I understand and can relate to how bad it is out there (2024 graduate, good enough grades, and a very shitty day zero) I wish I had more advice other than the generic shit most people gave me - work on your CV, your cover letter, and keep applying.
If you're looking for internships (caveat: which may or may not convert), try targeting months other than Nov-Dec and May-June (more crowded because of sem breaks), try finding email IDs of HR rather than the generic ones that send automated emails. Call up places and ask whether they have vacancies. Law firms can be tough but anything else is achievable! You got this. It requires patience but something will turn up eventually :)

Yes, it is true. However, where the funds are utilised to buy a luxury car and music system, what justifies buying 2.5 Lakhs for a music system in the VC car? Funds should have been utilised to improve the mess of food, and drinking water, and clean toilets and washrooms.

It shows the priorities of the Vice-Chancellor. The university spent 35 lakhs on the convocation, there was no need for lights for a week. Previous convocations have been conducted in less than 15 lakhs. An increase in the frees should have been utilised in the improvement of academics, and infrastructure rather than buying cars and music systems.

i recently started my job at a Corporate Law Firm as an A0. The firm itself is not T1 but has a decent reputation and offices in multiple locations in the country.

My issue is that i do not think I can deal with the stress of working at the place, i have been here for 3 full months and it feels like deadlines never end and i never get any time to myself. on top of that, i feel like i am not doing a great job with the tasks i am assigned and feel like i might not be cut out for law at all. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? or am i just being a coward and the correct answer is to accept this and suck it up- to stop complaining basically

Hi everyone,

I'm currently one week into my internship at this IP law firm which doesn’t offer much work, they take in interns only through contacts though. I'm eager to make the most of this opportunity and increase my chances of getting a callback or PPO here.

Does anyone have advice on how I can get more work and responsibilities during my internship? Is there anyone who was able to get a call back here? Any inputs/advice would be appreciated.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/lawlessness-in-national-law-university/articleshow/10386284.cms

TIMES OF INDIA: BHOPAL: National Law Institute University (NLIU), a top law school, is in the midst of controversies with the sacking of two professors, allegations of financial irregularities and another section of faculty members demanding setting up a commission to review its working as statutorily required under the law.

Trouble began in the premier law university last week when two senior professors, Prof. G S Bajpai and Associate professor Dr Moin Mustazar were 'removed' by the executive council for allegedly awarding marks to three Ph D students without evaluating their answer sheets.

First, he suspended the meetings with students and faculty members. Then, he closed public communication within the TNNLU community by blocking group Email IDs. He does not respond to any email. Many students have not seen him. He never comes out of his car. Now he is spending our money in buying luxuary car and unwanted expensive music system.

Placements at NLUD are at par with other T1 NLUs like NLS, NALSAR, NUJS. If you want to go for corporate jobs - you'll have all the opportunities to go for it.

But the biggest advantage of NLUD over any other NLU comes due to the locational advantage and the accompanying benefits that advantage comes with.

See, if you're 1000% sure that you don't want to do anything else in your life other than corporate law firm job, you should probably go for NUJS, NLUJ etc. That's all that there is in those NLUs.

But if you want to keep your options open - be it litigation, academia, UPSC, Judiciary, CAT, higher studies, Politics, etc - the best place for you will be NLUD. Not even NLS can provide you with such a pool of open options.

Remember, even for corporate law firm jobs, you need to intern a lot. NLUD provides you with its full campus space even during vacations so that you can comfortably intern in Delhi/Noida/Gurugram. The metro station is 200 metres from our back gate. (Not to mention, we've an entire market, liquor store, Vegas Mall, and a PVR at the exact same distance of 200 metres).

Because of its location, you can easily pursue UPSC, Judiciary, CAT coaching if you want to. You can easily intern with a firm or chambers all months of the year (post class model). You anyways get 4 internship slots in a year. Add to that your post class months and you can pretty much equip yourself with the best experiences possible.

We've had Rhodes Scholars from NLUD over the years, even last year's. We've had people clearing Upsc and judiciary every single year. We've had a student who became an MP. We've had people joining foreign law firms. Our exchange program abroad is strong.

TLDR; if you want to keep your options open while at the same time securing a corporate law firm job, go for NLUD. If you're 1000% sure that you'll only do a corp law firm job and nothing else, go for other NLUs.

Hope this helps!

This fund would have been used to improve the students' amenities. A photocopy shop would be made available in the library. The parking slots would have been increased. Many students complain about food poisoning because of the poor quality of the food in the mess and the water problems.

A word of advice for the BCL or frankly any (foreign) LLM application: Don't bother with consulting agents. If you know your stuff and have good research skills, you can do everything by yourself. These so-called 'agents' are glorified paper-pushers, and can do little more than blabbering arrant nonsense. I came across somebody that consulted an agent who told her that the BCL application deadline for 2024 entry was 15th October 2023, the same as the deadline for undergraduate Oxbridge applications submitted through UCAS, when a two second search of the BCL website (instead of relying on this agent) could have told the person in question that the deadline was actually (if I remember correctly) 19th January 2024. Seems to me to be a pretty obvious thing to do your own research and not bother with agents, so please forgive this if you find it to be obvious as well (and worse, unhelpful), but far too many people, who, I'd have thought, would find this obvious, actually didn't. Best of luck!

Clearly Googling doesn't work in the court because these allegations were made and the Delhi HC handed the win to GSB. I think some senior Prof at NLUD was severely rebuked and even demoted for bringing a motivated case against GSB. Some other applicant had also gone to the court. But HC remained unmoved. What explains that?

Does GSB have LLB? Was that a mandatory requirement for NLUD VC position? Many had protested when Lizzie was selected for TNNLU but she had the foresight to have completed a LLB degree at some point during her stint at NLSIU.

MKS did his LLB after doing LLM at Nottingham. In UK (and maybe elsewhere as well) having an LLB is not mandatory for LLM. Preferred, yes. But MKC had a PhD in International Relations from JNU and a body of work and that was deemed good enough for LLM entry.

TNNLU had the lowest fees - https://www.barandbench.com/amp/story/columns/sky-rocketing-law-school-fees-a-trend-towards-exclusion

i think its unfair to compare someone someone with tauji, he was on a different level - he had connections, vision and the ability to make vision a reality (using money and connections). at a very early stage he knew that if nlud had to stand apart it would need a different entrance exam, he wanted to have the hudicial academy in the same campus so that more networking opportunities materialise and long term agenda can be set, he was blessed with an extremely capable registrar who had even deep connections with power, if you look at the first three years of nlud it was obvious the student quality wasnt that good, but the insitituion was buzzing with potential, it hasnt fizzled out in the last dozen years, but the potential imo has not been achieved

Around 35-40 out of a total batch of 80. Now, consider that many of them did not sit for placements. This year, the placements were the worst in all Universities. So, yes there were around 20 people who did not get T1 jobs from NLS this year. If you take the proportion, it's pretty much the same with all the T1 NLUs. Around 55-60 people out of a batch of 120-125 in NUJS got placed in T1 or equivalent which is again similar to what NLS has got.

As far as Placements go, the percentage of students getting placed will remain the same in all top 3 NLUs.

Thanks. Could you please tell me, how are they when it comes to teaching, advisory roles and general personalities ? I applied for my PhD assuming VBR was still there, found out he left. So even if I make through, I maybe stuck with someone who doesn't specialise in the field.

Nag is saying the administrative staff is inefficient, the library staff is not doing anything, faculty members are not competent in research and teaching and good students are not coming to TNNLU. Only the Vive-chancellor, his PA, his Driver and his Favourite faculty are competent and running the university.

This is true for me as well. I remember one day in my second year i dropped my pen and had to bend down to pick it up, and one of my professors quickly took advantage of the situation to 'broaden my horizon', if you catch my drift. Although I did not really get a choice at the time for said 'broadening', I must saw i have no regrets. You get to learn a lot about yourself.

I can’t wrap my head around why the TMC keeps putting forward such loudmouths. Just look at Mahua – her latest reckless jab at the judiciary is a new low:

https://www.barandbench.com/news/judges-too-scared-relief-opposition-leaders-fear-offending-government-mahua-moitra-lok-sabha

As someone who regularly visits Calcutta and knows Bengal well, it breaks my heart to see how things are. Calcutta, once a top-tier city, has been dragged into disgrace by corruption and poor governance. The rest of Bengal, from what I’ve seen, is in a pretty bad state too. The abject poverty all around is gut-wrenching.

I wouldn’t be surprised if most people in Krishnanagar don’t even know who Darshan Hiranandani is, let alone make an informed decision based on his confession.

I urge every twiiter/ IG supporter of Saket Gokhale or Mahua Moitra to actually visit West Bengal or even Kolkata for that matter.

Spend some time there and see for yourself what’s really going on before propping up the likes of Derek, Saket, or Mahua.

Just because they screech in English doesn’t mean that they are right!

Hey. Did you get your offer letter finally? If yes, congratulations!

I was really curious as to what are the qualifications Trilegal looks for in order to select a student? How good was your CGPA in college? What were your qualifications? How did you present yourself in the interview?

I'm sorry if I bothered you too much. I was just curious since I'm in my final year of law school now.

GLC's Five Year degree is much more well known and respected incase UPSC doesn't work out. Although Delhi definitely has a better coaching scene than mumbai. I don't know about Jamia but GLC is cert flexible with attendance, so you can focus on your preparations. You'll only need to come in and submit assignments, for your end terms and a few lectures here and there to build rapport with the professors.

Focus on your strong suit that is English (VARC). Solve 1 RC everyday. Cracku has the most difficult RCs. So you can go for it and it's very reasonable as well. In Verbal, aim for 99%ile that is around 55-60% of the verbal paper.

Then in Quant, Just focus on Arithmetic and Nothing else. If you get 6/7 out of 9/10 arithmetic questions right then it will get you around 90%ile.

For Reasoning, solve more and more Mathematical reasoning based Puzzles and Arrangements sets. You should solve like 2-3 sets daily atleast. Watch Anastasis Shankar videos on YT for learning the approach.

For mocks, would recommend IMS and CL. Their proctored mocks are really great. Try giving 1-2 per week.

All the best.

What an HR does is an HR's business. Doesn't matter as a candidate what they are busy with. What matters is how much of an HR's attention you can get a hold of, to make your case. And you can do it by showing your inclination and willingness to get the opportunity without being too dramatic and annoying. Period.

Hey there,

I just graduated from a top private law school and have some solid experience from international and tier 1 internships. I'm on the lookout for an associate role at a law firm that offers a decent salary. Can you suggest any boutique firms that are hiring fresh grads? Thanks a bunch!

Just focus on quality internship.

Dont get sttessed out by seeing your peers getting reputed internship at big firms.

Stick to boutique firms plan.

Work like as an associate.

Never make yourself feel that your are just intern and its not your responsibility.

Impress seniors at work by beleiving in their workstyle.

Its my 4th year at tier 3 nlu without any contact but yes i am proud of the internship which i have earned.

The recent news of a couple of CAM’s cap marks partners moving to rivals seems to have sparked an exodus with potentially 4 more rumoured to follow suit (2 Mumbai partners: 1 to TTA and the other to AZB; and the 2 Noida partners - destination unknown).

But this news pales in comparison to the rumoured move of one of the best M&A partners (+ 3 partners who work with him) out of CAM since Ashwath’s departure to neighbours AZB. SJV going further down the road to join KCo may not make sense unless he’s got a leadership position, which he must have yearned for at CAM, but didn’t get even post the recent equity partner rejig.

Hope the message to the firm is loud and clear - reward your top performers, loosen the purse strings or risk losing even more of the talent that continues to remain with the firm. Interesting times ahead.

When is bonus due? When exactly are they going to pay up? When are promotions going to be announced? Mostly the entire market has done these things. The delay has become frustrating for people. Why are they so casual about this? Do people not require their money on time? Every year it is the same story.

Professor Srinivas Burra of South Asian University (for India); Marco Sassoli of Geneva Academy, Dapo Akande of Oxford, Oschar D Schutter; Nehal Bhuta; Neha Jain; Antonio Cassese; William Schabas; Paola Geata; Andrew Clapman; A Bianchi; AP Rubin, Prof Baxi.

I can also list worst IHL Professors in India as well.