Hi, I am thinking of making a career in Tax laws, should I plan towards joining a law firm which does mostly advisory work or a litigation chamber, taking into consideration growth prospects over the next 5-10 yrs. Also if I end up joining a tax specialised litigation chamber today, will firms accept me in the future?

Law School remains the same as other law schools. The only reason you are paying so high is for the brand rep. The current dean is pulling contacts and networks + he's EX NUJS and EX JINDAL, from placement cells to faculty to assessments to internships.

Everything is changing very fast in positive manner.

If money is no bar, its a great choice. If money is a bar its not worth to pull out an education loan. Simply speaking its better off to stay at somewhere else because the FEES no denying is ABSURD.

You will make great contacts here, great networking and loads of opportunities including internships and exchange programs.

Ask me smtg specific if u have anything..?

Dont talk crap. When the State increased it because of domicile reservation, it was challenged by two alumni - Nikhil Singhvi and Satyajit Sarna. Karnataka High Court struck down the law and quashed the domicile saying its a national institution and you cant have state reservation. So State filed an SLP in SC. While it was on, Genius Messiah moved the change himself internally in NLS and used the Executive Council to bring in the same reservation. Nobody challenged this and it continues.

Separately, Genius Messiah also introduced multiple undergrad courses, overstretched the faculty and resources and diluted the brand.

So, No. Its not because of reservation. And certainly not because of the Govt. Its because GM wanted to get into the local good books to sponsor his grand expansion plans.

I recently started working in legal tech as a recent graduate. The field has come long way and very interesting milestones during the last 5 years. Please be informed about the whole buzz of legal tech which provides low paying document review, clm, and e discovery jobs. These jobs existed way before ai dropped in and mind numbing like corporate due diligence or litigation grunt work.

I wanted to solve tough problems at the intersection of law and tech. Went through very different pathway of trying to build legal tech products , strategize it , under stand it way deeply( sometimes obsess over it) and fail at it. It gives that balance between innovation, legal ,building thrill and if you went well the freedom to work remotely with decent enough pay( a intersection of job satisfaction and work life balance rarely possible in lndian legal industry) I converted few legal tech roles which were low paying though the work was interesting(that was my first criteria to apply ), though not joined . Later on , I got a balanced one. Just to give an idea , if you are good at it , you can also get around 50k for even less than 3-4 hours of work everyday, remotely. But the tough part is to find these opportunities you have to go pretty deep into legal tech job market as well as good at what you do and not bluffing. In general, get around a lakh for normal office work hours. The salaries mentioned above are for freshers. Don't go towards law firms innovation teams in terms of learning but can give a good idea of user and adoption experience.

The reality is the job description and roles for the legal tech are still evolving atleast in Indian legal tech market.

I'm a law firm partner who hired a tier 1 NL student who had taken a 2 year break because he was trying for the civil services. Frankly the only reason we considered him was because he was well connected. He has been trying to get another job for more than a year but people aren't interested in hiring him.

Your best bet is to leverage your alumni network.

At the end of the day, Raksha Bandhan isna festival between brother and sister. So the only people in this conversation should be Kriti and her brother. If both of them are comfortable, nobody else, Hindu or not, has any right to comment on her attire. Hinduism is not a monolith and all Hindus have the right to practice their culture in whichever way they want, including with modern adaptations.

Lots of lawyers work in creative fields. music, literature, film all have a lot of copyright and content work involved. if the law still interests you then consider a botique firm like Saikrishna or Fidus Law.

If you want to leave law entirely and shift to creative writing /arts/film etc there are people who have done it, but keep in mind that it involves a lot of financial privilege.

For examples of people who have done this you can look up Kavitha Rao and Ajay Patri. Gautam Bhatia also does it part time but he still does legal work on the side.

If a Partner is good at his/her work but doesnt have his/her own clients, your comment on its better to train associates than waste time on someone who knows nothing doesnt make sense. There's a difference between a Partner who has no clients of his/her own vs a Partner who's not competent workwise. There are several partners out there who are extremely competent but dont have a book and similarly several partners (we all know some) who arent competent work wise but have a brilliant book because of their social skills or contacts. The latter will never be put on PIP or in the firing line even if they are incompetent work wise. Money matters at the end of the day.

Equity Partners generally switch to another firm or may start own firm with limited clients in hand.

Salary partners parasite on other teams including corporate or tax or cap markets or become execution partner doing all the good work for the equity.

Generally salary partners in early years not much expected to bring clients but just to execute and generate billable.

Everything dynamic is subjective depending upon the firm and team structure.

Shortcut? There is an exam for this program kid. And some of the folks you mock have UGs from best universities in India and abroad so stop the hate and don't be under the impression that you get what you get because of your 'special abilities'. Your lot only meatrides on the glory of the erstwhile batches of NLS, the alums and that is only why you get placements.

Prof. Dr. V.P. Tiwari is the new VC of MNLU Nagpur. He addresses students as 'inmates' and 'terrorists'. Such an arrogant person. Always creates problem for students. MNLU Nagpur is already a JAIL. Students are not allowed to leave the campus after 8 pm. No canteen. God knows what will happen now under his VCship.

1. They usually mandate a callback where you are assessed (preferably 2 months). But if you are in your fifth year with competing offers or possibilities of being hired elsewhere, they can offer you a PPO directly followed by mandatory internships. There is no thumb rule per se.

2. Yes, if the team likes you, you are most likely getting an assessment. BLC genuinely operates on merit (at least that is what i felt during my time there).

3. Yes, the procedure is same across offices.

All the best!

The point about the markets being saturated is true, and I think that's discussed all the time on this platform. But something like the mushrooming law schools and growing headcount of freshers without any checks diminishes the overall quality of the profession, and catalyses unemployment. Access should be limited based on merit.

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Hi all, if anyone has some insight into how the Corp 4 team at KCO, Bombay, works, I’d really appreciate it if you could share your experience. I’m looking to understand the team culture, working hours, nature of work, and the general working style/personality of the team, and partner (BN). This is urgent, so any insights would be extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I can tell you about Tier 2 (the firm I am referring to is generally considered Tier 2, but in reality, it should probably be treated as Tier 4).

There is this partner who doesn’t have her/his own clientele but is essentially vulturing over the work given by people in higher management (there is no real management, just one dude controlling everything).

Basically, they put these kinds of partners on a PIP. I was also surprised because I always thought these law firms were experts at removing/firing associates lower down the professional chain who were unable to deliver work on time or whose work or behaviour did not align with the firm.

But yes, PIP. They give partners who are not meeting their targets some time to improve and also try to train them, basically. (Rather, they should give this training and development to associates instead of someone who doesn’t know anything and has somehow become a partner.)

The point is that any student who scores well enough in CLAT and manages to fund their education at NLSIU has a legitimate expectation that if they work hard over the next five years, then they can have access to every opportunity in terms of their career. That is a picture that has been painted before them by the entire ecosystem including by NLSIU as an institution. However, the truth remains that NLSIU could not have expanded its capacity to provide such opportunities along with the expansion of its student intake. This has been predicted well in advance even on this forum the moment Sudhir decided to increase the batch size. Multiple batches of students have chosen to ignore that reality and are finding themselves facing the hard truth now to their dismay. It does not matter whether the top CLAT 300 students choose NLSIU, it still cannot provide placement to to even 1/3 of that number since it never could in terms of such high absolute numbers. The boast that it will 'steal' away jobs from NALSAR, NUJS etc. because of the high CLAT rankers choosing NLSIU has been inevitably proven to be an empty one.

Local chambers here can make you work even for free. But I actually got my CS boss to increase my stipend to 10k pm lol. I told him I’m no CS trainee and acc to BCI, you gotta pay 20k to advocates in urban areas acc to BCI, so he ended up settling for 10 lmao. I didn’t hassle much because the guy literally offered me work willy nilly. Idc tbh. Money’s not an issue I just wanna learn and build my cv to apply to proper law firms. Lit seems a whole new ballgame to tackle tho money-wise

Yes. Because how far would name of law school take you? After law school, how you work matters. I ve had better grads from some non nlus who atleast had the desire to learn. Nlu students come with the arrogance of knowing everything while knowing nothing or not ready to put in work. I am talking of recent grads. I am myself an nlu alumnus so it's not a bias but statment of something rotting slowly

As someone who has made the mistake of doing an LLB, I would recommend that you take up ba economics or other highly in demand ug majors through CUET. Use those 3 years to make a good profile with good LORs etc and then crack the top B-schoola through CAT etc. preferably after 2 year of work experience.

In most Indian law firms? They just get kept on and allowed to sit on their arses, cause the firm ain't got anybody better than them who isn't relatively junior (read: from the generations that started taking their law degrees at the relatively recently founded NLU institutions).

Hi I am just 18 , I am thinking of corporate law because I just have my neet which in the entrance for medical studies of mbbs , I excel in science and math but now before taking a drop year to prepare for neet i thought of taking corporate law , so is it worth it , like yes I have to admit it that I can't work 14 hours a day everyday without weekend offs and for the res of my life but what is your suggestion

> red carpet

No. Celebrities get red carpet treatment. We only get T1 UG student treatment. Such treatment is earned by all T1 UG students at their UG institutions, across universities and even in different degrees.

You are simply not an NLS UG student. You surely didn't expect that your shortcut would magically deem you one? Surely the world is not so naive as to distinguish trivially between you, who are a UG student of elsewhere, and a BALLB kid, who is a UG student of NLS?

The college has so many things going for it: good campus and infra, many good profs who are graduates of NLUs and reputed unis abroad, good network for placements and internships... why the need for such cringe marketing by the VC???

Contrast with ISB, Ashoka and Azim Premji...

It is sad that this is what it has come to. The fact that the support staff have to air their grievances in this manner shows a complete breakdown of leadership and HR communication. I do not recall any instance of support staff being constrained to use this forum in this manner. I hope they find their feet at other places. If any of the outgoing members can help them, please do.

The Funds team has quit, they are serving their notice and will be joining ELP's biggest competitor. Until very recently, it was very common for lawyers from this law firm to join ELP. How times change!

Good luck fellas, hope you find synergy at Cynergy!

Many more ELP partners have quietly stuck deals, but will leave only after collecting their balance (60%) bonus, which will be paid only by Diwali.

As per LiveLaw << https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-law-interns-senior-batches-547692 >> Delhi High Court has published a circular restricting “the entry of intern law students to the court premises to only third year students of 3-year-LLB course and fourth as well as fifth year students of the 5-year integrated LLB course.” The circular can be accessed at << https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/28/2869-696735.pdf [PDF] >>

Can anyone clarify why the Court decide to do this? Thanks.

From what I've heard she doesn't have concrete law firm experience, and has only been in KCo for less than 2-3 years and probably left from there due to not meeting targets. I've heard the work there was co-ordinating litigation, doing admin work, just writing articles bc there are no concrete clients that will pay for data privacy / crypto to such a firm when there are actual we'll established TMT teams in so many firms.

Work honestly can be either disputes oriented or random things in corporate. It contrasts significantly from other law firms and AZB with their other offices. Disputes work is very fun whereas corporate is the most boring things that you do with no need for you to use your own brain.

However I believe the people/associates within the office are nice and mind their own business but yah they don’t care to ensure that interns get meaningful work apart from the lit team.

Where are you getting the information that there are 400 BA LLB students in NLSIU? It's 310 as per the last increase.

Nevertheless, it seems futile to blame batch size increase in lack of employment opportunities. The students who got into NLS would otherwise would have been in NALSAR/NUJS/etc. They are still the same bright students. The larger problem is concentration of Indian corporate legal market in the hands of a few large firms. If the legal market is to grow, more and more partners would have to break away and start their own botique firms (there are already some who pay around 1LPM which is good enough launching platform to grow). This will ensure that even lower ranked students from good law school get placed.

The second problem is people wagering all their bets in corporate placements, that too in tier 1 law firms. There is more to law than M&A at one of the LALA firms. I am not asking you to give up everything and start doing legal aid work, but if you know your batch rank is not good enough for a t1 law firm - diversify to a smaller firm which may pay 80k-1LPM to freshers, but atleast you will have a job. I wont name any places, but a person motivated enough can hustle through and easily find them.

In the past 3-4 years, if NLS has been in the news, it has been for the wrong reasons. Beyond this recent convocation standoff, it has faced several major structural and student-led controversies over the past few years:

Campus Infrastructure and Basic Amenities Protests: Students staged aggressive on-campus protests over long-standing issues like severe water shortages, power fluctuations, and failing hostel infrastructure.

Administrative and Policy Backlash: Tensions erupted between the student body and the administration regarding rigid, unforgiving attendance rules resulting in year-backs, steep cuts to activity funding, and a mass resignation of student representatives.

Expansion and Batch-Size Debates: The rollout of the alternative 3-year LLB program and regular BA program alongside the flagship 5-year B.A. LL.B. course, coupled with significantly scaled-up overall incoming batch sizes, fueled continuous debates over internal equity, campus crowding, and mounting placement pressures.

Its downhill journey has well and truly caught pace.