Not really. In fact, law is still better than most other professions because you can always find a job even if a low-paying one and then make a switch. We live in an over-regulated bureaucratic country, lawyers will always do well. Its the smart people - engineers, doctors and architects that suffer. Although IT jobs I'd say are still better than legal ones.

On the contrary, every NLU VC does shady stuff and hopes that the students won't openly protest against them. Hence they keep appeasing students with easy grades and attendance. Then there are VCs like Sudhir who has got friends in really high places, so he can afford to alienate students in his quest for discipline.

Not really. There is no class in NUJS that has genuine 70 percent attendance from even 50 percent students, no matter which teacher teaches it now. You are a lazy, entitled lot who just wants grades and a job at the end. Most of you aren't interested in law at all other than the pay that it brings. Good electives get cancelled every semester because students find those 'too taxing' to opt for.

I was not one of the PhD candidates, o smug one. I had been invited by your own esteemed administration as an expert panelist in more than one such presentation. And I stand by what I said. The purpose of the panel is not to show off your own knowledge or lack thereof to the candidate, but to guide them to do better. Which I've seen several NLSIU faculty fail to do, exceptions notwithstanding. So get off your high horse.

NUJS alumni have never cared about the institution itself once they graduate and leave the place. There are a few exceptions who come back to deliver credit courses or accept temporary contracts as adjunct, or who contribute financially to the students. Moreover, the VC always presented a smiling and encouraging front to all alumni during the meetings, even if he rarely follows up on his promises.

I want to do my undergrad in law. Given that there are only a few only NLUs worth going to and very hard to get in for general category candidates, it's likely that I'll be heading to either Jindal , Symbiosis (Pune/Noida) or BITS. I guess BITS and Symbiosis have the advantage of a good location, but I will probably prefer JGLS because it has better faculty, placements and foreign collaborations. However, one of the things I am curious about are the sports facilities at JGLS. I currently play basketball and a bit of cricket. I am keen to learn a new sport, especially one that is elite and exclusive, such as equestrian, polo, squash, golf, shooting, billiards etc.

Which of these sports are currently on offer at JGLS and how are the facilities? And the scene generally? Can any current student help me out? Thanks.

I will suggest buying a Macbook M1. It is old now (almost 3 years) but still is ore than enough to handle law school and internships. Additionally, the long battery life coupled with the light weight body makes it the best option in the market as of now.

If not Macbook, please buy a Dell laptop with decent processor and ram. Windows 11 is notoriously heavy on memory and hence, buying a low spec Dell would affect your overall productivity. Also, use the keyboard before buying so that you can ensure that the tactile feedback suits you.

Say strict no to HP (overpriced), Lenovo (very bad build quality), Acer (poor overall performance), Asus (No good laptops in this range)

PS: The above brands have been evaluated on the basis of the product options they furnish within the 50k price bracket. There are expensive devices of these brands which are good, but then your budget constraint won't allow you to accomodate them.

I personally have been using a Macbook M1 since May 2021 without any issues. Have dropped it thrice and spilled coffee on it twice, yet it works like a charm.

Better late than never.

1. Recognise your area of interest. Try to find any topic to research.

2. Apply for UGC NET and JRF. Try to get JRF.

3. Find a guide specialising in your area and try to find if they can take you.

4. Apply for a PhD and try to get admission. If you're unsatisfied with JRF pay, apply as Guest faculty to a few places if you can manage your time.

You are making gross generalizations about the quality of a paper or student on the basis of just one question. Just like the person above you did. Next I'm expecting you to cherry pick a few more questions from other clat papers from other years to support your statement. Why you or the above commenter have to engage in shitty comparisons like this is something I cannot understand?

Listen, those of you who think the TMC will lose on Tuesday and NKC will be weakened are mistaken. The TMC will not lose for 2 simple reasons:

1. Mathematics: 30% of the Muslim vote in the TMC's favour and the remaining 70% split between the BJP and Left/Congress.

2. Reality: Mass rigging and violence by TMC goons.

Thus, NKC is absolutely secure and he may double down by instituting probes and enquiries against students, backed by the EC. So only Chandrachud can kick him out.

This doesn't seem to be an official endorsement from the GNLU SBA. It's just an unaffiliated group of students doing so because they see it as a sexual harassment issue. So unfortunately I don't think it's a case of inter-NLU solidarity. I do not see a return to inter-NLU solidarity because the current set of students in NLUs are selfish and hyper-competitive. Their thinking is: "Why should we stand up for NLU X when it has nothing to do with my NLU and NLU X is my rival in getting jobs with CAM and SAM?"

Because we hardly study anything that's useful for financial analyst role. Duh ! We are legal advisors, counsellors and practitioners, we are assigned in that sense. Most of my batchmates worked in Morgan after an MBA, some worked "with" Morgan after joining a foreign law firm, post LLM and work experience abroad.

So think before you compare apples and oranges. It's like asking why a wicketkeeper is not selected based on his bowling skills !

I hate the censorship this site has, but the other statement is not a factual statement. The amount of people currently pursuing PhD and who have made presentations can be counted on fingertips. In the presentations I have attended, people were not faffing off, though some of the methodology can be questioned but I didn't feel anyone was name dropping or anything. Many times in your presentation, we have to explain X has done this, w eare taking forward their work etc etc. that may sound like name dropping but I don't think it is.

Does anyone who joins a fresher stay for more than two years? Why is this switch necessary? Is it because you're learning the job the first few years and are perceived as incompetent, and it's hard to shake this image off? I'd like to stick around for more than 2 years if possible, is that not advisable?

NLS acrually has a seperate entrance test for foreign nationals. The prerequisite to apply is that you are a citizen of another country and completed atleast 10 years of your elementary to high school education for outside India. NALSAR and NLUD have a foreign national quota that only considers board marks

Is it not strange that NUJS alumni do not usually speak against the malpractices happening in NUJS at any given time. NLSIU alumni is a bit different and they are extremely vocal in their criticisms. Why do people want to live in their own world and do nothing for their alma mater once they graduate. So selfish?

Evidence apparently demonstrates that you know how to spell "judiciary", despite doubts being raised by your conduct re the title of the thread (spelling it as "judicary"). Before thinking about these big career questions, however, I'd suggest you take some basic lessons in not making careless mistakes. A deplorable habit at the best of times, such sloppiness could easily get you fired from whatever job you take up in life.

Unlike what most of you all think, it's the stupid faculty that makes students uninterested in academics and not the other way round. These 4-5 faculty members are the most respected in college. It's obvious that they'd leave too cause NUJS is a hellhole at present (if not bound by personal or other reasons), but I can attest to the fact that even the laziest of us would go to attend their class first thing in the morning cause we know it's imp and worth it.

So sorry that you had to go thru this. It’s understandable that teams care about the deliverables, however giving so much liberty to a senior to treat freshers like this heartbreaking. Why would firms even want to keep such people who shun everyone instead of someone who is willing to learn.

As someone from an NLU, you seem to need some lessons on basic reading very badly. Look at this: "We both hold an undergrad degree from a foreign country btw.". I mean come on, they have completed a bachelors degree overseas, meaning they would have had to sit the equivalent of 12th boards over there. Are you seriously telling us that despite a foreign degree, these places will ask this lady to give a school-level qualification?

These statements of solidarity have not been issued formally by the student body/association of the respective NLUs. Also is this entire thing passing the smell test? SJA issues solidarity statement but what about faculty and non-teaching members of NUJS? Sure, the VC has his acolytes but what about the so-called silent majority? Why not even a squeak from them?

In the past, the non-teaching staff had even petitioned the EC to allow a former registrar to continue after the SJA had exposed her dodgy dealings. So, why no open expression of love/support for the associate professor even from her allies within NUJS?

NKC and Co are already going after the SJA Prez. It is no longer an anonymous complaint against the Prez. Two boys have signed off on that complaint. Question is did she actually go to the male hostel and why and why repeatedly? The rules are stupid but the Prez accepted the rules. NKC will definitely use this opportunity to dilute the credibility of the Prez, SJA and may even try to make her resign.

For those thinking that a BJP surge here will salvage us from the morass, please wake up. BJP has literally given a walkover to TMC in at least 10 seats. One needn't go far. Just consider the folks it put up for Kolkata South, Jadavpur, Diamond Harbour, Sreerampore, Krishnanagar, Bolpur, Asansol and some more seats. Many are TMC strongholds. But what about putting up a good fight, like the upset caused by Smriti Irani?

Also have you ever considered why the central govt never issued notification for the transfer of SS to Cuttack despite Collegium clearance? The same SS wasn't exactly "pro-BJP" in the 5-judge bench constituted by the then Acting CJ Bindal (now in SC) to hear matters relating to the arrest of four heavyweight TMC politicos.

NKC will continue till 2026. Ofc he wants a full second term to be granted right now. But that's not going to happen anyway. The associate professor overreached. Now the investigation by LCC will amble along and finally state insufficient evidence. Univ will continue rolling downhill and employable students will get jobs et al.

Business as usual. Thanks for the entertainment. Could have been a lot better. The standard is 2018 or at least 2014 when the SJA was able to get the HC to send a retired a HC judge to lead an inquiry which damned the PIB administration.

Cautionary tale: despite the stinging report, PIB was given full second term in 2016 unanimously by the EC.

Inspiring tale: SJA understood how it was misled by a then assistant professor (whose deal with PIB had gone sour) and now an associate professor. SJA took corrective measures; carved an independent position, access to information, remained apolitical and alert to faculty/staff politics and achieved success in 2018. Even collaborated in successful evictions in CNLU, HNLU and RGNUL.

We could do with a little less of the cynicism, if that's all the same to you. As someone who apparently knows a lot about activism strategies, you seem to have forgotten (or have failed to appreciate) the inherent value of bad publicity (both eventualities would be very surprising). NUJS needs bad publicity as much as NLSIU needs people who set off firecrackers in his room when he was teaching at NUJS to stop shitposting about Sudhir on here.

Uhhh no. The best of law graduates are not better than the mid tier mea grads or engineers or doctors - simply in terms of natural selection. Law schools are not 10% as competitive to get through, not 1% as rigorous as a STEM course and not 0.1% as useful in terms of skillset.

Even otherwise, most top professions which pay the same over the same career span as Tier 1 law firms have it even tougher than an average t1 law firm. try talking to a management consultant who has to travel to bumf*** nowhere locations every week to a client's office and work as their employee or a doctor who has to be on call 24/7. doctors have the worst of it - low pay, high risk, mental working hours.

I'm already cs student should I invest 5 year in ba llb or llb from Agra University (can't opt for 3 year llb from GLC because of doesn't meet the eligibility criteria.

I just want to join good law firm in Mumbai and give some guidance which firm should i apply for cs training.

Bro wtf are you on about? Do you know anything about finance and quant analysis? It's not the same shit due diligence even AI can do. It's very mathematical and analytical. Ofcourse you begin by making random.pitch decks, but you do reach a place where you apply a lot.of your mind.

And mind you, for twice the salary as a law firm person, with way higher hiring, with way more.influence on the world and international interoperability

I'm company secretary student and i want to do law along with it should i opt for llb from bhim Rao ambedkar University from Agra it will save my 3 years or i should opt try ba llb from GLC for which I have to give mhcet next year and it will take 5 year

My goal is join law firm in Mumbai

Will my 3 year llb degree along with cs degree sufficient to get job in law firms in Mumbai?

sorry to burst your bubble, but off the rack suits are garbage, no matter the page turner or the dd report. did you know both your arms are of different lengths? ditto for your legs. try accommodating that in an off the rack suit. and Zara sells the most bottom tier stuff in India. I would walk into a client meeting in just my boxers and a pair of socks, than wear anything churned out by child labourers in Zara sweatshops.

Apologies for hurting your sensibilities, but I get paid enough to not find them overpriced (3k for a shirt is good to go for me. especially considering that M&S type stores sell 2k shirts with polyester mix). The fit is maybe bad for your body, but for a nicely built person like yours truly, the fit is great. Try getting their slim fits, with one size bigger than your usual size. The shirts are miles ahead of pedestrian trash like Arrow and M&A anyway. The cotton on their shirts is top tier. Arrow and M&S sell polyester garbage which I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.

See here mate, I know this is likely not the advice you/your wife are looking for, but please just give it a read and maturely reflect on it before marking it trollish/contested, at the very least (I appeal to mods, hopefully with more success, to show an equal level of maturity). You are, of course, free to disregard it if you think it is wrong.

The NLUs are wonderful, true, no doubt about that, being the best options for legal education in India and gradually going towards becoming competitive in Asia. But from a ‘beyond India’ perspective, they are still that: working to become competitive. All this ‘Harvard of the east’ stuff is just these folks giving themselves airs (like the western uni PR machines, which you would likely be familiar with, often do for themselves). But when you say you are from a foreign country, I am assuming you mean one of the usual suspects (5 I countries, EU/NATO, Singapore/Hong Kong). My suspicions strongly incline towards a western country, because somebody reading for a degree later in life is, in my experience, a distinctly western phenomenon (NB: I am not asking for, and you shouldn’t tell me, your nationality, because revealing such information is against LI rules). If you have access to unis in these places and money to pay the home students’ tuition rate (or ability to access Student Finance), please just ditch the idea of an NLU education for her and take that option instead. If she gets in via a foreign/NRI reservation/quota, Indians will laugh at, look down upon and despise her, while your own people (if you folks are Brits, at least, speaking from experience of living in Britain) are likely to behave/think in much the same way (fun fact: we Indians have the ability to be as petty as every Tory/Reform/ American Maga politician/supporter of such people you can think of, and then some, as you hopefully have figured out by now, just as they have as much ability as our lot do to absorb lessons in pettiness from some of our more funny characters). Also, unless your wife is planning to do the degree for the pure aesthetic pleasure of working for a qualification/gaining knowledge and/or doing it to kill time she has on her hands (a pretty costly pastime, by the way, considering the NLUs make people in your kind of situation pay similar sums of money to what a limey or Yankee university would do for us international students), you are likely to encounter a lot of disappointments/an uphill battle, because, on the one hand, you have restrictions to practicing in India (even if your wife has OCI), and that kind of a degree is likely to be even less useful in your own country (I have spoken to enough black-tie-sporting, Eton/Harrow-moulded, Oxbridge-educated snobs among Anglo-Welsh barristers’ chambers’ pupillage committees and law firm grad rec teams/grad rec partners to know that they believe NLU academic standards to be lower than those of RG/Ivy ones, and that, at best, such a degree can be compensated for with a strong postgraduate degree combination, such as Oxford BCL + MPhil + DPhil, or Harvard LLM + Oxford BCL, and my researches/experiences reveal no reason why those in other countries won’t be equally, if not more, insular). Abandon this fool's errand, therefore, and pursue a course of action which is more conducive to the long-term health of the exchequer.

I recently got a PPO and I have realised a few things that I'm gonna tell you:

1. Your work speaks but that is not the sole criteria based on which PPOs are given. Almost all the firms where I have interned in my 4th-5th yr loved my work but only one went ahead and offered me a PPO.

2. No matter how many months you intern with a firm, they won't hire you until and unless they have vacancies. They don't care about your future. I have seen hardworking people not getting hired even after interning for like 6 months with a firm and I have seen people getting hired in just one month. Keep track of the hiring cycles of each firm where you are interested.

3. One thing that plays a crucial role during internships is your networking and conversation holding skills. Approach people specially the partners during your internship for guidance and work. Don't shy away from asking for what you deserve (a PPO). Tell the partners that you wanna get hired.

4. It is a myth that if you follow the proper channel i.e. working with the Associates and communicating with the partners through the Associates, the Associates are gonna vouch for you or that your efforts would be acknowledged. You are not gonna get that PPO unless and until a partner or some PA level person notices you and likes your work.

5. Most of the assessment/ long term internships and paralegalships are scams. Do proper research about vacancies and hiring cycles before interning with any firm. It is too easy for them to make false claims about employment opportunities even when they have no intentions of hiring you. Firms just love free labourers.

PS: All the best!

Invest in good clothing- casual and formals, shoes, watch, bags. Go for branded clothes, I don't mean any luxury brands but basic branded clothes with good stitching and material. Same goes for bags!!! Bags and clothing put a huge impact on the personality of a person. Also, you may want to save certain money and spend after a month of joining because it depends on the culture of the firm as well. At some places western formals are common rather than Indian formals and vice versa, for women. If you're a boy have a 2-4 ties, and a smart blazer.

Other than the above, water bottle, tiffin box, and something you would want to keep on your desk at work like a plant, etc.

How did you prepare for the interview? Was it related only to your research proposal and allied fields or was it on everything in law ? Moreover, did you contact any faculty beforehand to review your proposal? If you had to choose, irrespective of your specialisation or topic, any one of the above NLUs which one would you choose ?