Good point. When you say “oldheads”, the problem is that most of the boomer bosses had arranged marriages themselves and have regressive, judgemental notions about matchmaking. It’s like the pushy Aunty syndrome we see in Ekta Kapoor serials or Netflix matchmaking —- pairing couples on the basis of class, wealth etc.

In any case, it’s completely inappropriate for bosses to do this, whether they are cool or whether they are old-fashioned.

If you think men are not attacked all their lives you must be a woman

Men are constantly sizing each other up, insulting each other, questioning each other, competing for everything, pushing everyone to their limits - they just don't do this with women - thats all

This is not considered toxic by men who grew up in a masculine environment - for them it is a fact of life

Its women or perhaps men raised in a mostly feminine environment where they were only nurtured but not challenged by other boys or men would think like this

Enjoy your day zero guys.

Back in the day NLS used to enjoy Day Zeros. Many students used to end up with multiple offers some even got offers from English Solicitors firms, Mckinsey etc.

That's going to be over with JGLS like Batch sizes which Sudheer made.

Like IN JGLS you will still have placements. But maybe 60/500 will get any decent offers.

The source is different. For men it is entitlement. Most have been catered to by women their whole lives. For women it is survival. They have been attacked and put down in male dominated workplaces. The history of how each gender has been treated has a relationship with toxicity.

what would constitute a "good enough" connection for a call-back and PPO? Only someone from the team itself would work or somebody from any other team/outside counsel? Also, what would be a strong enough relation with that person? Could it be like a relative’s friend or something.

Hey all, I am an In-house counsel from Bangalore and is actively seeking opportunities from last couple of months but nothing concrete so far. I need help with reviewing my resume if possible, just want to know where can I improve. please let me know if it is possible for any of you.

Thanks!!

Its been 2 years I am doing Capital Markets with a Tier 1. Money is fine but I don't feel the stimulation to do anymore work in cap marks. My basics are fine with companies act and surrounding laws, how do I switch to GC/M&A?

Would things have been different if I would have switched practice areas during initial months of start of my career.

I know! it’s pathetic. First they gave these jobs to retired judges (mostly friends) and now, in the name of whatever the f#{k BS to show progressiveness, they are now appointing their kin.

Lesson of the story - Is desh mein bina mai baap ke aap litigation nahi kar sakte. Plus we have so many 🥾 lickers, there’s praise all around LinkedIn for this supposedly newly discovered progressive approach!

I am a WFH lawyer as well, advising foreign companies. I too earn in foreign currency. It’s a great life! You also work less: for example, to earn 1 lakh you need to work like a slave in India, but to earn USD 1200 from a foreign client you put in fewer hours.

I highly recommend WFH gigs to people! I work in IP and cyber law, but I’m guessing there are even more opportunities in corp and financial law.

It's a tier 1 boutique firm of 30 maybe 40 people practicing a very niche specialised area. Also agar bolrahe hai x paisa denge atleast 70% Dena padega for image purposes. Counting the same, they wouldn't hire more than 5 people an year. As opposed to say a SAM who can hire 50 or more, and some could be reserved for day 0.

Your budgeting is kind of screwed up. Here are some suggestions:

1. Renting: Look at other areas for renting out an apartment. Don't automatically jump into buying furniture and appliances, if you are getting a semi-furnished/ unfurnished flat. Rent it out for a couple of months. Divide your such expenses to over a year. Maybe, look at options where you first stay in a PG like some mentioned earlier, and then if you really want your own space, get flatmates/ or even share your room.

2. Additional Expenses: REDUCE them. You don't need to spend 10k on a gym membership. It is possible to work-out at home. For your work-wear, stick to pantaloons or maybe even H&M for now. Get 4-5 good shirts, and 3-4 trousers and maybe 1/2 blazers. Invest in decent+ good quality pieces that can be mixed and matched.

3. Transportation: To travel to work, either check if your firm provides you with the option to pool otherwise, use public transportation. There's always metros or even good buses.

4. Health Benefits: Talk to your workplace and ask if they provide any sort of health benefits. While this may cover yours, look for and compare decent plans for your parents. Do the grunt work.

5. 60-30-10 Rule: I don't know, if this will help, but use the 60-30-10 rule. It saved my life and I earn WAY lesser than you while living in a pretty expensive city myself. (While I am struggling, it somewhat helps.) 60% for all your necessities, 30% for your wants and 10% for savings, investments and emergency funds. Adjust it to suit your own requirements.

Most of the students do this these days.

Don't know what is wrong with the law students, they want tier 1 internships from there first year itself.

Please make this a point that you are only wasting your opportunity as the firms will take you for Internship since you know the partner but eventually the assessment for ppo will only be taken into consideration in 4th and 5th year.

So, in case firm has one internship policy, you have wasted your opportunity in 2nd year only instead of trying your luck in 4-5th year.

Students should focus on other things in there initial years and should learn first before going into the firm. If you don't know the basics of companies act, contracts, how you are benefiting the team?

70k!? Brother, OP's "flawed" budgeting would have lesser expenses than you if they were also privileged enough to have "self-dependent" parents. But because they don't, not only do they have to send the money home and pay off an education loan, but also health insurance for the parents becomes a necessity because they can't afford a health crisis to put a dent in their finances. So if you remove those expenses, OP seems to be spending just 55k rather than your 70k — who needs a lecture on budgeting now?

And also? Obviously everyone is going to get tax returns, I don't even see how they're relevant. And most importantly, I found housing in Grant Road and it's still costing around 30k for a half-decent room in a bare minimal house, and if you add cook, groceries & maid charges, that does end up coming near about 40k.

It may serve you well to touch grass and acknowledge your privilege before comparing your finances with others.

There are a few NLU alumni in politics, but all non-entities. One person from NLSIU won a reserved MLA seat in Karnataka, but she is a nepo kid and daughter of an MLA. There is also Vikramjeet Banerjee, who is a non-nepo kid, but his post of ASG is not really so powerful.

In contrast, multiple IIT and IIM alumni have become Cabinet ministers and CMs.

Didn't the NUJS VC sanction a bomb for having the washrooms etc redone in both the academic and hostel blocks? The "plea" was to make the toilets etc disabled friendly. Speculations concerning actual reason may not be speculation. But let's leave that aside.

The renovation costs was almost a crore or a bit more.

That's not true. A lot of students aspire to get placed however, given the bleak placement ratio, a lot of students are left with no option but to pursue LLM. While it is true that Jindal places a good number of students, the batch size is around 900 (600 in BA/BBA LLB and 300 in LLB). Although it's true that a good number of students do not want to pursue law seriously, even the ones who wish to land a job find it difficult to secure what they want.

More importantly, while students at top tier law schools have expectation of landing some kind of job, the same cannot be said for JGU students. The reason that to land a job, first we must compete amongst ourselves. And then with the top law school students. Also, at least half of the "placements" are secured through PPO. Till 2023, the placements were good even in proportion the batch size, from 2024 (graduate) batch, the proportion of students getting placed to the students who enroll in the courses has gone down.. With NLSIU and other top tier law schools increasing their intake of students, it will become even more difficult to secure a job from Jindal in the upcoming years.

1. No idea if this is true.

2. I would absolutely not be comfortable with a boss who did this. She is bang out of order if she is doing this.

3. However, a human touch from a boss is always nice (except not what she's doing). Like the Hogan Lovells partner whom I remember (vaguely) reading about on RollOnFriday once. At a party, he did some sort of a stunt on a waterslide or something (see also the antics of Sir Edward Davy, the Lib Dem party leader, during the UK General Election). Bosses, confine yourself to that sort of thing, and I think most people will be cool :).

Hello, I have just finished my law school, and am awaiting graduation in August.

I have currently gotten an offer from Fox Mandal and Associates, however it is for a assessment internship. I wanted to know how much salary I should expect if I am absorbed after such assessment internship.

I am also waiting to hear back from Anand and Anand Associates, and I wanted to approximately how much freshers are paid.

I currently live in Chennai, and these offers are for the Chennai Offices as well. However, if no one has any idea about the details for the Chennai Offices, even information based on other branches would be useful.

Before people rush into saying, "hey, we've been there; not as bad as that", hear me out. Mumbai rents have seen a 30-50% rise in the last two-three years, when compared to pandemic & pre-pandemic times. Some studies also attribute this to the slowing of construction activities in that period. So, overall, while rents have straightforwardly doubled from 10 years ago, most firms like CAM, SAM, Indus etc have seen a minor pay hike of ~20%. So unless you're from the batch of 2023 or 2024 and have lived in Mumbai, you did not, in fact, have it this bad. CAM not making any pay hikes even now is just abysmal, and I can only hope that this post serves as a caveat to incoming batches — unless you stand your ground and openly tell them that you'll be opting for other firms because they don't pay as much, this won't change.