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i've heard that glc is good for corporate and ils for in house counsel, is this true?i live near mumbai so i dont have any problem living cost wise but still want to live away from home(mumbai), i am seriously confused as a first gen and dont know what i want to do.
any advice from current students from both these clg or recent graduates would be helpful-
1)campus life,sports,fests,hostel ?
2)academics,moot court(ils)
3)internship(ils)
4)crowd?
anything else u might think i should know?
pls reply soon🙏🥰
SV
Write a post on legally india asking the validity of MBA after law as I have been unemployed for 2 years
Edit
Here's a draft post for LegallyIndia discussing the validity of pursuing an MBA after law, given your 2-year unemployment period:
Title: Is an MBA After Law Worth It? Seeking Advice After 2 Years of Unemployment
Dear LegallyIndia community,
I'm a law graduate who has been unemployed for the past 2 years, and I'm considering pursuing an MBA to enhance my career prospects. I'd greatly appreciate your insights on the following questions:
How valuable is an MBA for a law graduate in the current Indian job market?
Given my 2-year gap in employment, would an MBA help overcome this potential red flag for employers?
Are there specific MBA specializations that pair well with a law degree?
For those who have done an MBA after law, how has it impacted your career trajectory?
Here you go...
I’m worried about my future prospects since I do value financial stability (at least in the earlier years) and wouldn’t want my family to support me post law school. I feel as If I may fumble any other opportunity post this assessment period.
Perhaps I’m a bit too paranoid but the future looks gloomy from my perspective. Does it ever get better?
Your insights would be helpful.
But in most cases the cars are dirty, smelly and overpriced. 😩
(P.S. my day zero is upcoming in the next week)
PS5 will keep reminding me of no dream is too big ever.
So my query is that what kind of firms should I target for employment, should it be IP Team for T1 firms like KCo, or any specific boutique firms or should I try to go in-house? What is the pay scope in these 3 options, Work Life Balance and chances of growth in monetary terms (not the learning aspect tbh).
Please help me out. Thankss!
Thanks
Give up. L8ve better.
I was struggling all this time, and I just learned data protection from a diploma course, got a couple of certification and it took me just 2 months to land a job
- (2022 HSF AC shortlisted)
do llm is you want to join academia
this is the actual unbiased list of preference
1. NLSIU - undisputed
2. NALSAR / NLUD - students who clear ailet usually decide between NALSAR NLUD or NLSIU, now this is personal preference. but still, NLSIU > NALSAR / NLUD - UNDISPUTED
3. NUJS / NLUJ - this usually boils down to geography (most of the times) nujs and nluj both of them are great colleges have an amazing blend of succesful alumnis
4. NLUJ/NUJS - Same point as above
5. GNLU - this will remain the 5th college (nliu is not as good as gnlu)
6. NLIU - considering its bottom the tier 1, dont take it lightly you can build an amazingly strong career with the brand repo and alumni networks here too.
tier 2
7. HNLU - decent placements good oppurtunities and recognised brand repo
8. RMNLU / RGNUL / NLUO - (i would PERSONALLY KEEP NLUO above these, reason being these two have not been performing that well add on to that NLUO has a lot less politics and since past few years they have a better placement record and DEF A BETTER ALUMNI NETWORK) (REASEARCH FOR CHOOSING THE 8TH ONE)
9th and 10th RMNLU / RGNUL / NLUO - (same pointers as above + reasearch extremely well and then take into consideration eveyrthing then take your call bud)
Now tier 3 rankings
- there's no fixed ranking system of tier 3's
though points to be noted
1. CNLU has seen a jump
2. MNLU Nagpur has gone into the worst category of tier3s
3. tnnlu has few trilegal placements
4. nusrl ranchi has been facing serious backlash on catering (research this too)
...
cant recall more pointers
cumming up the tier 3, id say its a better call to go for privs than these - more or less you will realise the academic structure and college structure dont cater to the potential of the students studying (sorry to say this buts its the reality).
at the end of the day
GODDAMN DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH FOR THE LIST AS WELL.
thanks. hope this helps.
""UPSC CSE""" = IAS/IPS/IFoS
1. Nearly 20k-22K Dirham salary
2. Semi-furnshied apartment or reimbursement
3. Standard Sedan car or fuel reimbursement
4. One assistance (if require)
5. Tour package / Many Allowances
Spent maybe 5k, rest in Mutual Funds
What do your working hours look like?
How many days do you realistically have as offs? Are weekends working, or are you able to enjoy some semblance of work-life balance?
What salary/remuneration did you begin with? Has it increased over time?
(Working in Litigation. Pay still in peanuts.)
(2) U.S.: (a) Not worth it at all for working there (U.S. lawyers seem to have a similar-to-NLU 'Lallum' mentality); and (b) not worth it academically (unless you're doing something very specific, e.g., Legal Philosophy at UCLA), as the difficulty of U.S. LLMs is lower than that of their UK counterparts - they are less academically heavy, less theoretical etc. The catch with U.S. LLMs is that, unlike the UK, you can't even enter the U.S. academic job market with an LLM + SJD (U.S. SJD is their PhD in law) combination, because:
(i) SJD admissions at most good U.S. law schools are very selective, as they only select from their own LLM students, maximum selecting one or two students per year (and sometimes none);
(ii) the SJD isn't a terminal degree designed for U.S. law students, but a doctoral degree designed for foreign students who would want to enter the academic job market in their own country or a third country (U.S. law schools almost never hire their own SJD graduates, to my knowledge), but with U.S. qualifications under their belt; and
(iii) if you can somehow get past (i) and (ii), you may not end up getting hired at anything like the best U.S. law schools.
NKU now won't be Trilegal.
The firm existed before NKU.
The Gates Foundation is a PR group. The work they under these 'charity initiatives' is completely unaccounted for and for a reason. Who do you think benefits from it?
Also, going by that logic, apparently the Ambanis fed around 5000 people everyday for free during the wedding in a langar of sorts. Does that count as charity? If yes, who gets to decide the cause for charity?
Ideally they should be paying up more taxes, and let the government decide while they keep re-investing the money into their business so more people get jobs to help their families out in anyway they can.
Also, much charity Bezos has done while not allowing his employees to even take piss breaks.
GPA and Batch Rank otherwise add points to the CV. There are other components as well. Firms/partners have no specific approach of valuing components of the CV.
Rest, hope your email is read and luck plays its role in the transaction. Meanwhile try to specialise in the work you want to do. Also, your cover-letter matters a lot.
I request you all to provide some names, or any other suggestion which will be helpful for me.
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https://www.barandbench.com/news/corporate/trilegal-partner-and-competition-head-nisha-kaur-uberoi-is-leaving-the-firm-to-join-jsa
In terms of my future, I belong to the reserved category, so I will take a shot at multiple options: UPSC, judicial services, other government jobs, IIM CAT etc. Also considering GMAT and an MBA abroad, or an LLM abroad. The government gives scholarships to people from my community who study abroad, so I will apply for that. If I have to pay by myself, the US is beyond my family’s budget, but the UK, EU, Canada, Australia and Singapore are within our budget, so I will try for these countries.
I have two dreams: join IAS/IPS/IFS or do an MBA from a top institute and work for a gaming company in Silicon Valley.
My preference list is:
IAS/IPS/IFS
IIIM A/B/C
Other UPSC service
MBA abroad
LLM abroad
Judicial service
State civil service
Other government job (PSU, academia etc).
I am hopeful my top options will work out, because this time I WILL study hard! 🤞🙇
Where you did llb and llm from and which one 5 or 3 llb also was 5 year course available at that time cause idk your age or passing years.
Also a dilemma that should I stick to law or leave it and join MBA from some good B school.
Is a 28/29 MBA fresher no experience old too for market.
Sorry sir ik i have messed up my life a lil too much . Timing is so important.
Still your guidance would be appreciated.
And thanks a lot of telling about age and i won't be preferred as old. Thanksa lot for that you saved me by telling age factor thing and the low attendance thing.
Can you tell me if MBA from a decent college be be better option or mba at 26 and complete by 28 is old too. My known people are MBA at 23 or 24 max.
Is 28 late for MBA too considering fresher no experience and is mba Employable at 28 .
Again thanks a lot.
Over time you will figure out whether moving a different part of Bombay or a another city will help you but right now, you are already doing the best you can do. Your only options are minor changes to save money.
For the legal part of it, you need to swallow the hard pill that there's nothing called a 'Top50 college' for employers; if you're not in the top 10-15 they consider as decent, they'll be keen to not hire you. Demand & supply of law grads is sadly at that stage in India, and given the pathetic quality of teaching at most colleges, you can only blame employers so much. As such, don't be too harsh on yourself because you never truly had the formal opportunity to learn & get better.
That said, you can still take control of your life by actually reading up on everything related to everything on your CV & preparing 30 second explanations for each of the tasks in writing. Once you're through with that & actually know your shit properly, you'll simply gain more confidence on speaking about it. Do it point by point & see the difference. You can also take help from various people running a business of helping you prep for legal interviews, just google or search on Linkedin. Similarly on starting from the scratch, buy good courses on core subjects like company law, contract law, SEBI law, arbitration, CPC etc - ideally from organisations that pair up with law firms' L&D teams (eg: MyLearn), do their research tasks religiously, and allow yourself to make mistakes. Once you get a good understanding of a subject, try writing pinpointed articles on it & get it reviewed by any lawyers you know — see law firm-run blogs for reference. When you get a good publication, attach that along with a finessed cover letter written under the guidance of said people for assessment applications at consistently better places. Once you get to doing all of that & actually get assessments, remind yourself that a fresher is not expected to have practical knowledge; we all mostly learn that on the go. So, it's perfectly alright to ask for feedback consistently & specifically till you gain enough clarity — also consider sending working drafts to seniors who've assigned you the work to avoid wasting your time on wrong work products. You'll be surprised by how insanely this simple practice turns around your work quality.
If you do all of this for even 3-4 months, I'm sure that you'll develop a sense of 'I'm getting there' in your knowledge, and that will in itself give you a huge confidence boost & make you feel happier. If you consistently incorporate those feedbacks into your work & better your research skills for a whole year while consistently applying to better places, I'm sure that you'll land yourself a fairly well-paying job & put yourself in line for growth & progress all over your career. It can be done. All the best!