Bro loses a golden cheek and says he doesn't have any regret! If I would be in your place the first thing I would do to marry her and then establish my career with the help of this golden cheek even if she is a psycho( I would tolerate as much as i can for the sake of my own career ) and when things are going well in my professional life, let alone my personal life then I would make sure to make her life hell af that she will regret to marry me in the first place to that extent that she will herself bring me the divorce paper to get rid of me.

I know for a fact that associates, especially S.A’s and P.A’s are dealing with very real stuff. Divorces, burn out, lack of career growth, inability to get on partner track and the tunnel syndrome it brings. None of that is ever discussed.

All I see on LI is law school students ready to ridicule anything and anyone. And I get it - a 19 year old kid is the cockiest in the room. Life REALLY HUMBLES you down a couple of years in the profession.

I just feel that associates A2 onwards have stopped considering this platform as even remotely a safe space. Trolling kar kar ke you kids will also miss out on genuine advice we can give.

Hey, just finished an internship w KCo Mumbai. Been through the internship interview:

1. PA takes it along with the HR. HR usually doesn't ask much, but may chime in at times- why law? why commercial law and the likes, depends on the HR.

2. Know your CV from top to bottom, no point studying anything and everything, but what you've written you should know. For instance, if you have listed "drafted NDAs" in your CV, you will have to know stuff about liquidated damages, receiving party-centric clauses, what are the usual exceptions in NDAs etc. If you have written about copyright and assignment agreements, what section of the Copyright Act, 1957 allows you to assign your copyright. All of that honestly, nothing too deep so don't worry.

3. Know why you want to do the practice area you have chosen. For instance, I said I liked M&A, and they asked me why M&A and I said it sounded cool and corporate-y, it made them laugh so brownie points for that!

This doesn't help anyone at all and is a mere superficial policy. I've known NLUs to have such a policy. No student having 8-10 backlogs in fifth year can reasonably hope to graduate in that year. In some cases, they may even land up jobs and then expect faculty to pass them on compassionate grounds. Universities need to have facilities in place to help the students learn and improve, not merely hand over a free pass.

I got shortlisted for internship interview with Trilegal. Gave Gen Corp, Capital Market and Taxation as my preferences. I have never sat for an interview with Tier-1 and have only one Corporate internship. What should I read for the interview? Apart from my CV, what all should I cover? Contract Act? TPA?

If it helps, I am a fifth year and have been placed virtually only due to rank and good research work at my internship, had minimal corp exposure and couldn't draft a Sec 7 petition even now to save my life. Relax and learn to enjoy your next 4.5 years, make friends and learn what interests you. You are worth much more than knowing how to draft Sec 7 :)

I am sorry, but either they do nothing about wellbeing, or take it out of all proportion and do something stupid. Why on earth can't university administrations get this right?

- An expanded mental health department is obviously something which should have happened a while ago. If anything, they haven't gone far enough. Only two extra counsellors? The risk of waiting lists isn't taken away!

- This no year loss policy is just setting people up for failure! If you have failed courses, you clearly have to resit the appropriate assessment(s) in order to pass. You just aren't ready to cope with more difficult work, so allowing somebody in that position to progress like that to the next developmental year of study is just out of order! Alright, if it's one course in one year, no need to prevent progression from one developmental year to another. Just make them take the exams at the next available assessment opportunity. But permitting accumulation of failure just gives false hope and devalues the degree. This is not how the world's best universities operate; NLUD wasn't operating in wellbeing terms in any way like the world's best universities, and they aren't now either.

Don't know about the firms but I moved to HC for practice and became friends with the daughter of a hot shot ▮▮▮ court lawyer. Her father legit makes more than senior counsels of HC. We clicked and started dating, it was nice in the beginning but soon I realised she's toxic and a narcissist. She wanted to marry me and marrying her would have meant my career would have taken off coz her father would have supported me greatly. Her uncle too is a senior advocate at HC. In short I would have been married to a very connected and powerful judicial dynasty. Also she was the single child, so I would have gotten the property too but my stupid ADHD self impulsively fought with her because of her repeated tantrums and I broke up with her. I have no regrets because she was kind of psycho.

Bhai mere i practice here at Allahabad HC, recently they invited applications for designation as senior advocates. Most of the big time lawyers from both Allahabad and Lucknow bench applied for designations. Mind you a lot of the names in this list are that good that they already have a larger practice than existing senior advocates. And the highest earner at lucknow is a leading criminal lawyer with around 2.4crore yearly income. Other good seniors were in 1 crore range. I assume a lot of them are taking a hell lot of cash too still they won't be hiding more than 1 cr income. So it's absurd to say top 10 percent makes 10 crores. Only in a select rich HCs likes like Delhi, Bombay, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and nonetheless at SC where top lawyers earn crores and I doubt even in those courts top 10% lawyers earn 10 crore a year.

Need solid insights on these great seniors - Arun C Mohan, Rahul Unnikrishnan, Karthik Sundaram
two of them were APD's juniors.
Could find quite a no. of Foreign LLM holders/NLU peeps who have returned back to MHC/Tribunal practice like Sricharan Rangarajan, M V Swaroop & the above
What is the genuine worth of Litigation in chennai, is there such a green pasture for commercial + Civil lit?

You can research in anything and everything. Doesn't even have to be law. You can even do a inter-multi-trans disciplinary research in any field. However, the problem that will arise is your lack of background knowledge.

Imagine a scenario, Student A does his specialisation in environmental law in LLB and LLM, he has sufficient background knowledgeable for the last 5/6+ years. Student B does his specialisation in international law in LLB, then LLM in IPR and then wants to do a PhD in environment law. Now when the interview happens, because no matter what anyone says interviews are the last deal breakers, the board asks the students something outside of their research proposal based on basic concept related to environmental law. Who do you think will be able to tackle these unexpected bouncers ??

You are free to pursue research according to your interest. But remember the depth you need to go in for the interview will be more than the level of LLB-LLM. The board doesn't expect you to be an expert on the topic, but the basics need to be clear. If you can do that in 2-3 months, good for you. Other than passion, choose that field of study that you want to pursue even after PhD. Phd is a good opportunity to lay the foundation for what you want to pursue in academia and research for the next decade or lifetime. All the best.

- someone who is doing their PhD from IIT Delhi being a law student.

as a wellbeing mechanism NLUD has adopted a no detention/year loss policy even if someone fails majority of their modules.

it is now possible for someone to reach 5th year even without passing a single module in the previous 8 semesters

https://theprint.in/india/education/student-suicides-spur-changes-at-nlu-delhi-no-detention-policy-to-compassionate-leave/2318042/

Hi, I wanted to know more about the type of questions typically asked during an internship interview at Khaitan's Mumbai office. Will the interview be conducted by HR, a partner, or a PA? Should I focus on preparing the basics of company law and FEMA, or would it be more beneficial to focus on my resume and past internships? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Going to graduate next year, don't really know what to do next!!
3yr LLB from local college, 2 internships in district court, not good grades
should I give CLAT PG and go for PSU or LLM from NLU(later NET JRF and PhD)
or Do LLM from DU,BHU,TISS (CUET PG)(less fees) (later NET JRF and PhD)
Or Should I do internships and get a gig at a small Law Firm ? (will I even get it?)

I can only laugh at your regarded face because you clearly can’t comprehend - the post says that boutiques are a good option after T1s. Which is a fact. Heard of P&A, Parekh & Co., etc? Many boutiques won’t pay well upon joining. But in senior roles, they are good for those who want to do quality work sans the overt toxicity at T1s. Not only are boutiques better, but some (not many) are quite capable of paying good. Plus, if you think the T1 dispute teams do good work, you’ve clearly not worked at a T1 disputes team or know how good disputes teams can be. The bulk of the teams are doing mind numbing work regurgitating below-par drafts. Many arb teams are just paper pushers and those that do do their own practice don’t have the time and bandwidth to devote themselves qualitatively to matters. Rishab Gupta was great. Anuj Berry is good. But I can’t think of many others in T1 firms who work qualitatively.

The big companies go to them because of the name. Because they need to justify to the shareholders and BoD in case shit goes south and saying that we have a big firm on the matter lends credibility. But anything the T1s are able to offer, the boutiques will provide better.

Seems like an interesting development. Find link to a press release from the Kirkland website below:

https://www.kirkland.com/news/press-release/2024/10/kirkland-ellis-adds-two-partners-to-growing-structured-finance-structured-private-credit-practice

Hello, desperate for an internship at Trilegal. I just applied for a spot in Jan/Feb 2025 through the website. Planning to email the HR as well next week, but scared it may get lost in the Diwali holidays mayhem.

Anyway, I know spots fill up really fast- do you guys think I have a shot at being shortlisted? Any way to maximise my chances? Anyone I can email?

Hey, I have an upcoming internship at KCO Noida in December and it will be virtual. I am in my fourth year and hence I wanted to understand the prospects of a PPO. I belong to a NLU and my grades are average but I have a well-rounded CV. My concern is that as it is a virtual internship - would I even have a fair shot to be considered for a PPO considering I deliver good work? Or will this just be a T-1 experience that will boost my CV? I just want to understand what I should expect from this internship. Any input will be appreciated. Thank you!

Can someone please suggest way in for a loner Associate in Disputes profile to enter CAM. Im bascially a loner its only work that lifts me and keeps me going! I have no love life, no family, nothing! Would just want to be drenched with work to keep my personal life issues away but I am currently stuck with a low paying blood sucking Tier 3 law firm job! Can someone pls guide me how to reach CAM. cold emailing, emailing partners, texting over LinkedIN having tried all! Any insights would be appreciated. Please!!!!!!!!

NLUs are state universities as you mentioned, hence it is inevitable that every state will eventually want one of their own. There's nothing wrong with that either as there are many students interested in studying law. So long as the state takes care of the NLU properly. One state having more than one NLU does not make any sense either, like Maharashtra, UP or MP.

Got few back papers in initial years of college, cleared it up soon after. However, it would show on my marksheet. I'm planning to work outside India, after completing some work experience in india for a few years.

The backs might be a problem while fi ding jobs in india, however after I think it would be fine .

So, during my pursuit to find work abroad will it matter/affect?

no, she has all the cards

if she goes to HC and claims neglect your husband will have to pay 10-25% of his salary (depending on her income and the cost of running the house)

best thing is to keep a record of all the money you spend on the house and maintainenance costs

I do agree with the payment part. Boutiques in dispute resolution cannot pay anything close to T1 which is north of lakh at least.

But in terms of work, boutiques often have a more specialised team and know much more about the court they're knocking doors of. Specifically in white collar crimes-trials etc T1 can't catch up to the locals.

In arb, T1s tend to do better I think but work and performance is very subjective and depends so much team-to-team.

People who think Twitter is toxic need to visit a few LI threads. It is the most aggressive, quick to anger and trigger-happy community. OP seems to have a genuine concern, and "Bhai Law Chodh De" does not help anyone. Don't waste others' time if you don't have a real answer, or if you're incapable of showing compassion.

I can only laugh at anyone who thinks that boutiques pay better than tier 1s in Dispute Resolution lol. Most boutiques pay 25-60k, if they do pay at all. Tier 1s, otoh, don't pay anything less than a lakh a month. And no, it's a myth that boutiques are better at litigation than tier 1s. If that were true, the largest conglomerates in the country wouldn't be going to tier 1s.

Slow moderation + not enough number of experienced people.

The moderation is extremely sluggish. And even if you put a high-quality post with a genuine query, you won't get any good responses because most of LI just consists of law students who don't have answers.

I do believe LI can be a good platform if they're willing to have more admins and if it can attract more associates. Otherwise, it's time lawyers move to reddit. There's an excellent subreddit that coders have made on reddit, I wish lawyers would do the same.

Even as most existing NLUs (26 in all) struggle to survive (let alone thrive), we have one more (27th one) coming up in J&K.

https://www.barandbench.com/columns/will-jammu-kashmir-finally-get-its-national-law-university

At the top in corporate law, yes. I know three famous equity partners in T1 law firms who've clearly undergone prcedures, but no one addresses the same openly — a popular B&F leader out of Colaba colours his hair white for appearing to be more senior and experienced; another M&A leader in Lower Parel does the same. I've also seen some famous equity partners undergo procedures for hair regrowth and stuff.

Litigation partners probably don't care, but equity partners which directly cater to marquee foreign clientele etc sometimes have to.

Me and my husband live together with my mother- in- law. She is earning well on her own. We do spend a lot on house repair and maintenance and never ask her for money. In spite of that, she keeps on nagging us for money. And when we refuse, she emotionally blackmails saying we don't take care of her.

We had multiple conversations regarding this, but she is just after our Money.

How can we legally stop her from claiming money from us

I know this thread is for people a bit senior, but for the first few years out of college, a place fairly close to office and in one of the lawyer colonies is fantastic. I work at Def Col and live in East of Kailash. Being able to walk to and from office on a slow day, coming back home to just grab a bite and take 10 minutes off on a bad day, being within 15 minutes by auto of all of my friends and having friends who live in a walkable distance has been lovely for me. The parks, gyms, etc in this part of the city are a huge plus. Of course, I can afford it because of parental support and some savings from earlier, but if you are young and out of college, I strongly recommend staying within 10 minutes of your office in one of these locations.