NLUs promise that they will build gyms for 10 lakhs, but in the end only 30,000 is spent and the rest of the money vanishes. It’s too bad most NLU students are non-confrontational and from elite families. They feel shy to protest like JNU, Jamia and Jadavpur students, who are mostly from non-elite backgrounds and don’t have our bourgeois inhibitions.

I am at a boutique but Renowned IP Firm, however as it goes at all other places, I am limited to protection, but am highly interested in developing my skills in the allied areas like M&E, Tech etc. Any suggestions as to how should I start and what skills should I develop exactly?

I am at a boutique but Renowned IP Firm, however as it goes at all other places, I am limited to protection, but am highly interested in developing my skills in the allied areas like M&E, Tech etc. Any suggestions as to how should I start and what skills should I develop exactly?

This is a reasonably accurate depiction. But for anyone interested in calcutta transactions, they should really be tracking what the national firms with no calcutta offices are doing, as interesting mandates are typically not handled by local partners but partners in Mumbai or Delhi.

To anyone who is interested: Try to find out more on those lines if you're interested in a calcutta based career.

Checkout Aditi Agrawal's reporting at HT, it was argued that WhatsApp as an App would loose its utility if it is allowed or to put it differently, eg legally india goes if anonymous posting is not allowed, it is the prime reason for its existence. Nothing was said suggesting that WhatsApp would leave India.

MUCH MUCH more than that. There are literally shacks in Dharavi which charge 1 lakh pa rent. The housing market is Mumbai is legalised extortion. In my case I am working from Chennai because I found Mumbai to expensive. My thinking is that if I want to spend so much then I might as well migrate abroad. Also, Mumbai is overrated. A chicken sandwich at the Hyatt in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chandigarh or Jaipur isn’t very different from a chicken sandwich at the Hyatt in Mumbai!! They don’t put diamonds and gold inside chicken sandwiches in Mumbai!

By career rethink I mean expanding your practice, or shifting careers by doing an MBA or starting a business. Or even going into politics and following the likes of certain C-grade fixer-lawyers who became crorepatis overnight and got promoted to Senior Advocate, by schmoozing with netas and handling their cases.

Because at some point it’s going to hurt when you see your batchmates driving BMWs, wearing Omega watches and throwing parties at the Taj, whereas you are stuck in a lower income bracket. 😐

NUSRL has a shitty gym. No cardio machines for bois because obviously. Shitty weights, no rack for squatting, centuries old multi machine, wobbly benches so that you can drop the weight on your face, bendy barbells (more like tmt sariya). Overall lives up to the college's standard.

If even Harvey Weinstein got acquitted in a supposedly gender-friendly country like the US, what hope can a survivor have in India? I have seen the tricks used by lawyers of perpetrators. They make filthy insinuations during cross-examination/arguments and do their best to slut-shame survivors. Judges have no sympathy, even women judges. Remember what a woman judge said in the Tarun Tejpal case?

1 crore pa before tax is the bare minimum needed in Mumbai to lead a dignified life. Anything less makes you lower middle class. I’m not exaggerating. Prices in Mumbai are more than Europe in many cases. Also, we need to spend on health, transport etc because the govt doesn’t spend our taxes on these (our taxes go into the pockets of politicians instead).

JGLS gym = BMW

NLU gyms = Bajaj scooter

Harsh but true. The more money you spend on student infra the better your gym will be. Most NLU gyms have two broke-ass treadmills, one broke-ass bike and a few dumbbells, which are the only things of use and not damaged. But then just doing bicep curls is not enough for overall fitness: even girls won’t be impressed with only biceps if the rest of your body is too thin or too fat.

“The only one laughing right now is Benjamin Netanyahu”

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/crackdowns-american-universities-israel-palestine-protest-9292076/lite/

Who the hell is saying that NLS kids are not going for Judicial Service, research well...I met candidate's (not 1 or 2 but 4-6) from QMUL / Cardiff & other foreign law universities during MPCJ /Haryana CJ / UPCJ exams. Since when the 2nd NJPC draft made public, forget nls or univ. kids many T1 corporate /SEBI /RBI/ employees /State PCS officers & even alot upsc aspirants shifted for PCS-J. Don't know about pre-2njpc but post there is a huge jump toward this.

It is very disrespectful to intrude on people's personal space like this. The general rule is do not text for things that are appropriately done over work email. If a senior person doesn't share their number with you then do not text them at all. And if they do share it, only text for the reason that they share the number with you for. Think of it this way - if someone told you where a partner lived, would you show up at their home to ask for an internship or would you worry about how that would make you look.

So what's the issue with that? Gym trainer is an upcoming and growing career choice, there is a dearth.

U cud say the same for the 90 percent job seekers going to law firms. Maa baap ne itna law pe Kharche kiye learning constitution and jurisprudence only to find punctuation errors in random documents

Just send the message on WhatsApp number. Max to max, you can get scold; whereas, you will have atleast some chances of getting an internship if you draft a well crafted message for WhatsApp. One person secured placement on Day Zero just like this in AZB in ▮▮▮' batch even though ▮▮▮ already secured vacation at HSF.

Go for DU 5 years. Idk about rankings and stuff, but the locational advantage and low fees in itself trumps over the more expensive law schools.

If you plan on joining corporate law firms, you can cover what you're "lacking" (allegedly) through internships during your 5 year course.

And if you plan on joining litigation, it's one of the best. Having no educational loan helps in initial years of litigation. Plus you get a flavour of all courts and forums, from District Courts to HC to SC to tribunals like NCLT, NGT, ITAT, etc.

Its tough out here. If youre ambivalent with this career at all- you shouldnt do it. Its easier to make a living out of litigation/ law firm than to struggle in academia. Merit- well that would depend on how you would demonstrate merit. You didnt get into a particularly great law school- you will just be doing a masters from a university here- do you think you could work hard enough to top ? that might show some merit? could you write paper and publish? that might show some more. But the competition to teach at good schools is high. there are always people coming back with degrees from abroad and good research CVs. So NLS and JGLS for employment might be tough to be honest. Like JGLS might take you but they wont give you assistant professor to start. other NLUS- you really do have to know someone. even with merit you really ought to know some professor who can help you get a job. Now maybe you can ingratiate yourself to your professors in your masters year and then ask for a job at the same institution. It would be better to reach out to recent graduates of the NLU where you might be admitted and ask them if the school will hire/ what academic career prospects are.

For your own sake, please don't text Partners on their personal numbers. Reach out on LinkedIn or send an email instead. Respect the boundary between personal and professional life. You'll actually hurt your chances if you text them on WhatsApp. It'll be seen as an invasion of privacy, not "due diligence", as you seem to believe.

Don't get caught in this self esteem issue loop. Questioning your competence this much will also fuck up your performance. Instead of blaming it on your competence, try to think if your general approach to studies and co curriculars is wrong. 2nd year it too early to torment yourself like this. While you cannot just sit on it, it's better that you start analysing and creating new strategies. You cannot expect to grow at the same pace as everyone. That's irrespective of your ranking in CLAT. Just be better than who you were yesterday and it'll compound before you even realise it. Good luck!

Fox has some M&A mandates. Argus has 1 retainer client and is more inclined towards restructuring and banking documentation. Ashlar is a project finance shop. SAM is not preferred in the circuit. KCO is market leader for banking and private M&A work. Citadel is a joke.

Thank me later.

Regards - the truth.

Go abroad if you can. Or just finish your PhD as early as possible. If you do LLM from India, you'll have to slog through jobs like Academic Fellow etc which are sub-optimal. If you find a godfather in academia, life will be simpler. Competition to get into places like NLS is intense and you need publications, work experience and to be pursuing/completed PhD merely to be considered for a 2 year contract. So, think many times before applying

Hey guys

I am a civil judge from the south and CS qualified lawyer with an LLM from Kings college. I am planning to leave my post as a judge as it’s very hectic and toxic and I am planning to move to Delhi to pursue white collar crime (any decent firm). Despite 2 years of experience as a judge, I also have 2 years of experience practising insolvency, tax, corporate law at a CS firm and under a senior advocate. I was hoping with my unique blend of experiences, I could be an asset for white collar crime litigation for any decent firm in Delhi. However, I would like to know if this plan seems feasible enough to be pursued. Any thoughts are appreciated

1. 2 BHK in a decent / good locality (Bandra, Parel, Dadar, etc.) but not top notch locality will cost you around 2-3 cr. So expect around 160k a month in EMI.

2. Assuming you change cars every 10 years, a 16L car would cost around 20k a month in EMI plus around 5k a month in maintenance. Not considering the germans, which would cost manifold on both counts.

3. Maid plus driver would be around 35-40k a month (can increase depending on your work hours ofc).

4. Foreign holidays in Asia would cost around 150-300k each for 2 people. So around 35k a month at least.

5. Each good meal should cost around 5-7.5k for 2 people, so around 15-20k a month.

If you look at the above numbers, you are already out around 270k a month (for a family of 2), on top of which you need to add fuel, food, maintenance, clothes, health insurance, life insurance, misc. expenses, etc., which should take it to at least 300-350k a month (around 40-45 LPA net expenses).

If you want to save on top of this for retirement, you would need to make at least 75 lakhs to 1 cr a year (pre-taxes) between you and your partner.

Educated people will tell you that it does not matter who did what in the past. What matters is whether a policy is useful and feasible at present for it to implement now. BJP only wants to turn the focus away to Nehru and Indira, despite their supposed commitment to development now.

I cleared AIBE in 2019. Couldn’t collect Certificate of Practice from BCI in 2020 due to Covid (it is to be collected within two years). I left my practice in 2021 due to personal reasons. I am starting again now. Do I need to give AIBE again or is there some way to collect my certificate of practice from BCI as I had cleared AIBE in 2019. Please help as I am not able to find anything on the web.

Update: A hearing took place, as scheduled, on 24 April 2024. Liang was represented by NLSIU alum and Senior Advocate Jawahar Raja, AUD through Manika Tripathy and the survivor through NUJS alum Goutham Shivshankar. The judge (Justice Subramaniam Prasad) gave 3 weeks to AUD to file a reply and asked for rejoinders to the reply to be filed before the next hearing. The just listed 24 July as the next date of hearing.

Current status: 6 years, 14 hearings, still no hearing on substantive arguments by counsels. But at least some progress, so a decision by 2030 is possible, perhaps even earlier. Interesting that the survivor is not giving up but continuing to fight.

Currently allotted NLUO (Rank 720ish). Hoping to get HNLU by vacancies.

Confused whether I should register for DU CLC 5 year program or not

Please give some pros and cons of both decisions and also your advice on which to choose!

P.S I really don't care if this becomes an NLU vs DU debate in the comments (like other posts).

Just give me some good rational responses :)

Cheers!

Well its clearly showing that they did it to save their property but bias of people here will never made them to accept it.

you are one of the powerful and richest family in India and claiming to have no estate?

Left in LI will not accept it but will justify it somehow

News 1- https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/supreme-court-send-whatsapp-on-cases-cji-chandrachud-101714026175178.html

News 2- https://www.livemint.com/news/india/explained-why-is-whatsapp-challenging-indian-govts-order-over-privacy-11714101587758.html

2 phases over. Weak turnout in many constituencies because of the heat. MSM reports say BJP worried, because its voters are not showing up while turnout among communities opposed to it (Muslims, Jats, Yadav etc) has been high.

Modi promised 400, but they the BJP/NDA will probably end up with 200-250 and so will INDIA. This means freelance parties not in any alliance, like YSRCP, TMC and BJD, will be key. Possibly Naveen Patnaik or Mamata Banerjee will be offered the PM post by INDIA in exchange for support. That’s my prediction.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjp-to-step-up-outreach-after-dip-in-voter-turnouts-101714245434755-amp.html

Hey there! I am currently appearing for my Final Law Exams ( 3 Year Course ) , Have almost completed my CS ( Company Secretary) and I hold a Graduate degree in Bcom from a reputed college in Town , I am keen on exploring opportunities Abroad to Pursue LLM and maybe establish myself in that country

In India , I've interned with Tier 1 , Law firms but I keen on going to Uk and exploring opportunities there! Any suggestions on what I should do? If you have any friends who went abroad to purse their LLM please share their experience as well

If I should stay here and gain experience or Make a move and try establishing myself there

Thankyou :)

Negotiate with your new firm to extend your joining date. If they don't agree - tell them you can't join them. If they can't appreciate your commitments at your current firm - they won't after you join them as well. Any decent firm won't hold you ransom to this for sure. This could be your red flag.

I) After small due diligence, I got number of one equity partner of tier 2 law firm.
II) He holds a decent brand value to his name in corporate dispute resolution (Energy law), which aligns with my interest area.
III) I want to hear whether it would be naive idea to directly text him for internship.
IV) or do sometimes partner gives head to such texts & offer internship?
V) Also anyone in the same position (partner/ equity partner) who wants to share some good tips with respect to manner in which you want be addressed by a student on WhatsApp.
VI) What could be a most feasible & safe code of conduct to bag an internship through these non-anonymised channels (WhatsApp/Telegram).
VI) Anyone who have experimented with this sort of unconventional method ever before, wants to share their experience, please proceed to elaborate it. It would definitely help me craft my further steps.