GNLU being the organizer of this year's CLAT for responsible for the major embarrassment it caused itself by the CLAT PG ppr for LLM this year. The ppr instead of checking the legal aptitude, was made for those pvt law students who were studying for judiciary since their first years, that's why a lot of deserving candidates got low rank in PG this year.

NUJS has the best campus life, and it's not even close. It's near the heart of the city. Not only do you get to experience nightlife, but you also get to explore the heritage buildings and lanes of North Calcutta. Most importantly, you get all the freedom in the world. There are no rules on campus, so you can do absolutely anything you want. Also, the pressure of academic commitments is much less than at other NLUs, giving you ample time to explore any domain you're into. The only detriments are the small campus size and the incompetent admin.

The hate against Sudhir is by a few losers with some personal axe to grind. That's transparent and obvious. The truth is that we need more people like Sudhir at NLUs. We need a mass cull of the old, incompetent profs and infusion of NLU alumni among the faculty, exactly like he has done.

Sure those who know that they won't get a job may say so. Doesn't mean those who know they can get a job won't say the same. Those two are different circles in venn diagram. Perhaps NLUO couldn't instill logical reasoning abilities in you.

The point is that placements are only reflective of how many job offers were made through the college recruitment process - offers will only be given to those who want to sit for placements. 39 students from 50 who sat isn't bad at all. You can cry me a river without knowing anything about the stats. I mean it's not as if serious law students don't know that kids choose NLUD over many other T1 NLUs solely because they want to prepare for upsc, judiciary and go for litigation -- something which is not true for any other NLU. So it's ignorance at best to question their choice of not sitting for placements & appearing for such career options.

Shit housed my way to internships but learnt no real skills. Collected internship certs like pokemon cards. Got articles/blogs published by combining and paraphrasing similar works online with help of AI. Got exposed during interviews. Disguising ineptitude can only take you so far.

This is trollish and barely true, but the basic trend is true.

One recurring theme is glorified misogyny and homophobia. Calling women NPAs or gold diggers or ugly, and those comments getting high upvotes but a woman writing any comment is met with intense anger. Same with gay people, people still say it like an insult. Well the mods are all incels so what can we expect. LI is the law school reddit now. I tried publishing multiple threads of severe incidents faced by me in law firms and with recruiters but they are never released

Spot on. All of this is clearly documented. No dispute re. any of the points.

Regarding point no. 5, even worse than writing in Hindi, these guys write Hindi using English keyboards. Are they aware that blind users of LI - like me - who use screen reader software packages would find it very difficult to access such comments, because the screen readers essentially go into 'jibberish' mode when encountering such things? Ironically, if those wishing to say stuff in Hindi typed using a Hindi keyboard, blind users of screen reader software packages like Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) could use add-ons for those software packages like Saksham, which is essentially NVDA programmed to read proper Hindi, to read Hindi-language comments written in Hindi. If you tried to turn on the Saksham add-on when reading a comment written in Hindi using an English keyboard, it would sound like (a) an Indian (i) pretending to read Hindi like a westerner; but (ii) who's doing a very bad job of it; and (b) as if the software's voice was a recording of someone who was punchdrunk. :)

Stop idolising people or proclaiming them to be the best and you won't have to see them getting trolled. Stop treating others with the supercilious and arrogant attitude that the original post manifested on more than occasion, ironically, and you will find out that majority of them will treat them with the respect that they deserve. The content of the post was nothing objectionable and contained many points that most of us agree to. However, the entitlement that the OP ended up displaying perhaps inadvertently has greatly diluted the message that he had been trying to

They know how much their peers are paying. Trilegal increased to 19.5 LPA. Despite this, no other law firm has responded with an increase. Probably bcz they're aware of Trilegal's reputation - trilegal eats people alive.

In-house counsel recruiters or even Big-4 firms don't pay as much as them.

Rookies succumb to the market landscape. It's no longer a glory to work at Amarchand Mangaldas or whatever. It was in 2015 bcz 15L was huge deal back then.

I do. This entire thread is extremely categorical. For instance, this thread only points out ‘NUJS NRI’ students. Secondly, it talks about ‘foreign llm’ students being pinched. Thirdly, the first point is extremely insulting. ‘Jealous Tier-2 guys who never foot inside NLS’- isn’t this statement extremely vitriolic?

IMHO, this is spot on. Do any of the mods disagree? We really shouldn't be publishing nonsense where people are just trolling or insulting others. What value does this add to the average reader, other than perhaps the lulz for trolls?

And to all commenters: let's try to be nicer and more intelligent and helpful with each other please.

yes. a lot just depends on connections. i had an exceptionally good CV (not saying this out of delusion, there are objective facts to suggest this) but it wasn't on merits that i was recruited, it was only through my connections and referrals. on top of that, if you aren't graduating from a college that have a lot of law firm partners, it's even harder because most of them just want to recruit their juniors (out of all the biases, this is by far the most irrational one ive ever come across). moreover, if you're a man, it's unlikely that a male partner will be interested in recruiting you.

no that's because they're privileged. double digit number of people have parents who have an established practice so.. I mean if my parents had such practice, I'd never even think about the toxicity of the corporate job market. Your words would've made sense had they even sat for the placements. They didn't even sit.

NLUJ has by far the best campus life. Jodhpur is an amazing city if you know how to enjoy it. It doesn’t have big city experiences like “clubbing” but the college parties are hella amazing and they have tons of it. There are people of every kind so find your right group. The campus is also beautiful and has amazing sports facilities as well - compared to most of the other nlus. And placements are very good as compared to NLIU. Mooting culture is also great. So NLUJ is better.

So I have the rank and science stream for it and I can get either through vacancy. I was primarily aiming for nujs only but then learnt that they have chosen to have separate placement cell for bsc kids while nliu would have same placement cell for both their programs. Also nujs bsc llb course is focused on forensics& criminology( not much scope )while nliu bsc is aimed at cybersecurity...which is a growing field. Now nliu fees is 11 lakh while nujs is 20. Even after all this i was kinda leaning towards nujs because of it's tier 1 corporate placements( my goal ) being the best always and it being located at heart of kolkata, however someone very recently told me that law firms r not looking positively at nujs bsc program so now I am very concerned about my inclination towards nujs and reconsidering. What should I do? Are law firms really looking down on nujs bsc program?

This is part of a new culture with little or no benefits. Some NLUs also invited some senior judges in the same way. These bigwigs, having served their tenure, seek some affiliation and recognition for their intellectual satisfaction. Some NLUs also want them to enhance their profiles. However, in essence, they would rarely be there to teach courses consistently, and people would soon forget about them. But it's okay, let's continue.

2024 batch recruitment pool was around 50 students. About 39 students got jobs. Total batch size was 80. Relatively higher no of students from 2024 batch are sitting for upsc, judiciary, mba - something that seems to be true for the Junior batches also. It's a very well rounded and diversified batch in terms of career paths that they've chosen. Weirdly enough, a record no of students from this batch are going for litigation chambers - figures for which NLUD doesn't count in these placement figures.

Ask them if they are willing to make some actual sacrifices. Get NALSAR admin to put out a declaration saying, like the Bangladesh passport says 'valid for travel to all countries except Israel', that their institution's transcripts will be 'valid for the purposes of recruitment, selection or admission or other purposes in all countries other than Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States'. Let's see how these arm-chair leftis like to see their BCL/RG/Ivy LLM chances go away forever and those shiny TC salary packages fly out the window for good.

At the same time, you should remember what Trump himself said: 'I don't kid'. The guy doesn't know how to make a joke. He knows how to tell lies, though, there's no getting away from that. As John Oliver said, in order to be ready to deal with the shit coming peoples' way, they should take Trump at his word when he says stuff like 'build a wall' etc. So there's no confirmation that, if he comes back in November, he won't try to implement this so-called 'policy'.

Rhodes v UPSC = Cannes Film Festival Awards v Filmfare Awards.

The number of people who follow the Filmfare Awards and watch its nominated movies is probably much higher when compared to Cannes. Salman Khan has far more fans than your average European art film actor. Everyone in India will be able to identify Ekta Kapoor but not the girl who won at Cannes this year. But we all know which of the two awards truly recognises excellence and is truly prestigious.

I've been saying it before, NLUD is just a paper tiger. Nothing more, nothing less. It's founding VC had the aura and presence, it has Delhi as the city & it's initial batches were the best. However over the last few years, it's performance has dropped, the govt doesn't care, and the student body is riding on the coattails of it's former success. Wait for DU & JNU New course to get their first batch out, and you'll see they're a better option with lesser fees.

People are busy arguing b/w NLUO and NLUD placement numbers, but the real thing we should be talking about is the package. The median placement package for the '24 batch was around 13 LPA. This is similar to the package being offered 10 years ago.

Law firms have not raised their compensation according to inflation. When will we stop the NLU dick-measuring contest and start talking about this?

If you bother to read the article, the NLUO placements include litigation chambers and policy places also. Basically, out of a batch of 180, only 40 got ANY job.

The NLUD figure is only for T1 and like jobs AFAIK. If you genuinely think that out of a batch of 80, only 35 people from a top law school will do something meaningful after college and the others will sit twiddling their thumbs, then you are deluded.

I have had multiple instances of non-nlu co-intern and associates behaving unnecessarily hostile and trying everything to find faults. I am not sure what's the need for this pull-down approach instead of improving one's own self.

It could be a one-off experience; however, would love to hear everyone's opinions.