Heard about other AI drafting tools but this one caught my eye - draft bot pro (https://www.draftbotpro.com/)

I think the same team as law bot pro developed it and apparently you can make all sorts of legal documents. In a sea of apps, this one also allows you to do legal research to some extent as well but do we even require all these apps? I am curious about the accuracy of all these apps. This one does seem a bit more polished but i dont know if people are willing to adopt drafting using AI. Thoughts?

when you know it can you please update it on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ltk2xnERP1OWklq60BEsJFhl3eSuQX7nQEdo_v37ggs/edit?usp=sharing

if you have the data can you please update at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ltk2xnERP1OWklq60BEsJFhl3eSuQX7nQEdo_v37ggs/edit?usp=sharing

Just look at some of the interview answers some of the scholarship holders had given, all of them said we want to go back to India and serve the motherland etc. but now they are trying to get citizenship in the UK or US. The best thing about internet is - its impossible to delete the high brow things one say to get a scholarship and then 5 years down the line do the complete opposite

As long-term fans are saying- this album is her being unfiltered. If that's true - it shows a person in immense turmoil and confusion. There are times in this album when she seems positively unhinged channelling immense negativity. I don't want that at all in my life - I have always viewed songs in general as works of art and sources of inspiration and positivity (even the sad ones). After listening to this album - I have been put off her music in general - going from listening to her songs 50% of times (per Spotify) to <5% in the last few days. Somehow, her entire body of work feels less authentic & a carefully constructed myth.

All these high ranking people should be given Tata or Mahindra SUVs. Rather government and judiciary should have a system to buy vehicles from Indian manufacturers and only for highly technical reasons, they should buy from foreign manufacturers. These actions may appear to be small but results in fair way to change the mindset of the people and has softer impact on the power play as well. Why do you think Mr. Motilal Oswal bought a Safari and had a PR run for it. Also, for the limited use of driving the judges and ministers etc. within the Lutyen zone, Indian cars are good enough.

It seems you must read the case. IP fair use principles clearly state that reproduction of content for educational use is allowed only if it is reasonable. Read section 52 (1) (h) of the Copyright Act which states, “the publication in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, bona fide intended for instructional use, and so described in the title and in any advertisement issued by or on behalf of the publisher, of short passages from published literary or dramatic works, not themselves published for such use in which copyright subsists.”

We can clearly see that only short passages of copyrighted material are permitted to be reproduced. How are entire PDFs of books short passages?

PS: I have written to over 5 publishers till now, and one has assured me that they will take action against infringement. One of the Gmail accounts operating a drive on which illegal material was stored has already been blocked.

Get an internship in the off months by cold emailing or reaching out to partners/ counsels on LinkedIn, for Feb-May and August-November. If you manage to convert it in a PPO, your college does not matter after that. There are partners in Tier 1s in Bombay from GLC/ ILS. Point being that college stops mattering once you join the workforce. It is only important to land you an internship.

The case mentioned is not exactly applicable here as in that case revolved around question bank of maths problems. Notes are different and can be copyrightable. While obviously fair use is a defence it is for reproduction. An author always has a fundamental right that his worked is not published in the first place. If he had published the same and then it was copied section 51 would have been applicable

I want to begin my career at some boutique law firm that specialises in M&A, PE,VC and primarily does this only.

However i observed that most boutiques that are into this area actually have 70% work of some other area like maritime or real estate or b&f or disputes and do some occasional 20-30% M&A, PE,VC work on the side once in a blue moon.

So can you guys please list out some of the top boutiques that are specialists in hard core M&A, PE,VC work only.

Quoting the above comment:

"if [sic] you are disabled, won't you find it problematic to do the kind of document work in law firms? Law firms dont [sic] have special systems for the impaired and especially clients arent [sic] willing to accommodate the same in costs as well.

"Might as well prepare for the judiciary or IAS? (hint hint PWD)

"Pls dont [sic] take this the wrong way, its just a suggestion/ comment jk"

Lots to unpack here, apologies (especially to mods) for the length of this. Glad that someone marked this comment as "contested", despite the disclaimer. I am a blind person and a law student and find this deeply problematic in many ways.

1. Most obvious: problematic implications re reservations.

2. Accommodation and costs: Most blind people use computers with screen readers (read-aloud/text-to-speech software) that reads out everything to them that's displayed on a screen, including what they type. I myself use one such software package, called Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA). I use this software for everything: from reading the above-quoted comment to typing my response here on LI, and to do everything I need to digitally, whether academic or personal work. Making documents accessible to such software isn't all that difficult. Platforms/software such as SensusAccess, Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit and ilovepdf.com can convert inaccessible (i.e., image-based/scanned) PDFs into accessible formats (typed text). All these software packages are well within the reach of most reasonably performing firms, financially. There are methods to communicate the substance of more visual documents (e.g. maps, patent designs/diagrams etc.) to the blind. These have included (in the U.S., particularly) using paralegals/interns as human readers (I know of someone using these very methods as a blind person for IP work in India). Law firms anyway take on such people, so this isn't too difficult either, is it? Hope that sufficiently addresses your "special systems" point.

3. Further, people in India and beyond have been working at law firms for some considerable time. The first blind person to get the Rhodes scholarship from India worked at a T1 law firm before going to Oxford and has recently returned to law firm life. Others have commented in this forum and this thread about blind lawyers who are/have been doing it in India right now or in the recent past - see above. I myself have commented, in encouraging the OP to think about all opportunities, including TC's in London, about visually impaired people working at some of the world's most competitive firms (specifically, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). Therefore, I encourage the person who made the above-quoted comment to please engage in some deep reflection on whether they are, intentionally or not, acting as a gatekeeper to the legal profession.

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I had no idea such a case was being heard and TOI is the only major newspaper to cover it. It’s obviously a huge case because of its ramifications on the country, but it also coincides with the issue of redistribution of wealth taking centre stage in the elections. On the one hand, Modi has claimed that money seized from scams in Bengal will be redistributed to the people of Bengal. On the other hand, Rahul Gandhi has spoken of deeper structural inequality and redistribution of private wealth. Priyanka Gandhi clarified yesterday that this is linked to the caste census and wealth will be redistributed from privileged castes to deprived castes. The SC ruling will have a direct bearing on such claims.

Meanwhile, the Counsel (Zal Andhyarujina) is trying to turn this into a culture war by dragging in Marxist ideology. This argument will spectacularly fail because Marxism is inherently about democracy and strengthens democracy! It is capitalism that is anti-democratic. Very unfortunate that such an eminent counsel is making such foolish arguments.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-scs-nine-judge-bench-needs-to-interpret-article-39b/amp_articleshow/109542453.cms

Fabulous show by Jindal!👏👏👏

This also holds a lesson:

1. Your professors play a role. If you have inspiring teachers who have studied or trained at good universities abroad, you will want to study abroad and go into academia. NLSIU led the way, then NALSAR, now Jindal. Conversely, mediocre teachers, internal politics and a culture of grade inflation devalues academia and dissuades students from academia. This is the case with certain NLUs.

2. The culture of a law school and alumni also play a role. If students only chase law firm careers and there are no role models in academia, then what can you expect?

there's no difference between the two to a law firm. You'll study the BA/BBA courses for the first 2 years at max, after which everyone will study the same law subjects (keeping aside electives and specializations). Your inclination towards the practice area you want to work at will matter, not your BA or BBA. This will be seen through your publications, internships, etc.

Choose BA or BBA based on which one of the two is more interesting to you. At the end of the day, we'll all graduate with law degrees, be it a BA or a BBA :)

Firstly, Crawford Bayley has 2 capital markets teams: one is handled by a PA who also does M&A work and the other team is handled by Sanjay Asher (Managing Partner) and Viplaw Kashyap (practice head). While team 2 works on a wide gamut of mainboard listings, QIPs, OFS, DCM and preferential allotments; the working hours are long and pressure is at an all time high. Team 2 offers 10 fixed + 2 variable for A0s but they have a 3 year bond in place which is kind of unreasonable since ECM teams at tier 1s bleed freshers and juniors within a year (with the bond not allowing you to shift). However, Team 2 is a great place to learn great quality work and get exposure to deals done by the tier 1 firms.

Secondly, Rajani has a great private equity and corporate/M&A practice since the managing partner (Prem Rajani) overlooks that space. Their capital markets usually does a lot of SME listings and rights issues and has a good name in the circuit since a very long time because of Sangeeta Lakhi (who heads that practice). Working hours are great, the firm has an amazing culture and you can easily lateral to a tier 1 ECM team within a year or two.

Thirdly, Parinam and Solomon don't do capital markets. They both have below average general corporate teams since Parinam has a lot of white collar litigation work and Solomon has a lot of real estate mandates. Working hours suck at both the firms. Avoid.

No, CJI's black Toyota Camry has been replaced with Mercedes E350D Black edition whereas other SC Judge's white Skoda Superb has been replaced with BMW (don't know series) also Maruti Ciaz (black) given to Judicial Officials posted in Registery replaced with black Toyota Hycross (Hybrid).

The recent UGC notification allows people with 4 year degrees to write NET. NLSIU allows people with LLB and 75 percent marks in LLB to go for PhD. I feel in India, even if you're from a tier 69 NLU, you'll learn more in your UG degree than your PG degree. At present, how is LLM relevant in academia? Should colleges only require a PhD degree for recruiting Assistant Professors? Another option would be to create posts like Academic Assistant or Academic Fellows and hire people with just UG degree. I'm sure many of the good people from NLUs would actually take up such jobs right after their UG. What do you think?

I am a banking finance lawyer. I have done 2 years at a law firm and would now want to shift inhouse. However, the salaries at inhouse etc are not anywhere close to my law firm pay.

Can someone suggest banks, inhouse options for B&F lawyers which also pay around 1.5 lakh (in hand).

Not at all, its just a useless section in the paper to ensure that ratta maar shitkickers can crack the exam and give them a chance to catch up to people who have legal and logical aptitude and good english.

A proper test of candidates would only have been logic, legal aptitude and English which are the only things you need in law school.

Practice. Fix one badly formatted document a day. It's the only way. When you see a problem. Be lazy. Don't try and find a hack around it. Look up how to fix it and then do that same thing multiple times to commit it to muscle memory. Will take about a week but you'll be great at it.

Go for it. People need to learn that this kind of harassment is not condoned. They are your notes. People need your consent before they can take them. (To the people who are making Marxist jokes, even Marx recognised personal property, these notes are personal property not capital). Please enforce your rights and send a message that theft will not be tolerated.

What I used to do to avoid this was I'd put easter eggs in my notes that only I knew were easter eggs. Always loved it when people who told me they didn't use my notes yet managed to list the same fake cases in their answers and lose marks for them. LOL.

Yes you can. But why do all that? Go to the cops and file an FIR for offences against property. The taking of your notes without your consent is theft and you can add aggravated sections to it. Much easier if you ask me and will send the message you intend to send. (100% for it btw)

This supposed shadow boxing has now turned serious. The Associate Professor had previously complained to the CJI/Chancellor and the latter referred the matter to EC (which is yet to discuss it). The complainant then lodged an FIR with Bidhannagar Police and also with LCC Barasat. Now she has gone to Calcutta HC against both the university/state and the Bidhannagar Police for inaction.

Kindly do not block/dismiss this.

WPA/10583/2024 (before Justice Kaushik Chanda) - relating to inaction of university/state authorities.

WPA/3644/2024 (before Justice Jay Sengupta) - relating to police inaction.

If you want the best in Delhi NCR (and also among the best in the country) NLU Delhi & Jindal Global Law School are the options.

Better options among law schools/faculty:

DU - CLC for 3-year LLB & 5 year law just started

Jamia

USLLS, GGSIP University campus

Symbiosis Noida

Other okay options if don't get above

VIPS

Amity

Sharda

Galgotia, etc.

JGLS is new school vis-a-vis NLS and Nalsar. However many alumni have secured or on the career track of securing teaching and research positions in foreign universities. Some of them could be the following:

Anirudh Belle, Lecturer in Private Law, Pembroke College & D.Phil Candidate, University of Oxford

Dr. Anush Ganesh, PhD UEA, Lecturer in Law, St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London

Dr. Sabarish Suresh, NUS Post Doctoral Fellow

Navya Jannu, D.Phil Candidate, Oxford

Vandita Khanna, PhD Law Candidate, Cambridge

Ishani Mookerji, D.Phil Candidate, Oxford

Titiksha Mohanty, D.Phil Candidate, Oxford

Rishabh Bajoria, Gates Cambridge Scholar, PhD Candidate, Cambridge

also, if you check the university website profiles, a significant minority of those named here do not even mention wherefrom they have done their undergraduate. They will mention some summer school they have done in NYU but not mention the place where they have spent 5 years doing their undergrad. Of course, we should applaud their personal successes but not celebrate it as some great group achievement.

True. In the end they looked out for themselves, which is fine, however not a reason to celebrate. It's like us celebrating CEOs and world leaders who are Indians, when in reality they're doing nothing in return for India.. they're just doing their job for themselves and their work country. It would have been better if these people gave it back to the society in some way or the other.

Just to add to this, you could actually reach out to this person from NALSAR — a simple Linkedin would do. He's not joining any in-house; he accepted an offer from a top-tier disputes-focussed law firm in Bangalore. After his name was unceremoniously removed from multiple shortlists by most Tier 1s, I've heard that the Nalsar alumni network played a good role in ensuring that his achievements (he supposedly has been one of the toppers throughout) and skills got their due weightage in the recruitment process.

So, my suggestion to you is simple: give it your best shot, have tangible achievements, and don't feel shy in reaching out to your alumni network — it's undoubtedly the country's best.

Lastly, in terms of giving you a definite answer to your question: the harsh truth is that most firms & HRs will try their best to reject your candidature on frivolous grounds. That said, everyone has bosses to answer to — and if you can tangibly/quantifiably demonstrate your ability and drive to perform to such senior partners, they'll have no option but to take you. That said, I'd recon that your best shot would be through PPOs with accommodative partners. Most HRs are too lazy to actually go through CVs for internships, so you should apply either directly through the alumni network or through your placement committee. Once that's through, you should give each internship your best shot + keep such partners/senior partners informed of your work, so that they can ensure that you're not unfairly treated. If nothing else, you'll be able to collate a set of powerful references and reputation, which should eventually lead to a job soon enough. All the best!

Priyanka Gandhi has explained how it will happen in reality. See the clip below.

https://twitter.com/harsht2024/status/1782768302873272798.

She says that a survey will be carried out to see how much each caste earns. Then wealth be distributed to those at the bottom, to SC/ST/OBC communities. Practically speaking, I think that the caste that will probably finish on top is the Vaishya/Baniya caste, because families like Ambani, Adani, Jindal etc own a large chunk of India's wealth. Then I guess the Brahmins and Kshatriyas, who are engaged in white collar professions. Now, if you take 30% of Vaishya wealth and maybe 20% of Brahmin/Kshatriya wealth and distribute it to the SC/ST/OBC communities, the inequality gap will be substantially reduced --- not just financial inequality but also social and educational inequality, because the SC/ST/OBC communities can use their new wealth to send their children to good schools and universities. The long term impact will be that India's GDP will be qualitatively superior, not just quantitatively superior. Thus, we will be able to compete with China better, because our current economic situation is lopsided, where only a few castes can benefit from the opportunities given by globalisation.

Amartya Sen has explained this very well, He says that China and India were similarly placed at one time, but the reason China grew faster is because their social base was more equal.

Hence, this is an excellent policy that deserves our support.

Proof your emails / drafts well.

Question everything you read. Try to understand the reason behind every written word. Do not get consumed by preset templates.

Be hungry for knowledge.

Enjoy your downtime and don't complain about not having work.

Develop a hobby outside work.

Keep yourself fit.

Not copyrightable, but our qtiya law firms regularly send cease and desist letters or straightaway sue in such cases and try to bully people. Remember Humans of Bombay? That shameless girl copied the the idea from Humans of NY and then had the audacity to sue someone else who opened a similar page.

I truly dont understand this absolute obsession with elitism and rankings. Who tf cares lol. All these idiotic distinctions. Moulding your whole sense of self worth around it if you get in, and being completely miserable if you dont. What a pathetic way to live. Thr truth is something that takes up 5 years of your life can be arranged neatly in a hierarchy. Each college is different and offers a different experience. Ranking is helpful for students giving CLAT to make a reasoned decision, but when I see grown ass adults talking about iVy LeAgUe of InDiA its just so pathetic lol. Move on with your life, all this is a social construct. What a bunch of sheep.

Prabha Kotiswaran (NLS now Prof at KCL)

Dev Saif Gangjee (NLS, now Prof at Oxford/LSE?)

There was someone else from NLS who is probably now Dean or something at Deakin Law, Australia. Previously taught in UK and probably in the US as well.

Reena Patel (?) from NLS studied and later taught at Warwick Law. Came back to India and headed up some lesser known private law schools. Wonder why her name doesn't come up.

I'm a 2nd year law student in Bangalore. I have observed I'm not good in academics and extra curricular things. So the best way to get some extra edge is through internships. But the issue is I can not speak local language. So it will be difficult to intern under trial and even high courts. As they prefer who knows local language. Please if someone can guide and suggest some tips. What are the places where I can intern and how to ask them for this? Also I'm looking to work on a long-term 1 and 2 year. I don't care about certificates and things I just want to learn.

P.S- My college get over at 12:30p.m.