LI readers are jealous and cynical people. Always trying to put down others. Never a positive word of support or encouragement.

You people are either stupid or malicious to say that they fastened during sleeping hours. Obviously the fast was during office hours. 6 hours is not as easy as you think. Some people did not drink water. Maybe it sounds easy to you, but it was just a small, symbolic gesture of support, amidst the pressure of studies, moots etc.

What have you people down to support the movement? Or are all of you BJP supporters?

"It appears that a few politicians, particularly one or two individuals with foreign loyalties, in whose veins foreign blood is flowing, are cunningly instigating and provoking younger generations to foment lawlessness. Every prudent person recognizes that such individuals have no genuine concern for the peace and prosperity of our Bharat; instead they are dancing at the tune of enemy countries. The anti- social and anti-national elements have entered this "so-called students protest" at the instance of those politicians only. Such people will stop at nothing to grab power or bring about the country's ruin. They have no interest in the welfare of students or the nation. Their sole motive is to create lawlessness, destabilize India, and seize power, and they have pursued this aim for a long time. They

want our country also to be ruined like Bangladesh and Nepal. One of these politicians frequently travels abroad and meets anti-Indian figures, including those who support terrorism. He is reputedly very close to George Soros and has been receiving huge funds intended to destabilize our country over the past decade. "

https://x.com/LiveLawIndia/status/2080326332215665128/photo/1

There are many Green apparatchiks in NUJS GC and EC even now. No surprising since the state govt doesn't even have its "own" in various district court lawyer panels. The AG was fumbling for answers when asked by HC recently. Guess the saffron brigade didn't even think they would actually win big this time. All this and Delhi ordained deals with Green rebels. So much for as(##)o(##) poriborton!

"T1 lawyers are the best lawyers in the country" is such a misleading statement in this context. They are the best at what they do and getting bail for people before a magistrate's court is certainly not what they do. By contrast, "your random run of the mill advocates" are used to doing this and are consequently quite skilled at it.

Not sharing the clip and it's viral anyway. The larger point here is that too many male BigLaw partners, whether in India or overseas, have a toxic mentality where they misuse their power and prey on young female associates and interns, especially those from regular backgrounds. The women are pressured to give in, under job market pressure, pressure to pay loans etc.

Wachtell must act, given that it is widely considered the world's best law firm.

Being a fresh nalsar graduate, I can assure you that despite whatever protests these guys will do or support, most of the college is dominated by a very elitist segment who just assume that every hindi speaking person is a right wing villager. Atleast this is how they exclude them at almost every level. The metro city english speaking elite dominates the discourse and anyone from outside the circle has to imitate them in order to find a space somewhere. Dont know about other NLUs, but this is how it is in NALSAR. I don't know if this hypocrisy can ever be erased. Didn't see any ray of hope in my 5 years there.

Forget NEET. Forget Dharmendra Pradhan. Forget the Palestine/LGBT flags at Jantar Mantar. The root cause is the state of the economy. No jobs. AI making most IT graduates (other than elite IIT/BITS ones) redundant.

The solution is simple. Get high GDP growth asap. Reduce taxes. Abolish bureaucracy. Improve ease of doing business. Privatise PSUs. This alone will solve most of the problems.

Pick a busy senior/chamber, lot of trial and error, but do it still, ensure they have different kind of matters. Speak to associates, figure out the culture, pay scale, upcoming future of chambers(whther the head is going to be designated or elevated) and then invest in staying there for more than a month. (Most chambers will be willing to consider you if they have a vacancy after a month of internship, provided you are diligent and have basic drafting and research skills and legal acumen.

Hi guys. Looking to join ITC. Was wondering if anyone could confirm if ITC provides housing to its legal team. If yes, which locality is the housing provided in (in each city - Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore) and is it a 1BHK? Are there any other special perks attached to taking up a role at ITC? Any inputs would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

More like they're in bed with the system irrespective of who is in power but with this government it's more in your face.

Considering majority of their clients have a big say in government policies aka having government support, they can't risk losing them and see their competitors/peers getting a share of their pie.

It's there on their website only. NLSIR does not even reply if the piece doesn't pass initial screening. But others, like IJLT, typically do convey rejections within a couple of weeks. But read the submission guidelines individually for each blog, a lot of this information is available.

Talk to real people bruh...like the peers at your workplace, or school friends, if you have contact with them, even if not, drop the ego shield(if you have one, which I'm assuming not only), and contact them...just make real friends who are not on mobile screens, rather real...that's the only way out!!!

So a clean split between RW pro-BJP and LW pro-Congress lawyers then?

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/supreme-court-lawyers-recite-constitutions-preamble-seeking-justice-for-students-cjp-thanks-them-101784805678763-amp.html

https://www.ndtv.com/video/the-real-issue-is-lost-harish-salve-s-blunt-take-on-neet-protests-political-drama-1131130

TL;DR: Won a prize internship at Dhir & Dhir Associates through a national essay competition RGNUL ran with them. Four months of emails, LinkedIn messages, calls and follow ups with the careers inbox, HR, associates, partners and the RGNUL student coordinators. Almost nothing back. When I finally reached a partner, an associate called me at 8 PM to shout at me for having gone to the partner, then said the internship would only be virtual. Still no dates, no offer letter, nothing in writing.

About four months ago I placed at a national essay writing competition RGNUL ran in collaboration with Dhir & Dhir Associates. The advertised prize was an internship at the firm. I am still waiting for it.

What I have done, roughly in order:

- emailed the firm's internship and careers inbox
- emailed HR
- messaged HR on LinkedIn
- emailed the responsible associate directly, short and polite
- called the firm and tried to get put through to the right person
- went back to the student coordinators at RGNUL who organised the competition

Response to nearly all of it: nothing. No dates, no confirmation, not even a rejection.

Eventually I connected with one of the partners and messaged them on Linkedin. To their credit they replied immediately and said an associate would call me that same day. They named the associate. No call came. At 5 PM I looked up the associate's number and called him myself. He picked up, said he would call back, and hung up.

He called at 8 PM and spent the call shouting at me for having contacted the partner. Not for getting anything wrong, just for escalating. I had already emailed him about this internship. I had emailed the careers inbox, HR, other associates and the RGNUL coordinators. Nobody took responsibility, which is exactly why I went to a partner, and the partner was the only person who actually replied. The associate then told me the firm only offers virtual internships and asked me to message him on WhatsApp. I did . This was about 2 weeks ago. Nothing concrete since.

So, four months in: no dates, no offer letter, and the only real interaction I have had with the firm was being shouted at for following up.

I am posting because prize internships are advertised as a genuine part of what you get for months of work on a submission. If the firm cannot or will not honour it, the organising college should say so upfront rather than leaving students chasing an inbox for a third of a year.

Has anyone else had a competition prize internship simply never materialise? Did putting it in writing to the college's committee get you anywhere, or is there any point escalating further?

Why should we be "respectful"? I live in Britain and nobody has ever bothered being "respectful" with their PM's name? Starmer has been changed to "Stanmer", "Stammer" and god only knows what other variations in WhatsApp conversations I have had with British folk. A few years ago, a word cloud was done on Rishi Sunak and displayed on the news to check what were the peoples' impression of him. The most prominent word in the cloud was "cunt" (which, unlike in the U.S., is not a gendered insult in British English).

Obviously, it is hard to argue that Britain is a model for democracy these days (no country should be having seven prime ministers in 10 years), but this kind of mentality that your comment displays is taking us in the direction of the opposite dangerous extreme: a personality cult. Therefore, please revise your ideas.

Chandrachud now retired. Shriram retired. Mohanty retired. Kirpal was never confirmed. Shekhar Saraf didn't so an LLM but a training course abroad. So the updated list would be:

SC:
- NA

Bom HC:

- Justice Revati Mohan Dere, LLM Cambridge (now CJ of Meghalaya)

Delhi HC:
- Justice Pratibha Singh, LLM, Cambridge
- Justice Prateek Jalan: LLB Cambridge, Bar at Law from London, LLM Michigan,

Cal HC:
- Justice Arijit Banerjee: LLB Cambridge, Bar at Law from London
- Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya, LLM Cambridge (now in Telangana)
- Justice Rajasekhar Mantha, LLM King's
- Justice Ravi Kapur, LLB Leeds, Bar at Law from London
- Justice Lapita Banerji, LLB Leeds, Bar at Law from London (now in Punjab)

Allahabad HC:

- Justice Siddharth Nandan, LLM Warwick

No, because most lawyers (other than Lords Neuberger of Abbotsbury, the former UK Supreme Court President, Lord Diplock, the judge famous for the 'illegality, irrationality, impropriety' test in English administrative law and Lord Denning) are not good at Maths or science. I thought this fact was established? (Lord Neuberger himself once said that if he were working in science, scientific progress would be going backward rather than forward!)

That's because unlike the lala houses they don't take anybody as an intern. TTA has a very extensive vac-scheme style questionnaire and very selective. S&R is harder to get into than the big 6 unless you have a very good CV. So in terms of % of interns hired, it may be higher. But also understand that the overall intern pool is much smaller and harder to get into and the overall A0 vacancies are lower. So my original point still stands.

My friend interned there last year. She was raving about her internship with Sanjay Kumar’s team. There was a lot of work and they seem to be hiring continuously. Unfortunately, Sanjay Kumar and the partner under him have no direct interaction with interns and they rely on feedback from the associates alone when deciding on callback.

A 6-hour fast (the news report actually calls it a one-meal fast) is hardly a fast. I'm a NALSAR alum and can tell you that the average gap between meals on campus is 4-5 hours - a 6 hour gap is hardly a "fast". So unless you have a medical condition that requires you to eat with shorter gaps, this "hunger strike" is perfunctory and a waste of time.

I'm from JGLS, I just had my interview conducted yesterday. I was informed about the interview about 8-9 days giving the benchmark test. They said they'd get back to me w/ the interview results by the end of next week, and the final and fourth round would be done somewhere between 19-25 august, if i was to get selected

Play the victim card. That's a very convenient way of deflecting accountability. Anyway, we are talking of NLUs - it cannot be any better.

If what you say were true, by now the 'victimized' NLUs would have sued BCI - more so when this information is already in the public domain.

I'm a law graduate who's gonna be working at a small family run firm in blore for a year. The only thing that jumps out in my resume is I did masters from SLS Pune. I'm gonna work in mostly real estate due diligence and commercial litigation for ayear. What skills can I gain during that year that will be attractive to tier 1 and 2 real estate teams in blr?

Hi, I have recently entered my fifth year, and my interest area is Disputes, thus I applied to various firms and got an offer from Legacy law LLP, Delhi, under Ms Tanvi Kakkar and Chadha & Co.— both for the same month.

I am uncertain about the choice, that I should make— so I need some suggestions

Sad to see trolls making fun of the 6 hour hunger strike. It’s the sentiment and symbolism that matters, not the number of hours. The point is that NLU students cannot travel to Jantar Mantar and join in person, so they are contributing in whatever little way they can. They have to juggle attendance, projects, internships, placements, exams, a whole lot of stuff. It’s very stressful and there is a lot of work. Even if the hunger strike lasts for just one day and is only of six hours duration, it’s quite a sacrifice. Please support them instead of mocking them.

I've gotten this. Indian qualified advocates are usually granted this almost without exception - the officer managing your case will just ask you a few questions and then proceed. You need to have someone who supervised you for two years write a letter of reference- broadly stating your duties at that particular chamber or firm- and say how many hours you worked per week.

Babies, ye aapka bhi guild protection hai. You are thinking you will work for foreign firms. You will be at the chamcha level if they can bring in foreigners for the plum lawyering. Enjoy the few captured jobs our citizenship currently gives us access to. Half the London jobs also come because we can do work in India that the firangs can't.

What the heck is a 6 hour hunger strike ? How do people say this stuff with a straight face ? It’s the difference between lunch and dinner - so you missed your snacks and tea ? Do yall realise how it makes it seem like you have no convictions ? Youre teaching people to protest ? Yall are so molly coddled you don’t even know how ridiculous you’re being.

I’m not saying - do hunger strike for real. I’m saying - behave with a bit of integrity. Don’t inflate everything you do and are for social media likes. Going six hours without food isn’t a hunger strike, it’s barely even a diet. There was a world before you where people would die doing this- it used to move people because that’s how much someone cared about an issue. It used to compel the goodness in people. Have a little goddamn shame and stop smelling your own farts and calling it perfume.

This even happened during those rubbish Palestine protests where there was “rotating hunger strike” in places like Princeton - students were taking shifts being on strike- ha! If you’re convinced there’s a genocide and all you’re going to do about it is stagger your meals a bit - that’s how little you can be arsed- leave alone convincing anyone else - you don’t seem convinced yourself!

If your family's financial situation is as you described it, you can't afford to have first world problems like mental health issues. You have to tough it out. Also if you're an A0 in a Tier 1 firm, how do you have time to think about your mental health? I didn't have time to breathe? Just keep working and you'll be ok in 2 to 3 years, when you have others sharing the workload.

1. I am no fan of the BCI and its way of doing things. I tend to think that it is one of the most appalling lawyers' regulators in the world.

2. Nor am I an OCI lawyer working in India.

3. But I must say, I don't see anything that suggests reciprocity is being done away with. Of course, maybe I am missing something not mentioned in the story or where the story was incorrect, but your linking it implies that you are relying on the news story. Therefore, can you clarify what you mean?

Since the law firm circle is so small and mostly interlinked it gives birth to a strange situation.

The people who yearn for foreign law firms to enter the nation cannot protest, as those who protest will likely be targetted and blacklisted or shadowbanned by Indian law firms and SILF.

I’m from a Tier 2 NLU and just got my rejection yesterday, after clearing the benchmark on the test. Hadn’t expected much considering I don’t come in the top 5 of my Batch, even though my extracurriculars and achievements are great. HSF is know to prefer batch toppers if they take from tier 2 / 3s (if at all)

Sanjay Kumar is a Luthra veteran with great clientele. He is a part of the OG Luthra Litigation setup. Unless your Saraf internship is directly under Sanjeev Sharma, you should absolutely go for Sanjay Kumar. Needless to say, if you impress either of them, you may get an offer.

Best of luck.

"It was not clear what led to the heated exchange."

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/trinamool-mp-kalyan-banerjee-suspended-for-rest-of-monsoon-session-over-unsavoury-language-11805707

But he does have a history:

- Mocked JNU PhD student and CPIM candidate Dipsita Dhar over her dark complexion: said she is invisible at night

- Said Mahua Moitra is a gold-digger who has married someone her father's age

Don't want to take drugs. Any natural hacks that than can help, other than reducing screen time and sleeping?

I do realise that people on Instagram are fake and not as rich, happy and successful as they make out to be, but I still feel like a failure after seeing their reels. Hence this state of mind.