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Anyway, now I’m curiousif stuff like this ever happen in NLUs im going for my first moot next month and do uk any such successful love stories
Have seen a lot posts for the same and know quite a few people who got in her team. What is actually going on there?
ONLY DO AN LL.M. IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO ACADEMIA.
Law is a practicing profession, get in the trenches, stay there or get out. Experience will always triumph degrees.
The truth is, if you’re not from a legacy law family, being a law student can feel incredibly isolating. I study at a Tier-2 NLU, and the channels of information about things like vacation schemes, moots, PPOs, etc. are very limited. There’s practically no one I can go to with doubts or questions. In such situations, it’s very reaffirming to know that I can always count on Legally India.
I haven’t been on the platform as long as some others, and I agree with a lot of the critiques, but I still think we need to appreciate LI for the platform it is. It helps a lot of law students and lawyers stay connected to the wider legal community. In more ways than one, it shapes conversations and directs the narrative around legal education and careers. Plus, it’s a great place to get general advice.
Before this turns into a full-blown love letter, I’ll stop but ya, credit where it’s due.
jokes aside, i think you meant UPSC 2024. Which batch is he from?
Karan + Purvi + Kartikeya
Nishant
Vaibhav Suri
Navin Syiem
2. Weeding out irrelevant posts- some random statement by some anti Trans or anti immigration guy in Miami gets a post while relevant queries lie in abeyance.
3. Less of college spam: A lot of things like internal politics of SWA of NLSIU is irrelevant to be discussed.
Perhaps if you are doing an LLM with the eventual goal to enter academia, that is another conversation altogether (but I assume inquiring about the worth of a degree signals financial goals, and hence I will not expand on the academic value of the LLM).
What would you actually like to see?
Any insight about the team members, team culture etc? How do they function as a team across 2 locations - as different teams or a unified team?
I'm pursuing a professional course and would so like to obtain LLB to enrol in Bar later on.
Would like to know colleges for 3 year LLB with no attendance requirements.
Ideally the college should be in tamilnadu, bangalore or andhra pradesh.
Any input would be highly appreciated.
Thank you.
This platform owes much of its popularity throughout the years to juvenile inter-law school rivalry and trolling. That has been quite obvious over the years.
Ever since the new IT Rules came into effect and Kian withdrew from the forum, the quality of real or useful news has reduced drastically, which was not unexpected. Unfortunately, it got replaced with mostly trolling, name-calling, abuses aimed at individuals or institutions, political bickering and other toxic attempts at free speech, which was not surprising though undesirable.
In the light of this and given the lofty though fairly arbitrary standards that an occasional moderator has been known to espouse here, here is my question, are you actively trying to leverage toxicity, irrational hatred and abuses in the guise of anonymity and freedom of speech in order to bring back some of the past glory of Legally India or at least to sustain your fleeting relevance in the legal community? If so, then that is of course your prerogative, but at least you owe it to your readers and supporters to come clean about it.
I request the current administrator and ALL the moderators to respond to this, because your individual stance may differ from the forum's. If you don't see any problem with the posts and threads being allowed, then also kindly clarify that, so that we may understand your perspective. I am just doing this as a last-ditch attempt to keep my ties of over sixteen years intact with this platform, rather than leaving it and judging people for their continued and demonstrated association with it from now on. Call it misplaced loyalty or naivete or whatever you will.
I work at JSA, a law firm that is notorious for its policy of not having any family member work in the firm. People still circumvent this rule by living in live-in relationships. No one fucking cares, we are too busy working off in our own lives.
Most professionals, and especially those at boutique law firms with limited resources, simply don’t have the time to produce podcasts. If you’ve ever been involved in organizing a webinar for a reputable law firm, you’ll know how many hours of effort and coordination go into it. I can only imagine that creating a podcast requires even more work, given the need for deeper discussion engagement.
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While it's surprising that a practicing lawyer has time to churn out so many podcasts, ykiyk, kudos for the effort. Wish him the best.
PQE- 2 years
( Not Corporate law team!)
What CTC should I ask for?
Rishab Gupta, Nakul Dewan, Gourab Banerjee. These are all Indian firms and practitioners who actually represent India or foreign parties in international disputes. Also, there is no international law practitioner in India, including this firm. International law mostly refers to public international law. What they’re talking about is international arbitration and investor-state arbitration. Don’t take sides when you don’t know the basics.
There are three CM teams in CB, Viplaw, Khushali and one is a generalist team under Sanjay Buch.
The culture in the former two teams is questionable, the latter one is nicer but no hardcore CM work.
The learning is amazing, Saturdays are not off. The workload is significant. The associates are friendly, of the partner is very difficult to work with (may be subjective).
They are offering 9+variable.
They have a 3 year bond in place.
The team is VERY overworked, they do not have a senior associate. There is the partner and then directly people with 3-4 years PQE, which can sometimes make things tricky. (This is due to the attrition which is self-explanatory).
The rest of the JSA should learn dressing sense and presentation from them.
And just because other law firms are also partaking in this gross violation, doesn’t make S&R any better.
Then comes 2,3,4 ranks....
It breaks your confidence to be treated like that as a first-year lawyer, and I wish I had joined a Tier 2/3 firm at a lesser pay but with better stability and people.
Also, does KCo do the same?
In terms of :-
1. Pay Scale
2. Work Culture etc.
I don’t mean in terms of student elections (since NLUs don’t have such organised political elections) but in terms of general ideology and student activities. At NLUs, I would say Gen X and Gen Y were more Marxist, but Gen Z is heavily Marxist-Leninist-Ambedkarite.
As I understand it, the Marxist faction at JNU is Bengali and Malayali -dominated, plus draws people from urban India and English-speaking backgrounds. It is cosmopolitan and internationalist, and pays more attention to class than caste. They pay a lot of attention to theory. They look up to Gramsci, Althusser, Spivak etc and see the subaltern as dominated by capitalist exploitation. The Marxist-Leninist-Ambedkarite faction is Bihar-UP-Telangana backward caste dominated, plus mostly rural students. It is is radical and regional, since casteism has historically been dominant in these states and in rural India. They look up to people like Periyar, Kanshi Ram, Lalu Yadav etc and believe in confrontation and earthy language, giving more attention to praxis than theory. They see English-language writings on class as capital as elitist. We got a demo of this during the infamous Gayatri Spivak lecture at JNU, when she scolded a Dalit student from Bihar for not pronouncing DuBois correctly. He gave it back to her on X, calling her a “Brahmin bh and b**d” and pointing to her caste privilege. Prof Ajay Gudavarthy explained the issue in The Wire.
https://m.thewire.in/article/caste/the-gayatri-spivak-controversy-exploring-the-implosion-of-subalternity-in-public-discourse/amp
But their Chandigarh practice is Tax only.
This includes listed instruments issued via private placement (similar to QIPs on ECM side) and listed instruments issued via public issue (debt IPO / FPO basically). There is also foreign bond issuances where Indian counsels are involved (RegS/144A issuances). There aren't many teams that do all these regularly. For example TTA has a team that specialises in foreign bond issuances, even JSA does I think. Most banking and finance teams also dabble in privately places listed debt issuances. Only a few do public issue of NCDs.
Finding a team that does ECM and DCM together will be good if you intend to be a capital markets lawyer. It's anyday good to diversify.
The DCM team in KCo does all sorts of matters (listed NCDs (private placement and public issue), municipal bonds, foreign bonds, etc.). They have also worked on a few ECM deals sprinkled here and there. There must be other T1s also similarly placed.
However this field is very methodic and process oriented. Not much innovation or scope for doing bespoke transactions (unless you are doing structured finance deals, restructuring etc.).
WLB is non existent in most T1s DCM/B&F teams as banking / dcm lawyers are expected to meet unreasonable deadlines and unless you have a partner who can set the boundaries with the clients, you'll have long weekends and ruined holidays. Some firms manage this better some are worse. Depends on the team and partner like always. Compensation is on the better side because there is always workflow (except foreign bonds, where work can stop suddenly) and DCM teams mostly always also do B&F work as well.