Have you ever thought that:

1. We grew up in a once-in-a-generation crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, which, in turn, led to a second (ongoing) crisis in peoples' mental health? Why don't you do something about that?

2. We might just not want our lives constantly at the mersy of our clients and seniors? Might we just be better at boundaries. Look at how Legal Cheak in Britain rates law firms. Firms in the west which have your mentality end up paying for it. Kirkland & Ellis, for example, has one of the worst ratings of all in Work-Life Balance (WLB) category. Do you think we may, for various reasons, developed our own minds at an earlier age, and no longer want to work for organisations who are willing to have good values around social mobility, WLB etc?

I am a fourth year law student at a tier 2 NLU. I'm torn between pursuing DJS or a disputes job at a law firm. My CV is full of disputes internships but I sometimes feel law firm job may be too stressful for me or may not give me enough personal time. I don't wanna settle for less nor do I want to ruin my personal life. Please help. Any other career options are also welcome.

He does teach. Granted, he doesn't publish much. But what he has published is of significant quality. His first book was published by OUP, and I think a second was published by Cambridge UP. That is a lot more than anything you, a person who has clearly failed law school third year at least once, have ever achieved. So please shut up, achieve the 'best graduating student' title from NLSIU, achieve the Rhodes, do the BCL at Oxford and get a distinction in it, do the MPhil in Oxford and get a distinction in that too, then do either the Oxford DPhil or the Cambridge/LSE PhD, publish books with OUP and CUP yourself (or if not with them, then with Harvard UP, MIT Press, Bristol Uni Press etc.) and then come back and lecture us about peoples' publication records. Oh yes, you won't be able to do any of this, because you have already failed at least two subjects, so nothing for any of us who have common sense in the world to worry about!

Agree with OP. But this is indicative of a larger trend. The other day there was an article in TOI where it said that Gen Z medical students are choosing dermatology and cosmetology over hardcore medicine, as they want to work fewer hours and because dermatologists and cosmetologists are popular on Instagram and have celeb followers. 🤦‍♂️ Just imagine!!!

TikTok and wokeness has ruined this generation and addled their brains. Props to Australia for at least trying to protect Gen Alpha by banning social media for teens.

How did you get into NLS when the result hasn’t even been declared? And if you got into NLS in CLAT 2024, then you would have already joined NLS.

How are you just in 1st year at LSR when you are already 21 years old. 21yr olds are typically in their 3rd year in colleges.

Fishy smelly

How? CLAT 24 had the GNLU as its conveyor. And MNLU is CLAT 25’s conveyor. NLS is left with only holding the keys to the consortium’s tijori. Why has NLS abdicated its lead role? Like OP says - time for NLS to chart its own path quickly before all its batches get washed out in mediocrity. The other NLUs can bake their own cakes.

Not sure if an appropriate platform, but the anonymity helps.

Am in my earlier 30s, gay, closeted and single. Just choked on me being myself. Have been in academia for 6 years but shit runs professionaly and personally.

I have been keen in applying abroad so as to ensure i have avenues of settling there and find companionship. Have been unlucky with love. Is love overrated?

Any assistance for abroad applications and connecting with similar situation would help me survive.

It is honestly crazy because colleges like NLS who often brag about extreme academic rigor and cut-throat competition, I doubt they'll retain the same quality of rigor from the students which are being admitted through those exams, especially last year and '25. Soon than later, I reckon they'll see a decline in academic performance by the time these students reach their 2nd or 3rd year of law school and maybe only then they'll start introspecting where things went wrong.

Dear People,

I just completed my internship with the B&F team at SAM and was disheartened to hear that I was not even given a callback. As I approach my final year, I would like some guidance from seniors on teams in B&F hiring freshers. Will strategise internships then.

Willing to pay for specialised advice. I have huge student loans and my parents are ailing. I have no-one in my life. Please help me.

Um Dear SA1,

Why are you even hiring or considering candidates who are like this? I can assure you, people like me and several others are wiling to pull all nighters even in unpaid internships, and you go ahead and shortlist the rankers. Have you ever thought about helping people with such qualities secure jobs in your team? Maybe you would have different outcomes.

Par hume to internship hi nhi milte, PPO chodo. Sirf top 15 rankers ko lete hai, god forbid you had a medical issue and lost out on 10 marks in an exam.

I hope, that rather than ranting nonsense like girls do about their red flag exes on Instagram, you could be more rational and look for skills you actually want in new candidates. And dont say only the partner has the whims, no, you do too, you can push for people, you just choose not to.

How did you get admission when no CLAT results?

If you get NLS 2025-30 batch, you must join because even if you complete LSR 2024-27 and pursue 3 year LLB, you will get your law degree in 2030.

So if committed to law and getting NLSIU, go for it.

No LSR or Stephen will match NLS education.

When CLAT starts asking general Dyer’s full name instead of framing intelligent questions on current affairs from the hundred thousand world events that have transpired over the year, then you know the paper has lost its way. USA LSAT, UK LNAT are engaged in research on what exactly they want to test and scientifically design, redesign their papers continuously. LSAT for example has dropped analytical questions and added more RC- with accompanying justifiable research that is in full public domain. CLAT had found its mojo back in their 2021-23 papers. Then they came crashing down last year with that horrid paper! And the saga continues this year.

So yes, top class students deserve top class papers that separates the wheat from the chaff intelligently and with an underlying methodology. Mediocre / poor quality random papers ( which reflect the quality of the setters and the setter leadership), on the other hand, do nothing to separate Arabian horses from the Indian wild asses.

What’s the point of an ntellectual, scholarly VC of NLS if they can’t lead the pack. Where is the research that says what a CLAT paper should and shouldn’t have. Where is the research that evaluates quality of CLAT papers over the years. Where is the research that correlates student outcomes with what is being tested in the disastrous papers. Where is the research that evaluates if reduction in number of questions and increase in time allotted in these papers have led to better selection outcomes. Zero. Why is there no attempt from NLS to research these? On the contrary, it’s just getting worse. NLS 29 quality is there for all to see. When they hit the market in 2029, much institutional damage will have been done.

I am really angry about this. So basically my university due to some technical glitch (portal) kept the attandance limit to 0% for sitting in the end term exams. This makes me furious because being in final I had to attend the college that to at 8 am in morning for the entire just because of fearing of getting debard instead I knew if this was gonna happen I would have doing internships. Should I report this to UGC as the university has violated the rule 75% attendance rule and allowed everyone to sit in the exam even the ones with 0% attandance. Even in the final semester they are giving no exceptions for internships and then they think we can compete with nlu students who are doing internships in the entire last year of their college.

Hey!

I was in the same boat as you where I resigned from a T1 after barely 3 months of working. But to be fair I have 4 year work experience before that. However the burn was so bad, that I needed 2 years to recover from anxiety and burnout and was unemployed as total of 3 years. As on today, I am back in Mumbai and working at an MNC in their legal team at a decent designation. If you won't live, none of this would matter. Provided you have the financial backing and no loans to repay, please consider resigning. Take care

If you get a studio or 1BHK (unfurnished) it can start from 20k-25k range. I was staying in LP and paying 23k for last couple of years. This also depends on getting hold of a good broker/owner and are able to negotiation.

Would suggest to stay nearby i.e., Lower Parel, Dadar, Mahalaxmi.

Members of NLUO's Moot Society are allowed to participate in intra-university moot court competitions – many of those representing in top-level competitions are members of the society. It can simply be the case that those passionate about mooting join moot court associations and also perform better in intra-moots because of their passion (obviously does not apply to everyone) hence, the overlap ¯\(ツ)/¯

The fact is that NLS is better. But your age is a big factor. If you think that you'll carry a lot of mental weight of your age and responsibilities in the 5 yrs at NLS, then leave NLS, because it's all in the mins. And I am not aware of any real employment opportunities after LSR, esp pol science, though you might get into political consultant organisation and they will pay you well and it might save you a lot of years, but then the money and prestige you'll potentially get after graduating from NLS is unmatched.

Another factors that you should consider is that being a lawyer you'll have no work life balance, in whatever field you go ( source:Trilegal's recent podcast). But being a political consultant you'll probably have a decent balance. Atm what you should consider is what kind of life you wanna live.

Wish you luck 🤞

Just got an offer at A3 at the Bombay office. Fixed component is around 19.5-21 and total is maximum 24 (which is less than what even an A2 gets paid at any other firm, so there’s that) plus 8% component. Now the 8% will only be beneficial if you work with a high earning team like a Jay Gandhi or Vikram, otherwise you’ll end up earning WAY less than your peers at the same level. All the best.

Any good paper has results on a bell curve and CLAT in particular would want to test you on your speed and ability of comprehension as well as your general awareness. Now let’s say Student A is way better than Student B at all the above metrics but there are no questions on that level or challenging enough to test this particular aspect of the student. They are reduced to the same level and privy to the same silly mistakes and what not and hence have an equal chance to get in. Furthermore there is an aspect that the questions have reduced to 120 ( even less after removing wrong questions) so the questions are terrible and bad as well as there’s too little of them to meaningfully test anything. All I’m saying is this analogy between student A and B applies as a generalisation to thousands of CLAT test takers. The top 100 in JEE Mains and JEE Advanced is completely different given the relative easiness of the latter compared to former. Now imagine if JEE advanced did not exist and JEE mains was reduced to 10th standard board PCM and the number of questions were reduced considerably . A physics olympiad finalist and good student only at the tenth grade would be put at the same level and would you really say it’s the fault of the latter not to get selected. The consortium is acting in a Marxian equalising mediocrity manner

Get a gift card - Amazon, Nicobar, Good Earth - pick an option which gives them an option to choose from a wide variety of stuff. Dont pick a particular brand, unless you know the person usesit/ likes it.

I dont think you mentioned the gender of the person, just keep the gift card generic.

The initiative is a positive one. However, this still means that we as a nation are at the mercy of unscrupulous private for-profit companies masquerading as publishing houses, who do not pay anything to authors, researchers or reviewers, but instead make huge sums of money from such subscriptions, and use a fraction of that money to ensure that rankings and perceptions will be dependent on publishing in the journals that they produce. Anyone who is a part of Indian academia will know what kind of a racket is being run now in the name of academic scholarship. Any author would happily email to you a copy of any of their papers if you ask for your own research or reading. Why do you think that same paper should cost a huge sum to read then?

Artificial plants, high end chocolates, wine / booze (if they drink), spa voucher, personalised stationery - like even a diary with their name on it, (x mas theme) accessories like cufflinks / tie / socks, gifts for their pet if they have one. Please do not give personal items like clothing. Even jewellery for women is a bit weird if it comes from some rando. Hobby related items are risky cuz they would already have more sophisticated things with their specialist knowledge and budget beyond the 3k.