Yeah this is dumb logic. The degree doesn't automatically take you to the other side of the rainbow. It does a few things to help you help yourself. There is nothing desperate about applying for jobs. It shows humility and a willingness to work which means they actually learned something from being outside their caste privilege and family support orbit.

This topic has been beaten to death, just search up past threads on this topic. This one in particular sums it up pretty well- https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/280739-after-extensive-research-i-think-i-know-how-nlsius-nickname-harvard-of-the-east-came-about

It is neither the students, nor the CJI who called it that - it got entrenched because of the continuous reporting surrounding NLS.

What big learning or phenomenon is there here that we haven't seen a hundred times before in many countries? A liberal sacrificing their values to maintain power? I myself have seen enough of such a thing to last me my entire life. I am a human rights lawyer by training in the United Kingdom, have seen Sir Keir Starmer (the former prime minister), a prominent human rights lawyer, go from a staunch defender of human rights and jury trials to attempting Enoch Powell-style rhetoric in order to maintain the right wing portion of the electoral base. We really don't need to see more of this stuff.

Hey man. I am a partner in a law firm and we recently interviewed a candidate who had his ELO rating on his CV (1600 if i remember correctly). The other interviewers looked at me for confirmation on whether this was something impressive. So I asked him if it was an OTB ELO rating and he confirmed. This lead to a bit of a discussion in the interview about chess, ratings, tournaments etc. Overall, it can work as an ice-breaker and demonstrate that you have some skills outside of work. But since your rating is a Chess.com rating rather than the FIDE Elo rating, you should be prepared to field that question, if someone asks. I personally dont think it's bad for you to put it under your extra-curricular section. Obviously, this isnt what gets you a job though, so work on the rest of the CV. All the best!

This is true. Tax is merging with an Indian ▮▮▮ tax firm, not even a Big 4. Suhail's trade law team might go independent. Partners are currently fighting over the brand name and identity of ELP. It is sad what these guys have made out of a firm which was once very promising. This is exactly why Rohan Shah and Nankani should have left with a succession plan

You know what? This is why India's law schools will have a lifelong problem of being down in the dumps. Having teachers like you who have nothing better to do in life than to impose outdated notions like this. Focussing on stupid issues like this instead of getting students to actually do the reading and think about the serious stuff.

Dear Trilegal,

Please stop with the TAE crap. Today, there was a session in which the instructor was repeatedly asking what debt and equity means, there were hundreds of people on the call and not one person answered. Do you really think we are listening? Do you think the pressure and timelines for our deliverables are such that we can listen? TAE is a waste of time and money for the firm.

Lukewarm regards,

Associate

She was the last sane member in team RHB, only one with her own book of interesting work and marquee clients, and genuine empathy for juniors. Also allowed juniors to diversify compared to the run-of-the-mill PE/VC deals the rest of the team keeps dying with. Very big loss for the team, in terms of books as well as team morale.

Tbh it is a gorgeous house and nothing wrong in it. People are just jealous. Gen Z is obviously wealthier than older the generations because the wealth has accumulated and passed on to them.

Nothing wrong at all if he lives in luxury. We don’t want our leader to be some Mahatma Gandhi fakir baba type, wearing a loincloth.

https://x.com/SauravDassss/status/2084928475769762073

https://x.com/Pamphlet_in/status/2084917108845293945

https://x.com/Pamphlet_in/status/2084868025472467044/

I had a great experience at my workplace. The practice size was small, but we had some really high flying real estate clients and our boss had some business dealings in Dubai. We worked till 7, late nights were a rarest of rare scenario, coming in was also not tight leashed. If I had a matter fixed for 12pm, Could directly go to court. The staff was really nice, had enough internal politics to keep me entertained.

Vey happy for Shaneen. She is simply amazing and a really nice person. No one worth their while deserves to be at that thankless hopeless place where loyalty is stepped over for the net lying kid who manages to eat out the ears of the power(s) that be. It is really sad how CAM has seen senior level exists from the start of the year. Their management should introspect and see what is wrong. But then they wont. Ostriches with their head in the sand.

I dress up for work, i love dresses, long skirts, fitted blazers and tailored pieces. Indian wear looks good only if its solids and well fitted. Printed kurtas give off too much of a DU vibe and to me the silhouette of Indian wear unless fitted looks frumpy . I keep it modest because men are creeps. Having said that, everyone around me dresses kinda shabbily and no one seems to have a problem with it. But to be real the better dressed you are the more seriously people take you, so grab your grandmas pearls and put on your best lip shade and get in there. Also dress for the body you have not the body you want. Cannot emphasize this enough.

they only pay to assessment interns and don't pay anything to interns even if they are doing major work than those assessment interns. also they take assessment interns after they are done from college. if you are still in your last year they won't take you as an assessment intern

The petition isn't about your credentials - the credential bring you the client and mentors if you learn to work it. You can't figure out how to get the judge to listen after that, that's on you. It's telling that you expect everyone to treat you like a golden god instead of noticing which doors it did open.

I literally said, 'don't break the bank.' Post-grad education is about opening doors, not forcing you to learn. Sure, people who think the credential is the same as education suffer. Everyone knows the markers of how well you learned are not that you passed but your specific grades and whether professors remember you and recommend you.

Administrators are focused on the money and often at least mildly racist. Paying more than locals for the same lectures doesn't mean we hear them differently. Is it unjust? Yes. Does that mean no one else should get the education you and I got, even if they can afford it, because we are feeling bitter about inequality that is outside our control and has been here for centuries? No.

Hi, if anyone knows any senior advocate (designated or not; senior in stature and practice), or AORs, who have loads of matters in office and are always ready to give opportunities to their juniors (not because they have such a caseload, but because they want juniors to grow) - before all the courts in Delhi. Someone who's ready to let juniors grow and try speaking before the courts. Please give suggestions. Thanks!

FACTS: The petitioner and the second respondent, aged 21 and 20 years, were classmates and friends. The controversy arose on the ground of a solitary exchange over Instagram. The petitioner had sent a direct message to the second respondent complimenting her appearance on a particular day. The message read, “U kinda look so hot in light coloured clothes.” The message, innocuous according to the petitioner, was said to have been shown to the father of the respondent, an Officer of the Indian Police Service in the State. A case came to be registered against the petitioner, who is stated to be a State-level cricketer and was preparing to represent an Under-19 team in Tamil Nadu. In the course of investigation, his laptop and mobile phone were allegedly seized.

RULING: The Single Bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna held, “The expression used, may be inappropriate, indiscreet and best avoided. Youthful vocabulary, however, cannot by itself become the gateway to criminal prosecution, unless the essential ingredients of the alleged offence are demonstrably present. The criminal law cannot be employed as a bludgeon to punish every social indiscretion or linguistic impropriety. It must remain reserved for conduct that squarely falls within the four corners of the penal provision.”

ANALYSIS: IMO this is a deeply problematic ruling. It’s unacceptable for men to objectify and sexualise women based on their looks. Furthermore, while we may see actresses and influencers receiving the word “hot“ as a compliment, some women may be shy and introverted, and be extremely uncomfortable with such comments from males. It’s perhaps worse if the comment was made publicly, rather than through a DM.

It’s a patriarchal mindset that thinks these comments are okay.

https://www.verdictum.in/amp/karnataka-high-court/thomas-jadan-v-state-of-karnataka-2026khc37991-criminal-prosecution-instagram-dm-1619165

Shaneen being a Senior Practitioner, is well respected. Will only add weight, boost the commercial disputes, arbitration practice of SAM.

Combination of Akshay & Shaneen will do wonders to the Bombay market.

When CAM doesn’t acknowledge their star practitioners even after 3 decades of service, they truly deserve such losses !

Cyril thinks he is immortal, has himself & his stooges to blame for the catastrophic exodus it has been seeing since early 2026 ! More to come :)

In a classroom, the teacher is allowed to make that decision. Just like in an office, the employer does make that decision to a considerable extent. What you wear outside the class is indeed your choice. When you make the choice to put in the effort while interning or working, but refuse to do so while going to the classroom, you are making clear where your priorities lie. If you face the consequences of that, then don't go crying a river.

Also, easy is not the way to think of it. There's base formula of success which anyone can reach within 6-7 years of law school and then there are idiosyncratic qualities that each school looks for. Good referees go a long way. Think professors who can write a letter with examples that actually persuade hiring committees, and one or two others at the top of your field, like a judge or a UN special rapporteur or a successful alum of the university you are applying to. Learn to write good application essays that are tailored to your profile. That much will take you to Harvard. The other two it is hard to say what they are looking for each year. Make sure your essays and recommendations are really competitive is all I can say.

No. At the end of the day, the content of your ideas and knowledge is what matters, when you go to the bottom line. Formal dress or whatever will, at best, be impressive packaging. In the corporate world, where so many things are based on first impression, it is important to get the packaging right. At the same time, even in that world, whether or not you can get the job done is what is far more important. You might have a slick personal presentation style which makes you good to put in front of clients, but if you don't have the knowledge, skills or ideas to cope with the demands of a client's problem(s), the quality of your speaking style and your dress sense will matter little. I think most clients would rather pay £800 an hour or whatever they do tend to pay for the services of commercial lawyers to someone who may have forgotten to shave when they came into work on a particular day and has blue stubble all over his chin but has something substantive and smart to say, than to someone whose face looks completely smooth but whose ideas are of little use to anybody.

However in the world of academia, where first impressions are less important, which requires careful thought, sustained reflection, constant revision of ideas, this is not the case. I don't see a student whose written and verbal answers to a professor are unremarkable, but who takes the effort to dress well, getting a recommendation letter or better marks over a student who may dress less formally but whose intellect is up there.

Neither did the previous comment provide any numbers lmfao? All it did was drag down a university without any purpose. OP here is discussing the culture of other NLUs dragging down its peers for no reason whatsoever, even when said university is doing so much to get back on its feet. Is this really the culture that we enjoy propogating?

KCO - 17.4 Lakhs fixed

BONUS:

1. Confirmation Bonus On probation confirmation within 6 months - 1.3 lakh

2. Performance Bonus - 2.5 lakhs

3. Bar Exam Bonus - 1.3 lakh

This is as per the rewards proposition shared with 2025-26 campus hires. Don’t know about the current status.

I am trying to register as a user and it shows me the error message that my first name is not as per my PAN details, but it is. I went to the income tax department and verified this, and it is the same as what is on my PAN card. Have any of you dealt with this? How do you fix it?

Lmao people really think a 10 month cash cow course (widely acknowledged by uni administrators btw, don't even try to deny it) changes lives. Please enlighten me, how does one "think differently" after doing a foreign llm? Unless you've had a substandard legal education in India? LLM courses are designed in a manner where it's extremely difficult to even fail a course. I should know, I teach at a top Russell Group uni. And enough of the 'sour grapes' arguments, I've read for an LLM at a premier London law school. I had a tier-1 law school education in India, and found very little difference in the courses, both teaching and pedagogy-wise.

I agree with the networking part, but how many of them are actually able to make succesful careers out of an LLM through networking? Very few. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry has a foreign llm these days. Even the number of oxbridge grads are quite significant. The people who are actually able to successfully make meaningful connections and better their career from an LLM are maybe 1 in 100. To think a 10 month degree is worth most middle-class families' life savings is foolhardy, to say the least.

Not from NLU, (assume one of the 2 priv law colleges), i have a single digit batch rank, good internships but all in TMT (so campus recruitment didn’t work out).

What can I do now? currently interning in a PE/VC boutique, I like it so far but no employment prospects here.

Which T1s and T2s can I look for? TMT/ transactions/ pe&vc

I am open to other teams too except Tax, Cap Marks and RE.

As someone entering their fourth year with no RCC to rely upon, I am really anxious about getting a PPO in disputes before graduating.

I need some realistic advice before I start throwing my CV into the void.

For context, I’ve done a couple of internships at T2 firms in disputes which I liked. In talks with one of them for a call-back. I also managed to intern with one of the T1 firms, albeit in a different practice area. I am at the top of my class and and have good co-curriculars as well.

I am trying to understand which firms (and if possible partner initials) should I target to maximise my chances of getting callbacks and a PPO.

I’m looking for Delhi NCR ideally, but I will happily brave the Mumbai locals if it means securing a job. I’m not blindly chasing only SAM / CAM / KCO / AZB /Tri either. I would love to work with firms like JSA, Saraf, Indus, Argus, DSK, B&P, etc. or frankly any firm that offers decent pay (80k plus) and I stand a decent chance of getting recruited. I can also do with lower pay for now, provided the firm is such that there are good prospects of laterally moving into a better paying position after 1-2 years.

Which firms, teams, or specific partners should I be targeting? Who is actually receptive to this kind of profile and has a track record of handing out PPOs?

Please drop names, my sanity (and my future) depends on it. Thanks!

Courage - to miss lunch ? And demand attention ? What is the realistic chance that anyone would even notice if Nalsar students hadn’t called attention to themselves ? Surely in their left wing law school ecosystem they’re only rewarded for this- who has actually been persecuted for this. No. I won’t be praising any performative idiots. Thanks.I actually think it might be more subversive to be openly heterodox in NLUS than to be boring old left wing.

Ngl, sad to see only juniors and aspirants sharing their disappointment. The one person who gave an insight, thanks. Other seniors pls help us out!!!! Please tell us what is happening and where are the jobs? Family pressure to take up low stakes litigation gigs till I get something on this field even if to step out of the house is becoming harder to put up with

I have a background in Capital Markets - Associate Trainee with a T 2 firm and I wish to pursue CS because i want to switch from Cap Marks to M&A altogether. For this I have decided to pursue CS and in order to support myself in a major metro I have decided to work with a company which is not known by people but they'll pay me enough to afford rent in Mumbai.

I am very sure that I will be able to clear CS. Do you think doing this is advisible?

PS I am from a small village and I need this money to stay in Mumbai

I know Axon, and I went a step further to explain what the theory underpinning it is. The rest of what you said is a distinction without a difference. Axon was one of the biggest wins for the Federalist Society that pushed the unitary executive theory. End of. Read: https://ndlawreview.org/interring-the-unitary-executive/ You also completely missed the point on state enforcement. I will not labour on it but will focus on the remaining aspects – a rather simple yet abstract question on the enforcement side.

You prioritise absolute fairness, as being unfair causes harm, but you forget that doing nothing or being slow is harm too. It is precisely in those scenarios we have developed summary procedures across judicial proceedings right from CPC. In those instances, we forego bits of fairness and reach for speed. Speed is just as much a normative value as fairness. We can argue on equilibrium and balance forever.

You acknowledge other regulators have suo moto powers – to be clear, they adjudicate too. Now rarely does a regulator stake a position against its own legislative mandate, lending a collateral constitutional claim for every litigation it faces. At this point the CCI is advocating for a fairness standard beyond its parent legislation. I see the cynicism in this. If the CCI saw risk, it should have instead said, "We will not take settlements or commitments for the time being" – not abandon its main mandate under Section 19(1).

I mean, think about this objectively: during COVID, the CCI specifically set out public warnings against crisis profiteering, and the threat it used to ensure people did not take advantage of a crisis in a market failure was its suo moto powers under Section 19(1). Removing that power is like a doctor not being able to prescribe medication because he is required to put in writing but he does not have a pen and paper.

Snooty nepo kid law grads are forming their own pickleball/padel cliques and excluding others. These people suck. First only T1 associates from played with each other. Then they started bitching about people who are non-nepo kids within that circle. Then cliques formed based on which law school and even which high school you went to. Extra points if you went abroad for higher studies, bonus 1000 point if you are old money. If you speak with the wrong accent and are from a small town in Bihar or UP or whatever, don’t even bother.

Caste system by another name.