Are there any law specific job portals which have updated listings? I could not get placed through college and now sitting at home jobless. Did not find naukri and linkedin much helpful either. Tried cold mailing and messaging partners, HR's seniors connections etc.. but to no avail. I have zero contacts or friends to guide me. How do you find jobs after graduation?

This is an interesting thread. The two salient points being made are a) we will need a LOT of money saved in future, because of rising costs; and c) lawyers and not sought-after in the dating/marriage market because they are perceived as dishonest/toxic people!

Regarding the first point, it’s really becoming more and more expensive to live in India. We pay a lot in tax, but we get nothing in return. All of it is spent on freebies or stolen by politicians. So I guess the answer is to take big bets on the stock market/equity investments and maximise your income. It’s a gamble but no other option I see. The FD savings rate is too low.

Regarding the second point, the problem is that non-lawyers still have no clue about new-age law firm work like M&A, competition, international trade, IP etc. It’s a desk job just like any other corporate job. People still think lawyers appear in courts wearing black coats and lie through their teeth.

Join a LPO.. it's like the BPO of the legal field with low pay but hey its better than sitting jobless. They go by the name of Document Reviewer or Legal Consultant or Contract Analyst job titles. You can find them in abundance on Linkedin. In the meanwhile prepare for ssc cgl or similar exams. Cgl form in open for next 3 weeks or so. So get a job asap and start preparing. I'm in a similar boat and this is my plan after graduating this month.

Sreenidhi Srinivasan barely has a team. She only recently hired a couple of associates. Before that she didn't even have a team - the policy team associates used to do the data privacy work that came once in a blue moon.

KCO and SRL have an actual established data protection practice.

I'm from a T3 law college, graduating in May 2025. Really want to get into TMT and Tech law, but my CV isn't great right now. Had some personal stuff come up that kept me from working on it, but I'm trying to build it up now.

To be honest, I don't think I'll have the skills to be an associate right after graduating. So I'm thinking about interning for a few months after I finish law school. I know some of you might say it's too late, but I'm really trying here. Does anyone know if it's possible to intern after graduating and maybe get a PPO?

More delays then? What are Cyril & Co up to?

https://www.barandbench.com/news/entry-of-foreign-lawyers-silf-requests-bci-to-discuss-amended-rules-before-notifying-them

You have a PPO so I believe you would have the correct knowledge. Please guide me and maybe others, it’ll take 10-15 minutes of your time but will help us a lot. Like important things I can or any online links to understand. The A1s are to an extent in a hurry so can’t take help always

This is so stupid you know nothing of his situation why do you rush to assume his parents are saints. Im so sick of this Indian nonsense cultural propaganda that parents are always virtuous and right. You dont do your child a favour by birthing them, and if your parents paid for your college its uour responsibility to pay for your kid. Thats your duty you dont deserve brownie points for that

Should have known what deep crap I am about to get into before, now am regreatting badly. Completed law from a an avergae law college and sacrified proferssional and college life to COVID. Now i find myself totally lost in the market after almost 1 year of working in corp. Not pursing cs so there's isnt much substantial growth as well. While looking for good masters programme which would help me professionally, I found thus -

1. LLMs are of no use, it's a virtual suicide to your corp career.

2. NISM LLM which actually had placements closed it's programme down this year.

3. Graduate Insolvency Programme - Too expensive and ROI is very uncertain (sadly was good for previous batches but has tanked now)

5. am not interested to appear for Govt exams.

4. CAT- would take a lot of effort since I am not from tech/maths background

Have no option left but to prepare for easier MBA entrance exams and CS (which would be useless since I have more legal experience than a semi-qualfied CS)

On top of that , i feel horribly stuck due to my family situation caused due to a major family backlash last year. My mother decided to separate from us, leaving behind with me an ailing father and half of family property. This means I would be anle to relocate to another city for job, luckily I live near a metro city and can travel back home on weekends, which is the only saving grace of my miserable existance.

So by now, you would have guessed I am a total goner. No connections, no family support, no family wealth, no money and slim hope. It's astounding that how perfect things were just a couple of years ago - college, decent academic career trajectory, happy family, healthy body have totally disappeared. I never hoped for a life life this, and pray noone faces this.

Just want an ernest and genuine advice from anyone who might be able to guide me what should I do in the coming 6-8 months to make things a bit better for me.

Thank you sincerely.

Hi, I know there are a lot of trolls here but if anyone can just please tell me how can I stop being anxious and nervous about dayZero? It seems that one day will decide my worth and the rest of my life and I cannot stop shaking at the thought of it. I really need a job for my family's sake and any help would be highly appreciated.

bro, try applying for Tier 4 or boutique law firm.

You can try for going to commissions etc. but apply for firms, at least you will get a certificate and some learnings. Rather than a random internship at NGO etc.

District court is really good for a first internship, but consider firms too.

The cat is out of the bag!

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kotak-mahindra-bank-sebi-fund-set-up-by-kotak-mahindra-bank-used-to-short-sell-adani-enterprises-6015745#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

thoda/thodi embarrass aur ho jaa and ask one of these A1s to run you through the different tabs in a proper sit-down session once, better than having to trouble them over and over again. The MCA website is terrible and jabse v3 aaya hai tabse toh aadhe documents idhar aadhe udhar. saying this only because some documents that you'll download will have further attachments that you will have to navigate, learn how to access these on the system/software that you're using. Tbh, pulling out MCA documents felt like such grunt and keep-the-intern busy work, sad to know things aren't going to change once I join as an A0 next year

While B&F, Capmarks, Projects and M&A folks slog it out till 9:30/10 pm most days in office; the Tax, Real Estate and Employment team members (along with their partners) leave by 7 pm every day.

Per my assessment, the former is known to be prone to very late hours but I'm not sure if the latter involves less work/flexible working hours.

And here I am, resigned my govt job! Trust me, govt jobs don't deserve to be even listed in your concerns. I am totally with you on the remaining concerns. The good thing is that you are aware of the situation. A lot of us dont even accept it and have taken things for granted, at least the natural resources. At the end, every mf will die....be it a law firm's managing partner or a beggar. Just play your part!

Joined as A0 via campus at a T1 corp team. Been asked to do multiple things via the MCA website which bumped over my head. Embarassed but had to ask other A1s. Can we please have a detailed guide from lawyers perspective on imp aspects of the MCA website and pulling out details ? Please ?

I feel as an alumni she is very less talked about and underrated. She was also the best jessup speaker and has cracked Harvard law JD- one of the most prestigious law schools in this universe. Nujs really nurtured amazing candidates around the early 2010s. Thoughts?

https://superlawyer.in/iram-huq-on-being-a-top-ranker-at-jessup-jd-from-harvard-interning-at-un-and-taking-time-out-for-pro-bono-cases/

Dear seniors, I'm an 4th year student and have a keen interest in TMT laws. I would appreciate your input as to the busiest months in TMT practice so that I may be able to work on as many matters as possible. I have a decent CV and a good RPC, so I am confident of securing internships during the desired months.

this is real life not a joke. I have similar experience with an AOR, quite famous too. He asked "what will I get in return, if I offer you internship" and when I said I already have a bf he said "we can manage threesome". I felt awkward and never spoke to him again.

EY came with 7.75-9 LPA

KPMG with 5 LPA

Godrej with 10 LPA

Adani also came with an offer

Now, they offer CTC (Cost to Company). The in-hand salary is 10-20% lower than the CTC. 5 years fees is 15L and living expenses is 1L per year.

You'll need 5 years to recoup the amount of money you will pay to ILNU. Rather join a cheaper college, try getting placed at big firms and even if you land at the likes of EY, it'd be fine.

Youre right. Someone barely scraping by these basic exams - that's the person who is clearly more talented and skilled and knows more law, and we know this because theyve not done anything to prove themselves! Trying just means you didn't know the stuff coming out of the womb! How silly of me.

I know we pick the Indian cricket team based on who can score the most runs and get the most wickets- and has in the ranji, but stats doesn't mean anything. The years of practice Kohli put up doesnt mean anything- hes just trying to cram the try hard! You or I should be on the cricket team we can point out all his mistakes right? I bet Kohli just got his job because of partial evaluators anyway.

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Chandrachud is a virtue signalling, privileged Oldboy whose taken social engineering beyond pound. Even his anecdotes are foreign, "This is not some Hyde park corner" who talks like that? People in london. Every judgement of his has been a travesty barring two. Look at sabrimala, adultery, ram mandir, army ect, these judgements are baseless and have thrown conventional jurisprudence out of the window smh.

Fair enough. Your experience might be different from mine but in my cohort around 80 percent of the students put in a lot of effort and yet it's mostly people in the good books of the teachers that end up in top 5. There might only be a difference of 4-5 marks between me and these people but it makes all the difference in the final grade. It's not about getting good grades, it is about getting the best grade. Also, not all teachers are receptive to constructive feedback on their pedagogic methods and would have an adversarial relationship with students because they are way too entrenched in their ways. As far as meeting expectations are concerned, I don't think I miss the shot there. It's easy to make generalizations about the student community and say ohh majority of them are lazy and not driven. Similar generalizations can be made about teachers too; Most teachers couldn't care less about the substance of your papers but would happily award you marks if you curry favour them. If students are not paying attention in class then maybe the teacher is at fault and there's something seriously wrong with the instructor's method. People in authority should have the humility to accept that. Guess what that's not the case in our country because an instructor's word is the last word on anything. I have had teachers who taught so well that students attended their classes in large numbers and paid absolute attention. It's because they were great teachers whose teaching method was based on including everyone and not privileging certain students. I appreciate your inputs but I feel you make broad assumptions about what really the issue is here. Andd, don't worry the students who don't do well in class would do well in life eventually and will make something of themselves, maybe even better than those 10-15 percent top students. Peace out.

Right. Modi is guilty of all those things. And even according to powerful folks in RSS, God has punished him. Although he is leading the ruling coalition, BJP was trounced. And congrats to Madam Kindness for humbling him again, whatever the methods. Won fair and square.

But how does any of these things and what you say has anything to do with the deliberate moribund state of affairs at WBSIC. Sure the Red made it sick. But wasn't your Poriborton supposed to "London" everything into shape? Isn't Madam Kindness all about besting Modi et al?

Are we to understand that TMC bests in reverse? Setting new standards in become worse than Modi?

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https://x.com/gemsofbabus_/status/1808013240330317944

What a joke! People earning hundreds of crores are evading tax by diverting money to agriculture, laundering money, receiving only cash payments etc. Then why not abolish IT completely???

You missed a key point of gender studies. A person who identifies with traditional ‘male’ traits and chooses to present as male can still desire to give birth or become a parent if they have the necessary means or sexual organs. Dysphoria is a highly subjective and personal experience.

Good observation. Of course Suits is by and large fictional but at the same time one cannot exclude certain very relatable and real life elements and thrills that the show presents. Just to be cool, people try to diss it, that it is nothing like reality. Like obviously you will not have an overtly alpha Partner who is cocky all the time (even with Clients), an associate boning a hot paralegal in annex or a partner hiring someone without a law degree! But these are creative liberties that every show has to take. I found Suits to be a great show. The office politics, the client pressures the M&A and litigation drama are all spot on!

Of course they only show the glamorous parts which is probably 10 percent of the legal audiences "combined" daily lives, but the rest 90% reality intelligent viewers like us are supposed to assume has already happened. So there will be scenes where Camera will start with Mike working and then cut to him waking up in the office itself. This is the "reality" part, which they don't show fully. The late nighters, the reading and vetting of documents, the highlighting and editing of every single word, the hard diligence etc. But as intelligent viewers we have to assume that the characters have already done that off camera.

Another important thing is shows like The Practice and Boston Legal took case stories from multiple litigations and multiple firms and presented as if the same firm or a couple of firms are handling almost every important case in the country. Which I totally support. All of our shared experiences and life stories and career highlights and epoch making events are different. So if a show takes 20-30 events that may be do not happen at a single law firm at a single point of time but has definitely happened at multiple places, multiple firms and at multiple eras of time and just coalesce all the masala into one show, I find absolutely nothing wrong with it. (I know so much drama can't happen at a single firm and that too all the time). And obviously you need to have SOME suspension of disbelief otherwise why the hell will you watch movies and shows! Overall, they did a fabulous job.

Hah! This is a good post!

I'll tell you this, I saw that my firm was raking in 75-80 lakhs for a mandate on which I did the majority weight lifting. Like 80% of the work I did, sacrificing my waking hours and holidays and family stuff.

Let's assume the whole 75-80 lakhs is not attributable to me, even then on the lower end lets say 25 lakhs, the firm has almost covered my year's base pay - in 15-20 days of my work. What about the rest of the year.

They were making god knows how many X of my yearly pay off me, while treating me like shit, denying me leaves, making it difficult for me to attend funerals of close family members, yelling at me, insulting me.

It really inspired me, the pay I was getting and the money they were making off me to quit the firm and start on my own. Now I make more than my pay in the firm and work significantly less hours.

Depleting natural resources, climate change, inflation, AI displacing jobs, future health pandemics, only 50% of secure govt jobs available in general category...

It's gonna get tougher and tougher to earn and live well in future. Given this, is it pragmatic for us to place money over love? Marry a guy/girl who is affluent but who we don't really love so much, over a guy/girl who is middle-class or poor?

Asking this as two girls have shown interest in dating me: one who is rich but who I am not attracted to, one who is a simple middle-class girl but who I am attracted to.

There have been a few cases where NLU students have received degrees while making an ideological statement. One example is Robin Bhatt of GNLU, who wore an LGBT Pride scarf while receiving his degree.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/gujarat-confidential-pride-scarf-bjp-8539513/

But Palestine is a more divisive issue (unlike LGBT rights), so I think it will cause needless controversy.

What I'm getting at is this: young people tend to look at superficial things while dating. Now, it's possible to change certain superficial traits in yourself to make yourself more appealing, such as improving your English, your physique, your knowledge of the latest music and fashion trends etc. You may even fake being of a certain political ideology, if that helps. But being born with dark skin and into a backward caste are two superficial traits that cannot be rectified. People will deny that these play a role, but they arguably do. How many dark-skinned actors and actresses do we have in Bollywood? Even South Indian movies cast North Indian actresses with fair skin. As for caste, it's just an inner bias people seem to have.

So do students in law schools have these biases too? I mean both girls and boys here.

Presently PA in Tier-1 disputes Delhi. Thinking of moving back to Kolkata permanently. Heard Argus has better work than SAM in Kolkata (don't want to join Kco kolkata)

How much does Argus pay at PA level and what does the partnership track look like?

Insights will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Does anyone have any idea about CAM's Hyderabad office? There is hardly any information available on the internet relating to the Hyderabad office. Is there any particular reason for this?

How is the work culture, timings, etc.? is it as bad as the other CAM offices?

Do they have any local clients based out of Hyderabad or do they act more like a backend office to the Mumbai, Bangalore or Delhi offices? Is there any scope for growth? are they expanding like other firms like Tatva Legal or will they be stagnant?

Lastly, is the pay on par with the other CAM offices or is it less than the standard pay?

ok-ok team. Shantanu is a good boss, knows the law because of years cutting the grease in a high volume team at JSA. Shweta is his acolyte, also from JSA so the team functions well. It's a tiny team with a very small book though so maybe doesn't yet warrant a comment section on LI.

I recently got to know about a law journal that offers internships to students but charges money for them. Does anyone know if there are potential downsides to being involved with such journals? Some of my friends from tier 3 college with no significant achievements in law school have managed to build impressive CVs through this practice.

I doubt that reputable law firms would profit from desperate law students, so I'm curious: How is it that law firms don't always seem to know about an intern's previous work? This is especially puzzling since all the internship opportunity provided by the journal is posted actively on LinkedIn and Instagram. While I'm not certain if all accepted interns are posted on the journal's page, there's a possibility that one's involvement could become known by the HR. Why isn't there a system to blacklist interns who use these means to gain internships?

Hi, I am not too qualified, but I totally empathize with you in your situation. I would suggest you look for fresher roles and use your law school friends to push your profile in their respective companies and subsequently i would also advise you explore doing an MBA as it would give you a good step-up from your present situation.