WOW!!! This is such a courageous thing to say!!! Just remember!! Treat the downvotes as upvotes!!! We got such a fucking chip on our shoulders about the British (saying it as someone who lives in Britain and who is from West Bengal + hates both Mamata Bannerjee/TMC and BJP) that it is a joy to see someone, at last, thinking rationally and not just engaging in utterly random condemnation. Mods, do your worst - mark as trollish, unpublish... I don't care - it will just prove my point!!!

Ive seen many people publish their papers on some very good platforms with contemporary issues and judgments. How do they stsy so relevant when it comes to writing on such contemporary topics? I ve always found it difficult as to how to start writing research papers which coupd get published on platforms like blr

First, sit your parents down and talk to them properly. No shouting, no arguing—just make them listen. Start by telling them straight up, “I know you’re worried about me leaving, but I need you to hear me out before you decide anything.” Make sure they agree to actually listen.

Now, hit them with facts. Tell them exactly what’s at stake. A Tier 1 law school means top jobs at firms like CAM, SAM, AZB, where people start with salaries of 18-25 LPA. If you go to some random local college, you’ll be lucky to even make 3-5 LPA. That’s the difference. It’s not just about money—it’s about opportunities. If you ever want to study abroad, do an LLM at Harvard or Oxford, or even crack judiciary exams, your college matters. Judges, top litigators, law firm partners—almost all of them come from NLUs. If they make you stay back, they’re shutting the door on all of that.

Now, let’s talk about the real issue. Your parents aren’t worried about your education, they’re worried about what people will say. Relatives have fed them nonsense about girls going out and getting spoiled. You need to shut that down immediately. Tell them NLUs have gated campuses, strict hostel rules, curfews. This isn’t some party scene. You’ll be surrounded by India’s best law students, not random people with no ambition. Also, bring up examples of girls from your city or community who went to NLUs and are now successful. Show them proof that their fears are baseless.

If they still don’t get it, hit them where it hurts. “You were so proud when I got this rank. You know how hard I worked. And now, because of some relatives, you’re throwing it all away?” Remind them that you’re their daughter, not some random girl from a story. If they truly trust you, they should trust your decisions too.

If all else fails, get someone they respect to talk to them—a teacher, a lawyer, a family friend. Sometimes, parents listen more when the advice comes from an “experienced” person instead of their own kid.

And if they still refuse? Make it clear this isn’t over. Tell them you’ll take a gap year and try again next year rather than settle for a bad college. Tell them if they force you into this, you’ll never forget that they were the ones who ruined your career. They need to understand that this isn’t some small decision. This is your future. If they truly want the best for you, they need to stop listening to outsiders and start listening to you.

I am preparing for interviews but making notes, especially seeing as to how vast everything is in the General Corporate area of practice please suggest some website or certain videos one can look up to brush up their knowledge before interviews. Please do not come at me by saying that I need to read up the law straight up, I know I do. It's just when someone does not have the time to go through them alongside work.

I mean... can you believe this is an Indian city??

https://www.reddit.com/r/kolkata/comments/1im3haq/colonial_calcutta_collected_pictures/

Do you think anyone really cares about who is VC of a particular place?

With a batch of 300 UG students, 200 PG and then another chunk of 3 years LLB Grads. What does this foreign degree holder VC want to make NLS? A factory of intellectually unemployed students? Why don't you tell us about placements at NLS post 2024 and tell us more about each courses. Just few thinking here and there and what is to take pride is CV of VC. He has to be a good admin and make students like you understand that degree has very less to do with competence of either being a Good Prof, Litigation Lawyer, Corp Lawyer or be it any other field.

That's the point most people miss. Why would someone with a good practice teach at Law School? People with passion will be the only ones teaching, and those will be extremely rare. That's why the rule came in the first place. Most people who write about Legal Education completely ignore why the rule was brought. (Talking of a paper I read in Asian Journal of Legal Education. Not a very good paper)

The word "considering" could have been used for multiple reasons: maybe the person is thinking about the financial implications of moving to a new city if she gets the internship; maybe she is thinking whether this internship would be right for her/the judge would be the right one to apply to; maybe she is thinking whether she can balance it alongside her other commitments. Why does it have to be a conclusion about being entitled? Why does your first response have to be to lash out? Criticize for naming the judge all you want (mods, you should have been more discrete and redacted that part of OP's comment, so this says as much about your own skills in such things), but this? This (in my view unduely harshly-articulated) criticism of the use of the word "considering", and the content of the criticism itself, are unnecessary, deeply disappointing and does nobody any favours. Please learn to behave politely.

Mods, unpublish and tag the above comment as 'trollish' immediately. How is it that harmless jokes get tagged while genuinely exhibitionist (and bad) behaviour that could have adverse impact(s) on other people is given a free pass?

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Cringe guy making cringe content for cringe people. This is the problem when you have a consumer base dominated by uneducated people. No class or taste in today’s movies, music, podcasts…

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/arunachal-womens-panel-seeks-action-against-elvish-yadav-for-racial-comment-7686879#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories

Hello peeps,

My father and my uncle jointly own a 1200sq plot in Bangalore

. They have built two seperate floors in which each of our families live. We pay seprate house tax. The only obstacle I currently face is the ownership bullshit. The ownership deed has listed both their names but there is no explicit statment indicating the percentage of ownership which each of them hold. Would I still qualify for the Karnataka ews category?

I know you would not really be all that intersted in helping some dumabss kid asking for legal advice but I would really appreciate it if you help me 🙏 this is my last resort as my father is very reluctant to consult an actual lawyer. I have tried various avenues heck I even went to a local litigation firm about this and they booted me out because I was not able to pay an upfront retainer fee of 5k.

Hello peeps

I am from Karnataka. I am facing a dilema,My uncle and my father jointly own a 1200sq plot of land and have built two separate floors. We both pay seprate house tax. In the ownership deed both their names have been listed but an explicit statment of ownership is not specified. Everything else checks out except this whole ownership bs. So would still be eligible for EWS? I am posting this here because it will take a lot of convincing for my father to consult a lawyer so please help me out.

Getting a judicial internship is not easy at all. Idk how people can even consider asking with so much confidence, about one specific judge.

Either he/she has a strong contact there, or is super overconfident. SC judicial internships are some of the bought sought after internships for anyone pursuing litigation/applying for LLM.

we are not a real country.

have people lost their minds? this is what we're bothering with so much? its a joke. If you think its funny, laugh. I did. If you think its not funny, move on like an adult.

Those crying about how this is obscenity and all- do you have nothing nothing nothing better to do? If you were worried about morals and values I know you have a mountain of child porn to report and traffickers to catch. A comedian making a joke that is pretty much middle of the road shouldnt be on your radar.
Reporters spending time writing about this should be ashamed. Do we not have anything else to report on or talk about in the country?

Is it worth it? My main issue is not having stimulating work. I don't mind a slight difference in the pay gap, hoping I will not travel as much and the work hours will be better. Currently an A1 research associate in a T3. Love research (not the paraphrasing they call research in some places)

Thank you so much for the advice. Right now I have a 580s rank so I can get hnlu and nluo. I heard NLUO has been having problems, which one would you suggest?

Regarding retaking clat, I'm a dropper already so would it be advisable to write the paper again (along w college) given the uncertainty of the last 2 years?

See you have to be firm but professional in refusing corporate work by stating that your focus is on disputes and that you have ongoing work from a disputes senior that you need to prioritize.

If pushed, mention that taking on additional corporate work may impact your ability to perform well in your primary practice area. Casually inform your disputes seniors that you’re being assigned corporate tasks and ask if they’d prefer you to stay focused on disputes—they may step in. Since disputes lawyers arrive later, use early hours for self-initiated legal research or drafting to appear engaged. If declining directly doesn’t work, say you’ll check if you can manage both but can’t promise a deadline, forcing corporate associates to reconsider. Additionally, leverage informal discussions with other disputes interns or associates for strategies on deflecting corporate work. If assignments persist despite your objections, subtly bring it up with a disputes senior, as they might intervene to keep you within your intended practice area.

NLSIU > SLS Pune > Faculty of Law (UoD) > JGLS > GLC Mumbai > ILS Pune > Faculty of Law (BHU)

Above preferential order is based on the following criteria: (i) institute autonomy (including uniform academic calendar, time-bound academic sessions, etc.), (ii) academic rigour (including student-to-faculty ratio, intra-batch competition where members of a batch are more competitive when they secure admission in the institute of their first-preference, etc.), (iii) professional opportunities (including internships, scholarships, references, alumni relations, etc.)

When in doubt, go for that institute which you think (on balance of aforementioned criteria) is capable of providing a strong foundation for your career and one which you are least likely to regret joining. The above ranking, I think, satisfies that principle. Choice is yours. All the best.

'Tech law' as an area of practice is very closely associated with public policy & comp sci. Good scholars in the field aren't necessarily going to have a traditional legal background, or be in NLUs.
As for AI - no one in India understands it (beyond IPR in AI), apart from maybe IITs. There is no Indian law on it yet. So frankly its a premature field in law. What you should consider is faculty teaching 'Regulatory Affairs'.

T1 NLU, somewhere in the top of the batch - if it matters at all. Eventually want to land a corp internship in TMT. Do not think now would the the right time to apply, of course. Planning ahead, so I can start applying ASAP. What would the best option for me at this stage? Any inputs appreciated!

Also - what's the best way prepare to eventually do a TMT internship?

You are missing the point. Marriage is not the disqualifying criterion. It is the decrease in work performance that can result from the demands of factors such as marital relations that is the problem. At the same time, if the prospective employee has already stated that their marital relations will not affect their work performance then that should be the end of conversation.

There is a difference between not hiring someone based on the fact of who they are (in your example, a pregnant woman) and which is definitely impermissible and not hiring someone based on the fact that they cannot contribute to the job in the same measure as everyone else. A candidate, on account of her pregnancy (or, in another example, their disability), can then be disqualified, not because she is pregnant (or disabled) but on the basis of difference between what is expected of them and their actual performance. It is easy to dismiss this as semantic trickery but it is not. At the same time, companies can (and should) also come up with policies to assist those whose performance is affected not from their lack of skills or experience but due to factors not entirely within their control. There is a solution to this but it requires us to first acknowledge the real problem at play.

Not just law, everywhere people are complaining that Gen Z employees are too lazy and entitled. This whole generation has been brainwashed by social media to believe that capitalists bosses are oppressors and employees are oppressed. I will tell you a real story. One Gen Z girl forgot to bring her laptop to work. Her supervisor scolded her and asked her to go back home and bring it to the office. Just a regular scolding like a teacher, nothing offensive. This girl cried and complained to the boss that her supervisor is toxic, harsh etc.

This is an interesting conundrum. On one hand, it is improper to discriminate on the basis of one’s sex. On the other hand, the employer is within their rights to want to assess the suitability of a prospective employee’s performance in terms of their skills, experience, and avalability at the workplace. Now, to the extent that a prospective employee can be trusted (and they should be unless there is a factual reason not to) when they say that their availability at work will not be impacted by their marital relations, then that is no longer a criterion to disqualify them. But if they do acknowledge otherswise, then the employer should be free to take that fact into account with other criteria in determing their suitability in the firm.

I have 16 years of work ex as an independent lawyer and my gross receipts were only 45 lakhs in the previous financial year. Litigation. My counterparts in corporate make 2x - a lot of which gets pissed away in rent, kids education and paying an EMI for a car. Taxable income - take half. Kharchas are cray cray in metros. Live in one. Have 0 in the bank and a few lakhs in ppf and stocks. I feel like shit.

Don't take a 30L loan for this. The market is oversaturated with lawyers and there's no room for mediocrity. Your symbi degree will keep you behind every NLU out there. Not worth 30 lakhs for sure.

DSNLU itself ought to be abolished. So many of these new NLUs are so poorly governed (in terms of faculty recruitment, doctoral research, under-graduate academics) that they actually damage whatever brand association the tag of being an NLU used to provide while gleefully plundering the hard-earned money of a student’s family by virtue of that tag.

Recently, members of a NAAC inspection team that assessed Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KLEF) have been accused of financial corruption. Incidentally, “in the overall NIRF rankings, KLEF performed better than IISER Pune, which ranked 42; IIT Ropar, which ranked 48; IIT Mandi (72); and IIT Patna (73). It also did better than NIT Warangal and NIT Calicut, which were ranked 53 and 54” as per << https://indianexpress.com/article/education/cbi-naac-bribery-scam-andhra-university-centre-accreditation-9824953/ >>

Now granted that this particular news does not concern institutes/departments/centres that offer legal education but it does raise following questions given that the methodology for assessment in NIRF is same for every participating institute. It is also not the first time that such apparent irregularities have been observed in NIRF between well-established institutes falling behind relatively newer ones.

(1) How reliable is the data submitted by institutes to NIRF?

(2) Is NIRF an adequate source of information for prospective applicants to assess the quality of an institute?

(3) How can NIRF be reformed to better safeguard against being hijacked via data manipulation?

Only a fool would believe they are 'valued' in a foreign country. White Americans will happily allow you to work there, until they perceive your growth as a threat, after which you'll either have to 'americanize' yourself (Calling yourself Sam instead of Sameer), or obey the status quo. Do pursue your goals of the American Dream if you have a very strong base there already, or are willing to be a Tier-II citizen in a country led by Trump of all people...

Those belonging to cardinal zodiac signs will make good lawyers, ie Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. See here:

https://bedthreads.com.au/blogs/journal/cardinal-fixed-mutable-astrology-signs

Turns out NALSAR has stopped allowing non-nalsar domain email ids from emailing nalsar email ids due to the menace of anonymous emails on their campus. Have heard that these anonymous emails are like a high school confessions page with people ranting about other people and gossiping about people's breakups and whatnot. How childish? What is going on? Do you NALSAR kids not have anything better to do? Because of the mess you've made, it has become that much harder to get in contact with certain profs or students or groups on campus because none of my emails are going through.

The only lesson is that when a political party is running both the state government and the municipality then it does not get to avoid responsibility on pollution and failing to keep the streets clean. Achievements must be analysed in proportion to the power at hand. For too much power too little was achieved. There were other factors as well, of course, like a central government hell-bent on sending every member of the state government to jail on charges that will probably never stick in the final judgement. But ultimately, the state government, will all the external constraints imposed on it, did not do as much it could have, according to its constituents.

Credentials of Arijeet Ghosh: https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/jindal-global-law-school-calls-jk-india-occupied-kashmir/

Credentials of Shruti Pandey: https://www.opindia.com/2021/10/shruti-pandey-jindal-global-llaw-faculty-hindu-untouchability/

That they did all this during their classes and from a position of power as teachers is a textbook example of infecting pedagogy with blatant partisanship in service of indoctrination.

People whose professions provide them a public profile, such as officials, businessmen, teachers, etc., are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that is intellectually rigorous and professionally decent. They may disagree among their own tribe or with the wider public opinion. But it does not behove them to be crude in their expression or to engage in blatant partisanship for their cause. They are not allowed to excuse their failure to behave with decency by accusing others of being indecent. That is the bargain between them and the public: the public respects them for their integrity and accredits them accordingly and they owe a duty to the public to be honest in their analysis without being swayed by the prejudice of their own and others.

Your last point is incorrect. You say that someone who is ‘A’ cannot be ‘anti-A’. By that logic, a human being cannot hate other human beings, much less kill or injure them. But it is a fact that human beings can hate other human beings and can kill or injure them. Similarly, one can be a Hindu or Muslim and still be Hinduphobic or Islamophobic, respectively.

As an aside, we do not know whether the good professor would consent to be described as a Hindu. Many Indian intellectuals from Hindu background, i.e., whose parents would consider themselves Hindu, have made a habit of playing down their own cultural heritage — the same heritage which enabled their family to not indoctrinate them into an exclusive creed — just so they can establish their ideological purity among their fellow comrades. Because they see their cause as progressive, they do not consider their own intellectual conformity as a problem.

If you are looking for a good conceptual understanding of the main legal subjects, then there is only one good option in your list - NLSIU Bengaluru. It is miles ahead of the other domestic options when it comes to its current faculty strength and course offerings. However, if your goal is to secure a job with a commercial law firm, you will be competing with the students in the 5 year Integrated BA,LLB programme. That would require considerable efforts that go beyond the coursework - namely pursuing strong internship opportunities, building a diverse portfolio of co-curricular engagements and producing serious legal writing before you finish the programme. In its current avatar, NLSIU will demand a lot from you, but the efforts made at a younger age will lead to immense benefits in the long-run. The next best option is JGLS but the fees will be more than double than NLSIU.

wow, neither of you knows the law. The law is that there is no hate speech in India. Unless she was actively inciting violence, it isn't criminal. And it's ridiculous and identitarian to argue that a member of community x cannot commit hate speech against that community- that's not how the law works. Anyone can commit an offence under Section 504, 295A and 153A of the IPC.

Honestly looking at how yall talk I really worry about lawyers in this country not knowing their ass from their elbow.

Even liberals don’t support him. Journalist Neelesh Mishra (former husband of Nidhi Razdan) has called for criminal action.

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/ranveer-allahbadia-slammed-for-making-inappropriate-jokes-on-samay-rainas-show-neelesh-mishra-says-meet-the-perverted-creators-9827413/lite/

The exact reason I have zero respect or trust for many of these human rights NGOs and think tanks. I think the Modi government has done a good thing by curbing foreign funding through the FCRA. Why do activists here need foreign funding? What can’t you raise your own funding here?

I always find this kind of request sus. It seems you dont actually want to write in good faith and observe easy to follow plagiarism rules. You instead want to get away with as much plagiarism as you can. If turnitin tells you that your similarity report is at 20% and the university overlooks anything up till 15 you will only move things around and paraphrase to get to 15% instead of actually making sure your project or memo is your own work representing your own ideas. Its hewing to the technicality of rules rather than the spirit of anti plagiarism rules. Which is that youre not learning if youre plagiarising.

FWIW I went to fancy ivy place for my masters- they dont give you turnitin access there. You either know youve done the work honestly and done everything you can to avoid plagiarism or you dont. this is a uniquely indian thing- to give students access to software so they can pre-check whether their submission can squeak by or not.

Little intro: I am 18 years old and gonna join a college this year. Couldn't crack clat so planning to join a college in Bangalore. All this time i wanted to pursue corporate law with plans of doing cs but recently I had the oppurtunity to interact with a few advocates. I've started to like litigation and now I'm confused how to go about it. For now my goal is to just join a good college but still this is running on my mind.

Your opinions and advice would really be appreciated.

ICDR - main regulations like 5,6,7

Minimum promoter shareholding

Schedule VI, ICDR

Concept of control

PAS-4 for QIPs

Company law basics like the different types of issues, allotments, how to perform basic corporate actions. That’s pretty much it. Cap marks is very hands on, not much theory till you get to a senior associate level

Dr. Arun Mohan, SA, wrote a 2 volume book called Courts, Justice and Delays. These volumes critically analyse all the provisions of CPC and also suggest possible reforms. I came across this gem in my senior's library. These volumes can be a good place to start, for anyone wanting to write about the CPC.

Honestly avoid Samvad. It is a terrible place from what I know. No learning is worth humiliation. When you start off as an A0 even if it means less pay, you want to go with a firm where someone will actually take an interest in your career instead of treating you like a number in a computer. Their high attrition rate will tell you everything you need to know. Here's how you judge where you want to work. Do a search on Linkedin with "Ex Name of Firm" See how long people worked at a place before their left. The firms where more people stayed, are the firms where you want to be. This can also in many cases be a Tier 1 like SAM and CAM. They may have bad reputations but nothing compares to bad reputations that some mid size places can get. Remember, look at the lawyers you want to work with and go and try and work with them. Don't go by big brands and things like that. You're going to join as an A0. You want a place where people will invest you in for the long haul.

If you were to join a competition law team, which ones should you totally steer clear of? Which ones are kinda bearable, like, there’s some toxicity but also a few good things? Which ones are actually great for mentorship, growth, and, you know, not making you regret your life choices?

You have actually made a valid point. Most people haven't understood your question. You are light. There is not rational purpose why the HCs in the Three Cities have an Original Side and the rest of the State does not. In fact I would call it a violation of Article 14 on some level. Since suits of the same value go before different classes of judges. 1cr in the provinces goes before a District Judge and 1 cr in the HC goes before a HC judge who gets paid more and has more experience. It is something the Bar Associations should challenge.

For contrast, the High Court of England & Wales has an Original Jurisdiction over all of England & Wales and the Judges sit in Circuit Benches and hold court all over the territory. The original side exists and people don't have to even go all the way to London to access it.

This is a constitutional aberration, and it is something that the AAWI of definitely challenge.

could be. The income tax relief for the middle class was also announced just 3 days before the polls.

But again, i don't think one can ever really pinpoint at one particular factor and accredit as the cause of victory. Voting is highly subject, with each individual prioritising different things from a specturm of ideologies and promises of each party. At the end, it all boils down to persuasive value and building a well-resonated narrative, be it anything.