It makes me very sad to read this news. 😢 Not just because she lost her life but her LinkedIn profile (and the news reports below) show her to be a very bright girl with a great future. She did her undergrad from St Xavier’s College Mumbai and worked as a beauty consultant with Nykaa and Unilever, then joined the LLB course. A person with this type of background would surely have done well in her career, especially in the emerging field of fashion law. If someone with such a good CV can be worried about her grades, what can you say?

In all the photos published in the media she seems like a very happy and confident girl, smiling widely. But she was obviously very sad and lonely inside. All our universities are such hypercompetitive places, everything becomes about getting good grades and high paying jobs.

I wish she could have found some supportive friends to reassure her. May her soul rest in peace. 🙏🙏💐💐💐

Let’s also please be kind to our batchmates. There is too much infighting and backstabbing in law schools these days. 😔

https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/mumbai/mumbai-anxious-about-academic-performance-ias-officers-daughter-dies-after-jumping-from-building-near-mantralaya-suicide-note-found

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/cities/mumbai/story/ias-couples-daughter-jumps-off-mumbai-apartment-dies-was-anxious-about-academics-2547422-2024-06-03

https://www.ndtv.com/mumbai-news/lipi-rastogi-vikas-rastogi-radhika-rastogi-senior-bureaucrat-couples-daughter-27-dies-by-suicide-in-mumbai-cops-5805754/amp/1

As a law student, I am looking for the specific skills that a student needs to learn to become employable and add value to their seniors.

You can also put down your stories from Tier 1,2, and 3 cities. How to approach and get opportunities to learn in litigation for a first-generation lawyer who does not shy off hard work?

I am passing out this month from a relatively unknown college. I've worked hard on the internship aspect. Have interned with 2 tier-3 firms, a very famous SC advocate, in-house in a huge company and a few other internships. However, I'm unable secure a job. I've cold mailed a lot of people, mailed HRs, College has non existent placement cell. Anybody can provide a direction or help ?

Though it might be extremely hard I’m thinking of doing CA plus law. I’m pretty sure I’ll clear the foundation in the upcoming exams and will constantly try to clear the inter while in law school without giving any heed to the number of attempts.I think me choosing bcom llb would further help me clear CA.

Regardless of what exit polls say, Modi will form the next union government, and Mamata will remain in power in Bengal for the foreseeable future. BJP has never put up any credible threat against Mamata in Bengal so far, which may be part of a deliberate strategy too on their part.

The Crisis at NUSRL, Ranchi: A Call for Urgent Action

The National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) in Ranchi has been grappling with a series of alarming issues that demand immediate attention. Recent reports of cockroaches and dead birds found in the campus water coolers have raised serious health and safety concerns. This, coupled with a growing discontent among students about academic pressures and unfair treatment, paints a troubling picture of life at one of India's premier law schools.

Health Hazards: Contaminated Water Supply

The discovery of cockroaches and dead birds in the water coolers is not just an unfortunate accident; it is a grave health hazard. Access to clean drinking water is a basic necessity, and the fact that students are forced to consume contaminated water is unacceptable. This negligence points to a failure in maintenance and oversight, which can lead to severe health repercussions such as gastrointestinal infections and other diseases.

The Academic Struggle: Unfair Targeting and Low Marks

Beyond the physical health concerns, students at NUSRL, Ranchi are also facing significant mental and emotional stress. Many have reported being unnecessarily targeted and humiliated by teachers. This form of mistreatment is not only detrimental to their mental well-being but also creates a hostile learning environment.

Moreover, there are widespread complaints about the marking system. Students have observed an unusual pattern of low average marks being awarded, which raises questions about the fairness and transparency of the evaluation process. Low grades can severely impact students' future opportunities, from internships to job placements, and further studies.

The Impact on Student Morale

These issues collectively contribute to a decline in student morale. When students are subjected to unfair treatment and face basic health risks on campus, it is no surprise that their motivation and academic performance suffer. The stress and anxiety caused by such an environment can have long-lasting effects on their mental health and professional aspirations.

LI is filled with queries seeking advice on how to conform to societal norms, such as what alcoholic beverages to order, which fragrances to wear, or what accessories to carry. Instead of pigeonholing individuals into predetermined categories, shouldn't we evaluate them based on their professional competence and work-related accomplishments, as is the norm in the IT industry and other professional domains?

Protesting outside of freedom park without police permission is illegal in Bangalore because of the licensing and regulation of protests, demonstrations and protest marches (Bengaluru city) order of 2022.

The state government that controls the police in Bengaluru is headed by the congress party and CM siddaramaiah. The man is the leader of the AHINDA movement and has a history in civilian protests himself - he’s not a fascist.

If people were brutalised / hurt then it’s something that the police officers should be punished for- but if these people/ were resisting arrest when their illegal protest was broken up and they were apprehended , the police might have had to use reasonable force.

The arrest itself isn’t illegal and the rough treatment might be defensible if there was resistance to arrest.

Think like lawyers- not like twitter mobs.

Professors in the the countries best law school should likely learn and follow the law , and even if they are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause- consider more impactful ways to make a difference than screaming on some random street corner in Frazer Town. Like writing articles or giving lectures or organising conferences.

They might also consider caring a little more about more local issues where their talents are needed - why not go to Hassan Chalo instead ? And less about religious wars in far away countries that have been going on for hundreds of years.

North East students focus more on judiciary, state services or politics. They don't have a hungry capitalistic profit oriented mindset and prefer to be more society serving. Having lived in one of these states for a decade, I can definitely say that they're more service oriented than profit oriented.

It's a very good fim most likely T3, I interned in the BLR office in the IP team few months ago, but now both the partner and associate have left. Rest assured amazing work culture one of the best in Indian law firms, I don't have a lot of idea about pay, but it should be good as I could gauge from the lifestyle of the associates. Their Mumbai office is the best in TMT and other practice area as well. Must give a shot, they are really cooperative and also give PPOs since they are expanding

Bro committees are open to all. U can just show up and be a member. Personally, I have never been ragged but I know a few people from my batch who had tried to do some light PI with juniors. If anyone feels uncomfortable they can walk away/file a complaint. Trust me, no one has any interest in defending someone who is interested in ragging.

Why is she protesting about freeing Palestine in India though? I'm all for stopping that war, but it isn't as if India can do anything about it. While I am not a supporter of the ruling party, the government has still maintained the sane position of being against the ongoing war from the very beginning.

AG has lost all the respect that he had garnered as judge by joining politics after resigning from his post and immediately spewing the same garbage as political leaders. He's also said that in his opinion, BJP leaders aren't involved in any corruption, including the ones seen on tape to accept money.

32 years old mister. Not in the 18-21 group.

I am thinking about the people not wealth creation of the already rich and powerful. You have forgotten the ideals and principles which made up the foundation of this nation because you were shown money. Freedom of Speech and expression, democracy, socialism, secularism are principles that have been long forgotten. I voted against them because I abhor their ideology.

What does it mean when a senior associate and other associates at a firm (tier 3/4) give you work but don't give you feedback? The team told me they are super busy and barely have time which makes sense. But I received some critical feedback only after my first deliverable to them and they haven't told me anything since - good or bad. I'm so confused and plus, this is my first law firm internship so maybe I'm overthinking but pls help.

What does it mean?

What can I do about it apart from asking a few times?

Plus, my internship is about to end and I'd at least like to know if they found my work worthy of progressing further (this is an assessment internship).

Really looking forward to some advice!! TIA :)

If you consider Assam, there are a few ethnic Assamese partners in few big lawfirms. If you want to count associates, there are many assamese associates in tier 1 lawfirms, unless you don’t wanna the Assamese as “North-Eastern”.

Other than assamese lawyers at t1, I haven’t seen any lawyer in any tier 1 from the other states of North East, who are also indigenous to the region i.e non immigrants.

Hey, nope. IP laws are largely territorial in nature and your work ex will not be very relevant from law firm perspective. If you do get exposure of IP laws of neighbouring countries, you might be suited in FMCGs or other MNCs as an in house counsel for Asia-Pacific/ Middle East Sectors. If you aren't married to IP yet, and moving it is a priority, consider switching to transactional stuff like M&A/ Private Equity/ International Commercial Arbitration. Though even at that level, 3-4 years is unrealistic, more like 7-8.

From a T-1 NLU, have a rank in the 50s, won a lot of extracurricular competitions, good publications. Have in interned in a T-3 law firm and now 1 T-1 law firm. Resume generally gets accepted but rejected for rank/academics which I am trying to improve on. Inclined towards disputes, but at this point, any field would be fine. Need a job desperately. please lmk

Associates do engage in romantic/ sexual relationships. It is mostly hush hush, HR/ firm does not bother unless it's affecting the work of workplace environment. "Doing it" does not happen in firm premises. Associate - intern intermingling in romantic/ sexual sense is negligible since there's too much at stake for the associates.

I said that our GDP per capita is less than Bangladesh and I am telling to compare per capita income with other countries not with bangladesh the comparison with bangladesh is for per capita GDP and income inequality is highest in 100 years in India worse than colonial Era so if GDP is 8percent it means only rich people are contributing to economy and surely 22 Indians have wealth that equals 70 percent of people's wealth in India Matlab Ameer aur Ameer like modani aur gareeb aur gareeb

GDP per capita is less than Bangladesh and I am telling to compare per capita income with other countries not with bangladesh the comparison with bangladesh is for per capita GDP and income inequality is highest in 100 years in India worse than colonial Era so if GDP is 8percent it means only rich people are contributing to economy and surely 22 Indians have wealth that equals 70 percent of people's wealth in India Matlab Ameer aur Ameer like modani aur gareeb aur gareeb

Query for IIT-KGP Law School folks and alum:

Did a law professor (allegedly Prof KI Vibhute) get embroiled in a sexual harassment case in your law school and was an inquiry against him initiated? Was it led by a retired Supreme Court judge? What was the outcome?

This is important. Not fooling around. Nothing personal against Vibhute etc. Just the facts.

When has the alumni really cared? Sure, having that network helps with placements but there is a very different logic propelling all that. So, I am not dissing them wholesale but we are talking about something else all together.

Let's start with something small. Apparently, we have alumni including from the venerable founding batch, in a committee called IQAC that works closely with the VC, especially in the NAAC process. These folks don't just know all but have seen all that's rotten. And yet not even a whisper.

True, we have also had alumni who are looking for private deals of profit etc (and shepherded accordingly by "interested" teach) but to the detriment of univ. Having such folks inside univ structures will do real harm despite the PR.

This univ needs greater representation from students and alumni in its governing and funding structures. The alumni teach in this aspect have been a disappointment with their sniping and feuding to be VC acolytes.

No one is demanding obstinate anti-establishment orientation. But why crawl when even bending isn't obligatory?

Other than Sanjay Basu, Kalyan Banerjee and Kishore the Great, you missed two other acolytes from the Bar. Interestingly one of them has recently decided to go neutral given the political volatility. He arranged for NUJS to get some ABP Ananda award and most recently when queried by ABP journos about the SH issue against the VC, he deemed the same rubbish. Hence nothing on ABP and ABP Ananda.

TT slipped through.

1. NKC did not complete any of the inquiries initiated by the EC in 2018-20

2. NKC and AG did a very flimsy and hasty inquiry" into the faculty recruitment scam of 2017. In the EC, a one-pager note was submitted (not included as part of the agenda) stating that nothing was found. The EC (micro-managed by AG) conveniently did not ask for substantiation, and allowed the dodgy promotion of a founding teach etc. It was mostly about him but many others accrued benefits of "permanent" position.

3. NKC misled the EC into releasing all monetary dues etc of PIB without even concluding the inquiry. EC had put a hold on those in 2018 and kept exhorting the admin to complete the inquiry. But convenient "legal opinions" are sought from a certain advocate close to AG to draft tailor made opinions that are then used as a "cover" to allow for such latitudes. Such customized legal opinions were sought and quickly acted upon in three recent instances - the dodgy promotion of an assistant prof (who now claims SH by NKC); release of all "dues" to PIB; and similar release for disgraced former Registrar, Dr SC Mukhopadhyay. Can you see the pattern?

4. Despite discussion in the EC and his own "recommendation", NKC till date has not initiated an audit by the Accountant General, WB or even a forensic audit. Large scale violations have been flagged over all these years. Bank records were not reconciled for eons allowing for a lot of creative accounting including those involving UGC funds. By the time the "audit" if ever takes places, everything would have been wiped down. NKC knows this intimately because it had happened earlier in NUJS.

5. Despite NKC's own recommendation to EC, he is yet to initiate the inquiry into DEO overpayment and distance education courses.

6. NKC had an Admin Audit done as part of the "NAAC' process. Due to "work pressure" he invoked special powers to make a temporary recruitment (a close relative) and had it blessed by the EC. Because the folks carrying out the audit were well-known (that's how the game is played every time, including with inquiries), he ensured that the VC office is staffed "appropriately" with more admin flab. To keep a certain PA happy the position was upgraded and the aforementioned relative was absorbed into a newly created permanent admin position. More admin positions were created to be similarly filled up with loyalists. Even if NKC gets evicted, his loyalists will be around.

Also NKC isn't going anywhere. If he miraculously gets "evicted" he is likely to come back as the Director of CRSGPP or some Chair Professor. His successor and state govt will ensure that whatever happens in 2026. Evil never retires/sleeps; only burrows deeper.

7. NKC with AG assistance has ensured that a whole lot of details never reach EC. A lot gets settled at the AC and FC level and the GC similarly remains oblivious. After all, it meets and greets once a year for an hour or two and that's how dodgy annual accounts kept (or keep) getting approved till a "problematic" SJA raises hell at times. Now with SJA emaciated and divided that danger has been neutralized.

Is all this good for you?

SJA, will you be doing anything meaningful once you are done fighting or getting hijacked by the teach factions?

I was just checking the LinkedIn profiles of lawyers working there. A huge majority of them do not seem to be from what people on Legally India call 'Tier 1 NLUs'. This is in spite of the fact that Mathew Chacko himself is from NALSAR University. Me thinks that SRL is deliberately not hiring people from the so-called tier 1 NLUs. Having worked with students across most of the old and new NLUs in the country, I can say for sure that students in old NLUs like NLSIU, NALSAR, NUJS etc. are as desperate as students from any other institutions to get placed in firms that pay as much as SRL does. In fact, I know of graduates, from the above mentioned old NLUs, settling for firms that pay much less than what SRL offers. I am certain that people from such old NLUs also do apply for intern and associate positions at SRL.

That being said, from my observation of the upvotes and downvotes patterns and comments on Legally India, it also seems to me that Legally India's users are mostly from these old NLUs. Yeah, the same guys, who do not get internships at SRL. Hence, you see a lot of hatred for SRL on Legally India.

Let me give you another example - you may find that a lot of comments on Legally India praising S&R Associates. A majority of the lawyers at S&R are from the old NLUs. Since most of the users on Legally India are from these old NLUs, you see a lot of good comments about S&R.

Well, I am not a law student but I have done a lot of research regarding law and CS courses.

I would suggest you explore the CS Executive 7 Subjects. Just explore it. It will give you a good taste of whether you are suited for corporate or commercial law areas such as tax laws, compliance, economic laws, labor laws, and other laws governing the corporates in our country. And if you happen to like it then you go for the entire CS course as CS with a LLB will be a great combo for a Corporate law-related career. You can later on even do corporate litigation in various tribunals such as NCLTs, NCLAT, ITAT, CESTAT, GST Tribunal, etc.

No one here is mentioning the most important point, which is that Chandrachud leaves in 6 months. This is the whole point of the extension. The admin hopes that Chandrachud will pass on the letter the students sent him to Gavai.

The students really need to get Chandrachud to act.

NLSIU Professor (and CLAT 2011 AIR 1/NLSIU/Tufts alumna) Padmini Baruah arrested by Bengaluru police from a Free Palestine protest site. Allegations of manhandling, denial of basic human rights etc.

https://x.com/ShutUpNLS/status/1797326307338113400

SCARY STUFF, fascism is here and now. Why wait for counting day.

🥳🥳🥳🍾🍾

Had been losing a lot these past few months in big IT stocks, plus mid and smallcap stocks in clean energy and tourism. They’ve all jumped up heavily today and should move from red to green soon 😁😁😁

Curious how everyone else’s stocks are doing? Are y’all selling or staying invested? The one worry I have is that exit polls are not the real results and it may be risky assuming that they will come true. Yes, all exit polls are predicting 350+ but many of these are brand new agencies no one has heard of. Only Axis, CVoter and Chanakya are well known. Axis and Chanakya got 2019 right, but Axis was proven wrong in the 2021 Bengal election.

Also curious what the gossip is in law firm circles? I’m yet to reach office, but the word in my T1 firm is very bullish (340 to BJP and 390 to NDA). We have clients in infra who expect a push. However, another T1 is bearish (300 to BJP and 310 to NDA).

Because his views and ideologies deeply connects with our view and ideologies. The current rotting of the western nations is slowly spreading in all across the world. And it is in India as well. And the views that he says makes us youngman prevent such rot, save our women and preserve our culture and help the society for betterment. By being a proper man who takes all accountability, is disciplined , well mannered ,realist and an overachiever.

If slogging out is an issue for you, it's good that you didn't pursue medicine. Speaking from experience, medicine is the most, unarguably the most, difficult discipline to pursue in this country (and almost everywhere)

"Dhero MR se kamane" se pehle it takes a good 10-12+ years of extremely gruelling life to get to that stage.

Also, not even gonna compare NEET and CLAT. I hope you are informed enough to know that there is a huge difference. Almost 15 lakh people write NEET, it doesn't even touch 1 lakh for CLAT.

Thank you so so much for this comment. I started using LI after getting a T1 job offer. This forum and certain comments here took away any happiness I felt about joining a T1.

I come from a lower middle class family. Money matters to me a lot. This is the best comment I've ever read on this forum. Gave me a lot of hope and encouragement. Thanks again!

As long as you don't exploit interns or people in vulnerable positions (i.e., those over whom you have power), do all the fucking you need to do outside the office and don't hold hands or do anything foolish like that inside, nobody would care, would need to care, or would have any business to care!

Cacy Ralte (NLS 2011) was at JSA for several years. She left before becoming partner and joined the district juridiciary in her home state (Mizoram) where she is currently posted.

Somehow, a lot of lawyers from the NE states tend to go into either civil or judicial services in their careers. There are a few in law firms but not too many.