Don't think it's ever happened before. Mamata Banerjee@NUJS during the Ishwar Bhat protests, SS Chauhan@NLIU during the SS Singh protests, Bommai@NLSIU during the Nandimath protests (during Sudhir's appointment).... NEVER.

https://www.punjabnewsexpress.com/punjab/news/punjab-cm-talks-to-agitating-students-of-rgnul-from-hospital-bed-264018

Request to LI moderator: entire social media is siding with RGNUL students. Priyanka Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and many other senior Congress leaders have spoken in favour of the students. Congress leader and HNLU-Harvard alum Avani Bansal even visited the campus and did a vlog on it to support the students. The Punjab Women's Commission Chief has even written to the President. Yet we see comments on LI speaking against the students and they are also getting upvotes. This is very worrying and suspicious. Kindly look into it.

I will be interning (virtually) at Dhir & Dhir in the forthcoming months. Can someone kindly elucidate as to the kind of work that are assigned to interns for I intend to gather information with regards to the nature of work given to interns and the end product that is expected out of them by the firm. Any information would be helpful. Thanks in advance!

There’s no way out for people unwilling to work. I’m not saying that 15 hours everyday. But for gods sake don’t complain about normal 10:30-7. Things on filings days might spill over beyond this and that’s fine. Top billing teams in other practice areas have it worse than this. You’re paid a decent amount to put your honest foot forward.

What do the public policy teams of Meta, Google, Netflix and the likes do in India? I don't know if they are the same as their in house teams. What sort of work do they majorly do and if anyone has any ballpark of the pay it'd be helpful. Also, what are the chances of getting in with a PQE of 1 year?

The question is not about specific undeserved promotion. What you're suggesting is that the evaluation system loses its sanctity altogether. If one can appear for examinations over and over again in the same year, then over a period of time, students will stop taking examinations seriously at all. There is already a repeat examination system in place. Going by your logic, why stop at a single special repeat examination? We should keep making the student appear for exams until they secure pass marks. Eventually the faculty are just going to set easy papers and make the person pass regardless of whether they really clear it or not, or else set sub standard papers just to deal with the additional workload. If the reason why someone has failed the first two times is that they haven't learnt enough, then they should go back to the learning board, not simply carry on trying to 'hack the exam'. I don't like exams at all, I would rather have continuous evaluation throughout the sem, but the educational system needs to be radically transformed to implement it effectively. The solution of mental health problems is counseling and understanding, not a pass certificate.

Pune Labour commissioner ruled that EY didn’t have working caps of 48 hrs/week and 9 hrs/day as per Shops and Establishment Act.

Why no such cap in legal industry especially when retainer contracts actually read like employment contracts (even by control supervision test standard) ?

Can we do something about it? Write to ministry? Opposition? Courts?

Unsurprisingly, no one responded to why the moral policing question. Also, if I cant wear shorts in my hostel, then might as well ban shorts for women. Considering what I hear about boys hostel, that they pretty much roam around in their undies, its unfair on us to say the least

Hello! I was wondering if it would be possible for a 2023 graduate (JGLS) with a good CV and almost 1y PQE in litigation to switch to a tier 1 or maybe tier 2 or boutique. I was aiming for GC but heard it's not possible now. Which teams presents a higher probability of getting in? Also what would be the best time to send applications? Thanks for all the help in advance!

Basically the topic, with GST litigation seems to be almost dead, out of 1.13 lakh notices issued by CGST only 555 are on classification, rest are just differences in data points.

Till date there is no GSTAT and repeated amnesty schemes in erstwhile taxes are spelling a death knell for practitioners

In direct tax, Alternative tax regime means pay lower rate of tax by sacrificing deductions & exemptions. In fact the new tax regime is standard & in majority of the cases more beneficial.

Also central government has come out with another amnesty for income tax.

Guys/Girls working in taxation is there enough of a future in this practice space for lawyers?

Please share your comments

Top nlus have been reporting a consistent surplus in crores. Scrapping NRI will not have as much impact on funds. It may however impact student quality. if you look at the top 10 ranks or best performing mooters debators they are usually NRI quota kids (no correlation with merit whatsoever, just better opportunities, finances, confidence)

1. Just to be clear, I was responding to the comment that Sudhir's defenders have "no notion" about the meaning of empathy.

2. With that priliminary clarification out of the way, here are my thoughts. Apologies for the long answer.

3. Empathy is when somebody in a position of power (and in the context of higher education, often a professor or an administrator or sometimes both) connects with the genuine struggles of a student (or students) facing what many universities in the west call extenuating or mitigating circumstances (i.e., circumstances beyond their control) and propose or implement measures designed, not to get them away from doing the work or making the task disproportionately easy for them, but which take into account that, because of the extenuating circumstances of that student, doing that thing under the exact same conditions as students who didn't face extenuating circumstances may not be reasonable. As an example, suppose an exam were to be held on 5th May and a student who was to take the exam experienced the death of a loved-one on the first, that student should be able to take the exam instead at the next available opportunity (maybe August, when the resits for those who failed the exam in the May sitting have to take it again), without any penalties applied because of what happened. Empathy doesn't involve letting the student off, as you can see, nor does it involve accepting the student's explanation at face value. It involves making clear that many everyday things (e.g., a common headcold) aren't going to make the cut in terms of working as extenuating circumstances (because the world doesn't revolve around an individual student), in the case of something that would prima facie make the cut, verifying the claim for a change of conditions in a reasonable, respectful way (returning to the example of the 1st May death and the 5th May exam, suppose the 5th May exam happened in an exam season lasting from 5th May to 1st June, giving the affected student until the end of exan to submit the appropriate verification documents that will prove her claim) and changing conditions accordingly. Empathy (when it is actually empathy) in higher education will only work when there is a mutual understanding on part of the student and the teacher/administrator that certain processes have to be followed, deviations are the exception rather than the rule, that a case for those deviations must be established to a high standard of proof, that all cases arguing for a deviation won't make the cut, establishing a boundary or threshold for what does and that there are respectful protocols to follow even when verifying them (e.g., setting a reasonable deadline for extenuating circumstances by the administration, and the student honouring that deadline). For everyday classes that work on the 'cold calling' principle, that may involve establishing a protocol where the teacher must be informed as far in advance as possible (maybe don't set a prescribed time, but suggested 24 hours if you can) in writing that a student hasn't been able to do the preparation because of reasons 1, 2 and 3, with a proper explanation of those reasons. This could also involve coming up with a prescription (e.g., only three incidents per student will be permitted). If the student didn't do this, they should expect to be cold-called and taken to task for not abiding by these.

4. Empathy also would involve a shared understanding between student and teacher/administrator that, even in cases of students facing circumstances beyond their control, there are certain things that one shouldn't do. For example, a student whose case is on the boundary (maybe he has caring responsibilities for an elderly relative and balancing that with his studies is causing him to face mental health difficulties), he shouldn't use Chatgpt to generate his end-of-term submissions. Much better to reach out for help (maybe even make an extenuating circumstances claim), see how he can be supported to complete the same workload, the same difficulty level of workload under as similar conditions to those not facing those circumstances as possible, by his university. Again, empathy of this kind only works when there is a shared acceptance of the legitimacy of rules and processes by all parties.

5. Leniency, on the other hand, is completely different. It is where the presumption is in favour of changing the quantity of the workload expected, the difficulty level or quality of the workload expected and often the conditions under which that workload is completed. For example, a professor who decides that a common cold experienced by one student between 10th to 14th April in a period ending 23rd April (when the assignment is due) would mean that (a) a deadline change had to be made at all; and (b) that deadline change must apply to all students.

6. Leniency also involves subscribing to a presumption in favour of the school of thought that people are victims of their circumstances, and therefore setting a low bar for what extenuating circumstances are. For example, many good universities don't accept 'computer problems' as extenuating circumstances and specifically forbid those considering extenuating circumstance claims from granting such claims. Yes, computers do crash. We know that. But if the assignment was due on 23rd April and you have been working on it since the 8th, why didn't you make appropriate use of backup technology? Why, for example, did you not take appropriate care to save your work multiple times (particularly that which was the output of periods of vigorous composition) on external drives? Yes, submission portals for online assignments can be slow in periods of high traffick. You may have known that. So why, when your assignment was due on 11:59pm of 23rd April, are you attempting to upload at 11:58 and 45 seconds, failing, submitting at 12:05am and claiming extenuating circumstances when a deduction is slapped on you? Could you not have done that (submitting your work) perhaps a few hours (maybe up to a day or so) earlier? Yes, several assignments might be due on the same day (again, 23rd April, 11:59pm). For Assignment A, why didn't you prioritise properly? Why didn't you remember that more students were taking the course for which it was an assessment, and upload your completed work a little earlier/why didn't you complete the work earlier? Why did you give more priority to Assignment B than A? Why did you start Assignments A and B five days later than Assignment C, knowing before that all three were due on 23rd April at 11:59pm? Yes, again, portals do crash, that's fine. Your three assignments A, B and C were due on 23rd April, you study at a flashy uni, the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and North Koreans banded together (along with the paid assistance of Belgian renegades) and carried out a massive DDOS attack on your uni's submission portal on the 14th to access experimental data that the Physics department students are working on, meaning submission portals etc. are all down. Do you get new, extended deadlines? Of course you do! Leniency would involve not asking or considering any of these questions, or just surface-level consideration.

If GL is reading this, here’s an insider account borne out of more than a decade of observing the forces at play. KM and RM (scourge - adept at salami slicing), SS (cowbird, a la self-seeker), NS (fairly new but individualistic), HC (helpless), SK (helpless too). Careful what you decide next.

UPDATE: RGNUL students reached out to Gopal Sankaranarayanan Sir, Senior advocate about the issues with the VC and admin. He has spoken to the Visitor Justice Surya Kant on behalf of the students and put their problems before him. Justice Kant is coming to Chandigarh and will meet the students on Saturday - the Chancellor has also been informed and he is also stepping in.

The point is actually that the university (along with parents, etc) should invest in counselling students that one failure is not the end of life. If students can't deal with failing a subject in college, how will they manage the actual challenges that life throws at them?

Failing an exam / backlog in a subject / losing a year in college are all in the long term trivial things. Others have commented on this thread how they went through all of these and still ended up fine in life. That is the message that students should be given.

Unfortunately they feel excessively pressured by these things which they shouldn't be. That's the role of the university and parents - to provide support and messaging accordingly.

I'm also very disappointed. Not from the place but the kind of comments that we have on the thread there overwhelmingly blame the students. Many are borderline slut shaming and yet, the kind of moderation shown there is absent. Just looks like a mouthpiece of the administration there.

Cap marks has good work life balance tbh. You know when is filing and only then it gets a little hectic. Otherwise it's normal 8-9 hours daily. Even if you are in 5-6 deals at a time all of them won't go for filing at once. And more of it also depends on staffing partner to not to staff people with overlapping filing timelines.

You do know how to engage in name-calling but you don't know what information to give that is relevant. At which institution is he doing his PhD? And even if he were at the archives (I'll take your word for it), that doesn't necessarily give an indication of what institution his base is, does it?

Just try your level best to get a tier one placement. And on the way you'll probably get a tier 3-4 decent place to start your career. Grind it out for initial years and make a smart switch. The place has a lot to offer but the students tend to go for the judicial services mostly.

The "Goria-Math" is a great source to get stuff that helps you cope at the end.

TMPL Consultants.

I'll tell you why.

Because the other recruiters LOVE gathering CVs and then see you crave for a response. Profession ghosting sets in.

Bhargava sisters know their work. And truly, would rather tell you what's impossible rather than faffing about it, which is RATHER PREFERABLE than being ghosted for months.

Will also tell you who to avoid- Avimukta and Enroute. Loved Vahura to another extent in the past. Now it has lost its shine.

Go for TMPL.

Michael (previously with Vahura) is serious about his job. He knows placing people is a professional task, and would not step in only to accumulate credit at the end. Also, wouldn't sugarcoat stuff for you (while in the beginning it may sound like something that you'd want to avoid, but trust me, when the ghosting begins, you'd rather want them to say ANYTHING rather than saying nothing at all!) So you may opt for him.

Note that I am saying “feasible”. So that would rule out not only expensive places like Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru, but also rule out places like Lakshwadeep or Shimla, as the health infrastructure in such places is not good.

So a city with low cost of living, decent infrastructure, good quality of life and good health facilities would be the answer. Also preferably cleanliness and safety. Which is that city? Chennai? Goa? Ahmedabad? Hyderabad? Pune? Chandigarh? Kolkata? Kochi? Vishakapatnam? Indore? Bhopal? Varanasi?

You are not getting the point.

Every underserved promotion is better than a life lost. This is not about passing a student who has failed the exam, it's about providing another opportunity to pass. It already reflects in the final marksheet, no-one is trying to hide anything or getting undue advantage.

Not every person is as strong as you. That you are not recognising the same, is not cool.

Lemme help you comprehensively,

I hope the pattern is same as of 2022, as I appeared for 2021 and 2022 both years. I got 115/150 : Rank 717 in the first,

and 112/150: Rank 47 in the Second attempt.

So, if you are OMS. You need to focus on getting into top 50 Ranks. Bcz only GLC & ILS are worth it

Now, preparation:

1. English: They ask for very basic questions. Out of 30 marks, 10 marks for Comprehension, which are so so so simple. A 5th Standard student can solve it even.

Then comes, fill ups, which are also simple. Just brush up your basic grammar rules.

Then comes vocabulary, refer word power made easy, more than sufficient.

English part is totally doable.

(Pro Tip: There is a channel on yt named "Manuevour Education" they do PYPQs analysis for MHCET, you see that, you will get fair idea of type of questions. See their videos, on paper pattern too.)

2. GK

It consists of again 30 Q.

In 2021, there were 24 questions from static GK. and it was so so easy. They asked "Where is Taj Mahel situated"

What's the Name of President. So, such basic questions. But it depends on luck, again. So, focus more on static GK. And refer to some handout for Current affairs.

Don't waste much time on Newspaper for MHCET.

3. Maths

10 marks, but matters a lot. Again everything arithmetic. So, search on YouTube, basic chapters of TSD, time and work, Profit loss, basic things .

Brush up your concepts from YouTube.

4. Legal Reasoning

It's very scoring, and determining.

2 types: Legal Knowledge and Legal Reasoning.

Prepare this section from Universal guide to CLAT. That will cover everything

It has principle fact based questions, which all are from CLAT PYPQs. Literally, they copy paste things.

5. Logical Reasoning

It is the most determining section. Puzzles and Sitting arrangements, comes for 25 marks around. It's bit tricky, it's a bit"difficult section" in the exam.

Prepare a lot for it.

So, that's all about it. This exam is totally based on Luck. Totally, if you are OMS.

Cut offs: for Oms

This exam started in 2016

2016: 106

2017: 107-108

2018: 110-112

2019: 113-115

2020 : 112 was the last

2021: 127 for GLC and ILS

2022: 111 for GLC and ILS

I don't know after that, and also, these cut offs are for OMS and for GLC/ILS.

Tip: don't waste time on searching PYPQs, they don't release it.

He is ex JSA and ICICI and one of the best in banking currently. Very knowledgeable and smart and down to earth and humble. It was a big loss for JSA when he left since even today no one there is currently in his league. He has marque clients too. Only 1-2 people in his team are mildly toxic but manageable and worth the exposure you will get there. He has lot of work and since it’s a small team working hours will be crazy but that’s the case with even large banking teams in other firms.

I am a female lawyer and I recently joined the chambers of a lawyer here at ▮▮▮. I am constantly being harassed by an associate for the past three months. He started with sending lewd texts which I objected to from day one but recently he crossed all limits and molested me. He grabbed me by my waist, inserted his hands inside my clothes, and touched my breasts. I cried and run away from him. I reported this incident to my senior ▮▮▮, but she blamed me for dressing provocatively and told me to forget about it. I have been crying, thinking about it for the past 20 days. I am scared to report it to anyone as my senior's husband is also a lawyer and is a not only ▮▮▮ but also ▮▮▮. I fear they can easily get my registration cancelled. I haven't reported it to anyone. The guy who did it is from a very strong background. He did the same to my other friend, too. I feel like shit. Pls someone help me. His name is ▮▮▮.

The first name is Sudhanshu Kumar. He was at NALSAR for 10 years and taught courses on Company Law, Capital Markets and Competition Law. He has published extensively on Competition Law and Policy, which is why NLSIU offered him an Associate Professor position in 2023.

Pranav is a 2017 BA,LLB alum from NALSAR and only taught there for 2 years. He is very diligent and friendly with students. He had taught Law of Evidence, Criminal Law and Administrative Law and is getting the same subjects at NLSIU.

Sid.C needs no introduction for folks at NLSIU. At NALSAR, he has taught Constitutional Law, Comparative Public Law, Legal Philosophy and Statutory Interpretation among other things over a decade. He has just returned to NLSIU a few months ago, so current students may not have noticed him as yet.

Depends on your CV.

If you’ve done debenture related work, then questions like:

Explain Process of NCD issuance

Difference between pledge, hypothecation, mortgage? Types of mortgage ?

Factual questions from Section 42, 180 (1)a & c, Sec 185, 186

Do you need to open separate bank account? Do you need ISIN? How many resolutions need to be passed? (1 - for issuance, 1 - for allotment)

Is it mandatory to pass shareholder resolution?

Can you do 2 NCD issuances in 1 year? On what condition? What do you need to mention in BR?

Conceptual questions from Section 42 and allied Rules?

Is it legally required to appoint debenture trustee? Under what circumstances?

Is it legally required to execute DTD? Or can you do the issuance basis term sheet?

Questions from CP/ CS checklist

What NOCs required before a financing?

Clauses in a contract - Rep v Warranty v Covenants

___________

All the best!