3 year law or 5 year law

Please elaborate what are the options that I might lose or gain if I choose any

I do not really wish to join corporate law but might intend working in law firms or even in international organizations like UN, World Bank or ECOSOC.

Can law give an advantage to the career of diplomacy if done from a really good college? I am biased towards 3 year law as it is my drop year and don't wanna commit to law (5 year things :p)

On the face of it, this is not a fair summary since in the last few years NLSIU has been hiring a sizeable number of faculty from disciplines other than law and has been in the process of becoming a multi-disciplinary institution. The diversity of disciplines, the introduction of new academic programmes like M.P.P., and most recently B.A. Honours, should ideally create a more interesting intellectual landscape for current and future students. One can debate whether this project, which is still very much in its early stages, is succeeding or not, but it would be altogether unreasonable to simply ignore it and dismiss an institution as a state university, which every NLU, including NLSIU, is; no shame in that, by the way.

Now it is a valid concern that institutions like NLUs, founded and run with a specific vocational focus may not offer the same depth and breadth of research as other full-fledged central, state, or deemed-to-be universities. But in their own way, they can allow would-be scholars with particular interests at the intersection of law and the wider social sciences to pursue their research interests that would often be dismissed in other universities for not being sufficiently rooted in a specific discipline.

As a general advice, before applying to any institution, one should always go through its faculty and their work to get a sense of whether what they want to do can actually be done in that particular institutional context. This matters in every discipline, including law.

With regard to NLSIU, please note the following figures (based on data received through RTI) for admission to its Ph.D. programme in the academic year of 2024–2025.

Number of Ph.D. vacancies (Law + Inter-disciplinary) = 4 + 4 (as mentioned in the notification at https://www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Admissions-Notification-Research-Degree-Programme-2024-25.pdf)

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Law = 83

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Law who appeared in NLSAT-PhD = 70

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Law who qualified for oral presentation = 3

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Law who were selected for admission = 1

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Inter-disciplinary = 42

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Inter-disciplinary who appeared in NLSAT-PhD = 38

Number of Ph.D. applicants in Inter-disciplinary who qualified for oral presentation = 12

Number of Ph.D. applicants who were selected for admission = 2

Hope this helps.

As a final-year student, I was wondering what the general procedure and etiquette for job applications is- is it the same as internship applications? I already have internships lined up till I graduate and I want to start applying for jobs too in case none of the internships pan out as I am sure if the places I am interning at have any vacancies at the moment.

Which firms pay the highest at the senior levels in india?

CAM ,SAM, Azb ,S&R , Khaitan ,trilegal
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Whether if someone if switching from botique firm having good name in market to tier 1 firm..will the salary be increased as per your previous salary or as per firm remuneration.

Why don't you admit that you kicked off your career in a toxic environment, either didn't think too much about the toxicity or thought it was okay and you are now assuming everyone will think the same way? Please engage in some deep reflection, because as someone who's never been attracted to a law firm career (either in India or overseas) for personal reasons but who's happy to play devil's advocate, this thread is likely to make otherwise talented people think again about whether such a career is for them.

I'm a student in a T1 NLU, will be First gen lawyer. I want to have a litigation practice at the Nagpur HC, wanted to know more about the money involved, good areas of practice, good seniors to work under, etc

Also generally curious about how many people from Nagpur actually use LI, because the only threads I see about Nagpur are about MNLU.

You make a good point. One should not make a generalised statement. Depends if you are with a Lala company or with an MNC or a A grade company. The move to in house may not appeal to all. Some lawyers may miss focused practice areas, having external clients, or the chip of being a partner in a law firm. In the other hand a GC thrives in being a business partner that offers a blend of legal challenge and commercial support. Hope advocate babu updates himself with changing times.

Precisely. It is a service industry. Not a servitude industry. When seniors pocket fat chunks of the money, and ensure that juniors will not progress in the profession; juniors quickly undertand the need to chart out their path for themselves. Juniors too, are providing a service, we are not in the servitude model.

What is this behaviour? Why denigrate a law firm in this manner? What do you mean its a no name firm? I gradauted law school 13 years back and even then we applied for internships to this place. Just because its not trilegal its a no name firm? Moderators really need to think about what they allow to happen on this platform. Disgusting behaviour from some lawyers here.

Mind giving us more details? You're being remarkably tight-lipped about this affair! People have a troubling tendency to form impressions based on information they're given, rather than asking for more. And the impression that we're gaining here is that you guys are a bunch of people with zero balls. So to remedy this, why don't you tell us: what did the teachers who "addressed the students" at the protest say? Did they threaten, bully or intimidate you? Did they offer to mediate? Or something else?

In other words, the SC rules that NLSIU cannot have a domicile quota?

But what happens to other NLUs then? The crux of ASG Vikramjit Banerjee’s (also an NLSIU alum) argument before the Kar HC was that only NLSIU is a national institution, whereas NALSAR or NUJS are state institutions, because the CJ is Chancellor of NLSIU. The Kar HC accepted this argument, but overlooked the fact that the CJI is also Chancellor of a few other NLUs. Will tie SC address this?

Hi, I will be starting at SAM Mumbai soon.

Do they provide a laptop and a mobile?

Asking because I would delay investing in these if the firm provides them.

Also, should I get a separate work number or continue using my personal number?

Thanks in advance!

When you are not able to attract talent at mid level the only way to sustain is bumping up the fresher salaries and attracting fresher talent.

Apparently, they are going for campus placements this year (signs that students are not that keen to consider NDA as an option). All of the mid level across teams have left leaving the teams to be either led by inexperienced leaders (not belong to that domain) and A0-A2.

If joining very good place to learn things but don’t stick for more than 2/3 years max.

1. No, discretion lies with the hiring firm. At best headhunters may be able to use their influence to persuade. No guarantees.

2. Yes. They charge that from the candidate as well as some part from the firm for hiring.

3. Partly. Its more of the connections they build with those hiring to push at the right time/ to the right person.

The student council suddenly announced on their own to call off the protest after the teachers addressed the students while we were at the protest. Students who were sitting there questioned why such a sudden decision was made without student consensus. The sudden announcement by the student council divided the students, causing second thoughts.

Could people with experience of having worked as in house lawyers elaborate on what are the best practices? How to get better at doing what you do? Have you seen anybody with a legal background contributing on the business/commerical/financial side? What are the drawbacks? Are you employee or on retainer?

Is it just my team or the juniors nowadays are increasingly shirking off work by citing other plans for night, saying no to work on weekends or wanting to leave from office early? I mean it’s fine if you believe in a Work Life Balance but it’s a service industry, why behave like this?

Moderator, please mark this comment trollish. There is one single person deliberately and maliciously coming on this site to try and demotivate people. Both content and style are similar: justification of bad status quo/behaviour/practices on the one hand, and bad English on the other. As a historical anecdote, refer to the thread about SCC Online and OCR PDFs, and the sub-discussion about ILovePDF, where this person also posted deliberate trollbait. Please retract this comment immediately, it has the potential to compromise LI's reputation.

HI, I'm a first year law student and i took part in a mediation competition and with over 25 law schools across the country and most of em being second and third years i felt pretty underconfident going in, however we cleared the initial two rounds and they went really well and the judge explicitly gave me a mention both times and made it to the top 8 but unfortunately got knocked out. I feel pretty bad and can't seem to shake the feeling off. How do i move past this so that i can focus on the upcoming sem and other competitions that might come, thank you!

Tax lawyers seem to really like swinging their d**** around in the name of their practice area. But tax advice from tax lawyers in India is one of the most retarded, caveated and useless piece of advice that one can ever pay for. Some of the thickest and dumbest lawyers I have seen have been from tax teams in Indian law firms who need to be spoon-fed the minutes of details of a deal, after which their advice eventually turns out to be so pedantic, I could have just read the relevant section, 3 case laws and done it myself - which now I often do. Tax is not that tough, and tax lawyers in India are a useless bunch - no client with self respect will go to a lawyer for tax advice, instead of his CA.

Unfortunately, that's the reality of most work places. Nice, honest hardworking people always get the short end of the stick, but remember being honest is a choice we make. Atleast for me, it helps me sleep at night. I might not be the most successful lawyer but I am at peace.

i attempted CLAT 2025 n got a rank of 3xx which is enough for me to get into tier 1 or 2 at least im hoping.

BUT, the problem is that my, parents who were thrilled about my results, suddenly are against the idea of me pursuing my education elsewhere.

(courtesy of my extended family filling their brains with nonsense, talking about how girls who go out of their homes to study, often become alcoholics and spend their times “messing around with guys”)

Even though my family knows that that’s something i wouldn’t ever do, it’s poisoned their minds.

My mother is planning to get me enrolled in a law college that nobody’s even heard of outside the city.

i’ve tried to reason with them, tell them how i’ll be making the most out of the opportunity. They just won’t listen. Im tired n i’ve accepted my fate.

i’ve seen other conversations on here regarding non nlus n i have a few questions.

1. Do folks from there ever make it big?

2. What’s to be done to ensure a decent career in law?

3. how do you build networks?

4. What will make your CV look decent?

5. Anything else that i need to know?

please, no trolls. this an extremely serious thing for me and I’m here with no guidance or connections.

I have the same doubt, i am judge in one of the state. I want to get out after 4-5 years do LLM and maybe join litigation law firm in delhi.

Is this plan feasible!? Can i make it in delhi after being in one of the state judiciary???

P.s. i have no dependents, i have no plans to marry ever.