A 6-hour fast (the news report actually calls it a one-meal fast) is hardly a fast. I'm a NALSAR alum and can tell you that the average gap between meals on campus is 4-5 hours - a 6 hour gap is hardly a "fast". So unless you have a medical condition that requires you to eat with shorter gaps, this "hunger strike" is perfunctory and a waste of time.

I'm from JGLS, I just had my interview conducted yesterday. I was informed about the interview about 8-9 days giving the benchmark test. They said they'd get back to me w/ the interview results by the end of next week, and the final and fourth round would be done somewhere between 19-25 august, if i was to get selected

Play the victim card. That's a very convenient way of deflecting accountability. Anyway, we are talking of NLUs - it cannot be any better.

If what you say were true, by now the 'victimized' NLUs would have sued BCI - more so when this information is already in the public domain.

I'm a law graduate who's gonna be working at a small family run firm in blore for a year. The only thing that jumps out in my resume is I did masters from SLS Pune. I'm gonna work in mostly real estate due diligence and commercial litigation for ayear. What skills can I gain during that year that will be attractive to tier 1 and 2 real estate teams in blr?

Hi, I have recently entered my fifth year, and my interest area is Disputes, thus I applied to various firms and got an offer from Legacy law LLP, Delhi, under Ms Tanvi Kakkar and Chadha & Co.— both for the same month.

I am uncertain about the choice, that I should make— so I need some suggestions

Sad to see trolls making fun of the 6 hour hunger strike. It’s the sentiment and symbolism that matters, not the number of hours. The point is that NLU students cannot travel to Jantar Mantar and join in person, so they are contributing in whatever little way they can. They have to juggle attendance, projects, internships, placements, exams, a whole lot of stuff. It’s very stressful and there is a lot of work. Even if the hunger strike lasts for just one day and is only of six hours duration, it’s quite a sacrifice. Please support them instead of mocking them.

I've gotten this. Indian qualified advocates are usually granted this almost without exception - the officer managing your case will just ask you a few questions and then proceed. You need to have someone who supervised you for two years write a letter of reference- broadly stating your duties at that particular chamber or firm- and say how many hours you worked per week.

Babies, ye aapka bhi guild protection hai. You are thinking you will work for foreign firms. You will be at the chamcha level if they can bring in foreigners for the plum lawyering. Enjoy the few captured jobs our citizenship currently gives us access to. Half the London jobs also come because we can do work in India that the firangs can't.

What the heck is a 6 hour hunger strike ? How do people say this stuff with a straight face ? It’s the difference between lunch and dinner - so you missed your snacks and tea ? Do yall realise how it makes it seem like you have no convictions ? Youre teaching people to protest ? Yall are so molly coddled you don’t even know how ridiculous you’re being.

I’m not saying - do hunger strike for real. I’m saying - behave with a bit of integrity. Don’t inflate everything you do and are for social media likes. Going six hours without food isn’t a hunger strike, it’s barely even a diet. There was a world before you where people would die doing this- it used to move people because that’s how much someone cared about an issue. It used to compel the goodness in people. Have a little goddamn shame and stop smelling your own farts and calling it perfume.

This even happened during those rubbish Palestine protests where there was “rotating hunger strike” in places like Princeton - students were taking shifts being on strike- ha! If you’re convinced there’s a genocide and all you’re going to do about it is stagger your meals a bit - that’s how little you can be arsed- leave alone convincing anyone else - you don’t seem convinced yourself!

If your family's financial situation is as you described it, you can't afford to have first world problems like mental health issues. You have to tough it out. Also if you're an A0 in a Tier 1 firm, how do you have time to think about your mental health? I didn't have time to breathe? Just keep working and you'll be ok in 2 to 3 years, when you have others sharing the workload.

1. I am no fan of the BCI and its way of doing things. I tend to think that it is one of the most appalling lawyers' regulators in the world.

2. Nor am I an OCI lawyer working in India.

3. But I must say, I don't see anything that suggests reciprocity is being done away with. Of course, maybe I am missing something not mentioned in the story or where the story was incorrect, but your linking it implies that you are relying on the news story. Therefore, can you clarify what you mean?

Since the law firm circle is so small and mostly interlinked it gives birth to a strange situation.

The people who yearn for foreign law firms to enter the nation cannot protest, as those who protest will likely be targetted and blacklisted or shadowbanned by Indian law firms and SILF.

I’m from a Tier 2 NLU and just got my rejection yesterday, after clearing the benchmark on the test. Hadn’t expected much considering I don’t come in the top 5 of my Batch, even though my extracurriculars and achievements are great. HSF is know to prefer batch toppers if they take from tier 2 / 3s (if at all)

Sanjay Kumar is a Luthra veteran with great clientele. He is a part of the OG Luthra Litigation setup. Unless your Saraf internship is directly under Sanjeev Sharma, you should absolutely go for Sanjay Kumar. Needless to say, if you impress either of them, you may get an offer.

Best of luck.

"It was not clear what led to the heated exchange."

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/trinamool-mp-kalyan-banerjee-suspended-for-rest-of-monsoon-session-over-unsavoury-language-11805707

But he does have a history:

- Mocked JNU PhD student and CPIM candidate Dipsita Dhar over her dark complexion: said she is invisible at night

- Said Mahua Moitra is a gold-digger who has married someone her father's age

Don't want to take drugs. Any natural hacks that than can help, other than reducing screen time and sleeping?

I do realise that people on Instagram are fake and not as rich, happy and successful as they make out to be, but I still feel like a failure after seeing their reels. Hence this state of mind.

NLU students should stay away from the CJP and instead protest at a more elite and sober level, befitting the stature of NLUs. The CJP is not an organisation that is based on intellectual theorising and critical reasoning. The protest is filled with aggressive Delhi males. Organisations like AISA are a minority here. The CJP people are types who get their knowledge of the world from Dhruv Rathee, rather than from reading the NYT or the Wire. Have they even heard of the kind of scholars and jurists we read and discuss? Foucault, Baxi, RBG, Krishna Iyer etc?

Let’s protest against Modi but stay classy, please.

It’s hilarious that these guys are protesting against corruption in education, yet making Mahua Moitra a guest at the protest and giving her a platform. She represents a party that has been involved in some of the biggest education scams in the country.

Sorry, but the CJP is a joke.

Hi,

I am associated with a Tier-1 IP Boutique and looking for a move to KCO in their Patent Practice. Can someone throw light on the Pay (Retainer + Variable) for a SA role (Probably SA2) at KCO. How good is the IP team, under Adheesh Nargolkar? How is the Promotion to partnership track (No. of years/KPI if any), work life balance, details on weekends off and benefits if any? Would appreciate your thoughts.

It's called being young. You'll find it harder to do after 30 (unless you're very careful about eating healthy and staying in shape) and near impossible after 40.

Also of course, most of the work done is of mediocre quality, but most of the work done by juniors is never read by judges or doesn't make a difference to the transaction anyway...so the impact of bad work is relatively limited.

I've around 5-6 years of experience in a niche practice at a Tier 1 law firm. Technically, I've learnt a great deal under my Reporting Partner and have had the opportunity to work on complex matters. I don't question the quality of the technical learning.

What I struggle to understand is the complete lack of client exposure.

I am routinely excluded from client meetings and calls. Even when I do attend, I'm expected to remain completely silent. On one occasion, I was asked to wait downstairs while the partner met the client. On another, I wasn't even allowed to hand my own visiting card to the client.

What has made this harder to process is that when I raised the issue, I wasn't given any constructive feedback about my communication skills, judgment, or readiness to interact with clients. Instead, the response I received was a dismissive response about how these clients are of the partner**.**

That left me wondering whether I'm missing something.

At this stage of my career, I would have expected to gradually develop client-facing skills, learn how to build relationships, and be trusted to contribute in meetings.

I'm genuinely trying to understand whether this is:

- - common in law firms;
- - a deliberate strategy to protect client relationships;
- - a reflection that the partner doesn't think I'm ready (although that was never communicated); or
- something else entirely.

My concern is less about immediate frustration and more about long-term career development.

If the goal is to eventually move into a leadership role, technical ability is only one part of the equation. Client management, communication, relationship-building and commercial judgment are equally important. If senior associates are consistently prevented from interacting with clients, when are they expected to develop those skills?

To be candid, these experiences have taken a huge toll on my confidence. Being told that "these are my clients," rather than being given any developmental feedback, made me question whether this is simply how some partners operate or whether I'm in an unusually restrictive environment.

I'd really appreciate hearing from lawyers who've experienced something similar.

- - Is this common in law firms?
- - Did things improve with time, or did you have to move teams/firms to get meaningful client exposure?
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Hey, if anyone can tell me about good Dispute Resolution and Litigation teams at Tier 1 and Tier 2 law firms(which pays decent enough). I wanted to know about teams that genuinely offer good growth and learning opportunities.

I know people often say that no team can guarantee learning and that you have to learn yourself, but I request you to answer only if you have genuine feedback about teams that actually help with the learning curve and have a good culture, especially in Mumbai and Delhi.

Thankyou and looking forward to positive and honest answers!

The sharpest seniors sleep in court, it's extremely boring and lethargic. Everyone who says that observing proceedings is a learning experience is exaggerating. It's like panning for gold, you've to go through tonnes of shit to find a solitary speck of gold dust. The key is to be sharp the moment you wake up and be quick on your feet. You can then bullshit your way to glory.

1) What is the usual timeline for Blogs on NLSforum, particularly the IJLT Blog and the NLSBLR Blog? I've heard they've got years' worth of backlogs.
2) Do they acknowledge the receipt of the articles through mail, and communicate the rejection, modifications, or is it more like no response = not accepted/in consideration?
3) Do they allow mail inquiries regarding the status of submissions, or have they blocked incoming mail for the same?

Any help would be appreciated.

Please reread and reconsider, because the twisting of my logic which you have done is frankly mind-blowing. This is not even the 20th biggest issue that the BCI has to work on. As far as I am concerned, it's a non-issue - firms and chambers need to be working at it on their own. The BCI shouldn't be wasting its time.

No, he/she is absolutely right.

Scrapping BA subjects will effectively mean phasing out BA-LLB (NLU bread-and-butter) altogether in favor of BBA-LLB and BSc-LLB. Combining law with other practically useful domains and subjects like business, management, economics, and technology makes a solid combination with relevance in the next 30 - 40 years. Such a change is a game-changer for the entire ecosystem (aspirants, students, faculty, universities, job-seekers, organizations, and employers).

Just to clarify:

1. She is well over 18 and no longer a student.

2. It was Dharmendra Pradhan who dragged his daughter in the education debate by claiming that his daughter studied Marathi till class 8 (in the context of the CBSE language debate). The impression one may get from this statement is that she went to a regular, middle-class CBSE school. That may be, but certainly over the past decade her educational background has been extremely elite and insulated from the issues that middle-class Indians attending ordinary government colleges face.

3. Scroll’s broader point is that children of all the Modi govt ministers attend university abroad and this is indeed true. Literally every minister’s kid. Many work abroad too.

All links below.

https://scroll.in/article/1094109/education-crisis-in-india-puts-spotlight-on-cabinet-ministers-children-studying-abroad

https://x.com/BlewMedia_in/status/2079717773866110987

https://www.ndtv.com/video/dharmendra-pradhan-defends-cbse-s-three-language-policy-my-daughter-studied-marathi-till-class-8-1105915

The point was not about lawyer competence at all. It was about something far more basic i.e., this team was not desirable within CAM. Their client base was thin, their book was shallow, and they never managed to align with CAM’s culture or collaborate in a way that mattered. For a firm like CAM, that makes the decision straightforward. From CAM’s standpoint, keeping a team that does not integrate, creates more risk than value. A clean, controversy‑free exit is simply the commercially rational move by CAM. But interesting that your takeaway was that the comment was about competency.

True and well said. Very few good faculty from older generations are there now. Those still there are people who need to be in Delhi for personal reasons and still see Jindal as a better option than NLUD, Munjal, Bennett etc. But if NLUD gets an NLU alum as VC like Sudhir and does a mass recruitment drive of NLU alumni faculty, then these people will quit and no one will be left except DJ.

This is a bad take. Have you considered it’s the BCI and not the NLUs ? That they could have done everything right and the BCI may be stalling ? That’s not even an uncommon thing to happens and unlike private law colleges NLUs don’t bribe regulators to get through the process smoothly.