I have worked in transactions across different firms.

One thing that bugs the hell out of me are calls from my seniors after 9.30pm for not really urgent stuff. Things they forgot to assign during the day.

My previous senior from a Lower Parel firm had this habit of calling me at 9.30pm or later and assigning fresh work or staff me on new matters. In addition she would give me a morning deadline for a deliverable. I would end up pulling an unplanned unexpected all nighter with very groggy times.

Then there was my boss, they would love to email me on Saturday evening for urgent work. Needless to say I didn't stay there much longer.

Does this happen to you? How did or do you deal with it? Personally, I dont tolerate this anymore, i ignore all messages and emails after 10pm.

Sadly, the bulk of Bengal BJP are also ex-TMC, who have only shifted ship because they weren't being given a chance to get a big enough pie of corruption proceedings. Hence they can't be relied upon to bring in any change either. Both the major parties in the state lack decent leaders.

Can you give a breakdown of associated expenses? Also such expenses would arise wherever you go so it’s better to compare only what you are paying to the college.

Another thing seems that you give live in a parallel universe where no inflation exists. + even colleges which charge hardly 2L are paraded as super exclusionary and as epitome of elitism. With the way the ₹ has gone down 2L is just a normal amount in the current times. What do you want next? Colleges to teach you for ₹500/yearly and if they hike that by 100 you will start crying?

https://x.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1825803774578794881

Incidentally, the ad had a number of vacancies law grads could have applied for, such as:

- Deputy Secretary, Insolvency (LLB degree required)

- Deputy Secretary, Intellectual Property Rights (LLB degree required)

- Director, Judicial reforms (LLB degree required)

- Director, International Laws (LLB degree required)

- Director, Financial Laws (LLB degree required)

- Director, Cyber Laws (LLB degree required)

- Director, Arbitration Laws (LLB degree required)

- Director, Education Laws (LLB degree required)

https://www.edudwar.com/upsc-lateral-entry/

I saw the hearing just now on Live TV but I wasn't sure if I had seen or heard right. Then I rewatched the footage (below). At 1:02:40 onwards, it clearly looks like her and she says that says she is assisting Sibal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GVTLnSJJI

The tweet below also confirms that my eyes weren't deceiving me:

https://x.com/filter_kafi/status/1825778782583542037

As you can see from the video, she didn't really say anything, beyond nodding and agreeing with what Sibal was saying, but it still came as a big surprise. Of course a lawyer has the freedom to represent whoever he/she wants, but don't you normally see human rights lawyers representing victims rather than the state? That's why I found it surprising. Has Indira Jaising ever appeared for the state in a human rights violation case, other than when she served as ASG? Have Colin Gonsalves, Prashant Bhushan and Vrinda Grover ever down so? Please correct my ignorance if I am wrong.

I did. I have joined a law firm in Def Col. They are not very fancy and are mostly into litigation but they have work. The office is right next to a prominent Law Office . Interestingly, one of the partners here has a similar story. He also comes from a state university and after graduating, appeared for interviews at almost every major law firm. Got rejected from everywhere. The prominent law office was the last place he applied for, aced the interview (I am taking his word for it) and still got rejected. Since then, he never looked back.

The kid is absolutely right to worry about this sort of thing. A system that could, because of a weird thing in it, potentially spoil someone's prospects? After all the time, effort and money put in to do all the things you listed? Whether the concerns are valid or not is another matter: we should acknowledge them as legitimate and address them.

You shouldn't need this sort of guidance, ideally. If you do, that either means you're not from the sort of place that you mention, or that you aren't a good candidate.

Also, pro tip: whatever your situation, if you don't want to really face problems in life, you seriously want to think about including GNLU in that list. Ganloo trolls have an unerring 'spotter' for threads that do not humbly acknowledge that they are a T1.

The people in charge get to decide the fees. You can take it or leave it and go study somewhere else. Government does not fund the NLUs properly, so cost of studying there will keep increasing every year if one wishes to maintain and improve quality. The institution is not being elitist, it's the government being thus. They should subsidise education.

im trying to make sense of what you have written and I cant. If by your logic- Imane Khelif is a woman because she was assigned female at birth, and shes heterosexual- no evidence she isnt- and shes saying stuff like calling her trans is shaming her and bringing dishonor- why arent you cancelling her for transphobia? JK Rowling didnt say that being trans is shameful but you all cancelled her? Kathleen stock is a gender non conforming lesbian and shes cancelled ? Martina Navratilova is an actual lesbian Icon and shes cancelled for transphobia?

Your movement seems more emotionally driven than rational. If enemy of my enemy is my friend is the only guiding light- I dont know why anyone would sign up?

Very reasonable question, u will be trying to find answers to the question even after you get placed. You will realise that there are only 2 real justifications

1. Students act on emails quicker

2. As they are batchmates, there is inherent jealousy, and nobody is able to use backdoor tricks (apart from dayz, where monitoring gets weak and a lot of informal communications are made). It is usually beyond their aukaat to benefit/harm you, but the issue is the information monopoly.

NLUs being govt insts they dont have a competent team to take care of these

Once you go theough the placement process, regardless of it being a ppo, you will find out that dealing with the recruitment committee is the singularly most degrading and humiliating experience in life.

Soln: be likeable and get elected to the RCC. Not very difficult since 10 people are usually in it.

If you have that much lust for a woman, come to us. Please don’t ruin the lives of women. We may not have had the chance to pursue education, but we have hopes and dreams for the future. Please don’t destroy their lives by resorting to rape. At the end of the day, we are also women, and we can feel the pain of others. Circumstances may have shaped us like this, but we understand the anguish of being violated. Please respect women—do not commit rape.

Video here:

https://x.com/BhairavaSinha/status/1825767849320698240

Hello!
So I started my career at a law firm, wherein, I have put in about 2.6 years worth of work. My experience lies in the fields of GC and TMT, however, I had a rude boss and moreover he was downright abusive. I completely lost my mind at the end of 2.6 years and thereafter called it quits. I, nevertheless, liked practice and I'm looking for better places to work at. Whilst my time apart, I have come to the realization that, the abuse was not justified at all. ( Well, it never really is.) Do you think, in your opinion (contributors opinion), that I may do something about this? May I file a formal complaint against the respective person with the BCI, under the grounds of moral turpitude (mental harassment... etc), or it just simply isn't worth the hassle and that moving on and hoping for better pastures - is my only option?

Do give me your side of experiences and genuine opinions, considering this is a platform that is, 'all anonymous'.
Looking forward!

FYI more NLU statements expected this week. Most are waiting for the SC's orders and will then issue a statement.

Full text of statement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCZiWgd1HpJsWARteStEbd2bjEg0yc0g/view

News coverage of statement: https://lawstreet.co/crime-police-and-law/nluja-assams-student-bar-council-issues-strong-statement-of-solidarity-condemning-kolkata-medical-student-rape-and-murder#google_vignette

Let it be on record that they did not sign. The SC hearing is happening right now and the WB governor is also meeting the President and VP. If something drastic happens in WB eventually leading to a regime change, any effort by pro-TMC people to get close to the new regime must be rejected.

It looks very cheaply made and sensationalistic. The intention seems to be to make the CNLU social media account popular though views and engagements, rather than seriously pursue justice for the victim. It would have been better if the students had filed a PIL on the issue in the SC. That would have made CNLU stand out and earned the respect of the public

NLSIU has raised the fees by 40% in two years, coupled with an increase in batch size to 300 for the BA-LLB (H) program. Factoring in associated and other expenses, it is going to be ~30 lacs in 5 years in total. Is this trend (choose one):

1. Unaffordable and elitist, or
2. Value for money / Worth every rupee, or
3. Milking the desperate / Setting a debt trap, or
4. Inexpensive, with scope for further hikes

In case you haven't read about his career, he taught at Buckingham (I believe prior to his DPhil), Columbia (if I remember right, after he completed his DPhil) and his own postgrad uni, Oxford itself (if I am not wrong, during his DPhil). That, combined with his teaching experience at NLSIU immediately after completing the BCL and prior to Buckingham, would have been a good enough profile to have allowed him to have taken up the option of never coming back, never having to experience the bullying of students who think they can take any old liberty they like (FFS, setting off fireworks in his office at NUJS!) and him never having to give his family members 'the talk', warning them that there's some pretty ugly stuff about him online if they look him up, all of which is untrue and deeply malicious.

No we don’t! The only restriction is that you cannot enter campus after midnight without prior permission from the campus life director, which can be sought through raising a ticket on our campus life website. Generally all tickets are approved within an hour unless your parents have informally told the campus life director to not approve such requests.

I'm a 12th grader looking into colleges for the future, and I noticed that the official placement committees have students for some reason. I don't understand why this is the case. Wouldn't this leave room for biases? What guarantees that these placecom members won't be partial to their friends? Anyway, just an innocent question here. Go easy on me.

The entire fault lies with the admin for this. Including the VC, the Registrar and the others such as the worthless Campus Supervisor. There is no dearth of funds to maintain the existing infra properly. However, the TMC stooges in the EC insists on using the completely useless PWD for construction, because of corruption and other reasons, and those people have been systematically destroying the campus over the past two years. The VC and others have been turning a blind eye to everything, which is also suspicious from a corrupt perspective. Instead of focusing on these important matters, the VC hardly stays in campus these days and issues random orders and recruit his own stooges to various lucrative posts within the uni.

We should not just blame the admin. Students have initiated no collective action. If we are not ready to stand together for 30 minutes for our legitimate demand, then we should not blame the admin. People are ready to die inside the hostel but will not complain about it. Nothing can be done. It is a pathetic condition but TNNLU students deserve it.

This. Why can’t people drop numbers like these??

So many people here do BD work where they get to know numbers like this. Just drop what you know, it will fill some gaps atleast.

Instead of bragging about how your firm makes more than others, which is so stupid since what trickles down to you is the same as your fellow slaves in other firms anyway.

KCo A0 here — could I just highlight that maybe as fresh grads we're just too used to knowing and winging it all from college. Shifting to actual work then makes us feel dumber in comparison to being the hotshot seniors on campus, and so maybe you're taking the shock more seriously than required. Om the tasks itself tho, honestly, the prescribed courses and reading material from the L&D team helped bring me to a functional level by a huge margin. So if you have something similar, please do male use of that. As for the rest, of course it's going to take us much more time to get used to tasks and laws that are new to us, but as long as you keep your team in the loop through honest and open communication, everything works out.

Lmao it has only been two weeks since we started working and you, a random LI commentator (probably a 2nd yr student), claim to have already assessed the work of 19 freshers and decided that NLU grads are doing better? Nobody even cares about which law school one comes from at the firm.

@Mods please mark this as contested.

Pretty sure don't want to be where I am (can't do this to my health anymore). What are my alternatives to a law firm career? Should I call quits even before a year? Unsure of what will I do after this? Please tell me there's hope. I am going mad thinking about this day and night, as a man in this society the pressure of being a breadwinner isn't talked about enough.

Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/reel/975786157629801

Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2066678257083497

TBH I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, making a reel like this is a good way to mobilise the youth to seek justice. Also, it's inevitable that the incident will one day be the subject of a crime files episode, or inspire a movie or documentary (just as Nirbhaya inspired Delhi Crimes on Netflix). Such dramatisations help future generations to know what happened and keep the incident alive in our memories. So the students have taken the initiative before anyone else which is good.

On the other hand, it is perhaps a bit early to do this, as the incident is still raw in everyone's minds. I also didn't like the aesthetics of it: the flashing red light, dark room like a horror movie etc. It could have been done more tastefully. There are also some key factual issues which we need the CBI to investigate. The reel shows one perpetrator, but it's still not known if there were multiple people. The CBI is investigating if there was a larger conspiracy at play

What do all of you think? Do you think I am being unnecessarily critical of a good student initiative? Just to clarify, I don't doubt the good intentions of the students and applaud their sincerity to spread awareness of the case. We all need to fight for justice.✊

From what I have learned, you should very clearly/politely/formally tell them that you will not be able to work today as you have other obligations. Say there are over a 100 guests at your place today. What are they gonna do to verify this, video call you? Learn how to say no, but do not be rude or arrogant. Do not hesitate or give in or get scared. Be smart about it. If they threaten you or make snide comments - just repeat your obligation and act helpless. It is very normal for people to not be available on festivals.

The petition is more than enough and nothing more needs to be done. Why should we march on the streets just because big lawyers are doing so? These big lawyers are wealthy and powerful. We are middle-class students in need of jobs. Let us improve our success in T1 law firm placements, UPSC and NIRF rank instead (which is outside the coveted top 3 by a very narrow margin) .That should be the priority for us.