The details of India’s investigation were included in a July 20 email, reviewed by Reuters, which was written by a home ministry official to Netflix’s former director of business and legal affairs for India, Nandini Mehta, who left the company in 2020.

“This is regarding visa and tax violations concerns regarding the business practices of Netflix in India,” wrote Indian official Deepak Yadav from the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) of the home ministry in New Delhi.

“We have received certain details in this regard w.r.t (with respect to) the stated company’s conduct, visa violation, illegal structures, tax evasion and other malpractices including incidents of racial discrimination that company has been engaged in while conducting its business in India,” he added.

In an emailed statement, Mehta said she is pursuing a lawsuit in US against Netflix for alleged wrongful termination as well as racial and gender discrimination – charges the company denies.

…

In 2021, Mehta sued Netflix in Los Angeles County Superior Court in California for alleged wrongful termination and racial and gender discrimination, among other things, U.S. court filings show.

Netflix has in U.S. court denied “each and every allegation” and said in its statement that Mehta was fired for repeatedly using her corporate credit card for tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses.

Mehta said she will “continue to fight for justice.” Her case is set for a status hearing on Monday in Los Angeles.

https://indianexpress.com/article/business/india-probing-netflix-for-visa-violations-racial-discrimination-email-shows-9583610/lite/

Hello everyone. I am from a Non NLU which is not much famous outside my home state. I have been a much risk-averse person throughout my life and have lot much opportunities because of that.

After 3 years of my college life I have realised that from a corporate law POV I have acheived nothing except one Tier 2 Corp internship. Not a single moot or research paper. And regarding grades, marks are in 50-60 range for most exams, with around 3 supplementary papers (1 of them is a law subject) in total.Partly it's because atmosphere was not at all competitive and college itself does not emphasize stress on studies, but mostly its because of my laziness.

I seek redemption ! I have already registered for a couple of legal events but deep down I highly doubt whether I could get a good corporate law job.

Do you suggest that I give CLAT once again at this stage of my life? Or should I give NLSAT after completing this course in 2026 ? Or are there any other solutions?

Please advice me on this. Legal proffesionals, academics and students alike are welcome to provide your valuable opinions.

Hi, I have an offer for internship from Gravitas in their Banking and Finance team. Could anybody who has interned/worked there provide some insights on the quality of work, work culture and stipend, if any. I already have another confirmed internship so I'm not sure if I should leave that for this. Any details would be helpful. Thanks!

How can a Non-NLU student work in a foreign law firm? P.S please don't recommend me to retake CLAT, because by the time admissions to NLUs start I would be in my 4th year.

Any other methods would be appreciated including the foreign LLM or BCL way. I need a roadmap if someone is knowledgeable enough

Not just the college administration, but even the student body there is equally to blame for creating the most toxic and cliquey environment on campus- things like selective activism and cancelling only as long as it doesn’t involve their own friends (in which case the narrative is instantly reversed), and an absolute lack of academic as well as non-academic/social support for anyone who needs it.

20K for rent is really expensive. Avoid South Delhi as an intern (except when finances aren't an issue). Put up in areas like Laxmi Nagar, Nirman Vihar, Noida, etc. where the accommodation is much cheaper. Most PGs in Delhi, unlike Mumbai, include food. You can consider packing your lunch everyday to the Court. All in all, you can manage to bring down the overall expenditure to around 25K (PG + everyday commute + miscellaneous expenses) excluding the flight tickets.

My friend from Kolkata got 8 tickets. He was logged on to 12 devices belonging to his family and friends. One of the devices beat the queue by pure luck. He kept 4 tickets for himself and sold the other 4 tickets for 2.5 lakhs each to a Trinamul Congress MLA’s son, who paid the entire amount in cash. So he made a profit of 10 lakhs in one day and he doesn’t even have to declare it to tax authorities as it’s in pure cash.

That’s how you gotta hustle in India and why simple people like us lose out 😭

The recent news of suicide in different universities and offices all over the country shows more about the immense amount of stress the country as a whole has put on competition and excellence. 100 out of 100 in cbse is where it starts.

Then litigation is stressful and Law firms create unnecessary pressure on young students to perform like robots and they themselves lack any work-life balance.

I really dont think it is the university atmosphere alone. It is WE as a legal fraternity that is responsible.

It is important for all of us to create safe spaces within our student groups and interact with faculty who are approachable and willing.

Law in itself is a serious study and one normal case can have different impact on different people.

Another observation is that Emotional intelligence and Academic intelligence both need an emphasis now.

Bar Council of India and UGC should

1. Make attendance flexible.

2. Not impose terrible credit requirements and hours of teaching making universities struggle to keep up the number of hours and subjects.

3. Soon faculty members will also fall to stress. Cuttack incident is a call that faculty needs support too.

I am already thinking of the plight of faculty at NLU delhi who would be consoling students while themselves struggling to cope up with loss. Noone i say noone wants to harm and see their children, students or friends take this step.

Job, marks and competiton seems to be making people forget that we work to live and not live to work. Please take care of each other and I for one feel that harsh comments on nlud would now again put pressure on students who would feel more stressed as to the image of the place they have joined.

NluD and other law school students bashing each other on this forum itself shows we all as a community are only trying to win arguments than making all law schools a better community as a whole. Please take this as a wake up call.

Administration alone can do nothing. Students, teachers and parents have to together try to build a healthy future.

This reminds me of an excerpt from Roald Dahl's autobiography that always fascinated me.

Extract from Boy – Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl:

The next day, we were allowed to inspect the appendix itself in a glass bottle. It was a

longish black wormy-looking thing, and I said, “Do I have one of those inside me, Nanny?”

“Everyone has one,” Nanny answered.

“What’s it for?” I asked her.

“God works in mysterious ways,” she said, which was her stock reply whenever she

didn’t know the answer.

“What makes it go bad?” I asked her.

“Toothbrush bristles,” she answered, this time with no hesitation at all.

“Toothbrush bristles?” I cried. “How can toothbrush bristles make your appendix go

bad?” Nanny, who in my eyes was filled with more wisdom than Solomon, replied, “Whenever

a bristle comes out of your toothbrush and you swallow it, it sticks in your appendix and turns

rotten. In the war,” she went on, “the German spies used to sneak box loads of loose-bristled toothbrushes into our shops and millions of our soldiers got appendicitis.”

“Honestly, Nanny?” I cried. “Is that honestly true?”

“I never lie to you, child,” she answered. “So let that be a lesson to you never to use an

old toothbrush.”

For years after that, I used to get nervous whenever I found a toothbrush bristle on

my tongue.

I worked in Mumbai office of KLA. Nice place to work at. Good PE/VC work, you'll get to work on transaction documents. Very less retention rate. People' don't get promoted. Managing Partner Mr. Khaitan, is rarely in office, probably once a week. But very knowledgeable person nonetheless.

Money is scarce. Expect something between 6-8 LPA. Lit and corporate sits together. HR will sit on your head and micromanager things. Pretty much like an average T3-T4 firm.

“Singh further stated that he has received a lot of complaints regarding some students who drink and smoke inside the hostel after midnight and do not let them study. He went inside the hostel for inspection along with the female wardens. Some girls were themselves showing their rooms to him. There are only some students in every batch who are creating an issue whereas others are attending their classes.”

Remember, there are always two sides to a story. Let’s also not pretend that Punjab hasn’t got a drug and alcohol addiction problem.

https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/students-of-rgnul-patiala-protest-against-vc-over-alleged-privacy-violation-of-girl-students/3619207/lite/

Here's the deal. I haven't been working for that long. I have been working in the law firm industry for around five years and here are my two cents for anyone who is struggling and / or planning to join.

1. Your firm and your partner are trash. The day you decide to leave them they will turn on you and fuck you over. So give your best and work to the capacity that you can but don't hesitate to switch if things go too far.

2. No firm is good or bad and no partner is good or bad. It depends on your equation with that particular person and how your experience is in that firm.

3. At the end of the day, your happiness is paramount. If your happiness lies in having work life balance with less money or better work atmosphere then go for that. If your happiness is directly proportional to your bank balance and you don't care about what torture you have to go through, go wherever you are paid the most. But you can't get everything you want.

4. No one in this industry is doodh ka dhula. If someone appears that way, it's because you haven't seen their worst yet. And for most people, pressure situations will reveal the worst.

That's all I want to say. I am not looking for sympathy or empathy or homeopathy or any kind of pathy. But Misery loves company so

This problem is not unique to law schools. It’s a universal problem all over the world. Answer is to have compulsory counselling and follow Australia by banning Instagram for minors, so that Gen Alpha is at least saved. The problem with Instagram is twofold. One is that you feel inadequate and depressed by watching the “perfect” lives of others on reels and photos (in truth, it’s all faked and using filters). The other problem is that if you try to post anything a bit edgy, you get trolled and insulted.

I mean it’s literally the price of a small car and one can fly abroad and back and watch a concert there. In fact, there are resale tickets being sold abroad, but these are much less than the Indian resale prices. So you pay LESS in a first world country than in India. This FOMO in Mumbai doesn’t make sense to me. It is coz y’all wanna be clicked with Bollywood celebs? Or you won’t get leave to fly abroad? Like seriously, why choose DY Patil stadium over Wembley?

I'm writing this because I can't keep quiet anymore about what's happening here. This isn't the college experience I signed up for, and I'm beyond frustrated.

Let's start with the millipede situation. How does a college let this happen? We were suddenly thrown into online classes with barely any notice. I stayed in the hostel because they said it would only be two weeks. Two weeks turned into a month! That's a huge chunk of my first semester gone.

While stuck in the hostel, I got sick with dengue AND typhoid. The water here is terrible, and the sanitation is a joke. We've asked for help repeatedly, but it feels like no one cares about us first-years.

The online bullying is out of control. Some of my classmates are talking about hurting themselves because it's so bad. We tried to complain, but there's no real system in place. When we finally got through to the admin, they brushed us off. It's suffocating.

To top it all off, they cancelled our freshers' events because of some fight between the senior years I have also heard this year they are not organising the garba event as big as it happens every year like it's gonna be small closed event because the cultural committee of our campus is yet to be constituted.Is this really what college is supposed to be like? Because if it is, I want out.

I came here excited to make friends and learn new things. Instead, I'm sick, scared, and miserable. Now I get why some of my friends chose other colleges - at least they're not dealing with this mess.

I don't know what to do anymore. This place feels toxic, and I'm seriously thinking about transferring. I never thought I'd say this, but I regret coming here.

Please, if anyone in charge is reading this, do something. We're really struggling, and it feels like no one cares.

Sincerely, A Very Disappointed First-Year Student

P.S. I'm not the only one feeling this way. A lot of us are at our breaking point.

NUJS Alumni recently wrote to CJI DY Chandrachud requesting him for convocation ceremony which is pending for 4 batches. CJI recently attended convocation ceremonies of NLS, Bangalore, Jindal Law School and SLS, Pune (last year)

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/nujs-students-write-to-cji-dy-chandrachud-requesting-convocation-ceremony-for-2021-2022-2023-and-2024-batches-270361

Ban liya cool? Most of us know how scalping works, and what’s going on. The outrage is over the fact that this could have been easily prevented by BMS - had they mandated verification of the identity of those who purchased the tickets, at the time of entering the concert venue. The same is done at several other countries where Coldplay or any other artist performed.

Okay but prestige between harvard yale oxford and even stanford I would say is about the same. So the harder school to get into would be the one with the smallest cohort which is yale. Stanford takes something like 60 people. NYU, Columbia and others take huge cohorts. U Chicago I think only takes 90 people.

Besides we're not talking about undergraduate degrees in the arts. we're talking about graduate programmes in law. I would even argue that it should be programme-specific. NYU has a legal theory programme thats very difficult to get into and takes only 15 people and funds them well enough. thats wayyy harder to get into than Harvard or Oxford.

Getting into SPILS at Stanford is way harder than getting into the other tracks. Spils is the only one with funding and pathway to the JSD. Thats harder to get into than Oxford or Harvard I would think.

Studying law and economics at U Chicago would give you much more credibility than studying law and economics at NYU. And studying law and gender at berkeley would probably be better than studying law and gender at Harvard or NYU or Chicago or Yale or Stanford or Oxford even.

All of these programmes get applicants from across the world.

Abir Lal Dey, Satadru Goswami and Kunal Satuadarshi operate the Banking and Finance team under Bikash. There are different pools of associate under each of these partners.

Rohan Shah, Vivek Pareek and Navomi Koshy operate the corporate and M&A vertical and have a common group of associates.

These issues definitely get bette with time provided:

1. You are committed to learning and basically establishing trust with seniors to let you handle things on your own. If they don’t trust your work product they will keep meddling

2. You don’t have a toxic team to start with that won’t let you be no matter what and would get insecure if you are very good

3. You have to be assertive when you get the chance. Don’t be a doormat to politics if you are confident about your work quality.

To sum up, know your worth and use it to push back those who waste your time. Saved time means more wlb

JSA logic is likely that the firm has been pushing purely organic client growth for most of its three decade journey and there's only so many big pockets in the market. Time to switch to client acquisition via partner hirings. Most, if not all, partner hires have also come with promises of big books. Sure, some of them may not translate to revenue windfalls, but there will be enough of a surge to take JSA back to its long lost T1 status

It is definitely worth it. You will get exposure of so many company law petitions & IBC matters at various stage.. it looks cool on CV, if you throw some jargons like handled interim applications, final disposal of demerger of XYZ.inc MNC or attended the meeting, scrutinised the minutes of CoC under IBC & disposed hundreds of unsecured creditors' claims... etc

you may or may not learn something huge in 4 weeks as it is too short, but it will make your CV looks better than others..

This is possibly the first ever NLU student protest post Covid. The Covid generation does not know that student protests happened on campus, across all NLUs, very regularly before Covid. Hopefully, this will inspire other students in other colleges to stand up against corruption and bad administration.

The number of Gen Z student deaths in a span of 5-10 years is much more than the number of Gen X and Gen Y student deaths combined in a span of 20-25 years. We are in the middle of a very serious mental health crisis. The causes for it are:

- Social media

- Increased competition for jobs and growing population

- Culture of shaming, ridiculing boycotting and cancelling people. It's traumatic when a teenager is shunned and ostracised by his peers because he is socially awkward, or because he said something politically incorrect.

Brother,
It feels like you are starting the marathon with your head hung. (Old convenient cliche, a career in the Law is a marathon not a sprint). I am sure you bring in real world experience with you to every brief that you hold. Maybe do what you are good at for a years or two.
There are plenty who start their career in the Law in middle and late 30s and still do well in the Law and more importantly in life. Do read up about another GLC Alumnus, one CJI S. Kapadia
and his journey.

Another old convenient cliche, We are a sum total of 4 of closest friends. Well why not 5, you may ask!? Point is, please spend time with quality seniors and friends. And, there is no reason why you should not do just fine.

Best wishes!
A 37 year old, who has changed areas of work and cities, more than any cliche definition and markers of success will have you believe. But doing not doing too badly :)

We need to discuss this more. Being someone who's first language is not English, and don't have a command on the language, I use quillbot a lot. I feel like I'm not cheating since the original idea is mine but I'm just polishing it to make it sound coherent and better. I can understand chatgpt since that's a idea generator but quillbot is more of a checker. This is concerning that it's marked as AI. No matter how hard I try, I feel grammar & using correct words is something that doesn't improve drastically, especially if you're older. Sad that there is no difference between idea generation and spelling/grammar checkers.

Possible as long as you have above average to good/very good marks, a good personal statement, at least some extracurriculars/work experience to show on your CV and good recommendation letters. There is limited wiggle room for the marks requirement if you have 5 years or more good PQE (i.e., where they might normally look for a 65%, a 62 might just be viewed as acceptable), but it is very limited indeed, marks are the most important thing (i.e., a UCL, for example (as you mentioned that institution specifically), might prefer somebody with an average of 75% with five years PQE, rather than somebody with 60% and five years PQE). For UCL specifically, they are looking for at least a few (what they call in the UK) 'firsts' in the transcript (i.e., a few courses where you have obtained so-called 'first class' marks, or the top grade, basically).

1. Very small number of LLM students they take in per year.

2. Very strong expectation (from what I understand) that selected students will become academics.

3. Expectations that lead from the above re. quality of scholarship published prior to LLM application etc.

This list might help. It only about professors of international law though. https://allaboutil.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/top-cited-international-law-scholars-in-india/

Yale takes about 20-25 student every year. It is also the highest ranked US law school so is the most prestigious. It prefers students who can show a demonstrated interest in academia or public service related professions for LLM admissions. So it gets a lot of applications, it is hyper competitive, and it generally takes only people with many years of experience (I know of only 3 people who have got into the LLM directly from UG from India and all of them are now academics). That's why it is so tough to get into.

I have two very dumb questions (please don't hesitate to point out if so).

First, may I ask if you could elaborate on why you don't expect foreign law firms to make any substantive moves until at least a year from now? Aren't they just wasting valuable time and opportunities? Is it because they want to observe the market a bit more?

Also, wasn't the point of the recent change in the rules of the BCI that foreign law firms shouldn't be restricted to Option 3)? Isn't option 3) similar to the old 'best friend' arrangements of which A&O (as it then was), CC and the like got tired, because they didn't see the prospect of further opening up of the market soon? So why are some firms still limiting themselves to consideration of option 3)?

Did your central training teach you how to stereotype and generalise? One person does an objectionable thing, and all the NLUs are to be blamed for that? That's like saying you should be treated like a criminal every time a human being commits a crime.

@Mod: These ragebait titles and posts are really passing your moderation standards?

God! What is happening at that place? It still has got decent faculty who care for the students. Why aren't they doing something to at least talk to the students, provide mentorship, getting a campus counselor, trying to understand the issues that these kids are facing? All this is such a terrible waste of life and potential. I was reading another LI thread where multiple commentators claimed that empathy has got no place in the modern university. Are they really immune to these tragedies?

All great expect would remove UC Davis, Sydney and Osgoode Hall from this list. They are a notch below.

For example, in the UC system, UC Berkeley > UCLA > UC Law SF > UC Irvine > UC Davis. For JD, Berkeley is for all practical purposes, the exact same as Harvard/Yale/Columbia/NYU/UMich.

Not really. More prestigious the law school, more difficult to get into.

Yale takes 25-30

Harvard 180-190

Oxford 100-110

Smaller class makes it more competitive but prestigious institutions attract applications from 100 countries

Stanford

NYU

Columbia

UPenn

Cambridge

Georgetown

Michigan

Sydney

Melbourne

NUS

LSE

McGill

York Osgoode Hall

UC Berkeley

UC Davis

Next best in no particular order.

A first year student at NLU Delhi passed away yesterday due to suicide. This marks the third such incident at the university in three months. It is hard to believe that this is a mere coincidence and reflects shamefully upon the university's atmosphere. Immense shame upon the university administration and their apathy for creating such an environment.

I am employed by a foreign law firm currently. I had the good fortune of meeting and having some time to speak to our Global CEO, and I asked him about India plans and if I could assist with anything.

Turns out that some of our competitors and our firm has come down to India throughout the year to think about how they want to approach entry into the Indian market. They’ve met some major MDs of Indian firms.

The 2-3 options they are currently considering from a Business perspective is whether to 1) Open a brand new office, 2) Acquire a smaller law firm and rebrand it - which seems to be a common method for large global law firms to enter into new markets or 3) do an exclusivity deal where the foreign firm do exclusive referral for jurisdiction specific work to their Indian partner and vice versa with the Indian firm, when there is outbound work. My firm has done both 1) and 2) but recently found success with 3) in another jurisdiction after pulling out their offices in that jurisdiction.

There is excitement about India, which is obvious but a lot of firms and their competitors are waiting for others to make the first move and then see what the results are so they can enter at a slower pace. I would not expect to see firms do anything for the next 1 year at least, but that is just a guess.

Feds have just cut rates, so expecting work to really push into third gear, maybe if another “free money” era passes by, foreign law firms can use all that extra capital to do either of 1) or 2) above.

I’m as excited about what is to come with the future of law firms in India because I think it might really be a great decade or two for the economy.

Here comes another one. He even comments on their clothes.

https://www.barandbench.com/apprentice-lawyer/vice-chancellor-surprise-visit-to-girls-hostel-sparks-controversy-rgnul-students-demand-resignation

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The Internet is fighting against the toxic work culture of the big 4 which is greaaat…….but I feel like they will literally FLIP if they get to know law firm work culture.

And I say this with no sarcasm - every day people in law firms talk about how good it is to be in one of the big 4 accountancy firms. I swear.

Gen Y uncle here. I think (know for a fact) its perfectly cool to (1) ask intern for help on a Saturday. I know the power dynamics argument - that she will not say no to me. But guess what, I had work, which required an intern to pull through, and couple of them did, with out whining like you. They will get credit for it, ofc. (2) its ok to speak rudely when its warranted. This one intern literally pulled a 'tumko malum hai mai kiska beta' on office staff who asked him to not speak loudly everyday. Guess what I did? Ask around - it got famous. And I will do it again. No one walks over my staff. Period. (3) this memes thing is pretty specific. Plus I dont have that kind of connect with my interns yet. But I will meme, so long as the intern is cool with it, and maintain professional boundaries, otherwise it will make my office a very boring place. (4) Not sure what gendered language means, but I am fairly certain I am doing it within the team. We are very close, work 10-12 hours together every day, and share stuff. (5) I dont even want to get started on jokes - you will be horrified by the sick jokes we do in team. Lets just say - 'langde ko langda nai to kya andha bolenge' does not even qualifies.

You son seem to have been hurt. Please complain about it. My whole rant was about it - no one should be scared of anyone and feel free to speak their mind.

Buddy, there are ordinary 3-tier options available where the return fare would not exceed 1K. As far as "wasting 16 hours" is concerned - don't be under the wrong impression that your time is that valuable and that you are so important. You don't matter to the world. So as a student try to be frugal. Spending a night on the train will not do you any harm.

while what you are saying isn't incorrect, you're overemphasising on only one aspect of the legal world, perhaps the ones that receive the spotlight because of their social impact. However, most of the cases that are courts are faced with aren't such socio-politico-legal matters, they are plain commercial disputes. That is where the money is. That is what everyone in law school who intends to make a career in law is after. Even for criminal matters, a lot of them are white-collar crimes. Understanding society and its evolution and impact on jurisprudence is essential, and I agree there is no need to "replace" BA with BBA or BSc. But to look at things fairly, it makes more sense to popularise and adapt the latter two streams than the former. The reason why BA is so popular is because law has conventionally been viewed as a part of humanaties, and that the sort of disputes a couple of centuries ago were not of the same nature as today. Social leaders popularised law. But the world has changed, businesses are growing, and we have more commercial disputes than ever. Having a deep understanding of how money and businesses work obviously gives you an edge in your day to day life.

yaar. if you dont want to do BA course why sign up for a BA course and then tell universities to change? Go na. Do BSc, BCom, BBA. then do an llb. why should the world be remade in your image?

FWIW Jindal has all of these Bcom BBA llb type courses. The best students still want to do the BA course. Make of that what you will.