Its down for many reasons. Mostly the shit shape of our economy and its outlook.

1. There is no more cheap money. As the reserve banks raise interest rates a lot of reserve banks follow suit. With Inflation targetting, rate increases into the future is also baked in. Many lawyers here have only seen the era of cheap money. The era cheap money began from 2008 and somebody had to finally bite the bullet. India was a beneficiary of cheap money.

2. India is not an FII destination during the AI boom build out. All FII chasing returns are there investing and finding deals in AI. So not many stock deals either. Speculative fast money spent a lot of time in emerging market in the decade before, not anymore in this geopolitical environment. That money is going home - for some time too.

3. Even FDI for India is net negative with more outbound transaction with indian conglomerates investing more abroad for markets abroad. India conglomerates within its business families continue to run safe margin based businesses and not risk based business - there is no appetite for risk, be it R&D spend or aggresive expansion. Good sectors with potential like pharma continue to remain bleak too. Sun pharma went for its biggest acquisition abroad.

4. As the Rupee depreciates everything technically is cheaper for someone entering India but one sees India loves to protect its champions. Look what Tesla or BYD faces. Protectionism in the right places remains rampant in India and its alive to the point where genuine foreign interest in India has died. Minimal investments from foreign companies and many exits.

5. Indian manufacturing had a false start post covid in the 1+1 era. China managed to keep the +1 within ASEAN countries. India's hostility with China ensured this as we faced strict rare earth ban. Chinese supply chain controlled ruined an Indian rise in manufacturing. I dont know if the governement Press Note 3 was also a great idea as China knows how to hurt us more. Many chinese companies were hit with tax and fema violations that reeked of blowback. Not a good look. You always want predictability.

6. The geopolitical sceranio in the Trump 2nd term has been disastrous for a staid India. India faces a perpetual energy crisis, India lost access to Russian oil briefly which was a hedge in more ways than one. All of this means Indian consumption especially rural is down. India has handled Trump poorly hands down. I dont think anyone else would have done better - but that has definietely pushed to the back of the line in many things.

7. On top of that India is staring the bad end of a trade deal. A trade which we know is coming but India like fools didnt make a deal early and hung it out so late - it committed right before a court in the US ruled it all out being outside of Trumps powers, meaning sign up to any deal has no real value. This trade limbo has meant many bad consequences. A Ford re-entry died. It also means India agri wont have much time left to be subsidized.

8. India's genuine moat - IT sector - is slowing as the python of AI strangled before swallowing. Indian IT is the sole reason India didnt have the issues facing Sri Lanka, Pakistan or Nepal. Indian IT helps India keep its neck above water with balance of payments issues. This is going to be the biggest issue down the road. A lot of Indian middle class rose from this sector. This sector is struggling. A switch to more AI on foreign LLMs means the wage advantage is lost, as companies spend forex paying for tokens. The GCC play is not going to replace this moat either.

9. Even big projects have started to slowdown. The recent news that India is not going to buy Japanese trains for its HSR lines is actually a story about the govt straining its budget but has been shared with media as some sort of great indigenizarition measure. There is a genuine drawdown in terms of grandiose projects, because we dont have room on our balance sheet as our fiscal gap widens from the target.

10. The taxation policy remains punitive with state capacity means money is squandered. Tax admininstration remains poor, while direct and indirect collection has gone India's complexity index remains high. On the ground GST is a disaster worse than the government lets on - it is a genuine pain to get input credits back making it worse than the old excise and VAT regime.

11. India reforms have slowed down. Between IBC, GST and slow water down DPDP, a lot of novel legal work has already been squeezed out. IBC pushed restructuring work - that pipeline is slowing down as the NPA's have been cured. This has helped banks, but Indian banks wont get into another funding frenzy anytime soon.

12. The immigration pipeline out of India is also breaking apart in the face global anti immigration wave. How does this impact M&A? As companies are forced to become efficient wage efficiency is still deprioritized. They rather invest into AI/ Robots. This means offshoring to India is down. Look at a company like Honeywell which is downsizing and moving plants back to the developed world. Reversing offshoring kills many possible deals involving small and medium sized Indian companies who would have been offshoring targets or its suppliers.

All in all that is a dozen reasons - these many cuts - slow our economy down. The government and opposition should be shouting from the rafters about it. Instead our government is focussed on breaking opposition parties for a re-run at the delimitation amendment project to secure its reign for the next few decades. All of this means deal pipeline for M&A becomes a trickle.

I am so sorry. Why would you not go after your partner once it was clear you were being kicked out? You didn't have anything to lose then, should have made a public mess out of it.

Also, since you mentioned the term "managing associate" is it one of those 3 lettered acronymised firms which is not a big 6?

Hi everyone,

I am a penultimate-year law student, and I got shortlisted for an interview with AZB. I don't know what type of questions they ask, whether questions from the CV and past internship experiences or whether they test corporate law concepts and awareness about the latest developments or not.

Any insights or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hi, i have recently done LLM in IPR and I'm working in litigation ( does not have IPR in it). My aim for litigation was due to that 3 year practice for civil judge exam. But I have to think of the future and other possibilities. So if things don't work out will I have a problem from going from litigation to IPR after few years because there will be a gap in my LLM and IPR related work. I already had a year Gap while I studied for upsc but i decided to stick to legal field.Please advice me regarding this as I'm already slow then my peers and I'm feeling a bit anxious about my future path.

How are Jafar Alam and Vishrov Mukherjee, and what are their teams like? Are they good people to work under, and would it be worth applying to them?

I've been practising before the DHC for the past year, but not with a particularly large chamber or a very seasoned advocate, and I haven't worked on energy or electricity matters. Given that background, do you think either of them would still consider me?

Hi everyone.

I am a 5th year bba llb student and i have plenty of ipr internships and as it has become my niche, i wanna know how is the scope in this field. I have heard that its not as rewarding as other fields and i am very stressed now. Should i try to get corporate internships or should i countinue with ipr. Please let the know the salary of firms like remfry and sagar, anand and anand etc. and how to get recruited there.

OP here.

I have decided to go with NUJS.

In case someone in the future faces this dilemma, my reasoning came down to this -

1. Hostels get better after 1 st year
2. Slightly better placements
3. Slightly smaller batch size
4. Better faculty
5. More autonomy + More active student body
6. Better location and connectivity

There is no such written rule of 10years. No where it written . Had that been so jindal wouldnt have rajkumar till now. But generally in state and central univ. The vc is appointed by political executive which you know changes ..different govt. Different ministers n soo on....that's why people would rarely get extensions ...however in nlus if chief justice wants then the vc can have 3rd term also..

Hi everyone,

I am a penultimate-year law student, and I got shortlisted for an interview with AZB. I don't know what type of questions they ask, whether questions from the CV and past internship experiences or whether they test corporate law concepts and awareness about the latest developments or not.

Any insights or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

If people come from broken homes, their leadership tends to be very broken and over-compensatory. Look to be mentored by balanced people always or you risk becoming versions of them. Something you will realize as you grow up. That sense of stability in a functional family translates into better leaders. These people can manage a team and raise better families. Others get pets both at home and office and treat their team like an expensive petting zoo.

So, I left my first job after 6 months. It was a tier 1 law firm, but my immediate senior was really toxic and I just didn't liked there. I was crying at office and at my home and to my family. Now, I am working with a tier 2 firm with a sort of tier 2 practice only for the past 2 years. Now, I am looking to switch to a tier 1 again, hopefully a better and good one.

Did I made the right decision?

I also admit that not everything has gone as planned. Butt you can't transform the way things have worked overnight. The mere fact that something like this has started is down to Sudhir. The fact that an Oxford-style tutorial system has been introduced and implemented is the key. Soon, things will be modified and better. That is why a ten-year stint isn't enough. We cannot return to leadership through mediocrity come 2029 September. We need a proper successor to him, who will be able to carry on.

I'm BO'31 too, I had to make this decision in after CLAT results last December. I eventually stuck with NUJS, though I've definitely had second thoughts since.

In its current state NLUJ is definitely better, and while NUJS has "legacy", the multitude of problems its currently ridden with (infra, VC, admin etc) might not be worth justifying for the sake of "prestige".

One can only hope that the new administration does this university some good. This institution has immense potential but is currently punching way below its weight.

I actually feel sorry for you on this one. Trouble is... sarcasm doesn't work on two categories of people: (i) those who don't understand what you're talking about - the category to which this incoming student belongs, most likely (I haven't yet met a yet-to-start law student knowing who Paul Craig is); and (ii) those who don't give two fucks about your poor attempt at a joke (me).

"Hostels could've been easily built"

Bruh the land only came to us last year. Do you know how long approvals and construction takes in this country? That too with tendering and other processes which are necessary in public institutions. Hostels won't be ready till 2030 at least

If they have been offered VCship of an NLU, or Dean-ship of a private law college like BITS or Shiv Nadar or Bennet, then I have nothing to say. Congratulations and good luck to them.

If, on the other hand, it is because they were victims of politics, then that is indeed unfortunate. Not taking any names, but a certain person (who is not popular with students and is quite biased) has been given too much power.

I am seeing certain feminists sympathise with Siya and suggest that she was forced ro marry him and lied to. But the facts are clear:

1. She apparently already knew he was bald. So not a secret he hid. They weren't yet married, so she could have called it off.

2. Re forced marriage, she already had a bf, so this is not some shy village girl. She could have told her parents she doesn't want to marry.

if you were to only pick one of these law schools over the other, which one would it be based on your research? Choose that. And there is enough consensus literally everywhere to know that this question is a no brainer - it's not NUJS v NALSAR or NLUD v NALSAR/NLS that you are talking about. You are not a child any longer, learn to take decisions based on your own judgement when you are going to get your parents to spend 3-5x the usual fees instead of having random strangers feed you answers who wouldn't ever be bothered if your career's trajectory suffers.

Hostels are hard to make. NLS has very limited land and plans for the new hostels are still in consultation phase.

Your seniors are to be blamed to a very small extent. But it is mostly Sudhir to blame. The University did not think this through. But at least they're providing off campus accommodation, which in many things is better than in campus one. Some of the faculty also stays off campus.

So, after going through whatever has been discussed in this thread, I feel that ADHD is not something which a person can recover from, and it is there to stay, hearing from all your experiences. And I, as a person, have a very serious doubt that I am suffering from ADHD right this moment, and have been suffering for quite some time. Even though I know I have very important and time-sensitive work, even then I don't do it unless someone is standing at my head 24/7. There is no self-motivation, even though I have all the knowledge that, yes, I need to complete it anyhow.

And apart from this, recently, I discovered through a blood test that I am also deficient in Vitamin D and Vitamin B12, and there have been episodes of depression, I believe. I'm not sure. And I am definitely going for therapy soon enough to actually find out how things are.

What I actually need to understand from everyone here is: is ADHD something which can never be treated? Can we never be like someone who does not have ADHD and can work as much as they want, as efficiently as they want, and are self-motivated to keep on going?

Right now, I'm litigating in Hyderabad for the last two years with a senior at the High Court, but I feel that I want to switch to a litigation team at a law firm for better pay at this point in time.

So will my life at a tier one or tier two law firm here in Hyderabad, on the litigation team, be tough? Or otherwise, if not in Hyderabad, in general also, will it be tough if I get into a good litigation team with ADHD? And will I not be able to work around it, like, treat myself?

i am from tier 1.5i-2 ish pvt law college , 4th year, never done a moot, adr, mun (not even participated due to social anxiety). 0 certifications or publications either. . i am a 1st gen lawyer. i havent had a good internship till now. i am about to start my 7th sem and i feel like everybody is soooooooo ahead of me. i havent done any intenrship even in a tier 3 law firm. i so regret my law degree. if i knew i had to do intenrships every other semester, i would've never done this. pls i need genuine guidance/help/advice. i cant let my parents hard earned money go to waste. pls i cry as i seek for help

This is literally me rn, dying in diligence and litres of coffee, but I cant get to finish stuff. But give me legal research and I will give it to you better than anyone else.

i cannot keep doing this, any ADHD friendly partner/ litigator hiring a professional? Ill work for lower wages but do really good research, but not diligence. I am also suffering from substance abuse, every drug, you name it, I have ruined all my relationships. Nothings left now..

You can opt for either, not much difference between them. Kolkata is just an easier city to live in, while NLUJ has better infra. Placement-wise not much to tell those apart, a hard working student will get placed from either place. NUJS faculty are a little better in some subjects than NLUJ. And NUJS students get an insane amount of freedom which can be good, bad, or ugly depending on how you use it. NLUJ current VC is better than the absentees VC of NUJS.

NLUs are not accommodation service providers. The hostels are incidental services and it is most cost and scale efficient to provide a single kind of accommodation.

If you want to pay more, you can always opt for off campus accomodation where there is a free market at all price ranges.

Inner circle is still close. We're in different cities but visit/stay over/hang out when we're in each other's cities. Most of us attended each other's weddings too.

Other than inner circle, most people have drifted. Some are in occasional contact, others I havent spoken to after graduation

Man it feels horrible after reading these kinds of posts i mean i have just entered in my 2nd year and was thinking of joining this corporate ladder ahead in my life but after going through all of these threads I don't think it would be a better option to pursue it… anyways more power to you man, I hope you’re doing well in your life

I should’ve known better but…

I was naive and I informed my partner (F) that the managing associate (M) had misbehaved with me, he made a pass, touched my hand and made a very inappropriate remark. I dont know why I ever told my partner, it cost me my job, my entire career went downhill, I think she may have also given negative feedback on my work to the other partners to ensure that I couldn’t change teams within the firm. Anyway this completely pushed me out of the system. Lesson learnt the hard way that it’s best to keep these things to yourself, just shut up and move on with your life.

Hello dear members/readers of LI!

I am an incoming penultimate year student (Non-NLU) and have secured an internship at WGO, New Delhi Office in their litigation team for the Month of July'26. I wanted to know what are the odds or possibilities of getting a Call-Back/Assessment.

Highest package: 1.45 crores at IIM Calcutta

Lowest package: 29.86 lakh at IIM Kashipur

Now compare with NLUs. IIM Calcutta is the third-best IIM, so its equivalent would be NALSAR or NLUD if we go by NIRF/QS ranking. IIM is much higher. Even if you compare with NLSIU, still much higher.

IIM Kashipur would be the equivalent of IIM Ranchi or Guwahati or Sonipat. Still IIM much higher.

Big reality check for NLUs.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaDPC8-v8DR/

Withholding 15-20% of the bonus of associates till August (without paying any interest) was not enough for the firm that they have now decided to effectively pass on out of pocket expenses to associates. The firm cancelled its Uber subscription. Now as per their new reimbursement policy, all out of pocket expenses, including cabs, late meals, etc., shall be reimbursed to associates only when the client actually pays it. We have been told that partners can ask for advance from clients for out of pocket expenses. It is sort of absurd for any partner to ask for advance for such out of pocket expenses unless it is substantial in nature. Also, there is no clarity as to what happens if the client does not pay or if the associate leaves the firm before the client pays. In substance, the associate is out of pocket.