I suffer from CFS and won't be able to manage a regular office job like a law firm or chamber. What skills are required to be learnt to become a freelancer on say platforms like Upwork or Fiver?

And where does one learn them from? Any courses or youtubers I need to follow. Anyone who's familiar with this, provide a blue print please

Hello,

I have just finished my 3rd Year and am not from an NLU. Will be starting my first Tier-1 internship at KCo Mumbai soon. Hoping to get a PPO. Any tips on how to make an impression or generally handle my workload well? Also, any tips for the presentation at the end?

Please tell me that whoever wrote this is either (1) trolling; or (2) so drunk, they can't be held responsible. SAM? Seriously? Lala law firm whose top guy is one of those who fought hardest for foreign competition to be kept away, so he and his ilk could continue with their nepotism and nepotistic practices, knowing that they'd be less than the dust beneath an average foreign law firm's chariot wheels?

If (1) you're trolling, please naf off (as they say in Britain); or (2) if you're drunk, please go to rehab immediately.

Just really curious. One of my classmates secured really good internships despite having a very average profile. Their CV was not selected through the RCC after which they left and secured internships on their own. I really wonder how, because the firms that didn't even shortlist their profile earlier have now taken them onboard as an intern. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that they reached out to alums or have personal contacts. But if they had personal contacts they would not have joined the RCC in the first place. I asked them how they managed this feat and they said cold emailing which is laughable because top firms don't usually reply to cold emails. What do you all think?

T1: NLS, NUJS, NLUD, NALSAR

T2: NLUJ, GNLU, NLUO, RMLNLU, MNLU (Mumbai alone)

T3: NUALS, RGNUL, TNNLU, MNLU (Nagpur)

T4: DSNLU, MNLU (Aurangabad), DNLU, NLU Shimla, GNLU Silvasa & Others

JGLS - Places a lot (but take a look at the number of students per batch)

SLSP - Very good track record and a lot of alumni are in good positions

Choose pvt uni only when you dip beyond T3

You must be new here.

Every few years, the big firms go on a poaching spree reminiscent of the egg station at a breakfast buffet. JSA has been floundering for nearly half a decade now, with dying practice areas, T2 rankings in most lists and a client list that hasn't moved out of 2010. Their biggest rainmakers don't even stand up to what your average mid-career ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ Trilegal EP is making from retainer and bonus alone. Aside from Probir's Google work, how many marquee deals do they even boast of? They hire sloppy seconds from other dwindling firms like Saraf and pay peanuts to their resources. JSA was quickly on track to be a has-been firm.

What changed was that a bunch of equity freed up recently due to retirements and exits as the geriatric top management aged their way out of the firm. This hiring spree is an attempt at survival and a good one at that. Their big ticket Mumbai hires also send a message. The decrepit Gurgaon sarkari office is no longer corporate HQ. Mumbai will, for the first time, lead the corporate practice while Gurgaon continues to do diligence for india-leg of foreign transactions.

Trilegal aggressively hires to fulfill existing client work and deal with understaffing issues. JSA is hiring aggressively to make sure they're not wiped off the map. Different situations altogether

No. Academia might not be for you. You’re judged every minute you’re in the classroom. Students will say stuff about you - most of it will be good but some of it will be awful- if you’re gonna get hung up on that- you shouldn’t be in academia. Especially if you’re gonna insist students do their work and you’re not gonna inflate grades students will say a lot of things about you. You need a tough skin to deal with all that.

Other faculty- every time you write a thing you will find people who will criticise , other faculty , people at a conference , reviews- they might say nice things but they might also say mean things. If you can’t handle that - it just might not be for you. The whole process of publishing in peer reviewed journals is an exercise in humbling people - you gotta have a thick skin to deal.

I suggest you try and become in-house counsel- those guys earn their living by quietly doing their work or by having good relationships with other lawyers.

Very interesting comments from Sudhir on AI. All this pro-AI stance is genuinely amusing considering that he changed the traditional term paper system out of AI fear-mongering, instead of setting up guidelines for its use. To this date, the University has not taught its students how to use AI responsibly (hat tip to some profs who have allowed students to use AI provided declarations are made, but these professors are a handful). Lol to his comments on how NLS students know how to use AI. If students do know it, it's out of our own interest.

The University’s commitment to AI is also seen in how students who were interning with the Meta project at NLS were told that these are not recognized internships xD

Very unclear too how we have been offered "over ten courses on AI" in the last 3 years. I recall an elective on this being offered only in the last trimester. Maybe Indiatoday should do a more in-depth profile?

Bro please go to Jindal, they have much better placement history juxtaposed to Law, you'll be able to get tier 1 internships, CLC has nothing when it comes to a Placement Cell, take it from me, I am about to pass out from CLC. high chances of you securing a PPO if you intern at tier 1's from your first year onwards which is most likely possible at jindal if you're proactive and work at your profile given jindal does have better networking and A0 hiring concept. and yes, if you can study for CAT and are good at quant, by all means give CAT, law is dead and only works if you know people at the top level who can get you in if you clear the interview or atleast get you an interview, otherwise, it's pure gamble if you're not inclined to do law for the passion of it. learn from my mistakes.

What's up with JSA? How are they getting so many people to join and even more so how did they manage to get Iqbal and Ambarish to join them. Both of them can help JSA score big mandates (and that translates into billing as well). Is JSA going Trilegal way and KCo way (i.e. at one point of time KCo had aggressively expanded).

As many number of JGLS students get placed in T1 firms as a couple of top NLUs combined. Of course, their total student strength is huge, which is why the percentage is low. However, absolute number-wise, their placement scene is not bad at all. How would middle class students afford JGLS anyway?

In all the parameters you mentioned, barring campus and infra, NUJS is and has always been ahead of GNLU. Hence in no ranking does GNLU get to be ahead of NUJS. Similarly, in all of these parameters, Jindal is currently ahead of all NLUs. Jindal's drawbacks include huge fees and quality peer group, which factors do not feature in your parameters anyway. Hence Jindal cannot be behind places like NLUD or NALSAR anyway if you stick to only your mentioned parameters.

I just don't understand why people include JGLS in the top ranks. Their placements are horrible, the student quality is even worse, and they're located in some random village. I would seriously request you all to not hype JGLS, there are many middle-class kids here who just might make a wrong decision based on your opinions.

To put a different perspective on this: I have a friend who went to law school in England. She interned at JSA in the summer vacation of her first year, before doing multiple vacation schemes in her second year and gaining a TC at an Amlaw20 firm's London office, where she's been working for the last five years. I once asked her what was the difference between her internship experience in JSA and VS experiences in England. She said that the JSA lot tended to 'throw folks in the deep end' far too readily and were 'reluctant to provide guidance', while their foreign counterparts tended to give tasks that were managable, and were more than happy to provide guidance about those tasks, if and where needed. My friend also felt very scared to ask questions, because people seemed so busy, and, on the occasions when she did ask, was responded to rudely. JSA, if American law firms (even their London operations), which are known to really drive people crazy, compare favourably to you in terms of work culture/toxicity, I think you may have some deep reflection to do.

Very disappointed with Sudhir. No doubt AI is important, but he seems to be jumping on a bandwagon. He was the one lecturing people about 'fundamental first principles' a few months ago, and now what's he doing himself? I would have thought a strong grasp of the 'fundamental first principles' of law is even more important now than it ever was before? Is not some of this stuff he's doing 'a shallow version of craft'? Saying this as someone who openly confessed on Legally India before to being a 'card carrying Sudhir fanboy'.

Our parents (who are basically Gen X) graduated at a time when India was transitioning from a backward Nehruvian license raj economy to a modern, liberalised economy. This period led to a flood of jobs. Remember also that it was before the 2008-2010 global recession, Trumpism, Wokeism, social media addiction and toxicity, and of course COVID. These events have inflicted social, economic and psychological damage on Gen Y and Gen Z, but spared Gen X. So yes, plenty of jobs for everyone and life was good.

A true ranking would be as follows (giving equal weightage to faculty + campus and hostel infra + admin support + student exchange opportunities + graduate outcomes, i.e. law firm placements, UPSC and higher studies)

1. NLSIU

2. NLUD

3. NALSAR

4. JGLS

5. GNLU

6. NUJS

7. NLUJ

8. NLIU

9. RGNUL

10. RMLNLU

https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week

Do you feel successful? Why are we like this? What's the point of slaving like this? My Equity Boss works on Sundays and Saturday evenings... What even..

Own your temperature. Dgaf about what people think.

Try in-house counsel role before entering academia.

Just a piece of advice: people will be mean in academia too. In the meantime, keep your professional life apart from personal life don't let anyone whom your working professionally, to define you personally. Don't think too much. Learn to let go. My gf is like you only. Her emotional nature doesn't get in my way of loving her even more everyday. Infact, her emotional nature is responsible for 10 yrs of my relationship. Being reasonably emotional might not help in professional life but it does in personal life. You'll have empathy and respect.

Following tips might help you:

1. Interact with as many people as possible.

2. Don't look for validation outside especially at work place. Validation is only req from close friends and family. Work people can shove validation up their asses.

3. The way you look is just fine. Anyone saying otherwise either has small **** or ****. Don't give rats ass about them.

4. Try and laugh when someone makes fun of you. It'd okay if it's not personal.

5. If you did something bad and someone's scolding, keep repeating in your mind that you won't let it happen again and say sorry. Don't say "how could I let this happen". Even shardul Shroff and Harish salve commit mistakes. It is absolutely fine. Committing mistakes is overrated. Get over it, there's life beyond the person who's scolding and the mistakes you committed.

You'll do just fine. Have faith in yourself. Only you can stand up for yourself and it better be you than me or someone else.

1. Its okay. About the same as any Tier 2 law school.

2. Campus life is eventful, and it helps that the campus while large is full of people. The student community is very closely knit.

3. Placements - See the brochure.

4. Companies visiting - see 3.

5. Good for whatever you focus on. Look up alumni, most practice IPR but there are a few standouts in litigation, tech law and corp M&A.

6. Too vague - aspirations are internal.