This is classic example of river joining the ocean. MMS has huge clients. He has one of the best practice and insane client base. You name the biggies - L&T, IDFC, JSW, etc. He has them. He is meant to work with big places and synergies. Happy for him.

Now, coming to work culture, it’s difficult. Being in CAM, his team will definitely get good pay (and not discriminatory pay like SP). But, work culture may become challenging given the pressure and cut throat competition at CAM.

I graduated in 2009 right after the financial crisis and without a job in hand. I was stressed for the 3 months it took me to get an offer and couldn’t do anything that helped me get over it.

Then when I finally got two offers, and I accepted one from a firm that many would call the most toxic Indian law firm today, particularly two months in, I realised that I should have just enjoyed the time off after graduating and before (eventually) working.

Your take away - You will definitely find something, don’t fret. Enjoy the downtime because once you start working, you won’t find much time to yourself.

I think the OP is asking about the impact of her activity on her ability to go there. I don't think the going has happened yet.

And as it happens, I completely agree with you - full disclosure, I am a student in England. There is enough talk in western societies of people being deceived about the benefits of immigration. Trust me, they literally don't want you - nobody, British or Americans, left/liberal or right/conservative. In their eyes, the net immigration statistics are out of control and they have royally fucked themselves. They would view taking another loudmouth social media activist as more fucking of themselves. A portion of their political class (and their population) literally believe that taking in people like the OP is making their borders less secure. Trust me, I have had four years to observe this phenomenon. Do with what I have said as you will. Downvoters, bring your web bots to do their worst; mods who prefer mealy-mouthed euphemisms over harsh expressions of reality, block this post from publication and live in your contrived bliss, but that doesn't take away from the facts.

1. The point that "they have no business" asking for your social media IDs is very interesting, especially if you are a law student. How do you know what powers INS/CBP have or don't have? Also, are you assuming first amendment rights apply to you? Remembering that you do not hold a U.S. passport?

2. Remember what somebody else has pointed out, those are Americans, you are a foreigner. You are asking to go to their country.

3. Please do not leave that box blank. Overall, better to disclose. The last thing you want them saying is that they rejected your application because you withheld relevant information.

I'm a first generation female lawyer and i have been in practise for the past two years and recently I joined another chamber to learn criminal work. My senior is a good lawyer and has a great practise. He practises here at Indore. My previous senior recommended me to him. For the first few days, my senior treated me well, but after that he stopped even acknowledging me. He barely gave me any files, all i get is somewhat drafting work. He has a son who's also in practise and he gets to do all the work. At first, I thought it might be temporary and he would eventually acknowledge me and assign me a file, but it has been quite some time and he still hasn't given me any files. Also, to make things worse, his son is very arrogant and doesn't even talk to me nicely. He shouts at me at the smallest instance or mistake. I feel so anxious around him. Moreover, my senior doesn't even notice me in court and would just ignore me and would talk to other people. I'm feeling so neglected at this chamber,my previous senior was great and he treated me well. Here I'm neither getting paid nor I'm getting any work. Should I quit? I don't know what to do.

You are the one begging them to let you in. Not the other way round. Quietly delete all your social media accounts and start putting up pro US government posts that are supportive of every viewpoint - Republican, Democrat, Libertarian etc. Start talking with a big of a twang and a drawl so your interview is as smooth as possible. There are many other things you can do to maximise your chances of success. Best of luck.

Hi there - where working in law is all about understanding law as it is in force today, working in policy is all about the evolution of law tomorrow. People who work in public policy guide their clients on changes they expect in law in the short, medium and long terms, thereby helping future-proof client businesses. It's all about understanding historical context and regulatory intent (why do some sectors see heavier regulation than others), connecting the dots between local, national and international politics with the impact on specific issues (does war in one part of the world impact manufacturing policy in other parts of the world and how will that impact client businesses), helping clients participate in regulation-making and put across their perspectives in regulatory debates (consultations on upcoming laws, seeding approaches to light/ heavy regulation with government agencies), opportunity spotting for partnerships between the government and clients on shared policy goals (consumer education around digital payments frauds), to name a few.

The work itself can be different from the practice of law in terms of structure and creativity. It also differs immensely based on the nature of organisation one works at - a law firm versus a think tank versus in-house. Broadly all of them cover the above stated areas, but the time each kind of organisation spends on them differs.

Hope this helps!

I recently finished my 5-year law degree from an average college affiliated with Mumbai University (no placement support). My interest is in General Corporate and M&A, and I interned in corp. and commercial teams at ELP, LKS, and a few other places during college, but I couldn't get a PPO. After graduating, I applied to several Tier 2 and Tier 3 firms for assessment and traineeships but didn’t get through.

Now, I’ve started as a trainee at a boutique law firm in their corporate advisory team (earning 18k/month which could hardly cover my expenses as I am not from around here), but I want to move to a Tier 1 or Tier 2 law firm. What can be my roadmap?

I’m ready to work hard, I know it sounds cliche, but I really mean it.

Hi, i have an upcoming internship with Trilegal, Delhi in Feb (Competition team) and want to know whether there are any chances I can convert a hybrid internship into a call back. I have the option to be in office at all times but due to attendance constraints, I can do only two weeks offline internship. Please help. Thanks.

Who on earth said 14 cr for rest, the math here was meant to say 14 crore for all expenses plus maybe 1 crore as an emergency buffer. Aka 15 crore total even if you take an extremely safe approach of buying houses rather than the most efficient plan of investing in the equities market.

I believed in everything till you said you and your wife have stock investments worth 10 crores. Even with 10 years of judgeship you won't have earned more than 1.5 crores. So how come you would have investments worth 10 crores when your wife, who would have made a little more in the same time period, would have amassed 10 crores? Dont bluff uncle.

Us issued a mandatory social media history of past five years to get US Visa. And what do you mean by you've said the same thing said by students at Harvard and Columbia. Those students are natives of Usa meanwhile you aren't. You can say Bye Bye to that Visa, since usa is quite strict in that sense.

Hi,

I am an A0 recently started at a T1. I feel depressed and tensed and this is affecting my work.

I wanna take a break for a month or two and then start somewhere else fresh.

Should I do this? Or would a break look very very bad on my CV and future career prospects?

that's the hypocrisy right, criticized USA but for pursuing education go to USA.

Criticize the government of the day, but be the first in taking all relaxation and benefits offered by government of the state.

Anyways, they might check it out so its better to delete it, they carry out proper background check before giving visas.

Genuine advice, leave your home and go to Delhi. Try to find a job while you are there. If you can survive in Delhi for internships, don't lose time and start. Visit lower courts, heights courts, keep sitting there entire day and try to figure out who is hiring. I did the same many, many years ago and now I am doing well. I also felt bad (not suicidal) but there is so much to life, please don't have a myopic view.

It will be a good decision provided you build a good practice in the High Court. You must be knowing lots of advocates at places where you have been posted. Request them to feed you with High Court work, especially appeals. Try to get government empanelment. Appointment in Advocate General's team would be great as you will develop connections with senior government officials and their political masters. You will be 47 when you become eligible for High Court judgeship. If you become HC judge at 50, you can enjoy lordship for 12 years! Best of luck!

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The above news is a few months old, but I just realised now that DYC retires before the NUJS VC retires. Did anyone else spot this??? So is this a coincidence, or is the WB govt planning that the appointment of the new VC does NOT take place during DYC's tenure, given that:

- DYC could seek a merit-based nomination and remove the 10 year professorship requirement

- DYC could nominate a top-tier SC counsel to the search committee, or an academic he is friendly with, such as Sudhir Krishnaswamy. This could complicate matters because they could pitch for Gen X candidates in their 40s who are NLU alumni, have foreign degrees etc, as opposed to mediocre people from TLCs in their 60s.

In contrast, maybe Gawai will take a more hands-off approach and defer to the WB govt? Or am I reading too much into this and seeing conspiracies where none exists?

The other things to take note of are:

- The role of Dipankar Datta. He is currently the only Cal HC judge in the SC, because the Modi govt is delaying the appointment of a second judge. What role will he play? Will Gawai leave the task to him?

- The role of the Cal HC CJI. If he is nominated to the SC, will the govt step in when a powerless acting CJ is appointed? This is exactly what happened the last time.

- The role of Kishore Datta (and, by extension, his former senior and mentor TMC MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay) and Sanjay Basu of Aquilaw. Will one of them, or both, be on the selection committee? Datta was there the last time and took charge of the whole process. He had also appointed a TMC spokesman to the panel (a non-lawyer), who was removed after the SJA objected (Kian had covered this).

- The SJA had written petitions the last time. Will they do so again? One difference between then and now is that the TMC govt is a bit jittery after the RG Kar protests.

Interesting times ahead!

nope, the real deep state in India is the LBZ people, govts change but the people in power do not change, half pant walas may believe in a cause but deep state always looks after its own interest, in the last ten years or so many people in the LBZ have turned to/into half pant walas but they still are only fighting for themsleves. Just like the orange guy who wanted to drain the swamp our man on the white horse had declared that LBZ out, but nothing has changed.

Team Sanjeev has the single AOR Sanya Sud who pretty much does all SC filings including those of MMS when he was in saraf. Work wise, he should be able to absorb everything for the firm.

It's also firm wide knowledge that Sanjeev did work from other partners and MS's clients.MS generally had clients of his own, which I am sure he will take with him

Dont worry all the people in this world is faced with challenges and tested by nature . Have family support with you , keep your stress low by daily run exercise for 20 minutes .. think logically and with common sense and ask yourself why u didn't get the job or call for interview . U might know the answer.. don't panic .. u can do good only when u don't panic even if outside troubles are collapsing move through friends for job..it's a test by nature nature will give u solution in various forms until you pass the test by choosing the options .

He is right. The Indian middle class needs more money at its disposal, unlike the middle class in the UK or Australia or Canada, because:

- You need to pay for expensive private healthcare. No sane person would go to a government hospital for treatment!

- You need your own car in India and to burn expensive petrol everyday. Or Uber. Because you can't use public transport in India.

- You need to send your children to expensive private schools in India, because government schools are crap. After that, only 1% of government universities are any good. But getting admission is very tough and on top of that there are caste, EWS and domicile quotas. So then you have to look at places like Ashoka, ISB, Manipal and JGLS, which cost money.

- Then look at luxuries: it's very expensive to eat at nice restaurants and stay at good hotels, because of high GST.

- Finally, Mumbai house prices are like Manhattan house prices.

So yes, 50 lakhs pa and 30 crore FIRE target in Mumbai seems right.

I graduated from CLC, Delhi University a few months ago and have been struggling to find a job since then. I've applied to over 500 places, mostly law firms, but haven’t had any luck. I was hoping to get into IPR or General Corporate. I’ve tried everything—emailing firms, applying through websites, following up, messaging people on LinkedIn, and even contacting HR directly. Nothing worked.

However recently, I got an offer for a data annotation job with a ₹4 LPA salary on Naukri, but I let it pass because it was unrelated to law, and I worried it might be undermining my education so far. Plus the salary was on the lower side. That said, I’ve started wondering if I made the right call. What if I never find a legal job? It’s already the 3rd month since graduation, and I haven’t even gotten a single interview yet.

A distant relative suggested I work under an advocate for a few years and then move to an in-house role later, saying it might be easier to start with litigation. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Would working with an advocate really help me get into an in-house position eventually? And if so, what kind of advocate should I be looking for?

I’ve also started contemplating about giving up on law and switching to another field altogether. But if not law, then what? I don't have any particular aptitude/interest elsewhere.. plus I'm already 25. My folks are also not too supportive.

Any advice or suggestions on this?

I've messed up greatly and made studying my last priority which has led me to this situation. Now, I'll have to get 9/10 GPA for the next 4 semesters or next 2 years, only then will I barely make it to the top fourth, and getting 9 is something only those who drown themselves in books and studying get.

I'm ashamed and angry at myself, that it was so easy, and I could've gotten good grades each sem yet I chose not. It's such that, the students around my batch rank can't even frame sentences properly(and other reasons by which they have this rank) and I feel like I could've easily done better but now I'm here.

I've started taking studies seriously this semester, and I'll really appreciate any advice, especially these questions:

1. Can a student in the bottom fourth of the batch get a placement in tier 1 firm? Or, if they reach the top fourth or the top half, is it only possible then? On which basis should are placements done?

2. Studying tips to get the highest grade. How many hours do I need to study? How should I study? I've started properly reading textbooks like pollock and mulla etc but what else can be done?

3. How much is moot court valued? Even though my grades are low, I've done about 4 to 5 moot court competitions, because I liked doing them more as to me, they involved more critical thinking and I like the fact you draft everything by yourself and there's no one to help you, whereas in studying for grades you're mugging topics up to write in the exams.

Thank you.

The first semester is almost coming to an end, but MNLU Mumbai is still doling out vacancy seats. This shows state NLUs' desperation for the revenue generated from student fees merely to stay afloat. Just a few months back it came to light that MNLU Nagpur was not able to full salaries to its faculty. These are not one-off incidents - that too in a state like Maharashtra. Where is this going?

Precarious financials at all NLUs.

The discretionary bonus things is a sham. That was used as a tool to promote favouritism. Only the people who sucked up to the partners/seniors got the extra money. And guess what the funny thing is - the people who got the extra bonus still left the firm and now the partners were left with the people who they underpaid and they are on their way to quit soon (or already have). Karma hit them really hard.

The thing is, even at the humongous fees they charge MR and AMS are chock full of engagements. Just look at their daily list. My estimate is that they make up to 2 Cr per working day of court. Even if averages out to 1.5 Cr., I am taking it as 30 crores a month taking only 20 working days. Then you take away the summer vacation, winter vacation, holi, diwali, dussehra breaks, it works out to around 270 crores. There will be High Courts to go to in the vacations etc. but I'm taking that as part of average.

Are you really saying no one would ever defend sudhir if they werent in his employ? youre honestly making a fool out of yourself. There is no further proof anyone needs to provide of your complete lack of objectivity than the fact that you assume that every opposing view point is because of corrupt monetary motives.

Okay, but does that work? does the system of only requiring disclosure at enrollment actually work to help prevent people who have committed offences involving moral turptitude from becoming and representing themselves and others as lawyers?

What is jurisdiction? Jurisdiction is about whether they can- not about whether they should. They absolutely can, regulating legal education is perfectly within the BCI's mandate. Youre saying they shouldnt- thats about policy.