This entire institution is confused. It was set up as forensic science university. It is trying to become law University. It has been given generous funding and got multiple campuses but nobody knows that do we really need those many forensic science graduates? There are hardly 20-30 Forensic Science Laboratories of Government and they hardly recruit few people every year. Any science graduate applies. Forensic science university looks like a big scam and pure wastage of public resources. One campus was even justified, why 20 campuses and 2000 forensic graduates? What will they do?

I think this is a very relevant question that very few students think about while in college, and frankly, very few associates think of in the first few years.

Let me share with you my anecdotal observations, having graduated from a T1 NLU and worked in a T1 firm (General Corporate):

- Most people get married after becoming SA, which is in 4-5 years. Switching firms, taking sabbaticals, having exceptionally busy years is not uncommon.

- If you unfortunately land up in teams where availability has to be 24x7 which means working most weekends, being at your desk at 9 pm and 10 pm on a regular basis, dating or even spending quality time with people outside of work will be difficult. There are far too many teams like this.

- You will be surrounded by DINKs and people who are having kids only after becoming a partner. Therefore, people may be less empathetic towards people “choosing” to have kids at a younger age of 27-30.

- This is compounded by the fact that work in law firms is client-service and demand driven and people operate on very short timelines. The lower you are in the hierarchy, the more you are required to be flexible with your availability, as your Counsel / PA / Partner’s priorities, conflicts and deadlines will largely be accommodated over yours.

- There is a very steep learning curve the first 6 years, and you are not the master of your own time. It’s doable to try to fit in a gym routine or occasional doctors appointment or dinner plans, but much harder devoting chunks of your time to your young family.

- Instead of an accommodative workplace, you might find yourself amongst toxic partners who discourage you from having any commitment that takes you away from being available to work, on a sustained basis.

Long story short, it’s an uphill battle and most people prefer to manage work from an in-house or smaller firm. Note, that this doesn’t automatically guarantee better work life balance or hours.

What you can do, is grind it out for a couple of years for the learnings and then see if you are able to make time for having a family. If not, look for a place where your bosses and peers also have families and as a matter of culture, stop by 6 pm unless things are urgent.

You will discover that you can’t have it all, but if you prioritise something, you will find a way.

I did llm at fancy us university. I suggest you get over this fast. Its a waste of time and money and energy to sit around bitching about how other people perceive you. Youre there to improve your career. You only have a year to do it. Focus on that. Whatever it is you need to learn to compete- learn it. People would give an arm and a leg to go to HYS/ Ivy. Most people wont in their lives be able to do it.Dont waste the damn opportunity.

Because as a professor I will often say things I dont agree with or things I might myself be conflicted upon in class. I will try to play devils advocate often. Most of the students in my class dont know my real beliefs on a range of issues. I barely know my own mind on some very contentious things- I might change it tomorrow given new evidence or argument. I'm not there to convince students what I think is right, i'm there to think with them. It is a particular matter of cowardice and bad faith then for students to not engage in the conversation in the classroom and instead edit audio however they please and send it to - not just social media- right wing press to specifically target and abuse their professor. That is just bullying. That is not free speech. JGLS students should learn to have more courage and less bravado, if you disagree with a prof- tell them to their face, have the courage of your convictions to argue in the classroom, go to office hours and try and change each others minds. Some of my professors I have the strongest relationships with are professors I fought with constantly- they didnt penalise me, they wrote me recommendation letters.

Trying to cancel someone for a view they expressed in a classroom is just gross authoritarianism. Especially when theyre a young professor trying to do their jobs and you are fairly certain in your position because youve bought your way into a university and you know you have admin on your side.

I bet JGLS students wouldnt like it if professors started videoing all the stupid nonsense they say and putting it up online. It would end hundreds of careers at once. Of course professors dont do this because they understand that students are young and growing and need to have the grace humans need for making mistakes and saying stupid things to be proven wrong, they understand that universities cannot function if we were to call down the mob on every student who states an errant thought- the whole point of universities is to make mistakes and learn. It shows the small mindedness of jgls students that they dont reciprocate that same grace and generosity to their professors.

Your social media feed is curated to show the best version of you. How would you really like it if you had to go into work everyday knowing you could be recorded at any time and that would be used to judge you as a human being?

How little have you thought about this that you would make that comment?

I think youre an insane person. We dont buy and sell people in a civilised world. We especially dont make it easy for poor people to be exploited into selling their organs or their children or their women. We dont do this because everyone sees the dystopia coming a mile away with this kind of "reform". Do you really want to be iran? they oppress their women out of the public space and you dont even want to know what they do to gay people. Theyre not exactly known to be a beacon for freedom in the world.

There are better ways to get out of poverty than literally selling your body. We need improvements in education to ensure our children can work and they learn at a minimum a trade or a vocation and more stringent antitrust laws so there can be more employers in a free market place, and therefore more jobs.

Can we please call out the lie now that WFH doesnt affect the quality of work and is a bad option for everyone but a few very self motivated people who require little to no supervision? If your mental health is so severely affected by having to go to an office- the thing all adults in the world did prior to covid- it might be a you problem. Try to not be so fragile. Its fairly clear to me that the covid batches do have learning losses and are coming in less prepared for work than ever before. They need more supervision than before and now they want to avoid accountability with this sort of "activism". Perhaps they should choose these firms with better working conditions rather than whinging and see how long it takes them to sink those firms entirely. Why even work for a firm? build your own and you can keep your own schedule entirely and sink or swim on your own capacity. Why ask to be paid a salary while not wanting to do things to earn that salary?

Please bring this to the attention of law students as well as public in general.

The university is charging as high fees as around 3.5 L yet it is not providing even the basic facilities due to LACK OF FUNDS. ▮▮▮

We have a temporary library which is very small and hardly any effort is being made for the construction of the permanent library. The same goes for the hostels. The university is increasing its batch size but no new hostel is being constructed. First-years have to stay far away from the campus without even basic facilities such as regular electricity supply.

Apart from this, there is no facility for sports.

Though the university, being situated in the bursting heat of Nagpur, has started using ACs in the hostels(this facility is still not available for first year students) yet the ACs in the Academic Block are not operational.

The worst thing is that hardly any construction work is being done.

Despite complaints from the Student Council, the university is not reducing the fees.

We have repeatedly put our efforts, yet hardly any action is being taken to improve the condition of the university.

It is a request to everyone who is reading this to contact platforms such as Bar and Bench, LiveLaw, etc. It will be a great help for us- the students of NLU Nagpur.

I am a law student who just completed her first year of law school and in the two internships that I did on-site I learned and did the following tasks-

Till date-

I have done research work on various topics

prepared case notes

drafted case briefs

proofread and formatted counter affidavits.

drafted eviction and adjournment notices

dictated some documents to the typist

read case files and tried to understand what the different documents were.

visited courts and watched the proceedings (I do not think I learned anything using this though)

I wanted to know this because I do not know what sort of work I can ask my senior to give me and whether my first two internships have been fruitful and worthwhile for me.

I am from a private college and looking at the state of the placements even at tier 2 and tier 3 NLUs I get scared. However, I wanted to ask whether having a tier 1 internship experience even if that did not translate to a job help you in getting placed even if it is at a tier 3 firm. I had this question because many people in my college have done tier 1 internships. However, i do not trust the placement stats given by college and even if I trusted it, its still quite bad. Hence, this question

Certainly Jindal if you want education, and international exposure and opportunities. A great campus life and an academic rigor to prepare you for legal profession in India or abroad.

GLC is day boarding morning college. Sometimes without a permanent principal or even 10 regular faculty. It gives almost free education so those who live in Mumbai and who find it difficult to bear the expenses at Jindal or NLU, should prefer GLC.

I hope this is helpful.

Hi! so basically, I am trying to understand if MV Kini is a good firm name? I have been given an opportunity to start in their banking and finance department, in delhi.

I am a fresher, and I know their pay grade is absymal, but I am starting to see how it shouldn't really effect me for now because i need to hone my skills right? I spoke to a bunch of people who worked in the firm, and they all told me how its a great place to learn. I want to know from a student/fresher/former employee/potential employee's POV about the firm or literally just anyone who knows about the firm. Please help me! :(

I have done around 5 internships in Delhi. To me, it appears just fine but is it as bad as people say it is?

Do girls experience sexual assault of any sort? I just want to go peacefully to job and come back till 8 pm - via metro or sometime in four-wheeler. I'd also like to go to clubs over the weekend. Is it safe for girls?

With each university’s students being at each others throats and butting into unrelated competitions just to brag about their universities being “far ahead” each other, it is long overdue that we have a thorough analysis of this issue.

To the students of each university, please write a compelling argument (with categorical divisions) on why you believe that your university is ahead in light of recent achievements or developments.

Rohit is smart and excellent thinker, and now been considered as senior as well, but despite all that he has been facing retention issue. All his associates are leaving for Big 4 firms. The problem is - he is too much into appeasing the management and doesn't care enough for his associates. Guy can't take stand for his associates and while taking a decision, he would rather think from management perspective, than from team's perspective or as a leader (who is in this system for 15+ years and can get things done). Stuck in conundrum

Hey everyone. I recently graduated this year and currently searching for jobs. I don't know where to start though as I'm having serious difficulties in my everyday life.

I find it incredibly hard to express myself clearly without writing walls of text. Simple tasks like keeping up with the news, doing groceries, or even understanding emails are a challenge. I can spend hours reading up on something, but I just can't seem to grasp it. I can see and peceive the words, but not process their meaning. When someone explains things to me, I zone out in a weird self-aware way. It's frustrating because I'm really trying to understand. Even short sentences take me forever to articulate properly despite full attention to subject matter. Even though I'm 24, mentally I feel at least a decade behind having somehow coasted through life to get to this point.

Coming back to my main problem, I've done a few internships, but they didn't give me the experience I expected. It is as if I've never done them at all. Actually, all I did during my internships was ask chat gpt and other interns for help regarding every other proposition because I couldn't figure out shit on my own.

Has anyone else been through something similar? I am afraid I'm on a steady cognitive decline ever since class 12th, idk why. Any advice on how to improve my comprehension and communication skills? What jobs should I seek rn? I struggle with both studying and doing practical everyday stuff. I'm apprehensive even if I do land up a job.. it will be like a ticking time bomb till I'm fired for being too dumb and incompetent. Where do I begin? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Generally speaking its better that you apply for a job your profile fits in squarely. The description and qualifications are there for a reason. However, no harm in giving it a go in case you are able to justify why you may be well suited for the job.

As for applying to multiple openings, do it. No one should begrudge someone trying to make a living.

This is because NLS kids are elitist af. They won't protest for the things that are happening in India. Did you see them protest when Manipur/Sandeshkhali happened? Or even the recent case of the Karnataka MP candidate that got accused of a sex scandal? No!

They are just attention seekers and follow anything that's cool

I am a student at a Tier 1 NLU. Upon seeing the hostels allocated to first-year male students, I decided not to stay in them.

The primary reason for this decision is the double-sharing rooms with common washrooms. Each room is barely 10 by 15 feet, and approximately 60 students share just six toilets, with no geysers available.

Instead, I found a nice 3 BHK apartment for around 45k in a posh area of the city. Although the apartment is a bit far from campus, I have already booked a car, so travel shouldn’t be an issue.

My question is whether living off-campus will affect my academics and social relations.

If you are not getting into the first 12 NLUs (NLS, NALSAR, NLUD, NUJS, NLUJ, GNLU, NLIU, HNLU, NLUO, NUALS, RMLNLU, RGNUL), top private universities (Jindal, Symbiosis, KIIT, Benett, Nirma, BITS, IIULER, Mahindra), top TLCs (GLC), then you may consider it. It has relatively low fees, building decent infra, government support. Not many good law faculty yet, nor alumni connect or established placement record, since it's a new place. However, that should improve over the years, especially with Gandhinagar and Delhi branches.

Can you please mention which provision of the 2018 Regulation you quoted from? I thought that it was from the UGC CAS regulations, but could not find any such provision as you mentioned there. There are individual universities that have prescribed such clauses, but not the 2018 CAS Guidelines themselves.

When you write such English as "less inferior" of course you will attract scorn. But it's likelier that your short exposure to American culture has not allowed you to understand the critical differences in behavior there. You are perhaps unused to the stiff winds of egalitarian competition untouched by caste prerogative.

My (Batch of 2025) mentor (PA) at CAM recommended me to the HR for a PPO. The HR said they have received the feedback and will confirm with the Partner first. What are the chances that I receive the PPO? Will there be any other procedure in between this? I really really really really need help pls. Thank you

To emphasise more on this, try to look at it logically maybe? (My experience as a current Yale LLM - NALSAR B.A. LLB)

B.A. LLB is the equivalence degree to a JD in the United States. LLM is usually just an additional option if you want to qualify the bar exams there. The US cohort including the Indian Americans don’t take LLM seriously at all, plus the prestige factor lies with the JD making the LLM students less shiny. Plus, you have to understand that Harvard students are known to be arrogantly snobbish when it comes to their law programme. My friend from Virginia who is pursuing his JD at NYU stated that HLS even crushed Yale law grads time to time. So it’s not uncommon for them to look down upon a law school which isn’t well known in the whole of Asia. Let’s be honest, even your Indian peers (especially your batchmates) salivate to even get their journals in the Harvard student law review where even the JD students are given first preference. Also, it’s incredibly harder to get into the Harvard JD programme when you compare it to their LLM programme. LSAT US (not india) is not a joke. Either you need to have a certain 175ish grade / life altering extra curricular or legacy admission (but that too if your dad or uncle is a governor). For LLM there is no exam and let’s be honest even if by any great misfortune the HLS students come across something like CLAT- they will start laughing at us despite the unpredictability the exam holds every year. NLUs are not even as prestigious as IITs (which are quite well known to Harvard and MIT grads, even Yale too), so it’s difficult if you expect Harvard to take note of us. Plus, the inferiority of top Indian law schools are exposed vividly when we ourselves including the NLS cohort refer certain institutions as ‘Harvard of the East’ / ‘Yale of the East’. We already admit that their institution is already bigger, just hang out with your cohort and mingle with those JD folks who are actually nice, not everyone can be bad.