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December 2026, January 2027, Feburary 2027? (Or some other month).
Please advice
1. Upgrading to a better college to improve CV/job market value.
2. LLM required or beneficial for certain govt jobs. Compulsory for academic jobs. If you are eligible for reservations, then quota eligibility + LLM degree is a strong combo.
3. In the arranged marriage market, a postgrad degree may add brownie points.
Azb - August mid
KCO - September
CAM - June 11
[Moderator note, reported as: 'Joining for CAM has been always in August from at least last 5 years.']
I have nothing against CJP. But I propose an alliance of butterflies (not the social variety) and bees. Gadflys strictly prohibited.
Secondly, I know we’re supposed to carry unmarked bare acts with no highlights or short notes.
Can any previous aibe candidate please help by describing the bare act checking standards during invigilation? Do they go through each page of the bare act thoroughly?
Some of my bare acts have a few highlights, so I’m a bit worried. Feel free to elaborate on the general vibe of the checking process.
Thank you!
An article from a free, non-paywalled source, covering the Lancaster affair comprehensively: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqp74dvxqeo#main-heading
Or go abroad.
For reliable introductions to legal theory: Andrei Marmor (ed), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (or entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy like https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contract-law/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/constitutionalism/ )
https://x.com/ndtv/status/2061448824812613761
NLSIU Bangalore
NALSAR Hyderabad
NLUD Delhi
NUJS kolkata
NLUJ Jodhpur
NLIU Bhopal
Next six
GNLU Gandhinagar
HNLU Raipur
RMLNLU Lucknow
RGNLU Patiala
NLUO Cuttack
MNLU Mumbai
Next Six
NUALS kochi
CNLU patna
MNLU Nagpur
DSNLU Vizag
NLU Assam
HPNLU shimla
Last Six
GNLU Silvassa
NUSRL Ranchi
TNNLU Trichy
DBRANLU Sonipat
MNLU Aurangabad
DNLU Jabalpur
Those left out
NLU Tripura
RPNLU Prayagraj
NLU Meghalaya
NLU Sikkim
Any NLU left??
A foreign llm - if it’s at the right place will actually help you get jobs. Whether that’s jobs in the foreign country or jobs in India. Since I got foreign llm from top uni. I haven’t interviewed for any of the jobs I’ve held. Just an interview for formality.
Also people chase status. Graduating from Harvard or Yale and having that on your cv means something.
And lastly - some people just want to keep learning and thinking about the law. They enjoy it.
Asking this question is sort of like asking why some people love strawberry ice cream
https://www.nujs.edu/home/about-nujs/organisational-structure/
- Those who are out by default are the TMC ministers: Moloy Ghatak (Law), Chandrima Bhattacharya (Finance), Bratya Basu (Education) etc.
- Also out is the old Advocate General (Kishore Datta). This is the only post where the new occupant has been named.
- There is another TMC MLA, Ashok Deb, but he is there in the capacity of WB Bar Council Chairman. He will stay until the next bar election in March 2027, which will presumably see a BJP lawyer. But I wouldn't put it past the BJP to stage an Operation Lotus and get him out earlier.
- Then there is Kalyan Bandopadhyay, TMC MP. Out for sure.
- Also out for sure will be Indrajit Dube (NKC's man), Sanjay Basu of Aquilaw and certain pro-TMC lawyers.
So in all a huge change coming.
Folks, please help out. How do i reach out partners in t-1 firms here. Is there any hiring? If anyone could share any leads. Would they reply. How do i navigate this. I am here, without friends or any other support system. The place feels daunting with disproportionate rents, traffic and well, everything.
A2 pay is a composite of 29, about 21.3 + 8.7.
If Suvendu Adhikari holds Finance he will probably be represented by his Principal Secretary at NUJS.
Also, no sign of who the new law minister willl be. Kaustabh Bagchi excluded. Will Suvendu retain law as well?
The one big and influential development is the new AG. Wonder what he will do to NUJS?
In such a situation, would you still recommend undertaking the call-back internship purely for the experience, exposure, networking opportunities, and to strengthen future lateral prospects? Or would it be more prudent to focus efforts elsewhere, given the impossibility of conversion?
I would be grateful to hear perspectives from associates, recruiters, and those who have faced a similar decision.
CAM/SAM/KCO ppos shud roll out soon
NLU Nagpur>Christ NCR campus.
Foreign is
As if the top litigation counsels aren't outearning the top law firm partners by a factor of 3-5x atleast. Keep being in the delulu that a law firm 'job' is the key to growth and success
Have seen partners and counsels make mistakes. Everyone does. Relax.
Thanks!
1. NLSIU 2. JGLS
3. NLUD
5. NALSAR
6. GNLU
7. NLUJ
8. NLIU
9. RGNUL
10. RMLNLU/Symbiosis Pune/BITS/SNU
Somehow surviving this bloodbath while trading away some of their most important years of youth without developing any signs of a social animal, or a bare minimum EQ, gives them this inflated sense of academic ego and superiority over everyone else. Even after protests and demonstrations status quoists and apologists will be the downfall of NLS. No wonder why none of our alumni want to hire us because we all have a cockiness issue and it shows.
Sometimes people don't want tags they just wish to have a wholesome college life with the same opportunities, decent academics and placements which colleges like NUJS NLUJ and GNLU amongst many others offer. NLS is not doing better in terms of corp placements and has not been able to break NUJS' record which was evident after bo26' numbers - employability here being a very fair and reasonable metric to judge the "quality of their graduates." Coming to litigation, GLC/CLC and other traditional law colleges have a far better alumni support system to boast off compared to all NLUs combined. I'm not even dealing with NLUD because they are just starting out and don't have comparable stats or placement records to evaluate them with NLS Nalsar NUJS etc. So please come down from your high horse, you're not superior to anyone.
At the risk of inching dangerously close to an ad hominem, I would also like to point out that the people who usually complain about the trimester system are also those who don't do any readings or pay attention in class and study just a day or two before exams. If a person can get a degree at NLS just by doing this, then it is rather unfair to malign the trimester system as being too rigourous. You can't point to the continuous eval system for contributing to rigour either since most people are able to scrape by with at least a B/B+ even if they have submitted crappy AI-written papers.
Similarly, the Canadian even South African judges didn't depend on a retinue of staff to get their water, tea, coffee etc and self service wasn't an odd thing to do. Can give many more examples but pointless.
Don't stop at cockroaches. Need more of insectkind.
As someone who knows a bit about them through an acquaintance, the vacancy arose because they are holding promotions. This person too worked at a T-1 and has a good amount of experience and a decent profile, yet their growth was stalled. Make of it what you will.
My response to that from experience of British judges: very unlikely, but not entirely impossible. I know of some characters in the England and Wales judiciary who might do this kind of thing.
I ended up getting offers from two tier 1 firms and one tier 2 firm in my 4th year.
Don't lose hope, try networking as much as possible, your placement cell is not the only place you can get internships from.
Also, these firms don't pay that much attention to your gpa once you get the internship, it's only a pre-requisite to get the internship (if applying via the cell or individually). try networking with people (ideally SA and above) and getting them to forward your CV to their company HRs. once you enter a firm, it's far easier as long as you can convince your team you deserve a place there.
We have 16 PPOs, 21 day zero and about 20 post-day zero jobs for the 2026 batch...almost everyone who wanted one and got it, with a few unlucky exceptions who are quite capable and will find their feet in the profession easily in a few months or so
I'd say it was a pretty decent year, really
My concern with this is that SO many of these students have the same reason, it has started to feel...hard to believe, lets just say. But again, could be true as well considering the job market and numbers of other unis. I do sense a general change in hiring norms.
This ofc does not account the forthcoming assessment internships as they would not have converted by the time day zero happens. In fact, there's a chance someone doing an assessment in June/July will just get hired on day zero and end up having to reject the offer from said internships (our policy i believe is drafted this way)
These students need to get over their NLUs.
Also, that video is quite old and not of heatwave underway presently.
also hey you know what, if abroad doesn't work out, do your level best to build a life you can be proud of here. I mean this with all due sincerity towards someone I certainly don't know, Good luck in whatever your endeavours may be.
Thanks for not being the usual troll, meaningful responses always are more fruitful. Also yes, I suppose going to the UK with eyes open is the best course. As it stands time will tell if I can pull this off. Though, I am curious on how you've managed to pull it off in the U.K (to absolutely nobody's surprise).
Also, how many hours do you typically work each day, and what do your weekends look like? Are you usually working through them, taking them off, or somewhere in between?
What all have you achieved, as in bought a house, car, vacations etc?
from GNLU, NALSAR, NLS, NLUJ, NLUD, NUJS, HNLU, RML etc.
Do let us know about Office Number 3 when you get time
I heard he broke a glass bottle on his junior’s head in anger 😂 Some say this was at his office, others say he flew into a rage and did this inside the Court premises itself 😂🤣
Guy has the wildest stories about him 😂😂
I wanna know:
1. Before covid did anyone use so, or
Laptop in courtroom? What was the reaction of the judges then?
2. Ipads became common after covid, but exactly when? Which years especially? So far aa i know delhi bar was the first to adopt it, both hc and sc, then slowly followed by other hcs within a year or two max
3. If liquidtext was available on android tabs as well, would they be more prominent than ipads today?
4. For those who got the opportunity to work with both, physical briefs and ipads, which one is better and how did the transition go about for u? Was it difficult? What do u miss about physical briefs or any thing u want from the earlier times?
5. From personal experience i can say most briefs today recieved in most well to do chambers are virtual
Good 90-95 percent. Rarely one or two physical. Most chambers are paperless. What does the future look like? Will it continue to be like this? What do you all think? Esp those who transitioned from physical to digital briefs
OP here. Thank you for your concern and kind words 🙏🏻🪷🌸 Yes, I’m in a much better place right now.
I completely agree. This is why it’s so important to be street smart. Since I was a kid, I was a bookworm. I loved to study, followed whatever my teachers said religiously and toed the line completely. Whatever ideals and ethics lessons we were taught at school, I took them quite literally. Even my CLAT coaching teacher called me, “too idealistic”. I genuinely believed that, “Truth alone triumphs”, “Good always wins over evil” and other such stuff you learn from childhood, in the stories you’re taught with a moral lesson, in the ethics and morals classes at school as well as college.
At law school, I would readily buy into the lofty ideals written into our constitution, judgements, BCI rules and I would feel so good about how our Judiciary held itself to such impeccable standards. How despite our legislature and executive being too far gone, our Judiciary was still standing as the last beacon of hope. Especially when you’re fed all such unicorns and rainbows and more by your law school teachers who paint a very rosy picture when you’re a first year and they’re trying to retain you so that you don’t change colleges. (I got to know this later from a senior who stayed in my hostel). And when you read books on legendary judges and lawyers, they’re described as other-worldly and almost divine by their colleagues.
Plus, I was the quintessential teacher’s pet in school. I used to top my exams, carry odd errands around the school for my teachers, participate in whatever competition and workshop they asked me to when they didn’t have any other student takers since they had a quota to complete for student participation and burn myself out just to please them. I remember how deeply ingrained and imprinted were the ideals they’d taught us since kindergarten. “Guru-Shishya Parampara”, “Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devo Maheshwara”, “How the stature and place of a teacher is even above your parents and just below God”. I still remember the poster on the corridor where my 8th std classroom was. It described the meaning of “Guru: Gu + Ru = One Who Removes Darkness”. A common complaint my mum had throughout my schooling years was, whatever her teachers tell her, she takes it literally as if it’s set in stone. She’ll run around at the last minute, at midnight, if her teacher tells her to participate in something at the last minute. My mum finally got fed up of my 7th std class teacher making me do her errands around the school, checking her papers and books, and told her off in the next PTA meeting and asked her to stop treating me as her personal assistant and let me study since she would tell me to give a book to another teacher at the start of class and by the time I came back, having walked across the school campus and back half the class was over and I would miss the concepts taught. At that point I didn’t even go to tuitions since our principal told us not to and I took it literally. My mum would scold me for that and complained about my insane teacher appeasement behaviour to my Masi.
My masi used to say that teachers and all are limited to inside the school. A once school gets over and the bell rings, they’re just normal people and one should treat them as such. No need to show so much reverence towards them. I would bend down to touch the feet of whichever teacher I bumped into outside school since we were taught that in school. That would be my highlight for the week and I would tell my friends I bumped into so and so today.
This incident really burst a bubble and I realized that though the proverbs and shlokas about teachers are on point, they don’t apply to all. Just because someone mugs up some concepts about a subject does not make them a Guru and does not elevate them to the stature this word carried. And so they should not be held to the same sense of awestruck fascination and devotion I so naively and tbh, stupidly harboured. At that point, I was straight out of my school which was very strict in upholding standards of behavioural conduct, dress code, academic excellence etc. so I kept all my college teachers as well on the same pedestal we were taught at school.
Moreover, one should keep an eye for all the red flags in the behaviour of the perpetrator. I could not register them on account of the rose colored glasses I had on at that time. After our guest lecture was over, some students went over to discuss their doubts and engage in discussions, I was one of them. You know the lists of advocates students can intern under that the college circulates? His name was on it. Our teacher had asked him to explain a couple of concepts which she would not be covering and had asked everyone to attend compulsorily as those topics would not be repeated in class later. I thought to myself that was a great opportunity. I could discuss my internship prospects with him at college itself, instead of having to go to his office alone. A week prior to the guest lecture, I didn’t even know someone like him existed on the planet.
Anyways, when my turn came I asked, “Sir are you taking any interns? Your name is on the list our college gave us, of the advocates we can intern under.” He told me to walk with him as he had to meet the dean. Now our classroom was on the first floor. The dean’s office was at the end of the corridor on the ground floor. While walking he asked if I understood the concept our group had doubts in and asked me a couple of questions regarding it. They all had stayed back in class since their doubts had been solved. Since I was the only one remaining, I walked with him to the dean’s office. Since the dean was preoccupied, he was requested to wait. I stood behind clutching my notebook. The teacher who asked us to wait asked him to please sit and wait for a few minutes. There was a bench next to our dean’s office with it’s back to the wall at the end of the corridor. He sat down and motioned me to sit next to him. I sat to his right after leaving some space in between. I started to discuss the internship again and asked him if he had any vacancies. He told me to call him and fix an appointment at his office to discuss it since he had to meet our dean right now. I said okay, and asked him his office address, opening my notebook with my pen ready to jotted in down.
He said I’ll give you my card and started to take it out of his pocket. After he took it out of his pocket, he folded his arms and slipped his left hand under his right arm and shook his card that was wedged in the fingers of his left hand, as a signal for me to take it. I still remember how odd it looked and how perplexed I felt. Why was he slipping his card like he was handing over some contraband? (This was the same posture he would enact later) Anyways, so while feeling utterly confused and weirded out, I took the card and tried to shake off this feeling. After I took the card, he told me to keep it in my notebook, lest I lose it. I had it in my hand. So I kept it in my notebook (I later realized he was asking me to hide it). After I do that I look up and see our moot court teacher walking towards us in the corridor with her eyes widened. Like she had caught him dealing contraband or something. And after seeing her, he immediately stiffened, straightened up and stood to greet her. He looked very flustered like he had been caught in the act of doing something wrong. She faked a laugh and said the dean was ready to meet him. And that made me even more confused. Later, I rationalized it to myself that maybe this was to not let out the news of him taking interns out or else he would be swamped with applications and I might never get a chance since our entire class and our seniors as well, would apply. Looking back, I realized how absolutely dumb my excuse for his extremely weird behaviour was and maybe the reason why my moot court teacher looked so shocked was perhaps he had had complaints made against him prior? Since students at our college has been interning under him and this was the same list that had been circulated to our seniors as well.
That was the first red flag. The second one was during the interview process. As soon as I sat down, he told me the question our college teachers had told us to expect and prepare answers for, in advance as it would be asked for sure. “So tell me about yourself”. I started repeating the answer I had prepared: academic history, strengths, weaknesses, hobbies, reasons for doing the internship etc. When I mentioned that I loved to read and was a voracious reader, he stopped me and asked me names of some of the books I had read. I started saying, “To Kill a Mockingjay”… and he stopped me once again, said he was impressed and asked if I read non fiction as well. I said yes and started listing down the books I had read. He paused me to ask me if I was into history and I said yes. I was a major history buff and when asked what history books I had read, I started off my list with Rajtarangini by Kalhana since that was the latest I had read and the most I remembered so if he asked me any questions related to it, I’d be able to answer them relatively better than the books I had read earlier. At that he interrupted me and looked quite surprised and said that I didn’t expect a first year student to have had read it. I said my social studies teacher had suggested it in the end of 10th std. He said, “Wow, that’s very smart”. With an emphasis on “smart”. He said I reminded him of his elder daughter who was a vociferous reader and read a lot as well. He then got up and pulled out Rajtarangini from his shelves behind his desk and showed it to me. And said that as his intern, I would have access to his collection of books at all times and could ask to read it anytime. I remember feeling so happy I had passed the interview and had been selected. He then remarked that I had a long name and if he could call me by my pet name. He guessed my pet name out loud with a questioning tone at the end. I immediately blurted, “This is exactly what my papa calls me! And some other family members too! My mum calls me by a different name though.” (Like suppose someone’s called Deepika, her pet name would be Deepu, if someone’s called Anushka, her pet name would be Nushkie). I remember thinking of how I had found a father figure in the new senior advocate I was going to intern under since he told me I reminded him of his DAUGHTER. I genuinely thought that him guessing the same nickname my father called me by was also a sign that he thought of me as his daughter. That lowered my guard even more since a girl feels the safest in presence of her parents and here was someone who was portraying himself as my father figure. After all who would suspect someone who was being so nice and telling me I reminded him of his daughter? Looking back, I beat myself up over how unbelievably naive and stupid I was to be so trusting. But then reconciled in light of the environment I had grown up in where I had no reason to be suspicious of someone like him who was a teacher and thus, by extension, automatically to be trusted. And how I was barely an adult at that time
Later on I realized how what he said was inappropriate. This was the second red flag. In my latter internships and work experience, never did ANY of my seniors, forget the advocates I was working under, ever ask me if they could call me by a shortened version of my name, forget a pet name. It is then I realized how essential it is to have street smarts. It’s much better to be a streetwise person who scores average and is able to detect danger and stay safe than to be a book smart bookworm who tops their exams but becomes an easy target due to their naïveté. It’s so important to teach your kids to be sharp, astute, and street savvy first. Marks can always be improved later
i had something confirmed but it didn’t work out for some reason.
do indus or link legal accept?
honestly any leads or suggestions are helpful…