I think it might just be NUJS. There are a bunch of professors who work in law and tech. Prof. Shameek offers a media law elective, which is banging, and also heads a new centre that is doing some good work; one of the only centres that actually works at NUJS tbh. Also, Prof. SKG, man, he's impeccable. He knows a ton and is also on editorial boards of journals wrt AI Ethics. He also offered an elective not very long ago on AI ethics. Then, the young Prof. Gupta. He works on stuff like esports, fintechs, etc. Prof. Gupta has some amazing command over his domain area, like really. I have spoken to him quite a few times, and the guy knows his shit in and out, which really helped me in some areas I was stuck in during internships. He was apparently offering an elective on fintech to the LLM batch; maybe he will offer us next year or so. Prof. Annie Mazum is very senior again and a brilliant teacher of IP and Cyberlaw. Like the guy. Even Dr. Srinivasulu is good with biotechnology law; he takes another compulsory subject on science tech and law ig. Has a stellar publication record. The good part about them is that each of them is very involved and interested in educating and making students learn. U can reach out to prof. aman, prof. shouvik, prof. shameek for clarifying concepts etc., and they will really go an extra mile to explain that and encourage you. They also expect good work from students tbh and keep an eye out for them. So it's not that u can clown ur way into working with them, but they are generally very kind and just amazing human beings eod.

1. Abandon the popular perception to the extent of pro Pakistan feelings. These guys are much more (in the British context) RW, meaning much more pro India. In fact, Congress will find it much harder to get along with Labour (as it currently is) than the BJP.

2. Don't be so 100% sure about Labour as it currently is being too much in favour of immigration. They have also been making worrying noises about bringing the numbers down (though the number that the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) gave for 2022 - 23 of net migration, 745000, is too high). They might be a bit less hostile to immigration than the current Tory administration (maybe more like Tories in 2020 - 2021). Watch out for Labour's manifesto. Even with Boris/Truss, the Indians were negotiating with a Tory party whose manifesto said they'd bring immigration down to "the tens of thousands", which is why they found it difficult (as Tories needed to show their people at home that they weren't being too flexible either). My observations of Keir Starmer's political technique indicate that he is likely to be pragmatic, in other words, for our people, sensible. He might compromise (to a limited extent) on work visas for Indians, allowing for the give-and-take that you have described. Or, he and his people might push hard on some other Indian weak point, forcing us to relent, re. foreign law firms. Remember, Starmer, the likely future prime minister, is a lawyer by training and a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Therefore, he will be batting hard for the legal sector, something Conservatives in modern times (surprisingly for people who know anything about British conservatism) haven't been doing for some considerable time. If you do some research, you will find that they have made some really damaging financial cuts to the criminal justice system/prisons, and restricted legal aid hugely. This trend of throwing the British legal sector under the bus at home has also been reflected abroad in their reluctance to bat for the UK legal sector in the international space, something which will massively change from July 5.

1) No.

2) With eyes shut, go for GLC. It is awesome. You can intern throughout the year, they care hash about attending classes.

3) Maybe, but concentrate on your profile building and on GLC academics (whatever that may be) as well. If you think you can strike the balance, go for it!

As a card carrying 'Sudhir fanboy', I will say that I know nothing about the impact on the MNLUs. However, I know what Sudhir should do about this for NLS. Like how the British and American law schools do for international students, introduce IELTS as an additional Secure English Language Test to CLAT and board marks as a measure of quality for people from Maharashtra to get admitted to NLSIU.

Any wonder so many Indians like Trump? You could give him lessons in what aboutary. Just because "all Indian cities" have accessibility problems means Bangalore should be forgiven for having them? I thank my stars I am living in London, where we at least don't get this kind of attitude.

People who are already living in Mumbai, having offices or near Lower Parel, please tell me what your living arrangements are in the following order-

1. Flat/Home/PG

2. 1/2/3BHK

3. Single/Shared and how

4. Rent

5. Locality

For example you can say that you live in a sharing flat of 2 BHK with 1 flatmate for 35000 rent near Mahalakshmi cross road.

Why can't we just shift to paper ballots, to prevent the possibility of tampering? Why does Modi insist on EVMs?

https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/india/lok-sabha-elections-2024-kapil-sibal-issues-checklist-to-verify-evm-tampered-or-not-during-counting-on-result-day-3039571

Boss SJA President didn’t even write the letter, a bunch of drafters did

If you were a student of NUJS you would have known that but clearly you’re not so stop making these random fake comments on a public forum

The statement went through a GB vote where nearly 400 students approved it

I plan to join an office where I can function and earn money and be sane. And use some part of that money to start a business (not sure what). It is not easy to change careers when you have this burden to decide quickly, but it is possible. You have to ignore inputs of others and maybe just join an office with a practice area you actually have atleast some interest in until you figure something out.

I personally know a lot of fantastic lawyers from both SLS Pune and Noida. Of course, if finances weren’t an issue, SLS Pune might have made more sense. That being said, a lot of people decide to stay closer to their hometowns to save costs/be closer to family.

SLS Noida is a perfectly reputable school. Any college you go, you’ll have to put in the hours, hard work, sincerity and honesty, and that doesn’t change for SLS Noida as well.

And SJA couldn't rustle up the funds for its website? What stopped it from raising its own funds, seek sponsorship, donation etc?

Previously, soon after NKC came in as the VC, he shut down the medals awarded by the SJA. The then SJA prez didn't even bother murmuring a protest. His successors voluntarily emaciated whatever was left of the SJA.

Try this crowd sourced list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pzckT6ns2H1IlmwYwJa8EnBh_1u3gRA9cEOoA4zfilc/htmlview#gid=125850748

Not at all true. I think it depends on how curious you are to learn. I worked for 5-6 years and then did an LLM. During work years, I was always interested in knowing more about current developments in the law and kept reading regularly. The LLM was quite refreshing because it allowed me to take a break from work and spend a year doing just reading and writing.

You also want to think about whether some foreign law schools are themselves carrying out grade inflation, if you are thinking about an LLM. There have been serious accusations against Manchester in this regard. So you want to make sure that you aren't going to an LLM uni with grade inflation, in addition to ensuring your undergraduate uni has their house clean on that front :))).

People occupy land illegally because the city has no affordable housing. It's so bad that even the middle class can't afford housing there. The Govts priority has to be to repeal outdated rent control and land tenure laws, increase housing supply and create an affordable housing market. Without that, the slums will stay.

Absolutely. NKC will be getting a second term. The Cal HC changes nothing. It is a direction to the LCC. Also, NKC in the TT News report today has clearly signalled game on. He doesn't fear a full on investigation.

But the SJA has been clearly hijacked or manipulated by a certain faction of the faculty. While it may have independently drafted the petition to the EC/CJI but the proverbial slip is clearly showing. The allegation is yet to be proved and the HC direction doesn't really concern the EC, which has been aware of the facts all along (irrespective of the fact whether it formally discussed those).

NKC hasn't exactly done wonders to NUJS but the powers that be are okay with his middling performance and want him around. Those powerful interests need to be shown that NKC is detrimental to their not-so-visible interests. And for that SJA really needs to rediscover its old self and steer clear for vested faculty and admin interests. This associate professor can fight her own battles.

There is still time. Wise up. Be clinical.

A quick raincheck. Students at DOMS pay double of what the to-be-liars pay. The faculty at DOMS boost the rankings by publishing. What we get in return is simply not enough. The best students have gotten into the top MBA schools in India and have moved on. So, all in all........wake up.....the world has changed while you were asleep

First time ever that the SJA has written to him. Belated, but well done to the students for uniting!

https://theprint.in/judiciary/nujs-students-write-to-cji-chandrachud-seeking-v-cs-removal-over-sexual-harassment-allegation/2102705/

NUJS, in collaboration with King's College London, is hosting a 10-day Summer School on Financial Regulations and Corporate Law. The link for the same is here https://www.nujs.edu/home/summerschool2024/Is it a good opportunity, and should I go for it? Will it add value to my CV? The course costs 40k and that's a huge amount for me. Please help

Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

A t1 job in law is extremely luck based even for top nlus (alot of factors at play: grades, mood of firms, for PPO your timing of joining may coincide with an a0 leaving etc etc).

Do not bank on the thought that if you do everything right you'll get placed. Many less deserving get ppos and avid mooters and toppers are left at the mercy of day zeros to take a team they don't want in a location they don't prefer.

If you can repay the loan even with a t2 t3 job then go ahead (or if dad can help in case you are unable ) But if you're someone who is purely depending on a t1 job for repayment. Then it's not worth it. From any college.

Matter of policy. We will ignore if not through proper channels. Its not because we are arrogant - we have limited time and we whole heartedly dedicate it to seive through applications from proper channels. Considering applications from other channels will be a disservice to those who have applied properly.

Bombay be like that sometimes. Perception on bombay chances significantly as your salary increases. It is equally rewarding liberating and convenient for a rich person as it is harsh on a poor man. Half of the hometown cities which people list they miss don't even have clat coaching in their town forget law firms

Just read the statement released by the NUJS SJA; what is the scene on the ground? Is the VC expected to be given a second term? Isn't this statement a little too late for a decision to be made on 28th May? What names are being floated around for the new appointment and what effect will it have on the governance of your college? Will the LS results have any impact on this appointment? Has the CJI bothered to respond or address this issue? And is any relief to any of the involved victims expected?

Literally no one is trying to hold him back. Why would you even think that ? I just think shaming people or saying this stuff about them doesn’t help.

Yeah the phd is going on about 8 years- I know many people that have been doing that - there’s been a global pandemic in between those eight years, it’s an unfunded position so he’s had to work full time, teaching 2-3 courses a term at least not to mention all the admin work they put on him at nalsar. And he’s gotten married and had a kid. Raising a child is hard work.

Weakened his own case means what ? All his work ex doesn’t disappear no ? He’ll finish phd this year and knock out 2-3 pubs from that and get promoted to associate professor. Given the easier schedule at nls he has the breathing room to do that.

Someone doing their masters/phd immediately out of law school hasn’t had to deal with all that he has. So I would suggest that law school kids who don’t know what any of that is about and who are barely passing their own courses keep their nonsense to themselves.

Are you really putting HSA over JSA?

The practice focus and clients are very different in the infra field across firms.

So see what kind of work the team does (regulatory/government procurement/pure projects for pvt clients/m&a) and the clients before making a decision.

I actually agree more with the previous ranking.

Trilegal, SAM, CAM, JSA, AZB, saraf, indus

Cried in the partner's cabin when he yelled at me, it got really awkward. To be fair, I did mess something up and he wasn't as harsh as he could have been, I've heard worse. I'm just really tired, pmsing and overwhelmed. Do I risk making it worse by apologizing for crying or do I act like nothing happened? Please tell me I'm not alone, has this ever happened to you? I have okay mental health overall, not anxious or depressed so I don't really know why I cried, I'm so embarrassed afdjgkfhd

Hi, A2 here in a DR Team. I am usually someone who is a little more than usual diligent I.e., I need to do all tasks immediately, I need my partner to like me, I will constantly make sure that I’m doing good work and am being preferred, I go the extra mile for a matter be it the brain storming part or the logistics of it.

Recently, on holidays especially I’m unable to write a line straight without getting distracted. I’m sitting on a draft for weeks now, I just lay down and keep scrolling X. I have stopped my workouts which I earlier used to be regular with. I’m constantly agitated.

Fearing but have I hit the burnout stage? I tried taking a long weekend off but I did not feel energised and recouped.

1. Enough students have gone to foreign universities with an Indian LLB for them to know what a particular grade from an NLU is likely to mean. Therefore, they will have formed opinions on which is good and which isn't. Some, even, say so openly on their website, e.g., King's, who say that you need to be from a university "considered prestigious by King's" and have good grades from there (maybe misquoting, speaking from memory, don't have the page to hand ATM, but it was definitely something to that effect). Melbourne says something similar, I believe. Obviously, this means that an NLSIU kind of a degree is likely to be more valued than let us say (in modern conditions) a NUJS or some random TLC. Some mediocre places might still blindly look at good grades, but you wouldn't want to go to those anyway.

2. As somebody who studies in Britain at an RG uni, I am telling you this from observation. You should be aware that they tend (even if they don't say so) to look down on even the best NLUs as not being strict enough, in some senses. This is because those NLUs allow for students who fail/do badly in a law course exam to repeat it and still achieve within the full spectrum of grades. The Brits, on the other hand, do things very differently. If people fail module examinations here, they are made to resit the exam, but at most unis (particularly the Russell Group ones), the academic regulations are designed in such a way that the marks of students are 'capped' at the minimum passing grade (40% at the undergraduate level) if they fail an exam without extenuating circumstances; this means that, even if they achieve the highest mark on the resit exam, the mark noted on their transcripts will be 40%. (Of course, this doesn't take into account the situations where there are valid extenuating circumstances, like illness.) For people complaining about "academic rigour" and using UK law schools as a justification, this may be something worth thinking about. If I were somebody like Sudhir, the NLSIU VC, in order to make my institution's degrees even more highly perceived than they already are overseas, I'd tweak my own AER similarly to match the UK standard.

There are multiple collaborative research projects in AI and law that has taken place or are still happening between NUJS faculty and the various IITs, IISER, and a couple of foreign universities over the past few years. I have come across research papers highlighting such work in arxiv, ACL Anthology and other known domains. Munjal faculty hasn't really produced any published output in the field that I could see. Sai people did too. I am not sure about electives in law schools, so can't comment about it.

What a hypocrite you are? On one hand, you want diversity. On the other, you want people to know your language and you also want people to be from your part of the country? So, this rule of having a diverse population in an NLU applies only when the NLU is situated in TN and not for the north Indian ones, eh? You want your university to not have Tamil people only because you don't get to talk with them in Hindi? What sort of an entitled brat you are?

You claim to have monetary constraints owing to which you joined TNNLU. But then, you also seem to want to party. A person, who is not willing to spend ≈ 1.9 Lakh Rupees per year for education, wants to spend money on partying it seems. Look at your priority. And, no, we do not want a Pune Porsche accident kind of an incident to happen in Trichy.

Also, the university is ≈ 15 KM from Trichy Central. Do not exaggerate numbers to get attention.

been there. i explained the situation to my mentor, with whom I had a good rapport, she told me how to phrase it such that it would sound acceptable to the HR. I followed her advice exactly, did not even get blacklisted!

Nobody is going to take legal action. Try to get a certificate for the time that you did complete, especially if it's a firm that looks good on your CV

They look for any circumstances beyond your control. Some possible examples could include:

1. Long-term illness.

2. Long-term impact of a medical condition or disability (e.g., your law school didn't give you reasonable adjustments to support with your learning, if you are a disabled person (like extra time/computer usage in exams), or if whatever adjustments they gave didn't facilitate your best performance).

3. Similar to point no. 2 above, some other circumstance out of your control relating to disability adjustments (assuming you are a disabled applicant). Let us suppose you are blind and given a copy of the Bare Act in an exam that isn't accessible to you/isn't in the right format for you, or suppose you had a scribe whom you'd practiced with previously but that scribe fell ill... things like that.

4. Impacts of geopolitical circumstances on your studies (natural disaster, maybe even pandemic lockdowns?) that were worse for you than for others.

NB: There is a presumption that extenuating circumstances were taken into account by your law school professors when evaluating your work. You'll have to try and rebut that presumption.

NB II: You should know that a number of the Russell Group universities in Britain have much harsher policies towards exam resits (when you fail the assessment/exam of a course and give it again) than their Indian counterparts. Whereas in many Indian universities (including the NLUs) they still allow you to achieve (in most cases) the highest grade in a repeat exam, while indicating on your transcript that you had given a resit exam, these British universities do things differently. If you fail an exam without extenuating circumstances, they make you resit it, but they don't allow you to achieve anything higher than the minimum passing mark. They call it 'capping' your result at the minimum pass grade. So if you think you can repeat an exam in which you did badly without extenuating circumstances and apply for graduate study in these places, you may want to think again, because when they see those repeat markers, they are likely to turn up their noses in such cases, thinking that those students had an easier time of it than their counterparts at UK universities (whether this is justifiable or not is altogether another question, I am just stating the realities here).

the hard truth that no one wants to confront is that there is undersupply of law firm jobs and oversupply of good law candidates

just do a simple calculation - if you add up all the placement stats and add 20% to it, the figure will not be more than 1-1.5k, that is the total intake capacity in Indian formal legal market with half decent retainer

nlus + top 5 pvt law colleges spit out over 4k graduates pa, apart from then on avg there are 50k fresh law graduates passing aibe from other colleges, taking 5% of that figure it gives us around 6.5k semi decent lawyers who may vie for that 1k law firm jobs.

its simple, we need to have a) reduce number of law college, b) provide stipend for first 2 years for young law gradutes who want to do independent practice insititutionalise nalsa, c) open up the legal market, d) encourage formation of legal partnerships and less independent practice, this will lead to concentratio of resoruces which can then be used to transfer the burden of stipend to them, e) allow lawyers to take a cut of the compensation in lieu of fees

Why shame on me? I ain't doing anything wrong.

I am asking for career guidance as to when I should switch and is llm worth considering amongst other things.

The fact that I did got the job in the first place is because I deserve it?

Furthermore, I did everything on my own, am a first gen lawyer, who are you of all people to tell me what to do?

In accurate list except for the following reasons -

1. Amit Kapur and his team can never be tier III (go do your homework)

2. Firms which are establishing their infra practice are being counted as Tier I equivalent

3. For some firms the partners specified are wrong.

4. Not every firm mentioned in Tier I indeed has a tier I practice

Tier I:

1. Trilegal - Neeraj Menon's group (Mumbai and Gurgaon)

2. SAM - Jatin Aneja's group (Mumbai and Delhi)

3. CAM - Subhojit Sadhu (Mumbai) and Jatin Sawhney (Delhi)

4. AZB - Anuja Tiwari and Mallika Anand (Noida)

5. Khaitan & Co - Shivanshu Thaplyal (Mumbai) and Dibyanshu Sinha (Delhi)

Tier I Equivalent:

1. TT&A - Ambarish Mohanty and Akshay Malhotra (Delhi)

2. IndusLaw - Arun Kumar (Delhi) and Deepak Chowdhury (Hyderabad)

3. DSK Legal - Anjan Dasgupta (Mumbai) and Aparajit Bhattacharya (Delhi)

Tier II:

1. Dentons Link Legal - Namita Das (Delhi) and Pushkar Bavare (Mumbai)

2. HSA Advocates: Hemant Sahai and Soumya Mallik (Delhi)

3. Phoenix Legal - Pallavi Bedi (Delhi)

4. Kochhar & Co - Pradeep Ratnam (Delhi)

5. Desai & Diwanji - Parth Sharma (Mumbai)

Tier III:

1. JSA - Amit Kapur (Mumbai)

2. Saraf - Avirup Nag (Delhi)

3. Luthra - Deepak Thakur (Mumbai)

4. Economic Laws Practice - Aakanksha Joshi (Mumbai)

5. Veritas Legal - Jhinook Roy (Mumbai)

6. Samvad Partners - Sitara Pillai (Mumbai)

7. Dhir & Dhir - Guranpreet Sarna (Delhi)

but can you give some reasons why? interview is yet to be done. but yeah it'll take a LOT of convincing to get my parents to send me there. plus they all think Pune is a scum city at the point. I dont know what to do. also, loan scary. we already have a loan to repay so I have to be considerate

sls noida is nowhere near sls pune. However, pune is a much more expensive in terms of daily expenses. Even a 1bhk Unfurnished in viman nagar would cost around 20k (a decent flat). If you have a lawyer in the family, and if you have good connections, in my opinion go for SLS Noida. You can get a head start in terms of internship experience.

bengal loves incumbency, for first 30 years it was congress or allied coalition

for next 35 it was left front

didi will be completing 15 yrs in power in 2026, she will win at least one more and then hand over to her successor in 2030, then whoever is remaining as opposition will win, so bengal will change in 2031 not in 2026

after that tmc will dissipiate like aidmk, he successor will not be able to keep the flock like dmk

most likely bjp will win in 2031 and then left will win about 10-15 years later

You are assuming that Jindal faculty and students are left-wing, but the fact is that the silent majority of us are centrist/centre-right/right-wing. We do not approve of radical left/woke politics. We are from regular upper-middle class backgrounds. We just want to get on with our studies, graduate with a good grade and do a good job. We also believe in family, marriage, kids, religion and patriotism towards one's country. You may call us bourgeois, but these are our hopes and dreams and shared by 99% of the youth in India. Please don't think Gen Z is different just because of a few toxic oddballs.

Having stayed in Bombay for the last two years, I can second that the experience only gets worse. Unless and until you own a place there, around 40% of your Tier1 salary goes in rent and other household expenses. My counterparts in Delhi NCR make equal amount of money but have a much much luxurious life.

Hey Everyone,

I come from a decent college, still not able to find a job. I have tier-1 fims internships as well and that too they were without any reference but they are of no use now.

I am finding it difficulty to get into a law firm. Facing anxitey and self doubt every day.

I have interrest in Gen Corp and M&A idk what to do?