@Mod: If you couldn't identify this comment as a trollish one by yourself at the time of approving it for publication, then you should really give up the job that you're doing right now. People should not have to flag these separately, otherwise what's the point of advance moderation? Allow everything to be published and then remove on the basis of complaints!

Seniors who have over the years appeared for Day Zero interviews, could you please provide some insight about what the interview goes like for the following firms, in terms of technical rigour, HR questions, duration or any other relevant factor:

-KCO

-Tri

-AZB

-SAM

-CAM

-Saraf

-TTA

-Indus

All of us know that being well versed with your cv is extremely crucial, in addition to studying the basics of Contracts, TPA and Companies Act. Firm specific advise would be really helpful at the stage. Thanks.

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Thank you for your constructive engagement. While I will not be agreeing with your arguments, I will say that what you have written is the best pushback to what I have said previously and enhances the quality of the discussion.

1. I am not saying that that (disability accommodation requests going unscrutinised/improperly scrutinised) does not happen or that such phenomena aren't real. Nor am I necessarily saying that there aren't gaps in Jindal's implementation of accommodations. If the kinds of phenomena you are writing about hadn't been real, Puja Khedkar wouldn't have happened. However, I am worried about a tendency to inflate the level at which these things are happening, because of seeing the opposite happen more often - unreasonable, disproportionate, possibly discriminatory scrutiny of a person and their disability being carried out by examination authorities when disability supports are requested. Therefore, as disability is very poorly understood not just in Indian society but in most, I would think we need extra evidence before we reach any conclusion.

2. Your point about "over and above your regular work" regarding the administrators' attitudes is a particularly good one. It does not seem like Jindal (or frankly any even reasonably well-known Indian university) has a specific, separate disability support department or office of disability support services with staff who have expertise in disability support in higher education, unlike universities in Britain and the U.S. Jindal law's DSC (for all the hype of "global university"/"global law school") seems to be employing the (very Indian) higher education industry standard of having ad-hoc arrangements to support disabled students. What you have said is the best argument for creating such offices. If that were to be done, we aren't having examination authorities doing stuff "over and above [their] regular work" for a number of reasons:

(a) The disability advisory and support service is responsible for investigating the level, presence or absence of a disability, medical condition or specific learning difference of students - making that a crucial part of their "regular work";

(b) Based on the expertise of their staff, the disability support office recommends examination access arrangements (from my experience of such things in Britain) to the examination authorities based on the actual need of the student balanced with fairness for everyone (they don't get it right 100% of the time, but usually do); and

(c) the bar for rejecting the disability support office's recommendation would have to be a high one - such as if that office had no backing based on evidence for its recommendation, or the recommendation for an access arrangement compromised its fairness or assessment of competency standards etc.

Just to add about my second point, this is not just me (a person who has experienced a different educational system) saying that universities in India need to have dedicated disability advisory and support offices. Anchel Bhateja, the first blind person to go to NLSIU, said this about her university in a newspaper article.

How can I suggest areas of law to you, man? Read up on different subjects and figure out what interests you that's literally why law school exists.

If you're looking at it purely from a job perspective, then the teams with the highest attrition usually have the most vacancies: Capital Markets, Funds, and Banking & Finance. (but there is a reason for high attrition that's the caveat)
If your goal is simply to join the largest practice groups, because more roles in the industry then look at General Corporate, M&A, and PE/VC, as they tend to have the biggest teams.

Also, moots aren't the be-all and end-all. You can always compensate with strong publications, ADR competitions, research work, and other achievements. That said, moots are one of the most valuable experiences in law school. A single moot can teach you more about a subject than an entire semester because it's the closest you'll get to actual legal practice as a student. So definitely give them a shot.

Your insights are really helpful. I'm a 4th year student currently at a tier-2 NLU. I cleared SJTs but my application for vacation scheme was rejected by HSF. Links' deadline has already passed. And A&O Shearman etc don't have specific India internship programs so I'm really not sure if my CV will be able to compete globally for vacation schemes of these firms.

My internships are decent only, with 1 at LKS and Dhir&Dhir each, and a few under Supreme Court Judges and Advocates. I also participated in an international moot but wasn't able to qualify for the advanced rounds.

I have zero connections in this field, but still I'm trying to look for internships at tier-1 law firms. I really want to make a career abroad but I won't be able to devote huge money for LLM abroad, so I was still figuring out if there's any other route to join a global corporate firm.

Would be helpful if you could put forward your suggestions as to what I can possibly work upon in the next few months which I've left before applying for global forms? Or any other route you would suggest for building a legal career abroad.

I have an internship lined up with the Trilegal Delhi office this October. This is my first T-1 internship, and I'm from BO'28 at a Tier 1 NLU.

My preferences were Disputes and Competition, but I was only sent an Assessment for Competition Law, which I cleared and received the internship confirmation. I am really looking to convert this into a Callback and then a PPO. However, a few seniors advised me that Competition is really niche and Disputes Hiring is also pretty low.

Can someone help me decide which team should I prefer among Disputes and Competition (if I get that opportunity with the HR, as I gave an assessment for Competition but my first preference was Disputes)? Also, I was referred for the Internship by a Disputes Team Person who came on campus for an event.

And how true is my senior's idea wrt hiring and that I should be interning with some other team?

Thank you for your help!

Koi toh bata do guys nahi toh MBA ki tyaari karu lol. Btw this boutique is quite known but they also have a reputation of not converting interns. I might be free labour but still want to do this internship because it will help me buy some time. Any thoughts on this? And do I have any hope as a batch of 2026 graduate? Please help a kid guys. Starting to lose hope now.

I appreciate your very reasonable reply. I am not the OP either. However, do note that even at places like Jindal or especially at such places, the people in charge of implementation of such policies often take the easy way out rather than going the extra mile to ensure that the accommodations are not subject to abuse. Giving most claimants what they want often seem like the easiest and quickest way out, especially when you're not getting paid to take the extra trouble, which is often over and above your regular work. Regardless of Jindal's aspirations, this is the real truth.

If you want encouragement do something worth encouraging instead of trolling for attention and praise for maybe slightly inconveniencing yourself.

If going six hours without food or water is described as difficult - I really don’t know what to say. Housewives across the country fast longer for superstitious beliefs everyday. Most people don’t live lives where they’re eating every two three hours - they actually have work to do. You’ve been living a remarkably coddled life if this feels like a sacrifice to you. And you should be able embarrassed.

I’m so sick of this private school kid mentality that has infected NLU students since at least the pandemic. You don’t - do - anything. You live in these isolated bubbles. Nearly all of you hate the native population around you and your clinics are non functional cause you don’t try to help anyone.

At least earlier batches were self interested but motivated to do something exceptional - win the Rhodes, win jessup, write a book, become a partner at a leading firm, become a judge somewhere, whatever. You all don’t do any of that even.

And you want more praise and attention than anyone else- for what ? Skipping evening chai and doing the bare minimum by turning up to classes - it is exhausting. Check your effing privilege. Stop soaking up all the energy in the room. There are actually people starving in delhi. There are actually kids no older than you who are getting arrested and standing up to the man.

This Nalsar stuff is a sad pathetic showing and it’s rightly getting panned. You all are behaving life fools.

At least those students who are focused on academic excellence are being honest - they want material success and they’re working hard for it. The wannabe Nalsar activist is fundamentally a dishonest person- she doesnt want to do anything that actually inconveniences her in the slightest- but she believes like tinker bell she will die without applause and she’s earned other people’s respect and attention because she bothers to spout off the latest trendy political talking point.

At least actors cultivate a skill - they’re obvious is their need for public attention and approval but they earn it by doing something remarkable. You’re not even actors - this is just a sickness, and a good society would absolutely mock you every chance you get to shame you into being more productive citizens of the country.

What’s more you’ve fundamentally embarrassed the institution- Nalsar was never a university with radical active student politics - but it was always a university that was taken seriously because its students were interested in becoming good lawyers and would try to do that everyday. You’ve painted the university as a fundamentally unserious sort of place because of your ignorance.

And this is how institutions die- look at the number of things your alumni batches did to improve the university, the public lecture series, the Moots they organised , the IV, the film festivals ? The idia stuff - those students understood where they could be impactful and worked to leave the place better than they found it. These guys aren’t interested in any of that - that takes work. They demand you applaud them for having a late lunch and attending classes. Jesus Christ get a grip.

Hello! I was an undiagnosed DSC registered student from Fall '21 to Spring '23. (ADHD – DSC relaxations allowed me to later start managing my workload) When I de-registered, at that time Jindal had a policy that you need to be diagnosed/or at the very least be in constant consultation with the Doctors there to be able to avail benefits under the DSC scheme.

I'm not sure what your grievance is about, but I think you know exactly who you're targeting probably due to jealousy. Able-bodied persons can have their own struggles w.r.t. emotional trauma, remaining undiagnosed. Doesn't mean they do not get to avail DSC benefits here. If a competent authority is processing their registration, it's literally between them and the student. Your grievances harm your fellow batch mates.

Go talk to the DSC, figure out on what basis they allow relaxations. Maligning your own people is not okay.

On the one hand, the student has done a brave thing and also exposed the cruel and exploitative nature of law firms. On the other hand, the student has kind of revealed his own identity and further annoyed the firm. However, this is the reality of Gen Z. They don’t give a shit and this attitude is praiseworthy.

If the student won the essay competition, he/she should be smart enough to get a job at a better firm, hopefully. Good luck.

Hi, as the subject goes I want to shift from a psu bank to a private bank or law firm.I am a graduate from a tier-2 nlu and it's been 2 years since I am working here. The work is stagnant and I don't see lot of growth.In addition to this I have been posted to a far off location which I am really not enjoying.Therefore, I am looking to switch to a private bank or to a firm. Please let me know as to which all banks/teams in law firms I can apply or at least aim for? Also, what all laws should I be thorough with?

Resolut Partners has recently brought in two new partners from NDA. Has anyone here worked with either of them? I'd love to hear about their working style, mentorship, accessibility, and the overall learning experience under them.

Also, I'd appreciate any insights into Resolut Partners as an organization, its work culture, compensation, quality of work, learning opportunities, and work-life balance. If you've worked at the firm or have reliable first-hand knowledge, please share both the pros and cons.

I'm genuinely trying to make an informed career decision, so I request that only people with first-hand experience or credible information respond. Please don't speculate or mislead. Any honest feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Very difficult to move abroad for disputes - each country is completely different. It's much less portable than transactional law which is more similar everywhere.

Only exception: international arbitration. That IS very portable and basically the same everywhere. But it is a very closed international clique. It's not a question of putting in applications to foreign arbitration firms - they will be thrown away without being read.

If you put in 2-3 years working for one of the top arbitration lawyers in India, learn about the field, build relationships with foreign lawyers etc, and basically do a lot of good networking, you have a chance.

Why don't you make a complaint and prove this argument to the appropriate authorities instead of coming and crying here? You do know that you are actually making things worse for the people you claim to care about - disabled people? Your post is just the trigger to set off more speculation and gossip. It was a very irresponsible thing to do to come and post like this. You claim to care that some people faking it means people without visible disabilities get a "side-eye". Believe me now, thanks to you, even more people who are undeserving of such treatment will get it.

Everything in the previous paragraph takes your post at face value - that you are actually telling the truth. I note this because there are things that seem very unusual about what you say - and I am coming from the point of view of a visibly disabled person who attended the type of flashy western university (whose disability support system is very good) that Jindal/JGLS would be trying to emulate to climb up the rankings:

1. First of all, in many circumstances, people with laptop kind of arrangements wouldn't have that in isolation. They would have it along with another arrangement, that is often called a "separate room". That's literally what it says on the tin - they'd be in a different room from the non-disabled students. Among other things, that helps invigilate them better.

2. You'd have to be the world's biggest prat to allow in internet-enabled laptops for in person examinations that didn't allow access to materials. Why! At my university, I couldn't even carry in my own laptop! (Even if I had turned the internet off.) I was given one of theirs to take my exams on. And, while my own laptop had an Indian keyboard, that was one hell of an inconvenience, because the placing of the @ symbol and quotation marks on a British keyboard compared to an Indian one are very different - an important point to note for lawyers taking exams.

Jindal as a university and JGLS as a law school may (does) have many faults, but you are making a very tall claim: that they are making elementary mistakes in walking a path that the type of universities they are aspiring to beat in the global competition do not make.

Moderators, please have this deeply provocative, problematic and irresponsible post removed, unless the author of it is able to provide proof in some form of what they are saying, or unless they give a written undertaking to you (privately is fine) that they will put their accusations before the appropriate authorities. Put a moderator note on the post to flag it as unverified material unless and until the one who wrote this helps resolve the issue one way or the other.

I know . It's not like I was going to get an internship there anyway. It's already been four months, which is far too long. They might remember or track my name, sure, but other law firms don't know who I am, and I honestly don't think they'd care enough for it to matter. Besides, all I got from Dhir & Dhir were empty promises. I think they deserve to be called out for that.

Depends on your team tbh. Can be over in 20 minutes but some teams have grilled people I know personally for over an hour. The questions are usually regarding the topic itself and can get technical. You need to know your topic very thoroughly. The partner attending it is a good sign too. Knkw the basics of Corporate law (since a presentation is for them only) as well.

For a PPO at Tri, the presentation plays a huge role. Good luck!

The sacrifice ! Of not getting your elevenses! How will you go on ? Gandhi should come back from the grave to learn from you about hardship and caring for a cause!

Attendance, projects, internships, placements and exams - how cruel the world is that it only demands you improve yourself everyday ! How unfair - none of the previous batches has to do any of this- they were all just given law degrees for watching Netflix and laying about near the lake !

Don’t call it a hunger strike ! You likely didn’t feel hunger even ! Peckish maybe ! You’re claiming to be such sensitive souls who care so much about the world ! And yet you’re appropriating the struggles of peoples who actually have done hunger strikes! Well have the humility to say what it is - you had a late lunch one day! Bullshit ! This is just slacktivism and you don’t get any points for that - even on the internet

I have an upcoming presentation at Trilegal at the end of my internship. I didnt get much work and i am entering my final year. What sort of questions do they ask during the presentation? because i'm hoping for a callback but since i didnt do much work, i dont know if the presentation can give me a callback? i want to be fully prepped, any help is appreciated.

Bo'27 - T1 NLU. DayZ is in 10 days and our PPO figures are abysmally low, probably the lowest this decade. Have heard its the same across fellow T1s as well so probably the market. We did have a few recruitment drives so far, I sat for a couple and it led nowhere. Shortlists are about to be coming in for DayZ, but given how rank centric things appear to be, hopes are little of even getting shortlisted in most as someone in the middle of the batch. My internships didn't work out either - good feedback at great places where I would want to work, only to be turned down for some or the other reason "oh we are not looking to hire atm" "our team is mid heavy" "we're switching to another firm".

I am so done with the chase man. 4 years of law school seem to assessed solely by whether one manages to get employed. Worse, I am so clueless about what to do if I don't. Can't skip classes and intern endlessly. Neither do I want to, to only be disappointedly informed about a lack of vacancy in my last week of internship. Years of co-curriculars, decent grades, publications and genuinely thinking maybe I like law, only to be unemployed. Familial responsibilities, peer pressure, the fear of not bagging a corp job when that's what you have looked up to right from your first year when your seniors would flex it - all of it is just getting to me. God, please, just give me a job. I really don't have it in me to keep stressing over it.

What did anyone of these stalwarts, bleeding hearts and their so called rivals do when such scams took place earlier or even in the states? Not justifying what's happening now. And yes there will always be entrenched opposition to scrutiny etc. Hence no point complaining that there was resistance during investigation etc. Going to court and getting fancy orders does zilch.

Same. I passed my AIBE 19, my provisional enrollment was only valid until June 2024, but by the time, the AIBE circulated the link for uploading the docs for COP, my provisional certificate had expired. But by then I had also moved to a different city for work and coming all way to my State's Bar Council Office for this was difficult+ whenever I called my State Bar Council, these guys never picked up the call. Finally, I went to my State Bar Council Office physically last week after flying down to my hometown, extended the validity of my certificate and finally uploaded the documents a few day's ago for the COP

Protests by elitists or protests by a common man makes literally zero sense for such a distinction. Just because NLU folks come & protest, nothing is going to change. Rather, have the mindset of constructive opposition instead of class based division amongst protestors itself. Also note, Chairman of BCI himself wrote supporting the government, doesn't mean the government is at not fault. Stop attaching elitism to weigh in into anything. Without NLU coming in, already more than half of protests are already successful LOL!!!

Heard the NLUM is again going through mismanagement under his leadership - no proper hostel, 73% domicile with no student diversity or batch quality, rising fees, no personal effort by VC to build relations with the fraternity and no accountability. It's been 8 yrs and 2 more left, yet he can't run a NLU well? Even CS under their new VC is doing better at least administratively and he is not able to have campus built despite getting the land, stone laid and funds. Anyone from Mumbai with their thoughts?

Ehh. I get what you mean but at this point with LLMs (because lets be honest they are not AIs) solving century old math problems, ignoring the application of this tool to our field is burying one's head in the sand.

It's a remarkable piece of software. Like it or not, it's here to stay. Might as well understand how it operates and derive what benefits you can.

The extent of dependency is fair though. But that is its own separate issue.

I am sure the man here is a predator who must be locked up and ideally whipped daily too. The woman involved is an absolutely blameless angel who must have been cruelly coerced by an evil villain into actions she knew nothing about. In fact, she doesn't even know how babies are made - she thinks that the storks come and drop them off at mummy and daddy's doorstep.

It's absolutely impossible for her to be an adult who can make her own decisions and her own mistakes, and an extremely intelligent and successful professional at a law firm where the starting salary is like $500,000 per year, who chose of her own free will to have an adult relationship with her boss, either because she was genuinely attracted to the intelligent, powerful law firm partner, or because she thought she might get some career advantage out of it. It's also impossible for colleagues (even bosses and subordinates) to date and get married and have successful relationships - it's always only the man taking advantage of the weak and helpless woman.

Why hasn't this man been arrested and executed yet??? There's video proof of his actions!!

hi, i was going through some mental health issues during my 2nd and 3rd year of law school and hence did poorly.
my cgpa right now at the end of sem 6, year 3, is a little below 7/10 and the average needed is at least a 7.5
i also am still in the process of writing my first research paper (because acc to me im supposed to find an entirely novel gap that no one has thought of before fully) and i havent done an international moot yet, didnt win at national ones i did before either.
it just wasnt the best time. i do have some decent internships though
so yes i have 2 more years to go and i will do my best, however, right now i just feel like i am doomed and wont get a job. i seriously considered going back to law school again.
so well can you please help me out and tell me if that is in fact true that i have failed and wont get a job.

Hiii everyone, I filled the enrolment form for BCD yesterday, and I realized today that I had made a stupid mistake, I had pasted 2 pictures of myself on the necessary spots but since I did not have a stapler, I forgot to enclose the remaining 3 and my form has been submitted too where they didn't check it or flag it.
What is the likely course of action next, will they call me to just submit the photos, or will it get rejected outright? Or is there a chance that they overlook it, please let me know, thanks in advance!