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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVMvlfMbCU&t=2155s
Washing Powder Bhaajpa
So-called controversial clip here: https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1772240095480836254/video/1
Now, in elite law schools like NLUs/Jindal there are a lot of profs who are communist supporters (typically products of JNU, TISS etc). It's reflected in the BA syllabus and classroom lectures: Marx, Hobsbawm, Althusser, Foucault, etc, plus criticisms of globalisation, WTO, the concept of IPRs and of course Modi. Total blanking out of critiques of communism and Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, King Jong Un etc. Considering that first years are gullible 18 years olds and the first year syllabus influences one's intellectual outlook, maybe it's time we have a more balanced curriculum and have screenings of 3 Body Problem?
Then focus on topics taught in class, or marked as important by professor.
If time remains, cover the rest of the syllabus.
Thanks
Just because people in LI talk about nothing else, that doesn't mean there isn't research and publications happening at the NLUs. Why don't you check the author profiles of those faculty who are known to write?
Don't be concerned. NLUs are by character VC-centric institutions. If the VC changes for the worse, then they see exoduses or lack of better new recruitments. As such, these institutions boom and bust cycles. NALSAR and NUJS are suffering through one now. For NALSAR it is more recent with FM only just out of the door, for NUJS it has been a while since they had a good VC. Do not for a moment think that NLS is exempt for such cycles. The decade of Venkata Rao is well documented on LI itself. In fact, Sidharth Chatham, whose imminent departure is causing a lot of these reflections on faculty at NALSAR, had left NLS on concerns of academic future of the place under that leadership. Also, do note that having a decade of poor leadership has not caused the recruitment outputs of NUJS to suffer. Similarly, NLS' recruitments did not suffer under Venkata Rao. Nor will NALSAR's with KDR.
All of these institutions (plus NLUJ, NLUD, and to a lesser extent NLIU and GNLU) have built enough of a brand for themselves with the legal industry. This brand was built on the backs of student recruits being able to churn out two/three years of back-breaking and soul-sucking work. It wasn't built on the outstanding academic literature being produced by the faculty members.
Therefore, my advice to all - current students in these places, and prospectives students who will pick one of them - would be to keep following the time tested rank order profile of NLS, NALSAR, NUJS, NLUD, NLUJ, GNLU, NLIU. You do this and you shall be fine.
On the contrary, it’s the left wing student who jumped off the university gate. It is the left wing students who conduct talks without permission.
I downloaded the SQE exemption application and its around 62 pages long... so I wish to get the views here from the past, experienced guys.
The IA and the Navy because adventure, benefits, pension. Then I realized you wont get pension for a 5 short service commission.
Anyway, i rejected the idea of joining the FFL because the pay is really shit. You're better of as a second last tier worker in India.
I say the pay is shit, because considering the things they make you do, and the places they put you its not worth it. All the while you're a second class soldier and a citizen.
To top all of it. You will be helping France maintain its African colonies. Yes. Colonies. Effectively a lot of West African countries are still de facto (nit De Jure) French colonies. Look up the CAF, and where France keeps those countries' foreign reserves hostage. Also see how France manipulates foreign exchange to extract resources out of countries in Africa at a low rate while at the same time bleeding them. While also at the same time keeping their foreign exchanger reserves and denying the countries the full usage of their resources.
And if any of these countries try to fight back, promptly a coup happens. Similar to what US does in South America very frequently. You'll be the enforcer of this power. And very dispensable.
All that all of us know about the FFL i later realised are what they want us to know. A propoganda. And it doesn't feel like it and very basic becauze they are really trying to attract criminals and lowlifes.
You could try other Foreign Legions or maybe get a healthy hobby.
The program brochure lists 9 faculty members, 8 of whom have degrees from top foreign institutions. Will SNU-SOL be able to outcompete tier 2 NLUs in the near future considering their quality of faculty?
They would certainly be able to outperform T3 NLUs like TNNLU, NUSRL, DSNLU, etc., but are T2 NLUs at risk too? Will SNU-SOL be able to beat GNLU (trolls will say GNLU is a T1 NLU but anyone actually associated with the industry knows otherwise), RMLNLU, HNLU, etc., too in the near future?
Speculating further, assuming SNU-SOL maintains its standards by consistently hiring faculty with foreign credentials, investing in infrastructure, and implementing a transparent admission system (ideally without management quotas or with limited management quotas), how many years do you think it will take to reach the level of a tier 1 NLU?
My opinion is that they would at least take 10 to 15 years to be able to be comparable to T1 NLUs, by which time, in my opinion, JGLS would have long beaten even NLSIU.
Besides that
- Make sure you are prompt
- Ask for work
- Follow up on the work you've submitted and ask if there's anything more that you should do
- If a senior is working and it's time fot everyone to leave, ask that person if they want your help, leave if they say no
- Try taking work from senior associates and principal associates. Figure out who all are in the respective partner's team and impress everyone in that team. But make sure that you concentrate on a SA or PA or an A3>. A1s and A2 have near to no power to help with a PPO. Don't piss them off, be in their good books though. Also, give equal importance to all work that's given to you. Don't just keep an A0s work aside to do a SA's work. Do it chronologically and keep all associates well informed about when you'll be able to start their work. Moreover, I used to tell them that I'll inform them when I start their work to make sure they don't assume I have started this work when I am still working on a previous assignment.
- Wear proper formals and come on time
- Look confident and try to form a rapport
This is all I can think of right now, all the best
1. Pros
a. The work is very interesting and unless you’re in the corporate team, you’d hardly be made to do dumb monotonous work.
b. Somewhat better than other in-house jobs.
c. The hours are “slightly” better than that of law firms.
Cons:
a. I know many law firm teams that are way better than ITC. Plus a lot of the skills you learn at ITC are NOT transferable. Do consider while joining: cause if you end up being stuck under a toxic boss and don’t see growth, you have nowhere to go. It’s not as easy to switch from one in-house job to another.
b. When you see your friends become SAs / PAs who have learned how to game the system, you would be making peanuts. The pay, even though lucrative at first, will hardly ever increase. For instance, your in-hand salary after 7 years of work ex is 1 lakh 75 thousand a month. The work load is very very similar to that a managing associate. Your friends would be making partner soon and they’d also be building good connections while you at ITC would be working just like an associate at a law firm.
b. Furthermore, your work at ITC will never decrease with seniority. If anything, you’d be making more frequent visits to courts. Yes, there will not be as frequent 5 AMs but it’s not a walk in the park either.
c. If you don’t like litigation, don’t join because you’d be doing all the behind-the-curtain drafting work, minus the face-time with the judges. ITC legal is primarily a “litigation minus the arguing” job. Any work that isn’t litigation at ITC is NOT considered as “work”.
d. Another disadvantage is that once you join, you’ll most likely be sent to Calcutta and the environment there is toxic (especially if you’re not Bengali). Being cut off from your college friends (most of whom are going to be either in Bombay or Delhi) would be tough, and since you’re so cut-off from the rest of the world, the kind of networking you need to succeed and get another job is hard.
e. ITC is by no stretch of imagination a 9–5: you work pretty much around the clock and even go to work on weekends.
f. There is no provision of working from home and leaves are scoffed at. Hardly anybody ever works from home. Unless you have a proper physical ailment, (like you have a foot injury which impedes you from going to work), you will be made to come to work
g. You’re berated for your clothes, hanging out with other colleagues or fraternising with people from other departments. The work is such that you don’t make connections outside of work and only now am I realising the true value of networking. The work is pretty much desk-facing or court-facing. Growing into another profession or doing any other job is bad.
Overall, I still would say that a law firm job for a different team is a better fit: it can also give you the skills and contacts to start your law firm or if not that then at least earn a good living. ITC can be soul-crushing and putting the “bare minimum” to survive at ITC is not an option. I am yet to hear one person say “I like my job at ITC”, which although perhaps can be said about law firm jobs too, but that should be telling.
He started his own ideology and freedom struggle at a very young age, got his ideology spread among fighters and wanted Hindus to unite irrespective of their caste and be strong while also facing kaali pani jail.
I don't know when we will really start admiring other freedom fighters who were lost in books or never showed up in our history books. People hating him due to his views on Gandhi don't realise that other historical people/fighters like Br Ambedkar and Bose also had a very negative perspective of Gandhi Ji.
Also, to all the LLB kids crying about DOMS, would you rather have a batch size of 300+ kids? I don't think you realise the kind of impact it would have on your placements. Stop whining, and see what you can learn from others.
I feel we can start with a 30% SC/ST/OBC quota in universities and private companies, which can be hiked to 50% by 2030. Upper castes will not at all be disadvantaged because there are plenty of seats and jobs in the private sector to go around. Also, let us remember that many upper castes go abroad and work for for IT companies, where there is no reservation, so they can continue to do that. There are enough jobs for everyone.
I don't judge savarkar because he said such things because the pain he went through in Andaman was such. Tbh some left leaning intellectuals also accept this reality, for eg. See the interview of Ramchandra Guha on Savarkar. I disagree with Savarka because of his idea of India belonging to only followers of Dharmic religions. Fatherland and Holy land stuff. My Holy land is Jerusalem, still I am faithful to this country. I sincerely thank that Gandhi and Nehru became heroes for decades after independence and their idea of equality of religion shaped our early years of republic. Following savarkar's way of treating minorities would be considered racism in North America and Europe and no doubt Indian Hindus would be victims of the same.
BJP is using his hindutva very softly while it's ministers on ground are making is portrayed it a bad way with not education what's the real hindutva
May be it'll get a little messy (or it'll get great) but that is life. You have to learn to adapt whatever happens. The Nalsarites from the Veer Singh era did just fine in the end.
1. Should I publish some write ups on this topic and then try to apply to firms? or;
2. Should I intern somewhere first? ( I want to know if there are firms which provide internships to law graduates as well)
3. Should I directly apply to firms? How should I try to reason with them of my interest of moving to law firm after law school with pure litigation inclination?
Please I need genuine answers since I’ve been trying to get an entry for months now and not able to find an approach.
y with UK English (https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english/naivety)
e with American.
P.S. Regular lurkers of LI share this with your litigator bros so that we can know about them
The top US schools used to be choosy too. Though this year, some 4-5 have gotten acceptances from Harvard just from NUJS alone.
Now in the filters select Posts. Now select past 1month. (later change it to past week, past day.)
So, now you will shown LinkedIn posts. Scroll and scroll and scroll for the next 2hrs. You will get people and HRs who directly post requirements as LinkedIn posts. Again, remember, LinkedIn posts scroll karna hai, LinkedIn jobs tab pe click nahi karna hai.
This way you can find internships. Remember - LinkedIn posts scroll karo.
leftist students cannot imagine they cannot keep silencing all right wing voices in the campus
keep boycotting all right wing speakers from campus events
Will they now have to put up with anything other than extreme urban naxal views being taught in the classes?
Will they not be able to call kashmir a colony of India anymore
Aiyyo
what a shame
How will we live in the hostel if this happens 😂😂😂
NLUJ prospectives look positive with Prof. (Dr.) Kaur.
Sunak is hated and would've never become PM under normal circumstances, Indian or not.
Leo Varadkar - sure. He's biracial though.
"Cope and seethe while Indians rule them" - Too much Instagram, eh?
Also, France's "mistakes" are not limited to the past. They continue to have a major destabilising effect on the African subcontinent, with France controlling and crippling their economies. Hell, even the instability in African continues that were erstwhile colonies of France, still continue because of the immense influence France holds over them, or because France left the colonies crippled and disjointed after massive exploitation.
Remember what you're standing for. I'm sure you would be the first to denounce Israel for their pounding of Gaza, justifiably so.
This is no less than that. Keep that in mind.
NLSIU
NALSAR
GNLU/ NLUD
NUJS
NLUJ
Now tell me who you support: Gandhi or Savarkar.
When iPleaders courses ran into trouble due to arbitrary actions of NUJS, iPleaders founders decided that since their courses have a product market fit, they should try out if they can succeed without any university affiliation. And they chose the LawSikho platform to do so. It was important to differentiate the new courses from the previous courses with NUJS. Also there was some change in shareholding that necessitated the shift.
LawSikho, based on revenues alone, is probably 10x bigger than NUJS. and iPleaders blog of course remains.
(Story has links to mental health helpline and resources. MODS can you put them up please?)
Nalsar is crumbling.
Don't get me wrong - there are many good things about the UK and UK law firms (the main benefit is they tend to be more professional than most Indian firms and the training is better) but you can't compare apples to apples just by comparing incomes.
In fact if you're good, you're more likely to make more money in India by the time you get to partner level than the UK- except for the very top 5-10 law firms in the UK, a good CAM partner will make more than most partners in a UK firm, AND pay less tax, AND have lower living expenses.
But if we talk in real sense (on the ground of records as evidence ), tell me even a single IAS officer raising his or her voice (don’t even think about scolding) against the lowest judicial officer. While everyday so many judges are scolding and teaching so many IAS officers.
Still it is a subjective choice according to emotions, personality and life goals.
Someone just offered to do so, but the deal was for Article 370 and a tag on the socials.
I say this as someone who's graduated from a university that many would
Companies are paying big bucks because they trust the said partner.
It is a spineless thing for a partner to not back his team no matter how badly they fucked up.