Hi guys, I am a 4th year law student from T2 Nlu. In the past 2 years, I have amassed my experience around taxation laws by pursuing internships at boutique firms dealing with the same subject and some standing counsels for the Income Tax Department and CBIC, moot participation around the same line. However, now I have been cautioned by various seniors at my college and people pursuing litigation, even threads at LI, that the line of work may not be sustainable in the future and how a specific experience will be more riskier for me. I want to know if I should divest my experience now at this stage or should rather continue on the same trajectory. I would also like to mention here that, I do not have a decent rank to get a placement from Recruitment Committee of my University. Any genuine and sound advice is appreciated to guide my future course of action.

How did the remaining 10 placements take place? As inheritance? Moreover, these claims are not the worth the paper that they are printed on unless you provide stats and breakups. As for that post, it was laughable. Even a stellar guy like Rahul Singh was made to write inane things like only 1 out of 500 people who write CLAT make into NLS! Newsflash, that's true for most of the NLUs, given that there are 80k people sitting for CLAT! It is sad to see what used to be the topmost law school in India engage in such pedestrian PR exercise in a desperate attempt to remain relevant at the cost of class.

@Patel - but please be advised that CLAT has become very unpredictable and there is no guarantee that one more drop with full preparation will ensure a top NLU. Agree with the comment that says enroll and give CLAT again, to not lose another year in the worst case. Also JGLS, SLS, and a few other private colleges are doing really well for internships and placements.

I feel this is generalized and isn't fair. A lot of things don't fit in well at times - t2 and t3 firms know that the top college candidates may not want to join them ultimately, the firms genuinely don't have internship slots or the firm isn't looking to hire for that particular batch, or the firm is on retreat/ too many holiday breaks during that period. May not always be a bad thing :)

The hype is around where you start from. When you compare the partner with business owners of T2 or T3 city, firstly, it should also be taken into consideration how it is started from scratch by a certain person and with more effort than what a Partner may put into its work. Secondly, you are comparing a 10PQE partner to a business owner who on average has owned and run it for the last 15-20 years to make it to that level. On the same aspect, if you see a senior partner who roughly has about the same experience, the senior partner for a T1 may make upwards of 3 Cr. annually. No wonder any day owning and running a business that is capable of making super profits as in your case is more lucrative but it comes with the cost of gathering courage and confidence in yourself and your product/service.

As partner you talk with CEOs, CFOs, big industry leaders, get invited to exclusive meetings and restaurants, hangout at expensive spots and feel like top of the world while earning 1/100th of a CEO salary.

At work, you have people who will fight (extremely hungry/ ambitious) to work for you or serve you. Ultimately, everyone stays because of their self image and how it makes them feel.

Money > > Status > > Power

All the major law firms have accepted their applications for Day 0, for the most part. There's no lack of willingness to consider people. Whether they get selected or not is a matter of individual competence. If you get good grades and do cool things, you'll get. Else, you won't.

The CAM PPO was after a single internship, despite the firm having a 2 internship policy. An LLB student single-handedly reached the semifinals of an international moot after the rest of the team couldn't make it. An LLB team won an international negotiation competition recently. The person with the highest marks in the Moot Oral Rounds this year is, you guessed it, an LLB student in the year with the most number of participants literally ever.

How much longer are few of you going to peddle your tired narratives about the world not taking their program seriously? Or that the student quality is remotely lacking in any way?

Some of you have a Sudhir hate-boner and want to take it out on everything even tangentially related to him. Well, jokes on you. Not because of him at all but because of the students, this program is going to succeed. Go cry about it

T1 law student BO 2025. Got a PPO and chupke se applied for Rhodes. What happens if I make it? Will I get blacklisted for foregoing the PPO? Will any action be taken? Has anyone with PPO made it.?

Mods please fastest moderation, I need to send in my application accordingly.

Incomplete picture. That might be (is) the case with some law schools, but you could use a solution like this:

https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/4273/0/429950/15539/careers-consultant-lse-law-school

You could (depending on pay, fringe benefits etc.) recruit to the position of a law school career advisor somebody like this (am sure some law firm HR people in India would like a change of environment):

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauljgascoyne/?originalSubdomain=uk

In Britain at least (or at some law schools there), they do manage to recruit faculty with tenior to look into graduate outcomes. I know that one of those places (can't remember whether it's King's or QMUL) has this sort of department within their law school called the 'Hub For Professional Practice' or something. Apparently, in their LLB system, some selected students have an option to do a four year, instead of a three year, LLB, with the third year spent interning at a firm with which the uni has a tie-up (a sort of institutionalised, one-year-long version for some people of what everyone does at GLC without any college support); such things wouldn't happen without significant faculty interest.

Fact of the matter is Israel's policing operation in Gaza is in everyone's interest and this death toll has been deemed acceptable. Even the Arabs wanna move on from this shit show. The only way to move on is to end Hamas. On this everyone is agreed that's why Israel gets to do what it wants.

Don't forget, supporting Hamas today emboldens some idiot in Kashmir to do the same things to our country. There is no context that justifies the existence of Hamas. Hamas must go. It will go and the price that must be paid will be paid.

The only sensible response to an utterly nonsensical (and frankly irresponsible) suggestion. Whoever wrote the comment about NLUs '[putting] their foot down' has no idea how to read a room - they should really open their ears. A lot of the talk in the UK RN has been about reducing immigration levels (both legal and illegal). You can do armchair rants all you like, but those won't get you anywhere; as Ron says to Neville in The Deathly Hallows, 'There's a time and a place for a smart mouth', and the UK environment in its current form is most certainly not it.

Frankly, if I were an MC firm partner reading this thread and I saw this nonsense about 'putting foot down' especially from non-UK unis, unless I really had a need for Indian talent, I'd go back to my firm and put through policy changes that meant my firm wouldn't sponsor visas for Indian law students' vac schemes (this would, ironically, in a way give me browny points with the UK government in my hypothetical scenario, as a key line of attack used by Sir Keir Starmer is that 'bad bosses' rely on immigration to import low-cost foreign labour, so I'd be able to convince a government whose instinct is to be suspicious of entities like mine that I am not a 'bad boss'!), so please be careful what you wish for.

I think you can make it on merit, if you speak and dress a certain way - one which is associates with elites and children of theirs. Pretending is bad but you gotta become a part of the crowd right. Will it be worth it- financially yes. But figure out do your parents take care of their own when you work abroad for life, do you have enough family support to sustain for the period you are out. All these questions. Again it will be very difficult even if you are from a T1. The vac schemes have lobbies too if you are yet to enter law school. Knowledge is often not passed onto as equally as it should be. Groups and lobbies you are a part of also operate in your applications and preparation. So all the best but you are flowing against the wind. But hey even a T1 job is not the worst.

From the '24 batch, concluded law school a month ago. Interned in April, got my Callback for September'24; sure as hell to put in good work there. However, I'm willing to maximise my chances and request some guidance w.r.t. work/logistics and the people. Who do I speak to about my willingness to work for long-term there and when would be an ideal time to do the same?

Judicial vacancies are highly unpredictable; some years may have 5-6 opportunities, while others may have hardly any. Similarly, the eligibility criteria for these vacancies are changing dynamically. For example, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh have introduced a requirement of three years of mandatory practice (or 70% marks in the case of MP) to be eligible for the judicial services. Other states, like Uttar Pradesh, are actively considering introducing similar experience requirements in the coming days. Given that you are 27 and will be 30 by the time you pass LLB, and considering that the maximum age to appear for most judicial services exams is 32-35, it would be a risky maneuver to solely prepare for these exams at this stage.

Therefore, my recommendation is to not only target Judicial Services but also APO exams. This way, you can still appear for Higher Judicial Services in the future in case you do not clear the Civil Judge exam at this stage.

Just saw a post from NLSIU 2025 BA LLB Recruitment Committee on Linkedin announcing that 34+ students have received PPOs already. And they have listed HSF, A&O, CAM, SAM, AZB etc as recruiting firms. How true is this? Also, what's the scene with Day Zero? When is the Day Zero? And how many students are sitting on Day Zero? What firms are going to participate in Day Zero?

Also, can anyone shed some light on the placement scene for 3 yr LLB batch which is also graduating in 2025? Are 3 yr LLB students also sitting for Day Zero with 5 yr LLB students? Honest answers would really help in making college preference choices.

That is not an appropriate comparison as most top law colleges in India are relatively new, so only the very oldest batches of these would be of an age to be appellate court judge; though I believe Delhi HC has a few judges from CLC and a lot of higher district judicial officers. Moreover, most NLU grads don't have much interest or motivation to entire judicial services- which is quite unfortunate.

Could you kindly recommend some Delhi law firms (excluding Tier 1 firms) that specialize in criminal litigation and related areas?

Additionally, are there any experienced and skilled senior lawyers, who are relatively young in the field, under whom I could potentially apply as a junior associate? Do these lawyers provide compensation to freshers?

Hamas did say that they are ready to return the hostages, but Israel refused. Why not Israel stop killing Palestinians and then we'll talk? Why does nobody among you ultra-right actually focus on the fact that IOF kills more than 40,000 women and children? Why can't anybody who is so committed to Israel make it clear that IOF taking over Palestinian land is unacceptable and cannot be dealt with? Why can't they just agree that Israel, if it is to exist at all, must exist alongside a secure, free Palestine, making it clear that anyone who tries to change that will be punished with the utmost severity?

I am from a typical middle class family, hoping to get a job through which i can earn well and support my family. I am very much confused between SEBI and LAW FIRMS.

I am from a tier 2 college so I might get a decent placement if I want but some people told me that SEBI is way better than corporate because you can get 22-23lpa CTC and 19lpa after all the deductions.

what should i choose ?

On a lighter note

Was anyone of you able to keep your hobbies intact on weekends after law school ended.

+ Has anyone started a new hobby after joining a law firm. Sports, new music instrument etc etc.

Would love you hear your experiences, do y'all take weekend classes only or how do you manage learning something new.

Why not return the hostages unconditionally, and then we'll talk? Why does nobody among you ultra-leftis actually focus on the fact that there are holocaust survivors among the hostages? Why can't anybody who is so committed to Palestine make it clear that Hamas is unacceptable and cannot be dealt with? Why can't they just agree that Palestine, if it is to exist at all, must exist alongside a secure, free, Jewish Israel, making it clear that anyone who tries to change that will be punished with the utmost severity? (including right-wing Jewish extremists, like the guy that killed former Israeli PM Rabin.) I am willing to bet you aren't willing to go quite that far.

One drop is okay, ask him to prepare CLAT from his law college. The first year is not that hectic. While age is no bar, continually striving for a T1 while you don't get it is pointless - you can get good career outcomes.

As for the T3 NLUs like NLUJAA or HPNLU, I am sorry to say, but fuck no. Local Mumbai law colleges/GLC/ILS/JGLS/Symbi/NIRMA/NMIMS are okay. Even IP I've heard is decent.

Hi! I’m joining a T1 as an A0, and have been considering getting a credit card to get my CIBIL score up and running, and perhaps benefit from reward points. Further, I do not want a debit card so that I can pay for transactions in the future, than have the sum cut from my balance today itself.

Could you please give certain credit card suggestions for an A0 who has no credit history? Thank you!

people die in wars

hamas has recruited most of Gaza population including children as combatants

people will die, that is not surprising

Israel has every right to win the war no matter how many are killed

do you think World War II was won against nazis without killing them? How many died? Go read some

Hamas clearly states that it wants to commit a genocide in Israel, and Israel will preserve itself if necessary through wars that they win

If you are not an islamic supremacist who believes all the jews in Middle East must be killed its not hard to understand

This business of putting cameras in classrooms is very saddening. I am reading law at university in England. I happen to know that some unis there (Queen Mary comes to mind) are doing this to a limited extent, in order to evaluate how well office space is being used. This is a bad idea in the western context, and a bad idea in India as well. Raj's aim of building a Humboltian university in the western tradition is fantastic, but he must guard against copying them blindly.

Tatva legal I knew it lol kidding. On a serious note this is probably just to console you. If you were extraordinary they will go out of their way to have you absorbed either within or to some other team. The number of times people are told no vacancies for PPO and I go "Oh no here we go again".