp/in house placements in its placement data, whereas NLUO includes anything and everything under the sun as a placement from chambers to assessment internships. HNLU also boasts overall better quality of organisations where students are placed.
HNLU may not have the 50 placements but the quality of their placements is arguably much better and the placement reports mainly include firms and in house roles as placements…
- “Our son/daughter doesn’t want to study law. We have also encouraged him/her to study STEM or finance abroad, as there are more opportunities globally.”
Kids are opinionated enough to figure out what they like. Maybe they don't care about CLAT, but care about something else. Don't see why this response is judge-worthy.