Yes, to a certain extent. Which is why I put on glasses whenever I go outside my house. Actually, to spread a bit of awareness here, you might come across blind children (and even some poorly trained blind adults) putting their fingers in their eyes as a sort of unconscious thing when their hands are free. I would say you would be doing something good if you did all that is within the scope of reason and within the bounds of polite behavioural conventions in society to discourage this. Touching the eyes with potentially unclean hands could cause infections.

Perhaps it is just me and my rather old-fashioned idealism, but isn't this time for greater dialogue and openness? Isn't cutting off ties just cutting off possibilities for the exchanging of scholarly ideas and views? Isn't it better to challenge injustices of all kinds collaboratively, regardless of difference in habit or language, through dialogue and open exchange of ideas rather than boycotts etc.? And even if such means are resorted to, do you really think this will influence government policy?

I mean when you see 'reserved' students regularly outperform others in college exams and moots and when you realise that ranks don't matter, most people tend to forget about caste only WITHIN the boundaries of the college - careless casteist comments are common, but outright discrimination I've not seen. I've heard some first years from a tier II NLU beat up a lower caste guy and 4-5 of the perpetrators got expelled from the hostel - so I'm not entirely discounting the experience because a few dumbfucks do do this

I'm from MNLU M, and I can't speak for my juniors, but there always seemed to be an unconscious divide where castes formed cliques - there was nothing overt and most were friendly enough with each other. I've seen misogyny from the batch, not casteism, if that makes it any better.

why dont you present a coherent argument against these comments? is it bigoted to think women are real? and that theyre suffering from sexism? and that they deserve language to articulate them?

JK. I know you wont present a coherent argument- youll just call people bigoted for not agreeing with you. You dont even really care about being right or telling the truth- you like shaming people- women- for having opinions that are different than yours.

I love JKR- she made her billions by writing a wonderful childrens book and she could have walked away with it but she spends a lot of that money helping women and shes unafraid of bullies who would call her bigoted- she will stand for women no matter what. Thats moral courage.

Go on- tell me exactly what JKR has said that you find to be objectionable?

So will JGLS students follow Ashoka? Or could it open a can of worms, as people could argue for snapping ties with the US and China next?

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/ashoka-university-student-government-seeks-boycott-of-exchange-programme-with-tel-aviv-university-9311219/

https://en-law.tau.ac.il/partner_institutes

I think the following points of broad, general advice should help you to a certain extent (apologies, I know this is a lot to read):

1. If you work at an institution with reasonably good accessibility infrastructure and a good disability service (I know this sounds largely like an institution in the west at this point, but let's go with it for the sake of argument, as such things should slowly be coming to India, and this point would translate well if you were to work as an academic in the west), follow all reasonable/sensible advice you receive from those in your institutional administration to make your teaching materials accessible. For example, if they tell you that the best accessibility practice would be to upload/assign a PDF as a reading on a Virtual Learning Environment after putting it through SensusAccess or some equivalent accessibility conversion package first that converts image-based PDFs into accessible typed text, it might be better to just do it, rather than see it as “another useless request from the administration”. Remember if you don’t, your student will have to, only increasing the unfair burden on them. At the same time, use your discretion wisely and follow your instincts. Ask yourself, "Is this advice necessarily the best way to do things for a blind person?". This might especially arise if, for example, a document with lots of Mathematical symbols is involved. Therefore, in one sentence, listen to your student, good advice on accessibility practices and your instincts.

2. I think any student with support needs would appreciate if you asked them what they needed in a classroom to better facilitate their learning. Even if you know, just ask, because the answer might be different from blind student to blind student, as not all blind students are the same (one may have a tiny amount of vision where another has none, one might have learned Braille where another hasn’t, one may choose to ask a fellow student to support them by being a notetaker while another might be able to juggle hearing the professor speak while at the same time typing out their notes and listening to the screen reader… you get the point, we aren’t a monolith). But never, ever, ask about or discuss things like accessibility or exam/assessment adjustments in front of other students. You are opening your future blind/disabled student up to potential humiliation and bullying, which you don’t want. In addition, if you are going to do some kind of exercise that may not be the typical back-and-forth of students discussing and answering the teacher’s questions, e.g., getting a student to read something aloud, ask again in advance how your blind student can/will do it. To go with the reading aloud example, some blind people may not find it easy to read aloud, either because they haven’t learned Braille/don’t use it often or find it hard to coordinate between listening to a screen reader, while at the same time reading, which might make them feel embarrassed or humiliated in participating in such an exercise.

3. Learn to be as verbal as you possibly can. Remember, everything you do visually (writing on a board, illustrating how price elasticity of demand works etc.) has to now be described. Get very good at describing in a way which isn’t spoon-feeding. One very embarrassing thing that often happens in classes with blind students is that, when there is a show of hands to answer a question, the teacher says ‘yes’ while looking at/pointing to the blind student. This will leave a blind student confused as to whether you want them to answer or not, leading to awkward pauses. Always say the name, or if you really have trouble remembering names, don’t break these awkward pauses with impatience; remember your student is navigating layers of judgementalism from their fellow sighted course-mates, in a classroom designed for and by sighted people, in conformance with the expectations of a sighted society, in a sighted world.

4. Returning to point 1, it is always good practice to let your student, university library and university disability service (if and where any such thing is available) know of what textbook(s) will be assigned in class in advance. If chapters from multiple books will be assigned, this is also fine, just let all applicable stakeholders know. This gives time for accessible copies of the set text(s) to be procured well in time from publishers if and where available, or scanned by librarians/disability support officers where that is needed.

5. If you are teaching a class on legal research/database usage, learn how databases are perceived by screen reader users. In simpler terms, understand how to navigate legal databases using only keyboard keys/shortcuts, rather than a mouse. Instructions such as “scroll here” or “click on the red arrow” won’t work, with workable alternatives being things like “Scroll using tab/arrow keys [where appropriate]” or “select the ‘advanced search’ option”, because screen readers can’t be used with a mouse meaningfully, and they read out the names of icons/buttons to their users, and do not describe colours/arrows. If you are training your student to use one of the prominent western legal databases (Westlaw, Lexis Nexis etc.), find out if your university/law school can arrange for your blind student to receive training from specialists who work for those databases who know how to train blind people to use them; if your law school hasn’t done such a thing before, get them to do it. Relating to verbalising and descriptions above, remember that stuff their sighted counterparts will take in by looking will often have to be told to a blind person. For example, the convention of underlining case names in the OSCOLA citation style is something the sighted will pick up organically from looking at articles/books’ footnotes/end notes, but something you may have to tell a blind student. Don’t be afraid to mention this as assignment feedback, if necessary. Suppose you are marking a Tort essay that is to be written using OSCOLA and you see that a blind student isn’t underlining case names, something they should have learned about in legal research classes, just give it as feedback, they may not have been told by a careless sighted colleague of yours and may not be told again by colleagues who may take pity or whatever, but instead have such things come back to bite them later.

No, discrimination or any differential treatment on the basis of reservation alone is pretty much non-existent. Don't forget NLUs have state-based domicile reservation as well, which altogether, pushes the proportion of reserved seats to at least ~70% across all NLUs. State-based discrimination owing to the domicile quotas may prevail on some degree though, not too aware of that.

pay for A0 is around 40-50k per month. work culture is not too bad- kavitha and sameena get good work and seem to be good mentors also. typically you'd leave the office by 7/8 pm, sometimes you will have to stay back for longer. you might have to work on saturdays. HR manager is terrible tho

In just a few days I’m down almost 9 lakhs across directs trades and probably more in MFs. Most people in my circle (tier 1 firm) are saying it’s just profit booking and nothing to worry about. My stocks will rise soon and I’ll make a good profit. But I have an ill-feeling that this not the reason, because in the past when this happened my stocks didn’t fall to such a big extent. It’s just going down and down like never before. If you look outside mainstream media and on social media, there is a lot of chatter saying that the BJP could fall to 230 seats and we could see an unstable coalition in power, with opportunistic rogues like Ajit Pawar and Kumaraswamy pulling the strings and getting important portfolios. I suspect this is the actual reason.

What does everyone here think and what’s the gossip in your law firms? How are your stocks doing?

how exactly are 'farming practices' more relevant than GK questions about polity and international affairs? I agree that CLAT should not only be conducted in english, as english itself is not a measure of merit. But the rest of your argument seems to be to just dumb down the examination instead of tackling the root cause for discrimination which is unequal qualitt of education. Logical reason, especially verbal logical reasoning which is what is tested in CLAT, is incredibly relevant to the legal profession. While I agree that Dalit students face a great disadvantage regardless of their merit, the solution isnt to make the exam simpler or arbitrary and irrelevant to the legal profession as you are suggesting. We should increase the quality of education received by the poor and lower castes and conduct the test in all major Indian languages.

More important than protesting would be to send aid and make public appeal to end the war. Both of which India has done, unlike US (which has vetoed UN resolutions for ceasefire). Hence protesting against the US establishment in US varsities makes sense, in India, not so much.

Well said. The way minorities are being treated in the neighboring countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, and Maldives), has an impact on India. Our students must protest for faster implementation of CAA and NRC. If they do, the rest of the country will stand with them. Who cares about what happens in Palestine or Ukraine? They are irrelevant.

Great team, very professional. Treats interns at face value. Had got good work exposure during my internship earlier this year. One thing I particularly want to point out is that the HR team sits in the Mumbai office and operate the Bangalore and Chennai locations as well. But that never happened to be an instance where I felt any disconnect. Timely responses were given to my queries. Had weekly intern connect sessions. SP ma'am and PC ma'am have been very supportive and cordial to work for, unlike other Law Firm HRs.

I'm struggling with the same issue. I used to attempt mock tests and try to tackle questions logically, but even with that effort, I've only managed to achieve a double-digit CLAT AIR. In NLSIU’s WhatsApp group, everyone uses these fancy legal terms that I'm completely clueless about. It's making me seriously consider dropping out right now. The deadline to pay fees is looming on May 14, and I still haven't paid because I'm overwhelmed with fear. I feel so lost and helpless. Can someone please help me?

Every technical thing that I might need to know before I join Banking and Finance Practice. CS i feel is mostly law oriented no? I might be wrong. Like all the agreements for example, there must be some financial principle behind them (I am sorry I'm unable to express it in better terms but I wasn't taught these things in Law school and would like to be a little bit prepared.)

How do you take notes while reading at the same time ? Or take notes in lectures ? Do you have to start and stop the screen reader ? Would sighted folks have an easier time with it ? How do you do research ? Are manu/ SCC/jstor / heinonline accessible ?

How do you write research projects ? For me a lot of that writing is rewriting and editing ? Wouldn’t that be awkward and difficult with speech to text ? And footnotes and citations ? How do you manage that while being blind ?

Congrats. This is the stupidest thing on the internet today. You just want Dalits to suffer under your bigotry of low expectations.

CLAT is an APTITUDE test. Do you know what aptitude is ?

How are students supposed to read James Mill and Jeremy Bentham and Foucault and Catherine Mackinnon and Adam smith and Ronald Dworkin without the baseline English language skills ? No one is being tested on their knowledge of Shakespeare - they’re being tested on basic reading comprehension in English because the medium of instruction is English. If these are national universities in any sense it’s that Hindi is not the language of teaching. There are many universities in this country where Hindi is the language of instruction - you don’t have to go to an NLU and they don’t have to accept you if you will not be able to do the coursework. If we do accept that we need to account for class by reducing English use - can nls set it’s paper in Kannada ? Or nalsar in Telugu ? Or nujs in Bengali ? You wouldn’t like that very much would you ?

How is logic relevant ? Logic and

Argument is the basis of all the work lawyers do. Many of the tasks you list can be done by clerks. People don’t just appear for bail hearings and sit around- they actually have to argue with someone else- the prosecutor. Are logic puzzles really that hard to solve ? Do you really think Brahmins and baniyas are born with superior logic brains ? They don’t teach logical reasoning in any school as any sort of subject or module. People learn logical reasoning - which is basically just puzzle solving - for exams by practicing them. Dalit students are as capable of that task as anyone else.

How is general knowledge important ? Sorry to say but they have newspapers across the country in almost every language imaginable - it’s not difficult to have decent general knowledge. How do we begin to start teaching political science if the kid doesn’t know if we have presidential or parliamentary government and doesn’t know what an election commission is or how many states there are ? You assuming Dalit people don’t know this because they’re just inferior is the bigoted thing.

Maths ? Algebra ? Geometry ? What are you on about ? There’s no higher order math that’s tested in this exam - it’s a very basic level of math problem solving - in my year we were asked what the square root of 400 was. Charitably one could say you’re being tested on 6th standard maths when you’re in tenth standard- if you need to whip out a calculator every time you have to give change or do percentages in the real world or understand cost price and selling price - you might just not be cut out for university level education- or just the outside world in general. Math again - is a universal language - and it’s possible for poor kids to learn it just as well as rich kids. And it’s actually just testing basic logic. The math section is actually put in there to counter balance for students who might not be strong in English.

None of this is problematic unless you believe firmly in the fixed inferiority of Dalits which I do not.

Rahul Gandhi and the Americans he’s aping are looking at disparities in educational outcomes and misdiagnosing the problem. It’s not that the test is too difficult or foreign - if anything it’s too easy and forgiving- the problem is that if you go to a bad school for ten years - you will not be able to do well on any test at the end. You need better schools. The problem isn’t caste - it’s class. Rich people regardless of caste can send their kids to private schools and can sit and teach them how to do homework after school and can hire tutors. Poor people cannot do that.

Why don’t UC folks just go to Jindal ? It might surprise you but most people at Jindal aren’t actually Brahmins. They’re rich kids who couldn’t crack exams. There are many poor UC kids and they deserve to go to state institutions that offer lower fees just as much as anyone else. I couldn’t have afforded Jgls - and for many of us from early CLAT batches - it was the same - we came from poor to middle class families all of us - even the UC kids. What unified us was that we studied really hard and really wanted to improve our circumstances and we begged for better teachers and we hadn’t given up on education as a project.

If you’re gonna argue that UC kids should go to private universities - you’re not making any claim about the examination being unfair - you’re making a claim that NLUs belong more to Dalits than to people from any other caste. And in my mind - that’s no better than bigots who would tell you there should be no reservations at all and that Dalits shouldn’t be allowed into NLUs. It’s the same bigotry.

What is your solution ? Do away with the paper as it is and ask questions in Hindi - so no South Indian or north easterner or even Bengali or Goan or Gujarati or punjabi can answer the paper. Just your Hindi belt kids. And have non elite GK ? Like what ? Which exact question is non elite enough for you ? Farming practices ? Are you outside of your mind ? Customs ? What about Dalits who wouldn’t know some customs or who have been denied farming as occupation ? Customs vary wildly by community - which exact customs should we test on ? Which exact village ? It’s a big country. Farming practices vary so wildly across the country it takes some scientists years to figure out all the intricacies- so we need questions that students across the country can answer - what questions ? You cannot actually answer that substantively - because when you do - you’ll set a standard that someone will fall under. Besides - no one goes to law school to become a farmer or to become a priest - they go to law school to become lawyers. You should know the name of the president of France by reading dainik Bhaskar every day or even semi regularly- this is not a question that prizes caste based knowledge. This literally is general knowledge. Your plan doesn’t make sure Dalits pass and UCs fail - your plan just makes sure that Hindi speakers do well and the rest of us are shut out.

If students pass this strange exam you’ve created and all nlus are now state institutions teaching in regional languages - then you can bet they will not be getting placements in the numbers they are now. The law firms will be the first to leave - and the in house practices and government organisations will follow suit. And there will be a stigma attached to students that pass out from there because they’ve gotten in via a reduced standard and that will lead to reduced rigor in education. None of those kids will be able to overcome their circumstances at all. If you want to be separatist - you will have to think carefully about what you may gain or lose.

American universities bought into the nonsense that the SATs were racist and did away with them - you know what happened ? Dumber and dumber students were admitted. Rich students whose parents could afford for them to be doing several extra curriculars we’re admitted - fewer meritorious students from poor backgrounds - immigrants from china or India - could be admitted because they could only take tests and top them - they couldn’t be the head of a lacrosse team. Now those universities have realised that doing away with SATs led to a lack of diversity and are course correcting by introducing the test again.

Not the OP here, but spectrum is one way of putting it. Queerness manifests differently for all of us. For some, it is sexual attraction, for others, it is rejection of some societal norms, for others, it is about love and relationships that cross traditional boundaries of gender. All of these things also interact in different ways (look up "demisexual" to get an idea).

Also, there are plenty of resources online to read up about queerness, including several created by queer people or groups. Make use of them.

Hey guys! I am a fourth-year law student; I want to know if you guys have any leads on advocates/firms taking in interns for the month of June/July (preferably with decent work culture and with the opportunity to convert the internship into an assessment later on). The internship that I had planned for June recently got shifted 🥲 Would be extremely helpful!!

Bank statement is enough for taxation purposes. The firms usually share a GST form filing at the end of FY which you would need for tax filing. But you definitely need a retainer contract with the firm. Because the retainer contract is what governs your rights - say, probation, notice period, fees, bonus, intellectual property rights. Please do get that done. Without that you will have to go the extra length if you ever needed to prove you were working for them. Another advice is to always get a relieving certificate, properly signed and stamped by the partner concerned of the firm, when you leave. Most established firms send that in by post a few days after your last day. If you ever change jobs, the next firm/place will always ask for the relieving letter copy. And you might also need the retainer agreement/bank statements as proof of your fees/compensation + variable.

I have 1 year of experience at a boutique law firm that mainly deals with tax, gst, rera, and Gujarat HC litigation matters, I have done my LLB from not a renowned university and have done my LLM from gnlu. Please let me know if there are any possibilities for me to get a job in firms like lks, elp, icul etc

They just want to erase women as a category. Be kind is about the same thing as keep sweet and obey. If males can be women and be in female spaces the concept of woman - defined as adult human female - doesn’t mean anything anymore. They really think gender expression is all that matters- so they’ll talk about femmes and mascs. As if women wouldn’t get to assaulted if they butched it up and wore less make up and used he/him pronouns. As if the feminist movement isn’t about liberation for women but about liberation for anyone who wants to wear a skirt.

It’s a mens rights movement that focuses on what creates comfort for men , pronoun use, males in female spaces , males in womens prisons and males in womens sports and male doctors who don’t have to tell you they’re male when performing intimate care. And we cannot acknowledge women have babies and abortions because that’s transphobic- because trans women cannot have abortion or babies and that hurts their feelings.

Why does what is basically a mens rights movement not target men ? But women ? What do you think ?

Spouse and sibling are supposed to relate to relationships where there is a presumption of equality. You wouldn’t treat your brother differently than your sister. But when that presumption is defeated you have to use gendered language - you have battered wives - you don’t have battered spouses. A mother is a different thing than a father . You came physically out of one of those people. One of those people nourished you from milk from their own breast. One of those people shredded their body to make you and risked their life.

While men can and should be perfectly good parents - they cannot be mothers. And mothers deserve their own damn word that acknowledges that unique bond. And that acknowledges that women - that mothers - might need support that goes beyond what men need.

In this particular case - this is about a 14 year old kidnapping and rape victim and whether she should have to carry the baby to term because she didn’t know she was pregnant until 26 weeks had elapsed.

Do you think that’s a plight that affects women more than men ? Is sex important here ? Does it matter ? Or do you presume equality of sexes here ?

These are luxury beliefs spouted by rich students in elite universities. They’ve never once worried about how they will get a job after college. India doesn’t have many of those students - India has poor and middle class students who would thank their stars if they got an education that would get them a job.

Most indian universities are public universities. Even if they are/were not, private universities in India do not hold significant investments in Israel (unlike US universities). India has also historically been pro-palestine (barring small chunks). Physical college protests in India make 0 sense.

Let me start by saying that I can't speak to your question about Singapore and LLMs in Mainland Europe (non-UK) because I don't know enough. However, I can speak about the UK and the U.S.

You will forgive me if I say that you are making a classic mistake that so many applicants for these things do. It's not "how many years" that matters so much as the quality of the experience gained. What sort of work did you do? How specialized was it? How does it relate to your intended course of study/intended research? If you were looking at Oxbridge specifically, you could be a multi-million-dollar-earning Equity Partner at Kirkland & Ellis, but if your grades weren't up to scratch (i.e., you didn't have top grades), they wouldn't give tuppence about your work experience. Especially see what they say about references: they would much rather have academic references than professional ones from employers, it tells them much more about what an applicant will be like as a student. I think it hardly needs to be stated that a professor is more likely to give a former student with good grades a reference than do that for one with not-so-good grades, unless there were specific extenuating circumstances. Other non-Oxbridge Russell Group LLMs are slightly more willing to compromise, to a very limited extent, on the GPA-work experience balance. However, be warned that they would rather take someone with good grades and good work experience, as opposed to average grades even if their experience is good. As someone who got into a non-Oxbridge UK Russell Group LLM and is not ashamed to admit an Oxford rejection, always assume that applicants with top grades and fantastic experience are applying, and that you are a mere drop in the ocean. If you are specifically thinking/asking about quantity, this compromise effect would most likely kick in if you had at least five years PQE.

In the U.S., they will want to see how your work experience would make you fit better into their “law school community”. If you see the Harvard LLM website, for example, they mention having judges, law professors etc. from foreign countries as part of the cohort. Again for avoidance of disappointment and to prevent you sacrificing money in paying for application processing, I'd say take it as a rule of thumb that they'd prefer someone who's academically strong as opposed to someone who isn't: clearly demonstrated by the number of recommendation letters they require (minimum of two, maximum of five for Harvard specifically, if I remember right). Sorry about the length of the comment, but if you were to look at Yale, they specifically want people intending to go into academia, and view their LLM as a training ground for future academics. However strong the work experience, this would mean that their mindset likely is “top grades not present = bad student = rejection pile”. Some of these applications have processing fees of over $150, it’s your decision if you think it’s worth making them despite having grades that aren’t the very top on your profile that cannot be explained by extenuating circumstances, especially seeing as these might come to bite you later and result in your money being wasted when you get an email from their admission offices beginning “Dear applicant, unfortunately…”.

How tf did an Ipad made initial years of your litigation career easier? Especially since you do not even seem to be using LiquidText as of yet.

Do you use it for drafting rather than a PC/laptop, or any specific apps or features you wanna point out or do you just wanna gloat over the fact that you were able to over pay for piece of tech which at best seems to be having only one selling point - "Looks good"

If EC starts enforcing its rules then every political party from country would have been barred from elections lmao

Students probably are wasting their time in these BS protests.

Anyways they will still have another 5 years to protests against laws that Mudji brings

Hmm Its not meltdown

They probably dont care much.

NLUs Protested against CAA also and they reported but nothing else happened.

I better don't argument with people who consider Ravish and Dhruv as independent or consider that there is any media in whole world who is independent from politics.

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Coaching institutes equip students with a lot of knowledge of law already. I just used common sense to answer the questions of legal aptitude in CLAT 2024 and I could understand the passages well.

But that makes me wonder whether I am at a disadvantage as compared to other students who know far more law at the moment than I do. I'm really anxious about how things will turn out in my tier 1 law school in the coming months. Please help!

Why should india protest in a matter of no importance to this country?

We already have minorities being killed and persecuted in our neighbouring countries. We should protest for them not for Palestine or Israel.

And for the protests in American universities, The day tik tok gets banned, these students will come back to normal routine. I am pretty sure they cannot even point where Palestine on map is.

Why are you so excited for a country that has nothing to do with our nation?
Not everyone has freetime like JNU or Galgotia students or you to protests in matter not affecting you.

Advice for other law students is to speak up for injustice in our own country and Christians, Buddhists, Jains, hindus in neighbouring countries and stop following the trend of Western countries. We have African infra with American politics rn.

OP here again: Just to add that the reason I haven't encountered major accessibility difficulties with LI except for the one outlined in a previous comment is not because of infrequent usage on my part but because of your website's simple interface. If you'll take a word of advice, you may want to consider keeping it like that. It may seem to some people not the ideal time to make such comparisons (and I assure all that I am not someone wishing to engage in ideologically-motivated so-called 'organ-measuring contests'), but considering this forum's simple design, it is actually more accessible to the blind than some of its western counterparts (speaking from experience here, having used those forums) - The Corporate Law Academy (TCLA) and The Student Room (TSR) (both forums that students in the west often flock to), whose pages contain a lot of icons which there is no easy way to navigate past for a blind person and which are the merest junk for a screen reader.

I am very glad you chose to ask this question. Thank you for your openness to feedback. Except for one major thing, my accessibility experience with LI has largely been positive. When I sign in with my username and try to view threads, it doesn't allow me to view them properly or comments in cronological order. When I click on a thread, it takes me to something called "Commentariat". I have to then try and click on multiple unlabelled icons which my screen reader just reads as "button" (rather than telling me what "button" or buttons those are) in order to view comments, which makes the entire thing quite time-consuming. Therefore, I choose to view stuff on LI being signed out. The workaround I have found for commenting is to change the default display username from "Guest" to "Blindlaw2003", as I have done in this example when I am commenting multiple times or responding and wish to be identified as a previous person who commented/the OP, rather than signing in with the account which I actually created, which has an entirely different username.

NB: If in any of the other replies I have given above, if you have received a reply from "Guest", that is likely because I forgot to change the display name from "Guest" to "Blindlaw2003".

Hi, I'm a graduate from the 2022 batch. I was working in the corp team of a smaller firm and i have recently got an offer from a Tier 2 but they are offering A1 to me, even though I have an experience of 1.9 years. Is this normal for firms to do or shoudl I negotiate and ask for something else?
They are paying 8 lpa and this is based out of bangalore.
Please answer if anybody has any ideas.

I use a screen reader software both on a laptop and on a smartphone. On the smartphone, as I use an iPhone, I use the built-in screen reader, Voiceover. This reads out everything that's there on the screen to me, including when I type, and when I navigate by swiping my finger.

Depends, from document to document. I use a screen reader on a computer to read. While I say "depends", go by the following thumb rule: if you, an average sighted person, take 7 minutes to read a document, I would need 10 to 11 minutes. With very large PDFs (a typical book, e.g.), more time needs to be set aside. This is because opening a PDF with a screen reader isn't like opening a book or a PDF for the sighted. The PDF must be prepared (even if set to "Searchable" mode) to "interact" with a screen reader, a process called "tagging". For an 800 page book, this "tagging" itself can take as long as six minutes to complete, only after which can the PDF even be read.

Based on how your employer carries out legal compliances after hiring you and/or at the time of making your payments. For eg how your employer deducts TDS before clearing your salary/fees would be one way to show that you are on retainer. Another eg would be to check if your employer is providing you social security benefits (like EPF contribution), absence of which would show that you are not an employee.

1. Being given reading materials in an inaccessible format: Universities and their administrations should give better advice to members of academic staff on how to make materials accessible. I often receive PDFs that are scanned/image-based, which must be converted into typed text format, like the text of this comment. It isn’t students’ responsibility to make materials accessible for themselves. While academic freedom must be balanced, there should be stronger rules/frameworks surrounding when materials should be given out to students with support needs, made accessible etc.

2. Following from no. 1, better training should be given to academics on how to communicate accessibly (e.g., describing slopes of demand/supply curves in an Economics class).

3. Networking problems: I often find it hard to network on my own in various situations, because the nondisabled feel uncomfortable to come talk to me for various reasons. Law schools can easily solve this problem by introducing a system such as having a blind person be accompanied by a sighted guide in a networking situation who can help them navigate around the room, while at the same time, helping them find and talk to people. There are precedents for this being done, read a book called ‘Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law’, by Haben Girma (the first hearing-impaired and visually impaired person to attend and graduate from Harvard Law School with a J.D.). She describes how the Office of Career Services sent a careers advisor with her into an employer networking event to help out precisely with this.

Hi, I am an A1 at a T1 with their disputes practice. I am wanting to shift laterally to chamber preferably on the criminal side with trial work.

Could you guys please drop some good names (along w the salary they offer) who I might try sending applications too. Ofc please add on to the big names like Ms. John, Siddharth Agarwala etc.

Thanks in advance.

V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, said, “Perhaps the more significant factor might be the apprehensions emanating from the unexpectedly low turnout in the elections so far. One view is that the definite and smooth victory of the ruling dispensation is a bit uncertain now. The market, which has already discounted a BJP/NDA victory, is a bit unsure now. Perhaps this can be the reason for the apprehension in the market and the bulls shedding their aggressive stance.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/stock-market-may-be-falling-because-of-these-4-big-reasons-lok-sabha-elections-to-blame-101715071779942.html

Thank you so much, a great idea, really looking forward!

LI has one question - is the convos section of LI accessible and well useable on screen readers or other assistive software? Any quick fixes or big problems you have encountered in navigating that we could improve or look into? Very grateful for any of ideas or tips!

Well, being a part of the place, salary depends on from which are you coming from - based on your pay there. No fixed pay scale for any exp - it will widely vary between your own peers also. Probably be judged in the one month training in Mumbai also

Culture is fine - in Mumbai and Bang, huge team and thus a bit of lively culture one can say, not so much in the NCR office.

The interview will be about 3 rounds presumably, there are some who get hired in one but mostly 3.

To be fair, reading most comments here give a good perspective of pros and cons of B'luru (like any other city). The problems are not specifically novel, but the trifecta of traffic/non-native friction/prices seem to be unique as a set.

B'luru is 1-step away from 10/10 on the said markers (we are building metros, yay!), however by-far the biggest barrier (hate is a strong word) which leads to most micro-issues, is a minor but persistent friction to become more liberal / creed-agnostic (general argument: so what? this also happens in Delhi/Mumbai/<insert other city in non-south> / People from x-part of the country are also same).

Apologies if I am being utopian/naive here, but these cities (esp. Hindi belt cities) should not be a benchmark of what the "best city" should be. Also not a huge fan of using 'immigrant'/'outsider' and anything that creates a us vs. them. Open to kindly worded critical thoughts? :)

Can you please elaborate on the elements of mathematics in tax litigation. Also, I have been offered a PPO in a tax litigation firm however, till date I have only interned in civil and commercial litigation. How difficult would it be for me to divert into tax practice at the start of my career as a fresher with no prior internship experience in tax litigation?

Radhika Gupta: BALLB (NALSAR)--> LLM (Harvard) --> Faculty at Jindal --> Researcher to a minister under the Modi government --> World Bank.

100% non-nepo kid. The experience with the Modi government no doubt helped and perhaps a bigshot in the government wrote a recommendation letter, but still a non-nepo kid who prospered on the basis of her work. So it's possible.

I'm afraid the answer is none. Everyone I know of has gotten through some government contact. Even those who are part of the UPSC needed to pull strings, because these are premium postings. During Indira Gandhi's time, an officer of the Indian Railways, who was close to the Congress, got posted by the Indian government to a prestigious UN agency in Geneva (WIPO) in a very senior post. So the nation's international IPR policy was effectively being handled by someone whose experience didn't go beyond issuing tenders for Shatabdi Express coaches. The BJP is just as bad. During Modi's time, an unknown lawyer called Anirudh Rajput was nominated to the ILC.

That's India for you.

Define "toppers" after graduation.
Kid, if you're not a topper, I'd suggest you stay away from toxic workplaces that "only prefers toppers" and instead opt for a firm more keen on developing you professionally.

Coming from a non-topper from a non-NLU who got into Trilegal and AZB, lol.
Kudos and good luck!