This was the first client call I was getting the opportunity to lead. However, despite putting 20-odd alarms in queue, I was unable to wake up on time and make the call. The call was handled by someone else from the team and my absence did not end up causing too much damage.

I feel like I messed up big time and this will definitely affect my perception as a reliable resource. Has anything similar ever happened to you? Share experiences please.

7 ranks +/- yours. Would be taking up NLUO and if I can't get it most probably RGNUL (I am from Delhi too). Had a talk with someone who is from Delhi and in ILC, they said that the current state of the 'college' (which is just 2 floors in kanad bhawan) is not good enough to leave out on RGNUL/NLUO. The classes take place from 8-4ish, 6 days a week so no time to intern, also without a functional placement cell the chances of getting placed seem slim. No hostels (which won't be a problem for you) also means less diversity and the 1.9 L fees just doesn't justify the DU tag.

"Arbitrators play as much critical role as members of the bar associated with the arbitral process. Surprisingly, there is, I am saying it with utmost restraint, absolute tight fist control of a segment of a category that is involved with arbitral process determination. And this tight fist control emanates out of judicial feats. And if we examine it on an objective platform, it is excruciatingly painful. This country has rich human resource in every facet. ...Unfortunately, we have taken in this country a very myopic view of arbitration as if it is adjudication. It is much beyond adjudication. It is not conventional adjudication as historically evaluated globally,” he said.

https://www.barandbench.com/news/india-nowhere-in-international-commercial-arbitration-time-to-look-beyond-retired-judges-vice-president

BS ranking by a clown who clearly didn’t have it in him to get into NLUD. Your dreamy corporate jobs are not hard to get when you’ve got people from SLS and JGLS and GLC and ILS being hired. As far as NLUD goes, it’s the only NLU without domicile with a reasonable batch size and has the best location among all NLUs. That’s a fact.

But I can tell you that it has costs if you involve people you might need later. Personally, if I think someone has crossed a boundary or has been too aggressive, I consider them a very risky hire. Who knows how they will behave once in my organization. Obviously, this doesn't apply to small things or mistakes when you are very junior but I take what senior students do to be indicative of how they will behave in the workplace.

How nice to feel that GLC and NLS can even be names said in the same breath, let alone have their own, unique issues compared - as if they were both equal in standing. True, true, universities don't get funded well, but you seem to think GLC and NLS get impacted in the same way? Okay, no worries. I understand we sometimes need a little soothing for the ego, especially after the mortification of failing CLAT.

Yes, there is genuinely something wrong with people there and I have noticed only these kind of people end up staying there for long term. I interned for a while and throughout the internship my reporting associate behaved nicely but on the last day when I asked him to sign some report and give general feedback he refused and said bad stuff about me. I understand if my performance was subpar but give me feedback instantly so I can work on it and show improvement but accepting my work throughout the month without complaints and suddenly acting that way was a big enough red flag for me and I knew I am definitely not working with such people.

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Gossip, insults, and negativity often draw more attention than constructive discussions. However, I am certain that Legally India was never intended to be a platform for fueling frustration and cynicism.

Lately, we have observed certain anonymous voices attempting to pass judgment on professors who have dedicated decades—often far longer than the lifespan of these commentators themselves—to academia and legal scholarship. These individuals freely opine on everything under the sun, despite lacking the expertise or qualification to do so. Their motives are often transparent: promoting a select few while unfairly maligning others, particularly those who are making significant contributions to legal education and scholarship.

The pattern is clear—selective praise for certain individuals or institutions, coupled with unwarranted attacks on others (e.g., NUJS, NLUJ, NLUD vs. NLS; Sudhir biopic, CLC bashing etc). A robust academic discourse thrives on reasoned debate and informed critique, not anonymous potshots driven by hidden agendas. Let’s not allow such divisive narratives to overshadow the true purpose of this platform.

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So, I recently secured an internship with IndusLaw Corporate team at their Bangalore office. I am from the batch of 2025 and wanted to know my prospects of converting this into a callback or an assessment internship post-graduation

How is the work culture and workload in the Corporate team at the Bangalore office and is Induslaw Bangalore hiring associates considering the recent exodus of partners and hiring of new ones

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, grades and getting a job have always been connected. I was oblivious to this fact and am now in my 4th year, just one semester away from the official placement cycle. Towards the end of my 3rd year, I understood the importance of grades. My CGPA is very very average currently. My CV is above average with internships, competitions & publications. I have a call-back internship coming up with SAM, and I wish to get recommended for a PPO. I know my grades are pretty average and I wouldn't have a scope in the college placements. My concern is that the prospects of receiving a PPO be hampered as my grades are not at par? I would appreciate genuine answers and internal insights, if any. Thank youuu!!!!!

I think both TD and UJ are fabulous lawyers. Team culture changes from time to time depending on people and circumstances. I know of people who have loved both of them. I have worked with TD and can confirm he is a star mentor to have and always looks out for you. He is a very understanding open and easy to speak to fella. Loves his work life balance and respects and tries to accommodate yours. Always available. Very practical. Yes, supervision may be less, but that comes from his ability to trust and willingness to take a chance on you and he k how's when to step in and stop things from spiraling out of control. Never blames you or regrets trusting. That is some great mentorship.

Please. Not being a promoter driven firm has very few cons. Like in trilegal, the heavyweight partners pick up mandates without clearing internal conflict and then pressurise the juniors (partners, counsels et al) to not take up competing mandates, all the while looking like idiots in front of prospective clients. Trilegal, SnR and AZB are similar in one way. The ones sitting on top are very conscious of anybody else climbing the ladder. Its more about gatekeeping than actually being better. And when these heavyweights are treated like dishrags by Skadden, WLRK, W&C, DLA....then they pout and take it out on their team.

Any tips/ inputs on starting your own firm/ advisory practice (non-litigation) from anybody who has done it before? Aspects like what's a good enough PQE level to start at, can you have sureshot clients on day 1 etc., what kind of clients to target, anything you could think of - This is from someone currently at a T-1 doing B&F.

Title question basically.

Plus some additional questions.

I have heard in this forum that MBB is very hectic but I have got diverse views from other sources. Although continuous travel is challenging, but I have been told that actual work hours are less than in law firms.

I have been told that pay is equal to big law, but I have reservations on this. With so much of opacity, I don't think you can make a good judgement on pay. Regardless, consulting is much more broader field with more options to switch than law.

AZB Mumbai Disputes - To be honest, none is aware of the criteria and benchmarks. But popular opinion suggests that the only relevant factor is how much the senior partner likes you. As such, one cant really determine the bonus component basis the hard work put in throughout the year.

As per my experience, average bonuses vary from 2-2.5 months' salary with 3-3.5 months being the upper limit. At the junior level, this could range from 1.5 months' to 2.5 months' salary. Have heard that the Partners bonus ranges from 4.5 months' to 6 months' salary.

Would be grateful if other can share info about other disputes teams.

As an EP at a rival firm, let me offer my two bits.

TL is an excellent firm. They are doing splendidly and are very well run. Merit is rewarded. I find them competent and whenever we are opposite each other, the transaction goes through very smoothly.

You do surely understand that the vast majority of the people who take a giant dump on TL and similar firms are total failures who ought not have studied law in the first place? If you take the droppings of these dregs as advice, I can only wish you, all the best and God bless you.

okay.. but you do realise people disagree about HOW to improve peoples lives? There are legitimate arguments that freeing up markets and speech would allow for a faster alleviation of poverty. Proponents of capitalism do argue that free markets are what has caused global poverty rates to fall.

its silly to assume people who take opposing view points do it because of personal/ ego reasons and not because they simply disagree with you about how to make the world better.

I’m in my fifth year interested in energy and infra practice, couldnt intern before in this practice but I want to know build a base for myself in this, what should my roadmap be and how should I start ? what is definitely I should keep in mind. Someone shared a very comprehensive guildline for tax before, can someone do this for energy and Infra m? Please provide your comments!

Tia

Nothing surprising at all.

If the University cannot get its own name correct in the degree certificates distributed during the convocation, it shows how rotten things are.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/convocation-certs-of-university-of-mumabai-reach-colleges-mu-red-faced-by-spelling-gaffe/articleshow/118636346.cms

Overall apathy, lack of funding, and domicile quota are curses for all state government institutions. These three plague NLUs as well. We are witnessing the same in NLS as well - it is just that in the initial days the downfall is not acknowledged or not visible (but it is happening). Karnataka Govt is notorious for killing good institutions.

Actually, no. Thats all other law firms especially the lala firms where you cannot have available hours because the focus in on billing. Trilegal is a place where you can sit idle for weeks on end, take the salary and yet nobody would know until at least 2-3 months. Stop misleading.

Tier 1: NLS NALSAR NUJS

Tier 1.5: NLUJ NLUD GNLU

Tier 2: RGNLU NLUO SLSP Jindal

Tier 3: GLC

Note: NLUD is ABSOLUTELY NOT tier one if you are looking for a corporate law job. Stop falling for the lies here. If you are 100% sure about going for corp then stick to NALSAR or NUJS, cause with increased NLS batch size I don't think they would be able to place everyone. NALSAR placed everyone in BO24, including 25+ in-house offers, and NUJS (keeping aside all its flaws) is still the place to go if you are looking for a decent law firm job. BO25 got 70+ law firm offers, which is probably the highest among all top NLUs.

Indian right wingers are mostly religions bigots. They're definitely not libertarian in the slightest. They're in love with the state because they want the government to restrict beef consumption, enforce blasphemy laws, and are certainly not in favour of granting equal rights to EVERYONE. One can say the same about most American MAGAtards.

NMIMS Law School now has its own campus and building right opposite Cooper. I think its your best bet. They have become quite flexible when it comes to interning regularly along with lectures. The lecture timings are fixed in a way that you can intern every day. Its the best bet in Mumbai since GLC now has stringent attendance policy and cannot intern properly. Also, you get the internship slots in the non-seasonal months at T1 and T2 firms (Aug-Nov, Feb-April).

Disappointed at the voting pattern. A sad reflection on how Gen Z law students are being indoctrinated in college. The truth is that India is poor because of statism. Had we embraced free markets and liberalisation earlier, we would have been a first world country by now. Anyway, hopefully y’all will change your positions when you start working and become more mature.

SAM bonuses are on another level, JSA and Trilegal don't even come close. JSA variable payouts are a sham and Trilegal and KCO gives a lot of discretion to the Partners to call the shots on the bonuses making it very very random.

AZB and CAM pay the lowest across all levels in the tier 1 circuit so keep both of them out of the talk.

No clue about TT&A or S&R given how super exclusive they are to the cream folks who don't leave.

Speaking at an event organised by Business Standard, Mr Kant said it had become "fashionable" to talk about not working hard.

"I strongly believe in hard work. Indians must work hard, whether it's 80 hours or 90 hours a week. If your ambition is to move from a $4 trillion to a $30 trillion economy, you can't do it through entertainment or by following the views of some film stars," he was quoted as saying.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indians-should-work-hard-opt-for-80-hour-work-weeks-ex-niti-aayog-ceo-amitabh-kant-7821634#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories

For once, just once, can you and everyone else having this pathological hatred of the NLSIU VC provide even a shred of evidence for your claims? Why do you folks always stop short of providing hard evidence that would prove just how terrible the VC has been? Are you not ashamed of yourself to reduce every conversation about a university by taking such stupid, incoherent shots against its VC?

the consequence of cold emailing is just as bad as the consequence of not cold-emailing. You remain where you were. The reason why cold-emails are generally disregarded is because busy people don't have time to attain to your meager requests. Naturally, the would also not have time to be such low-lifes as to blacklist you. And even if a couple of them are, what difference does it make? Not like they were hiring you anyway? You won't last long working with people like them.

On the plus side, if you luck out, a partner may refer you. An HR may grant your request. A lawyer may give you work at his chambers. The chances are low, perhaps 1 of 100, but that doesn't mean you don't try. What harm could an email even do?

will this person guarantee our long life if we give 24 hours a day for 10 years?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruby-singh-ahuja-4a2a7486_i-know-this-post-of-mine-may-get-mixed-reactions-activity-7301476118832762881-rvhF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAD0pXu8BQO_BIwk-AgbwC323itCRuAKQcbE

If anybody from India wished to follow the Trump administration's example of cracking down on woke (a good thing to do on a personal level, an excellent way to spend time and helpful for society) and was asked for evidence of how it has infected peoples' minds, they need only pull up this thread and show this comment.

Hi Everyone, I don't know if many GLC students are there on this community, but I know we all are thinking about this and we all need to take some steps against this. Additionally the GLC Administration needs to be named and shamed for being this ▮▮▮ and ▮▮▮ about the ground realities. I am going to name each and every ▮▮▮ faculty, LI can decide how they want to proceed with this post, incase you want to black out the names its okay but please don't remove this post.

Starting with the complete ▮▮▮ of the Principal, who struggles ▮▮▮, is disconnected with students and her appointment itself is been ▮▮▮ as mentioned in the article below. She has suppressed the core law activities in the college. She and the admin have made it difficult for each and every important committee to function, including the ADR Cell, Moot Court Association and even the Placement Committee. She on a regular basis declines permissions to these important cells for conducting events only to end up giving permissions for Marathi Mandal and Cultural Committee two of the most useless committees in the college. She has managed to get GLC a extremely poor NAAC assessment by her sheer ▮▮▮, and is now punishing the students for speaking up against her in from of NAAC.

Half the data that has been submitted to NAAC is ▮▮▮. There are no research platforms provided to us, except the ones Government provides for free like NList, there is no Access to any rare book library or gymkhana either. The College is covered with dust, there are no windows, windows are covered with asbestos sheets instead. Upon a mere RTI one can find the sheer ▮▮▮ and ▮▮▮ going on ▮▮▮.

The Administration itself is ▮▮▮. They have tried to introduce Biometric attendance, which 90% of the times doesn't record our attendance or records it in some random subject we don't even have. They don't follow university timelines to declare results, our revaluation results come well after half a year. They can not even print our marksheets correctly. We ourselves have to go and show them the mistakes they have made, and if we are late in doing that they fine us! How ridiculous is that?? We are expected to be on time but the office staff will not come in before 11 and will leave before 4 pm. Not to mention the one hour lunch break.

GLC has the most, incompetent Law permanent faculty. Professors like ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮, ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ who enforce attendance so strictly, don't even know the basics of law. ▮▮▮. There is a case going on against ▮▮▮ for not following the MU rules while enforcing attendance. But one can not blame ▮▮▮ because ▮▮▮. Both of them have made students beg and cry for letting them write papers.

Coming to attendance, GLC had excellent professors up until a few years ago. Ever since ▮▮▮ was appointed, the quality has dropped. They literally take walk in interviews for faculty that's how bad the situation is. As a recourse students started interning full time to secure jobs, which also Asmita is against. God forbid someone mentions internship in front of ▮▮▮. I believe ▮▮▮.

Please juniors please listen to me. People who are serious about getting jobs atleast, people who are considering joining GLC. Don't come here. Juniors transfer to ILS, NMIMS even PGCL ffs. I am telling you, I used to defend GLC to anyone and everyone. Its just never going to be the same anymore. I have attached a few links below. Anyone who doesn't believe me come to GLC for just a day, you will see what is going on. For the people who already are neck deep into their degree, we need to put Vaidya in her place. Suggest any and every idea you have to fight this, as a reply. I am doing this anonymously because I don't know how much support I have. If I get enough support we can start some offline action.

This is also a cry for intervention, to our Alumni if any on LI. Please please help us. To the counsels in HC, to the Partners in Law firms and to the Members of the Advisory Committee please help us.

#▮▮▮.

https://news.careers360.com/glc-mumbai-govt-law-college-fund-faculty-shortage-llb-llm-phd-courses-mumbai-university-br-ambedkar-nirf-naac-bci-fees-syllabus

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/bombay-high-court-directs-evaluation-for-law-students-with-low-attendance/articleshow/116179994.cms