I can understand how overwhelming the preparation for this examination may get at times, especially with no set syllabus and a lot of emphasis on reading and your grasp of English. I do not claim to have any magic words that would lessen your anxiety. However, if you truly believe that law is your chosen field, then all I can advise is to keep the slogging up as of now, with the exam only a few days to go. Even if you cannot crack CLAT at first attempt, there are still other law colleges in the country to start at. If you remain motivated throughout your five years, keep yourself apprised of whatever your peers from other good universities are doing, study and intern consistently, then you can become a good legal professional. You will also have opportunities to sit for CLAT once again while in your first year of law school, many students crack it on their second attempts these days. You may feel to be missing out on the enjoyment that some of your peers at school are a part of, but the fact remains that you will find a lot of scope for such things even when you're in law school, and without the anxiety for having to sit for another entrance exam. You are almost there, just keep up your efforts for a while longer. You will have to work hard at law school too, but that will require a different kind of effort.

My guy, chill. One mock doesn't decide anything. If you say you did get high 90's like you said, you have nothing to worry about. It is natural to feel this way. See what mistakes you made in the mock and try to understand why it happened. As for the events you missed and the 12th grader life you missed, everyone who gave clat and are sitting in a good NLU have done that, and believe me, it is worth the sacrifice. While others in your school might run around for colleges here and there after boards, you will sit at home and do whatever you want without anyone judging you. Those will be the best 3 months of your life, no judgment, no stress and only doing whatever you feel like. It also feels good (kinda) looking at your batchmates you always hated running around like headless chickens once boards are over. And also, you've taken legal studies with commerce, i was in the same position, believe me, it is a boon. You will have a headstart because the 1st semester subjects are all based on legal studies of 11th and 12th. Chill out, push for the last 10-odd days, give it your all and don't worry, at the end you will be happy with whatever happens, if you think you won't, you're wrong. Best of luck bud

GIC, Brookfield, TPG, Macquaries; I could go on but you just won't get it. And infrastructure lawyers (not pureplay project finance ones) get paid for getting the approvals done with back and forth from ministers, politicians and everything in between. There is dirty money involved and a heck lot of it. While a 100 cr pipedream might be over the line but earmarking 60-70% of such revenue multiples is quite possible from what this devil of a practice seems like.

Hello, first of all, thanks for your help on this platform. I am an Indian lawyer who is permanently residing in Brisbane. I am looking for the right direction and someone who can guide me to enter the legal profession in Brisbane so that my time isn't wasted. Could you please arrange a communication with your cousin or do something for me as you deem fit?

When one joins a senior counsel, what are 1. timings? Work days?

2. And most importantly, do they let me take my own cases? I understand senior people at chamber do. In that case, how much time spent on senior counsel case and my case?

3. Also, how is staffing on matter done? All matters of seniour counsel or some (considering many seniors have 8-15 juniors so i assume i will get 1 case/day to prepare/draft/appear in conference/prepare noted for)? (Essentially, am i required to be in court all day and all conferences or i can skip some conferences/hearings and give limited output of preparing draft/brief on only matter given to me)

Reason for above query: i have some cases of my own.

Almost 20 people from the batch of 2025 have secure T1/T2 jobs right now, 15-20 others will get placed in the next couple of months as recruiters come on a rolling basis as was seen for the 24 batch as well. A couple of others have assessment internships in T2/ T3 firms in the winter slot.
We're talking about almost 40 people, and for a college that barely managed to place 4 or 6 people just 5 years earlier, and if this isn't tremendous progress, I don't know what is. Check our IP Cell linkedin or instagram page for the details in case anyone this this is a lie.

Don't even give preference to this one for that. He clearly failed his tenth boards at least twice, CLAT at least twice and his 12th boards perhaps more times, after which he must have spectacularly failed upwards into law school, kept on failing there and at least been kicked out and forced to join a GLC type place!

it's an unusual choice to make. If you do not make to NLS, chance of getting into a t-1 law firm would be bleak. There are quite a few things to consider:

-do you think you can go through the cumbersome process of pursuing a degree again, considering you've gone through 6 years of post high school education? Law school can get pretty hectic at times

-do you think you can make terms with such a big paycut? you've graduated from a decent b-school, doing a decent job which would pay at par with t-1s if not more. 3 years of college with probably 0 income in late 20s, followed by uncertainty of a job and its pay, followed by your ultimate goal of making it in litigation, which even for those who start early requires on an average 8-10 years of perseverance with low pay.

-do you not find anything other than constitutional law interesting? Consti law's relevance in litigation is only for those few select lawyers who are either state attorneys or activist lawyers, the latter receiving no pay. Since you are already well-acquainted with the corp world, I do understand you might find corp law uninteresting. Read up other areas of law, maybe like criminal and IP laws and see if that's what you want to do. Consti law isn't something to pursue in litigation, you can only do that for academics. And again, if you choose to do anything other than corp law related work, whether in law firms or litigation, the pay would be meagre for a long run.

I've Been preparing for CLAT since Jan this year and as former 'woh-toh-apne-future-ko-leke-bilkul-serious-nahi-hai' kid, This exam hit me like a bus.

As any dim-witted 16 year old I chose my stream based on a very puerile reasoning; Too smart for Humanities, Too dumb for Science (and I was dumb for both of them) and ended up choosing commerce + Legal studies as an optional subject.

Majority of 11th was fine until finals when I started the preparation and only then was I able to fathom how much work this exam would really take because up until that day I just said that "I'll give CLAT for UG" in a very lax way.

Fortunately, studying in an amazing school in a Tier - 1 city I didn't have too much of a problem with the prep and I started doing (what I thought was) pretty decent. But as I'm typing this post on here today less than 2 weeks from what might possibly be the biggest day of my life which will pretty much decide (or more suitably what could decide) how I'll live for the next 40-50 years, I feel lost. I feel numb, shallow almost as lifeless as one feels when staring at the ceiling when they cannot sleep. I gave a mock today where my score dipped from High 90's to a measly 73.75. Although the institute did claim and I quote 'The mock today was 2 times the difficulty of the actual exam and we just wanted to prepare you for the worst' it isn't providing me any relief at all. I do understand how this was supposed to be in our favor to equip us to deal with the worst of the worst, but it has shattered all my confidence completely.

Now I just want this exam to get over. This may seem like a 'I'm 14 and this is deep' sort of post but from the perspective of a 17 year old who hasn't really experienced as much as a lot of people here on LI have (and it is a shit ton more) this is very dispiriting. It challenges you so much more and demands so much sacrifice. I know it seems stupid for me to say something as cosmetic and superficial as "dEmAnDs sO mUcH sAcrIfiCe" but again, I still had somewhat of a life in 11th as a 'woh-toh-apne-future-ko-leke-bilkul-serious-nahi-hai' kid. Now I haven't gone to school for over 1.5 months, missed out on 2 major events our schools conducts, Missed out on MUN's, my school-team tournaments and just the general experience of being in your senior year of High School. As a kid I always dreamed of being a 12th grader in my school, sitting at the back of the bus, chill around in class, finally have no one elder to you who could fuck around with you just caused they felt like it, and this exam stripped me of my first dream as a child in order for me to have a chance to live the life my present self dreams of now. I've lost connect with most of my friends, they all still like having me around but when I did go to school yesterday it felt as is I'd been living under a rock for a year. Everything had changed, they had new inside jokes, new topics to talk about on, new tournaments to go and I couldn't be a part of anything. And the worst part is that it all seemed worth it until today.

Although I admitted I didn't take this exam as seriously as I should've, in the past 11 months I've basically proven myself and everyone around me wrong by actually doing the hardwork I thought wasn't capable of, but maybe it just isn't enough. I know that CLAT was probably always like this and it will only get worst it is just me who's being soft and entitled but I'd appreciate any advice from people here because I don't think I've ever felt so out of aspiration till now.

P.S. I'm very sorry if this was too much to read.

Honestly, I don't think that it is worth it. If your current job is not toxic and you are learning enough to be able to climb the corporate ladder, you should just stick to it. An in-house role may not be as "glamorous" as working in a law firm, but the personally I do not think the struggle of a law firm is worth it.

i understand. your worth as an individual or professional is no way determined by this experience. once you have a rough start it sometimes becomes difficult to regain your groove at internships. be more mindful of why/how you made mistakes and try not to repeat them. be more gentle with yourself. this place is also a bit of an echo chamber, so if you think you'll not be able to manage then look at other options also. your mental peace is most important. all the best, hope you feel better

So I am basically stuck in a situation where my end sem finishes on 13 December and I have an Internship scheduled at Tier 1 law firm from 6th January and also I have gotten an offer from a Pharmaceutical company for their legal team but the thing is my shitty ass college is not providing any exceptions (5th year here) and I will only be able to do an internship for a period of 3 weeks from December in that company so should I accept the offer or not. Will 3 weeks internship be worth it?

I am a third-year student at a middle-tier National Law University. I've decided to pursue a career in the judiciary because I don't want to get stuck in the "vicious" cycle of law firms.

Right now, it's clear to me that I want to focus on the judiciary. However, I’m constantly plagued by a fear of "what if..."—and this "what if" leads to endless possibilities. I’ve been checking the list of selected candidates whose results were just announced, comparing them with past years. I noticed many repeated names—some selected, some not—and this is making me feel very demotivated. I genuinely want to pursue a judicial career, but this endless "what if" feeling is weighing on me. I feel so confused.

I chose the judiciary because I want to do something meaningful for society, for myself, and for my family. Sometimes, I listen to interviews of toppers and learn about their failures, and I start to overthink. On the other hand, seeing someone crack the exam just three months after graduating gives me instant motivation.

I can't help but wonder if I'm slipping back into the same mental state I was in during CLAT preparation—a phase that left me deeply depressed.

My current strategy is to prepare diligently over the next two years, and after that, focus on revision to crack the exam. But is it really that doable? Is it that easy? I’m just feeling unsure...

Please help me out.

Focus on too many unnecessary things, wants to be next BA and in that attempt she screws over her team very bad. Creates unnecessary pressure when there is no need. Recently ppl at all levels left her team, pa, partner and associates. Her junior partner got fed up of her haughty daughty and cunning attitude n is leaving the team. Not a team for long time survival. - by- ex team member

T1 NLU, they opened job applications. I have got three questions:

1) Is it worth for GenCorp? How is their work environment?

2) What is their renumeration for NLU freshers?

3) Can someone shed some light on the "online aptitude test" and their interview/selection process?

No troll answers please.

Listen bro I think you're seriously a troll and I bet even Manan is laughing at this (someone show him this), he had a book of close to 4-5 cr when he left Luthra and presently even 15 is a reach. He prolly did 15 in 2022 due to the IPO season.

You have to understand bankers pay very less for the work, and Manan and most others undercut others as well, leaving very less on the table.

However, 15 cr is a LOT for a equity partner in India, let alone in ECM, only him and maybe one other partner across firms cross 10 cr mark in ECM.

ECM, DCM and Banking (maybe except JSA, but not sure on this) are very low billing areas.

Hi. My advice would be to work well, and hard and interact with seniors and law firm partners whenever you would get the opportunity. The more you socialise as well as deliver, and show yourself as an able candidate you would be given the opportunity. Ask for work from seniors and interact with them on various aspects as well. MZM anyway gets good interns so you have to compete with a lot of them.

They pay their associates well. Do not listen to stuff on the internet. They don’t know sh*t.

It's fine bro, people who wanted to make the best use of it - have already done whatever was needed to for their careers. Some incompetent students want to focus on politicisation of things do that, waste your time. Move on, every single college has the same problem. Suck it up.

NLSIU remains at the top because Sudhir has rescued the college from its decline by hiring great faculty and attracting private funding.

But should NALSAR and NUJS follow?

Why not NLUD and GNLU, which also have the twin advantages of location. Delhi is the freaking judicial capital and Gujarat is the top-growing state right now (foreign investments, Olympics, Coldplay, what not).

Then Jindal has a never ending flow of funds, an owner who knows the who’s who of India, and super-rich and super-connected students. All of this is helping its students get good jobs and also study abroad and settle there. Then the faculty is much better than all NLUs, except NLSIU.

So do you people still believe than the rankings of 2024 should be the same as the rankings of 2014?

The current status is that the Delhi High Court has sent a notice to the Centre. I don’t expect any action because the people who buy Coldplay tickets are probably not BJP voters, and even if they are they are too small to count. 500,000 is a huge number in the West and can actually swing election results in the US, but it is too small a number in India. Just a couple of slums in Delhi or Mumbai or Kolkata alone will have that population.

This is the same reason why the government imposes high income taxes: the upper-middle class is too small to count.

That said, the government does take seriously even a small number of people if they burn buses, block roads and throw stones at buildings. So maybe that can be an option for Coldplay fans.

Absolute third-rate hitpiece by an unknown, biased and ignorant writer: full of falsehoods, fallacies and errors. Typical of the Caravan to publish such nonsense. The fact is that the far-left/woke left have been nursing a grudge against Chandrachud ever since the Ayodhya judgement. What they would have liked is an order handing back the land to the Muslim community and ordering the mosque to be rebuilt.